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International Training Programme (ITEC) on
‘Realizing the Right to Adequate Housing in the Context Of
Habitat III New Urban Agenda - Policies, Planning & Practice’

January 9th – February 17th, 2023

HUDCO’s Human Settlement Management Institute (HSMI) organized the 50th International
Training Programme on ‘Realizing the Right to Adequate Housing in the Context of Habitat III
New Urban Agenda - Policies, Planning and Practices” sponsored by the Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA), GoI under its ITEC Programme during January 9th – February 17th, 2023. The
programme was inaugurated by Shri Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs, on 11th January, 2023 in the presence of Shri Bibhas Lahiri, Under Secretary, Ministry of
External Affairs, Shri M Nagaraj Director Corporate Planning HUDCO, Shri D Guhan Director
Finance HUDCO, Mrs. Sukanya Ghosh Executive Director Training (i/c), HUDCO’s HSMI and
senior officials of HUDCO & HSMI.

This Training Programme was attended by 24 delegates from 20 developing countries viz.
Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Cote D’ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malawi,
Maldives, Namibia, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru, South Sudan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syria &
Tanzania. The participants were from government departments with up to 20 years of professional
experience. The programme was highly interactive. Various experts and resource persons invited
to impart training and interact with the participants included Shri Kuldip Narayan Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Prof. Amitabh Kundu, Senior Fellow, World Resource
Institute, Mrs. Parul Agrawal, Country Manager, UN Habitat India, Mrs. Banashree Banerjee,
independent Consultant & Associate Staff Member, his-Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Prof. Neelima
Risbud, former Head & Professor in the Department of Housing, SPA, New Delhi etc. During the
six-weeks training programme, the participants were exposed to the concepts and whole range
of issues on right to adequate and affordable housing so as to help the international participants
design appropriate policies and programmes in the field of housing and habitat development &
management in their respective countries for implementation of the commitments under New
Urban Agenda as well as Sustainable Development Goals. They were trained to devise strategies,
policies, techniques, reform measures, apart from best practices on rights-based approaches to
adequate and affordable housing.

Group photograph of ITEC participants with Shri Manoj Joshi, Secretary, MoHUA, Mr. M. Nagaraj, DCP,
Mr D. Guhan, DF and other senior HUDCO officials on the inaugural day.

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