Coordinator, Safer Cities Programme & Specialist, Human Rights & Social Inclusion Unit - Urban Practices Branch, Global Solutions Division – UN Habitat

Juma Assiago is an Urbanist and Social Scientist, a graduate in Sustainable Urban Development from Oxford University (UK). He currently coordinates the Global Safer Cities Programme at UN-Habitat. He has over 20 years of experience working in programme development and implementation of citywide crime prevention and urban safety strategies in Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific, as well as built a Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC). A key outcome of his work over the past 25 years of the Safer Cities Programme has been the adoption by member states of UN systemwide Guidelines on Safer Cities and Human Settlements in May 2019.