There are plans to split the United Nations Habitat office based in Nairobi might be split.
In a propoasal, some of the offices might be transffered New York and AddisAbaba.
Proposals were made by a panel that had been appointed in 2017 to suggest how the agency could be strengthened.
The proposal is set to be presented to UN secretary general Antonio Guterres who is expected to polish the proposals and present them this month.
However, a number of countries under the UN did not support the recommendations.
The panel proposed the creation of a parallel agency called UN Urban based in New York todeal with urbanisation challenges.
They argued the UN Habitat had failed to deliver on this necessitating the need of a newagency purely focussed on urbanisation.
In the proposal, the panel suggests that the UN Habitat African regional office based in Nairobi, be moved to Addis Ababa where the United Nations Economic Commissionfor Africa is based.
They maintained that this was “to ensure that UN-Habitat has access to [Uneca’s] enhancedresearch and analysis of regional issues
The new UN Habitat executive director Maimunah Sharif has maintained that the global headquarters would remain in Nairobi