Press Briefing and Guided Tour of the United Nations…

The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), the UN's only Secretariat headquarters in Africa and the Global South, is currently undergoing a significant office expansion to accommodate the rising number of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes that are relocating some of their regional and global operations to Kenya.

This special media briefing and guided tour will showcase UNON's significant milestones, the office blocks expansion and upgrade project and plans for a state-of-the-art conference facility that will increase UNON's meeting capacity from 2,000 to 9,000 delegates, including a 1,600-seat Assembly Hall. This would make Nairobi only the third UN Secretariat location worldwide with such a hall, after Geneva and New York. Valued at nearly USD 340 million, these projects represent the largest UN Secretariat infrastructure investment in Africa, besides peacekeeping. It underscores Nairobi's growing importance as a global centre for diplomacy and multilateralism.

The UNON Gigiri Complex spans 140 acres and was donated by the Government of Kenya in the 1970s. Today, it hosts over 40 UN entities and more than 5,000 personnel on-site, making it one of the largest UN presences in the world.