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The Arab Urban development Institute (AUDI) founded in 1980 with permanent headquarters in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a regional, non-governmental, non-profit urban research, technical and consulting organization. The Institute is affiliated with the Arab Towns Organization (ATO), with headquarters in Kuwait. The Institute serves as the technical and scientific arm of (ATO). The institute has active membership of more than 400 Arab cities and towns representing 22 Arab countries.

A major goal of the Institute is the enhancement of the quality of municipal services in Arab towns and cities. This is achieved through professional and technical support to municipalities and municipal officials and administrators. The Institute is also dedicated to the improvement and preservation of the Islamic and Arab character and heritage of Arab Towns.

Professional Services offered:

• TRAINING PROGRAMS

• STUDIES AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

• CONSULTING SERVICES

• LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES

• SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES

Objectives:

AUDI, within its areas of concern seeks to achieve the following objectives:

1. Enhance the Arab city standard while maintaining its Arabic identity, historical characteristics and architectural, physical and cultural heritage as well as highlighting its originality and distinctive features.

2. Foster communication and cooperation among Arab cities , ATO, and other cities and organizations that have relative concerns.

3. Identifying the problems that confront cities and municipalities and seeking solutions for difficulties that constrain development and improvement. This is achieved through presenting scientific and technical expertise or through activating AUDI’s scientific and practical activities to the city at its request.

4. Conducting studies and researches on the Arab city in the economic, social , technical, physical and environmental areas.

5. Providing consultative professional services to Arab cities in the field of urban planning, housing and municipal services as well as other fields of AUDI activities.

6. Introduce the Arab city to the world community through its present and future administrative features as well as displaying its various historical stages

7. Capacity building by preparing qualified personnel to administer the cities through modern scientific means and approaches

8. Establishing center(s) to collect information data, documents and statistics and to conduct classification, categorization, analyzing and processing them according to modern scientific systems.

Contact:

Arab Urban Development Institute
P.O. box 6892 Riyadh 11452 Saudi Arabia

Tel: (+966-1) 481 6585 or 480 2555
Fax: (+966-1) 480 2666
Email: info@araburban.org
Web: http://www.araburban.org/english/home.html