UN-Habitat is supporting the government of Vietnam in addressing the challenges of adequate housing and urban development. The main programme areas of UN-Habitat Vietnam include the following:

     - Land and housing Participatory urban governance     - Environmentally sound urban infrastructure and services     - Policy advocacy, monitoring and partnership building      - Building urban resilience to climate change

Through the Vietnam Urban Forum, UN-Habitat supports the dissemination of knowledge and enhances participatory policy discussions, especially discussion on the impacts of rapid urbanisation on communities, cities, economies and policies. Efforts to integrate sustainable urbanisation into national policy and a legislative framework on sustainable urbanisation can be complemented with improved monitoring and by having strategic partners involved in the formulation and implementation of urban policies and practices. 

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