| SDG 11 Global Report 2026: Housing at the Centre of Sustainable Cities and Communities | 2026 | Housing is fundamental to achieving SDG 11’s vision of inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities. Yet, despite this central role, the interlinkages between adequate housing and progress across the ten targets of Goal 11 have received limited systematic attention. |
| Metropolitan Planning and Finance for Adequate Housing Experts Group Meeting Report | 2026 | UN-Habitat presents the report Metropolitan Planning and Finance for Adequate Housing, developed from the Expert Group Meeting held in Istanbul, Türkiye, from 1 to 3 October 2025, within the framework of MARUF25 and in collaboration with the Marmara Municipalities Union. The meeting brought together 26 experts and representatives from governments, academia, international organizations and civil society. The report argues that adequate housing must be addressed through a metropolitan lens, as the dynamics that determine access to housing, including land, transport, basic services, employment, infrastructure, risks and financing, go beyond municipal administrative boundaries. Addressing housing only through isolated local projects limits the capacity to respond to the real scale of demand and to reduce territorial inequalities. The report therefore calls for strengthening metropolitan housing systems that integrate territorial planning, land management, financing and multi-level governance. This scale enables better coordination of affordable housing provision, the rehabilitation of existing housing stock, the transformation of informal settlements and the connection of households to urban opportunities. The report emphasizes that adequate housing is a human right, a basic social infrastructure and a metropolitan public good, and identifies key instruments such as metropolitan housing councils, regional funds, land banks, land value capture mechanisms, housing observatories, and spaces for participation and accountability. |
| The Gaza Urban Profile 2026 | 2026 | The Gaza Urban Profile 2026 provides a spatially informed, evidence-based analysis of urban deterioration across the Gaza Strip. Through its Neighbourhood Functionality Index, it highlights the scale and geographic distribution of impacts, providing a critical evidence base to inform the prioritization and sequencing of an area-based recovery and reconstruction. |
| 2024-2025 Annual Report: National Urban Policy Programme, Phase Two | 2026 | National Urban Policies (NUPs) serves as a key guiding frameworks towards the realization of the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Urbanization. The Korea-funded National Urban Policy Programme contributes to this by not only supporting countries in developing and implementing NUPs but also strengthening the capacity of relevant stakeholders. The 2024-2025 Annual Report shows the progress of the programme implementation at global and local scale among the eight participating countries of Phase 2. It showcases the commitment of UN-Habitat in collaboration with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) of Korea to support programme implementation in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Egypt, Mozambique, Paraguay, I.R. Iran, Myanmar, and Niger State of Nigeria. In line with the four expected programme accomplishments, the report details progress made in relation to implementation of demonstration projects, capacity development, advocacy, and knowledge improvement on matters urban policy and peoplecentered smart cities. In addition, it also highlights the programme’s contribution to SDGs, UNHabitat strategic, and planned activities for 2026. This report is a co-creation of the Republic of Korea, UN-Habitat, Republic of Azerbaijan, Kingdom of Cambodia, Arab Republic of Egypt, Republic of Mozambique, Republic of Paraguay |
| Quality of Life Initiative - Brochure | 2026 | The Quality of Life Initiative introduces UN-Habitat’s global effort to help cities measure and improve urban well-being through a people-centered, data-driven approach. Centered on the Quality of Life Index, the brochure showcases how objective indicators and residents’ lived experiences are combined to inform more inclusive, locally relevant decision-making, while highlighting the Initiative’s expanding knowledge ecosystem, digital platform, and global network supporting sustainable urban development. |
| Urban Resilience Action Plan (URAP) for Pasto, Colombia: Planning for Climate, Urban, and Biodiversity Action | 2026 | |
| Townships in Afghanistan: Lessons Learned for Advancing Durable Solutions and Re-integration | 2026 | |
| Metropolitan Diplomacy | 2026 | Metropolises are at the forefront of many global crises, such as climate change, food security, and migration. For this reason, they are increasingly assuming a proactive role within the international ecosystem. Their international engagement is becoming ever more necessary to formulate policies aimed at strengthening the management of metropolitan territories, particularly beyond the current cycle of global agendas concluding in 2030 and in anticipation of new international contexts that may arise in the future. The “Metropolitan Diplomacy" report, published by UN-Habitat in collaboration with the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), establishes a strategic framework for metropolitan areas to serve as decisive actors in global governance. It defines metropolitan diplomacy as the actions and strategies used by metropolitan regions to influence international spheres and cooperate beyond municipal boundaries to address systemic challenges such as climate change, migration, and inequality. The report emphasizes that while city diplomacy focuses on bilateral municipal cooperation, metropolitan diplomacy addresses a broader range of issues - like regional mobility and territorial planning - that require collective solutions across entire metropolitan territories. It details a decade of diplomatic evolution, from the Montreal Declaration (2015) to the Barcelona Metropolitan Declaration (2025), the latter of which calls for the formal recognition of metropolitan areas as full partners in global governance. The report provides a roadmap for the future, recommending the institutionalization of diplomacy within metropolitan structures and the development of Voluntary Metropolitan Reports (VMRs) to monitor SDG progress. By aligning metropolitan actions with emerging global frameworks such as the Pact for the Future and the Global Digital Compact, this document provides a comprehensive guidance for advancing inclusive, resilient, and multi-level governance in the post-2030 agenda. |
| Global Trends and Insights on Urban Rural Linkages – Key Highlights Booklet | 2026 | This Key Highlights Booklet is a summarized version of the Global Trends and Insights on Urban-Rural Linkages Report. The booklet provides a concise overview of the evolving relationship between urban and rural areas, emphasizing their growing importance in sustainable development. It also explores global events, frameworks and processes that have contributed to strengthening urban-rural linkages (URLs), while highlighting emerging issues in urban-rural linkages. Drawing on survey responses from Member States, the booklet synthesizes how URLs are incorporated into national and subnational frameworks and showcases diverse global actions aimed at enhancing these connections. This resource not only serves as a quick source of knowledge on the state of urban-rural linkages but also proposes actionable recommendations for advancing integrated and inclusive development across urban and rural landscapes. |
| Unlocking Sustainable and Inclusive Informal Settlements Transformation-Research and Action Plan on the Governance of Informal Settlements in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia | 2026 | This report is jointly prepared by Wuhan Planning& Design Institute (WPDI) and the United NationsHuman Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) which presents an in-depth study on the governance conditions and transformative pathways of informal settlements in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia. Against the backdrop of accelerating global urbanization and the severe slum problem, the crisis surrounding informal settlements has grown increasingly acute across Southeast Asia. As a key economic growth engine of Cambodia, Preah Sihanouk Province has been confronted with stark imbalances in spatial justice, severe housing shortages and widening wealth inequality. This research aims to advance the implementation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), address the development dilemmas of informal settlements, and provide replicable and sustainable governance models with practical experience for Cambodia and the broader Southeast Asian region. |