Myanmar Climate Change Strategy (2018 – 2030) 2019 The Myanmar Climate Change Strategy (MCCS) contributes to materialize the Myanmar Climate Change Policy (MCCP) Vision for the Country to be a climate-resilient, low-carbon society that is sustainable, prosperous and inclusive, for the wellbeing of present and future generations. It aims to guide action to achieve its strategic vision, goal and objectives.
City-Wide Public Space Strategies: A Compendium of Inspiring Practices 2019 A city-wide public space strategy can deliver a well-distributed, accessible and inclusive public space system. City-Wide Public Space Strategies: a Compendium of Inspiring Practices offers summaries and assessments of 26 such strategies from cities around the world. It also proposes a set of typologies and a framework with which strategies can be evaluated. City leaders and design professionals can count on this tool to help develop and implement better public spaces.
Hael City Profile 2019 The City Profile Report brings together diagnostic urban analysis and aligns that analysis with the UN-Habitat sustainable development framework to achieve the Saudi Vision 2030, NUA and SDGs. This tool helps in understanding the current while guiding the future planning of the city, whilst defining a clear strategy for sustainable development. This tool considers spatial planning in relation to legal aspects and Municipal and Local economy mechanisms.
Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme February 2019 Newsletter 2019 The Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme shares the last events and achievements through this newsletter. Here are a few updates, lastest news and stories
PAR - Plan de Acción Regional para la Implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe 2016-2036 2018 El Plan de Acción Regional para la Implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe (PAR) pretende ser la expresión regional de la Nueva Agenda Urbana (NAU).
Cities and Climate Change Science Conference Helps Set Research Agenda 2018 The CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, held in Edmonton, Canada, March 5-7, created enhanced understanding of the impacts of climate change at the urban level, the range of possible responses, and the role of cities in the implementation of the Paris Agreement and other international global agendas. The Conference was co-organized by UN-Habitat, UN Environment, Cities Alliance, C40, ICLEI, Future Earth, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Climate Research Programme, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and United Cities and Local Governments.
Compendium of Inspiring Practices: Health Edition 2018 This collection of 20 case studies gives practical information to those involved in city planning on how to address the issues encountered with an approach that puts peoples’ health at the centre of design. The main purpose of gathering such information is to illustrate concretely what is needed in order to apply the key principles of the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning that were approved by UN-Habitat’s Governing Council in 2015, and the benefits that will be gained by doing so. The examples in this Health Edition are those that actively contribute to human health through the improvement of the built and natural environment.
Exploring the relationship between health and planning creates opportunities for more integrated planning practices and strengthens both the health and planning disciplines. These inspiring examples, and the lessons learned from them, will motivate all actors to include health into urban policies and city strategies.
Big Blue Book of Habitat UNI Partner Universities 2017-2018 2018 This Big Blue Book is an initiative that provides to the wider public an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with 70 university partners of Habitat UNI. The Book showcases these universities’ achievements in research and education and depicts the urban studies that being undertaken.
Building capacities to address climate change in Myanmar 2018 The Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) was launched in 2013 to support the Government of the Union of the Republic of Myanmar in addressing the challenges posed by climate change. MCCA is an initiative of the Environmental Conservation Department (ECD) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MoNREC). It is funded by the European Union as part of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA), and implemented by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).

As part of its activities the MCCA programme was mandated to support Myanmar produce a focused and well-balanced Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) to capture the climate change-specific capacity needs of key stakeholders at all levels. It developed this CNA in consultation with local people in vulnerable areas at sub-national level, taking into account the policy, planning and institutional capacity needs of national-level sectoral areas.
Discussion Paper – October 19, 2018: Economic Benefits of the Territorial Strategy in the Zapopan Municipality, Mexico 2018 The Territorial Strategy of Zapopan 2030 (ETZ2030 in Spanish), issued in 2015, is the output of the technical assistance provided by UNHabitat’s office for Mexico and Cuba to the municipal government of Zapopan, Mexico. ETZ’s diagnostics identified three main challenges in the municipality: i) the pressure of urban expansion on areas of high environmental value; ii) the fragmentation of urban areas with the proliferation of closed neighborhoods; and, iii) rising economic and social inequality. A subsequent ETZ Implementation Plan, which is being finalized in 2018, quantified the costs of Zapopan’s urban sprawl and the benefits of controlling expansion as proposed by the ETZ. Key findings are presented in this paper.