Quality of Life Initiative Implementation Guidelines – Advance Release Version 1.0 2024 The Quality of Life Initiative’s Implementation Guidelines provide a comprehensive framework for cities to follow to assess and improve the quality of life for all inhabitants. The Guidelines offer policymakers, urban planners and community leaders practical steps and a comprehensive roadmap for cities to adopt the Quality of Life Index. The step-by-step process is designed to support local governments, urban planners and community leaders in assessing and enhancing urban well-being through a series of practical actions.
African Cities at a Crossroads: Closing the urban infrastructure investment gap 2024 African Cities at a Crossroads highlights how Africa’s rapid urbanization presents a powerful opportunity to drive growth, jobs, and better living standards. It shows that with the right investments in infrastructure and services, cities can unlock productivity, strengthen resilience, and become engines of sustainable development.
PLGS Annual Report 2023 2024 The Annual Report 2023 of the Policy, Legislation and Governance Section of UN-Habitat showcases the work done in the past year to work towards and support the achievement of the main goal of sustainable urban development.

Much has been achieved by PLGS: more than 44 activities in over 37 countries globally, that consolidated collaboration with donors, development partners and beneficiary countries along the themes of policy, legislation and governance, metropolitan management, and urban-rural linkages.

Specifically, the report presents the progress of the PLGS with the UN-Habitat strategic context; it contains an outline of achievements under the various focus areas, a review of the financial portfolio, and features the planned outcomes the section has for 2024. The report also demonstrates how the section contributed to global frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.

The report is of benefit to all stakeholders working towards sustainable urban development and will galvanize all to commit their support to UN-Habitat and to each other to realize actionable outcomes.
Lebanon – Building destruction and debris quantities assessment 2024
Evaluating the Impacts of Urban Policies A Guide for Urban Policy Leaders 2024 More people live in cities than ever before. The urban population more than doubled from 1.5 billion in 1975 to 3.5 billion in 2015 and is estimated to reach more than 50% by 2050. This affirms the role of cities in sustainable development and the importance of National Urban Policies in as coordinating frameworks, to manage the urbanization process in an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable way. National governments are encouraged to develop and implement New Generation Urban Policies (NUPs), which are considered vital tools to support implementation of the New Urban Agenda. These policies should be evidence based, set realistic policy expectations, and guide effective spending of public resources. This can only be achieved when countries have a thorough understanding of the urban policy making process.
A Road Map Towards a Socioeconomic Development Plan for the Union of Municipalities of Jord El-Qaytaa, Akkar Governorate 2024 This booklet outlines strategic directions towards socioeconomic development for the Union of Municipalities of Jord El-Qaytaa in Akkar Governorate. They were developed within the scope of UN-Habitat's initiative "Improving Planning Capacities for Social and Economic Local Development" implemented between 2020 and 2023 in close collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs and funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
Urban Content of NDCs: Local climate action explored through in-depth country analyses: 2024 Report 2024 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are the cornerstone of the Paris Agreement and are the main policy instruments used to indicate national contributions toward global efforts for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This report, jointly prepared by UNDP, UN-Habitat, and the University of Southern Denmark, with support from C40 Cities, analyzes urban content in the 194 NDCs as of June 2023.
التخطيط الحضري المُستنير بالهجرة دليل إرشادي من 3 خطوات من برنامج التخطيط الحضري والبنية التحتية في سياقات الهجرة في الكاميرون، مصر، والأردن 2024
استجابةً للتحديات المتزايدة للهجرة إلى المدن، يقدم دليل "التخطيط الحضري المستنير بالهجرة: دليل إرشادي من ثلاث خطوات" استراتيجيات عملية لدمج المهاجرين، والأشخاص النازحين، والمجتمعات المضيفة، وتعزيز التنمية الحضرية العادلة. مستندًا إلى تجارب من الكاميرون ومصر والأردن، يُزوّد هذا الدليل المخططين الحضريين وصانعي السياسات والحكومات المحلية بالأدوات اللازمة لإنشاء مدن شاملة ومرنة من خلال التخطيط الحضري المستدام.
Shanghai Manual: A Guide for Sustainable Urban Development in the 21st Century - 2024 Annual Report 2024 The Shanghai Manual 2024 Annual Report showcases globally implemented urban best practices that present urban actors with innovative solutions to help cities navigate the complex challenges that they face today. Following the theme of ‘youth leading climate and local action for cities’, the report explores the potential of young people as urban change makers with a particular regard to climate action and urban environmental sustainability.
Douala Spatial Profile (Cameroon) 2024 Based on a spatially focused and cross-sectoral situational analysis of urban settlements hosting displaced populations, this multi-scale profile allows locals, stakeholders, and readers to develop a comprehensive spatial understanding of the existing situation as a tool dedicated to the decision-making process for urban development strategies and infrastructure investment planning.