UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – March 2023 (English) 2023 UN-Habitat Iraq March 2023 Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
Publication of an institutional document on UN-Habitat webpage, in preparation of the UNHA 2023 UN-Habitat’s Global Institutional Plan on Solutions to Internal Displacement is UN-Habitat’s contribution to the Secretary General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement. It intends to ensure that UN-Habitat can maximize its contribution to UN efforts to scale sustainable solutions in urban settings
Human rights in the digital era: Learnings on local governance from pilots in Europe 2023 The Digital Rights Governance Project in Europe aimed at supporting cities to develop capacity and engage people to mainstream this human rights-based approach, by providing both normative and practical guidance to ensure that the human rights mechanisms that are in place offline are also in place online. This report summarises learnings from the project and pilots in the City of Brussels, Dublin, Tirana and Sofia and tools to operationalise the guidance in cities.
The Critical Role of Nature-based Solutions for Enhancing Climate Resilience in Informal Areas: An Urban Supplement to the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines on National Adaptation Plans 2023
The Public Space Assessment, Design and Management Methodology 2023 The use of the public space methodology will enhance the sustainability, replicability and scaling-up of the achievements of UN-Habitat’s interventions under the HAYA Joint: Eliminating Violence Against Women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip funded by the government of Canada. The Public Space Assessment, Design and Management Methodology is a comprehensive guide for local governments and illustrates the process of developing safe and inclusive public spaces for all. The methodology covers city-wide and site-specific scales, with reference to the standards of the Public Space Programme, customized to the Palestinian context.

This document is developed under the HAYA JP funded by the Government of Canada.

تعتبر منهجية تقييم، وتصميم وإدارة الأماكن العامة دليلاً شاملاً للهيئات المحلية، يلخص عملية توفير أماكن عامة آمنة وشاملة في خطوات مبسطة وقابلة للتطبيق. تغطي المنهجية آليات تعزيز جودة الأماكن العامة على مستوى المدينة وعلى مستوى الموقع، بالرجوع إلى المعايير العالمية التي تم تطويرها في موئل الأمم المتحدة ضمن برنامج الفضاء العام العالمي، والتي تم تجربتها ومواءمتها لسياق البلديات المستهدفة في فلسطين.

تم تطوير هذا المستند من خلال برنامج حياة المشترك، وبتمويل من حكومة كندا.

UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – JUNE 2023 (English) 2023 UN-Habitat Iraq June 2023 Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
Building Climate Resilience in Mozambique - the case of Safer Schools 2023 This publication starts with a description of the country’s overall natural hazard exposure and then focuses on human settlements’ vulnerability in Mozambique (Chapter 1). In Chapter 2 it describes the first milestone of UN-Habitat’s activities - the establishment of the Living with Natural Hazards approach - and its implementation through pilot demonstration buildings. It also gives examples of the construction interventions and methodology adopted in the Participation, Awareness and Didactic Approach.

The narrative of Chapter 3 analyses the education sector. It gives an outline of its historical development and the geographic distribution of school infrastructure, as well as the vulnerabilities and risk profiles. This introduces the second milestone: the start of the preparatory activities, the implementation and the subsequent scaling-up from local demonstration pilots to the national scale. It further describes how the strategic and normative frameworks for resilient school construction in Mozambique have been influenced. The fourth chapter analyses how UN-Habitat’s work resulted in the Guidelines on School Safety and Resilient School Building Codes and how these helped consolidate partnership frameworks and the scaling-up of the Safer Schools Initiative under the leadership of Ministry of Education.

The fifth and final chapter presents the validation of the Safer Schools Initiative, showing how more robust school buildings have all withstood the impacts of the strong cyclones Idai and Kenneth in 2019. This feat made the Government fully confident that the Living with Natural Hazards approach works. The text concludes with a summary of findings, lessons learned and recommendations for further scaling up of the Safer Schools Initiative in Mozambique and a possible replication in other vulnerability contexts.
إدراج الصحة في التخطيط الحضري والإقليمي: كتاب مرجعي 2023 ويحدد هذا الكتاب المرجعي مختارات شاملة من الموارد والأدوات القائمة لدعم إدماج الصحة في التخطيط الحضري والإقليمي.
Integrated Spatial Plan for Environmental and Socio Economic Resilience, Khorog, Tajikistan 2023 UN-Habitat has partnered with the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) and the government of Tajikistan, through the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), to undertake the ‘Integrated Spatial Plan for Environmental and Socio-Economic Resilience’ in Khorog Tajikistan.
Land, Women Empowerment and Socioeconomic Development in the Arab Region 2023 In the Arab region, as in other parts of the world, there is a growing consensus that securing land tenure for women and men is an essential precondition to achieving socioeconomic and human development. However, the empirical evidence needed to understand the relationship between gender, land tenure, and inequalities is lacking.

The Arab Land Initiative, with the support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, contributed to address this gap. The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) of Palestine in partnership with UN-Habitat and the Global Land Tool Network, conducted the study “Land, Women Empowerment and Socioeconomic Development in the Arab Region: Evidence-based perspectives”.