| SDG Localization Module 2: Planning for change with the SDGs | 2024 | Urban and strategic planning are critical tools to create sustainable cities. Local and regional governments (LRGs) drive sustainable development, ensuring essential public services and can act as catalysts for transformative change at the local level. However, LRGs often face significant gaps in data, capacity, and resources. Investing in municipal capacity building, institutional efficiency, and partnerships across various levels is crucial for localizing the SDGs. |
| Migration-Informed Urban Planning - A 3 Step Guidebook from the Urban Planning and Infrastructure in Migration Contexts (UPIMC) Programme in Cameroon, Egypt, and Jordan | 2024 | In response to growing urban migration challenges, the Migration Informed Urban Planning: A 3-Step Guidebook offers practical strategies for integrating migrants displaced persons and host communities promoting equitable urban development. Drawing on experiences from Cameroon, Egypt, and Jordan, it equips urban planners, policymakers, and local governments with tools to create inclusive, resilient cities through sustainable urban planning. |
| 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. |
| Profil Spatial Douala, Cameroun | 2024 | Depuis plus d'une décennie, le Cameroun accueille des personnes déplacées et des réfugiés, dont le nombre a augmenté au cours des cinq dernières années en raison de crises internes et externes alimentées par des griefs religieux et politiques, à savoir la crise anglophone, Boko Haram et l'instabilité en République centrafricaine (RCA). Le Cameroun accueille actuellement des réfugiés centrafricains, nigérians, des réfugiés urbains, des demandeurs d'asile de diverses nationalités et des personnes déplacées internes (PDI). |
| Sustainable Urbanization in Commonwealth Countries | 2024 | By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in the world’s towns and cities, with almost 50 per cent of that growth taking place in the Commonwealth. Member States, both large and small, are facing the impacts of climate change and rapid urbanization. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded these, and progress towards achievement of the SDGs has been eroded in many countries, undermining the first year of the Decade of Action towards Agenda 2030. |
| Multi-Level Urban Forums: A Guide | 2024 | Urban Forums are critical and inclusive platforms to domesticate and localize global agendas and to advance evidence-based policymaking and review, as well as communicating policy outcomes and progress. They provide a valuable policy feedback loop. The main objective of the Multi-level Urban Forums Guide is to strengthen the role of multilevel Urban Forums to become platforms for urban policy dialogue, stakeholder engagement, resource mobilization and other concerted actions towards sustainable urban development. The urban forums can provide an opportunity for UN-Habitat to strategically support countries by creating synergies at subnational, national, sub regional and regional levels to optimize the benefits of rapid urbanization and overcome its challenges. Additionally, these guidelines for structuring urban forums will continually be refined to ensure inclusivity and co-creation, foster adequate implementation and urban policy engagement at all relevant levels. |
| Durable Housing, Land and Property Solutions for Customary Displacement Contexts (Report & Brief) | 2024 | This paper analyses case studies and provides evidence-based recommendations on how to prevent or provide durable solutions to displacement in customary contexts through housing, land and property (HLP) rights’ interventions. The cases include voluntary return, local integration and relocation in other locations, and describe measures to prevent internal displacement. |
| Quality of Life Initiative - Brochure | 2024 | At its core, the Initiative features the development of an innovative, globally relevant, locally applicable index to evaluate and accelerate progress on local and global policy agendas around improving the quality of life in cities. |
| Study of the Hydrology of the Tuban Delta Yemen and the Impacts of Climate Change | 2024 | Climate change, population growth, poor water management practices, overexploitation of water resources and the war have contributed to water scarcity, groundwater depletion and saltwater intrusion to many Yemeni aquifers, including Tuban Delta. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess present and future water supply needs, water demands, the impact of climate change on these and its risks under different socioeconomic and climatic scenarios. This study was part of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness project ‘Strengthen the capacities of sub-national authorities and key actors in the water sector to adapt to climate change in Tuban Delta’. |
| World Smart Cities Outlook 2024 | 2024 | The report provides groundbreaking insights into the current state of smart city developments globally. By analyzing trends, challenges and opportunities, it offers a robust evidence base to foster inclusive, sustainable and people-centred smart cities. With recommendations for policymakers and other actors, it serves as a global reference for advancing digital transformation and innovation in urban areas while addressing regional disparities and digital divides. |