| 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. |
| SDG Cities - Canada Country Report 2024 | 2024 | UN-Habitat’s SDG Cities Canada Report marks a groundbreaking national initiative, showcasing how cities across the country are localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This report offers a unique perspective, analyzing national statistics through the lens of city-specific indicators from UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Monitoring Framework (UMF). These indicators have been meticulously refined and tailored to address the unique challenges faced by Canadian cities. The report features regional summaries of progress and, most notably, presents 14 compelling case studies that highlight the diverse and dynamic efforts of cities across Canada in advancing a wide range of sustainable development goals. The cities highlighted in the report are: Calgary, Oakville, Halifax, Saanich, Guelph, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Kelowna, Thunder Bay, Kitchener, Burlington, Gibsons, and Winnipeg. Finally, the report presents the work of four Canadian city networks that are building capacity for accelerated action. |
| Quality of Life Initiative events at WUF12 | 2024 | |
| Land Governance and Land Rights in Palestine: Analysis and Recommendations (Report & Arabic Brief) | 2024 | This report analyses the land sector by looking at its legal and institutional set up, its stakeholders, and the key land administration functions: land tenure, land value, land use, land development, and land disputes’ resolution. The most important legislation is annexed and a set of preliminary recommendations for consideration by national stakeholders complement the report. |
| WUF11 Report | 2023 | |
| Policy Legislation and Governance Section Annual Report 2022 | 2023 | This is the third edition of UN-Habitat’s Policy, Legislation and Governance Section Annual Report. The report demonstrates the Section’s position within UN-Habitat’s strategic context, and also links this area of work to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda. The report provides insights into our initiatives and collaborative efforts with all our partners, and presents progress made and results achieved in 2022. It presents these achievements along four focus areas: Country Activities (projects); Normative tools and knowledge products; Capacity development and; Advocacy. The PLGS annual reporting has streamlined and made the section’s work more accessible, providing a coordinated approach to responding to requests for inputs both internally and externally. The 2020 and 2021 reports have demonstrated a clear connection of the section’s projects and programmes to the overall Organization mandate of promoting sustainable urban development. The 2022 report advances this by doing three things: highlights the progress made and results achieved; reviews the trends; and points out connecting milestones since 2020 when the reporting process began. |
| Managing smart city governance – A playbook for local and regional governments | 2023 | This playbook and its recommendations are primarily aimed at municipal governments and their political leaders, local administrators, and public officials who are involved in smart city initiatives. The recommendations, which are delineated in the subsequent sections of this playbook, are intended |