Managing Urban-Rural Linkages for Nature 2022 Launch of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework requires an integrated territorial (both urban and rural) approach for the sustainable management of biodiversity. Linkages between urban processes and rural transformation across municipalities, countries, and world regions are essential for biodiversity conservation. Urban-rural linkages are constituted by reciprocal and repetitive flows of people, goods, and financial and environmental services between specific rural, peri-urban, and urban locations. To mainstream biodiversity across the urban-rural continuum and connect nature in cities with nature in regions, these flows must respect, conserve and steward biodiversity.
UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – December 2022 2022 UN-Habitat Iraq December 2022 Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
Unions of Municipalities as Enablers of Local Economic Development – Urban Community Al-Fayhaa 2022
NATIONAL URBAN POLICY PROGRAMME 2017-2022 FINAL REPORT 2022 The National Urban Policy Programme (NUPP) remains a pivotal tool towards the promotion and achievement of transformative, inclusive, green, productive, and resilient urban development. Since 2016, NUP has done this through shared responsibility and deliberate consultation between UN-Habitat and respective countries globally. This joint initiative aims at contributing to the successful implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) to achieve sustainable and prosperous human settlements for all as NUP supports countries with the tools and knowledge to undertake the NUP process. The aim of this initiative is to attain Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 11- Sustainable Cities and Communities which by extension enable the attainment of the other 16 SDGs.

The Korea NUPP 2017-2022 final report is the final edition of the Korea NUP Programme implementation report series since its launch in 2017 and it builds on the three earlier editions thus making it a valuable, informative tool of reference for policymakers and urban professionals among other stakeholders. The report articulates the commitment of the UN-Habitat, in collaboration with the government of the Republic of Korea to support the people of I.R Iran, Myanmar, and Niger State in Nigeria to realize respective sustainable urban development agendas through NUP and Smart City Strategies. The main objective of the report is to update stakeholders on the aims of the project which are; sub-national and national governments’ capacity enhancement, knowledge centralization about smart cities strategies, and providing augmented knowledge sharing on NUP and Smart City Strategies. The report further captures the main activities undertaken in Phase 1 between 2017 and 2022, to be followed by Phase 2. Of interest to note are activities such as exchange visits, World Urban Forum, and International Conferences on NUP. Also, the report gives detailed information on country-specific activities for the three host countries on formulation and implementation of NUP and smart city strategies, culminated by a closing ceremony to close phase 1 and officially open the second phase. The report is a co-creation of the Republic of Korea, UN-Habitat, I.R Iran, Myanmar, and Niger State in Nigeria.
Land tenure and sustainable agri-food systems 2022 UN-Habitat - FAO policy paper on Land Tenure and Sustainable Agri-Food Systems highlights the need for securing land rights beyond the farming community and for the array of actors, including micro, small and medium sized agri-food enterprises.
It also notes that secure access to land and tenure rights needs to be considered part of a broader investment and enabling policy environment to support the sustainability of agri-food systems in the long term.
Partnering for Transformative SDG-Oriented Urban Development: Guidance for Multi-Partner Initiatives from the Global Future Cities Programme 2022 By sharing lessons from the Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK FCDO) funded UN-Habitat’s Global Future Cities Programme (GFCP), this report provides guidance to international organisations, donors, city authorities, UN agencies, and private sector on how to design and run multi-partner urban development initiatives that drive transformative impact and accelerate SDG implementation in rapidly urbanising cities.
UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – August 2022 2022 UN-Habitat Iraq August 2022 Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
GPP: UN-Habitat Policy and Plan for Gender Equality and the Rights of Women in Urban Development and Human Settlements 2020 - 2023 2022 The Gender Policy and Plan (GPP) 2020-2023 is UN-Habitat’s roadmap for promoting
gender equality throughout its work. It is aligned with the organizational Strategic
Plan (2020-2023) and supports the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) through its contribution to their implementation. The GPP
elaborates the gender dimensions of the programmatic results and the relevant
indicators for measuring success, as well as steps to strengthen gender equality across
UN-Habitat systems and processes. It builds on the evaluation results, lessons learned
and recommendations from the independent external evaluation of UN-Habitat’s Policy
and Plan for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Urban Development and Human Settlements, 2014-2019 that was conducted in 2020.
National Urban Policy for Palestine 2022 The NUP constitutes a framework and reference for the implementation of public interventions in urban areas in Palestine by the ministries and service-providing institutions of the State of Palestine, in addition to being an awareness tool focusing on the promotion of sustainable urban development.

In Palestine, urbanization exceeds the global average given the particularity of its complex geopolitical situation, standing at 77 per cent (71 per cent in the West Bank and 87 per cent in Gaza Strip) with an additional 8 per cent of the population living in refugee camps, which are characterized by high levels of informality and considered of urban nature, thus making the de facto urban population in Palestine about 85 per cent, with the remaining 15 per cent living in rural settings. With a 2.8 per cent urban population growth rate in 2021, Palestine is classified among the top 25 per cent of urbanizing countries.

In 2022, the Ministry of Local Government (MoLG) and partners led a consultative process in identifying the main priorities and pillars of the NUP. The consultation process was administered by a task team including the Association of Palestinian Local Authorities, the consultant team from An-Najah National University, with technical support from UN-Habitat at the bequest of the European Union. The consultations included stakeholders from the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Refugee camps were not excluded but were not directly involved in the NUP process. The main pillars identified are housing, transportation, natural and cultural heritage, sustainable urban-rural development, disaster risk management, urban governance, and urban economy. Climate change was a cross-cutting issue in the discussions between stakeholders and was considered when formulating policies related to all the pillars mentioned above, especially, the fifth pillar related to disaster risk management.
Priorities 2022-2023: Adequate Housing, Cities and Climate Change and Localising the Sustainable Development Goals 2022 Our world is changing rapidly. Technology and information are moving at breathtaking rates. Populations are expanding, political forces are in flux and the climate crisis threatens the planet’s future. A pandemic has swept across the world, claiming millions of lives.