| Shanghai Manual A Guide For Sustainable Urban Development In The 21st Century - 2022 Annual Report | 2022 | The Shanghai Manual was established in 2011 following the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai and serves as a tool to support the efforts of mayors and urban practitioners in advancing sustainable urban development. The ideas and principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and New Urban Agenda have been integrated into the Manual, with a focus on challenges such as how to achieve inclusive and liveable cities, innovative and creative cities and low-carbon and resilient cities. Using exemplary urban best practices, the Shanghai Manual 2022 Annual Report provides practical and tangible solutions to these urbanization challenges through the lens of ‘localizing the SDGs', demonstrating best practices across core dimensions of society, economy, environment, culture, and governance. The Manual also highlights the key global programmes, processes, and networks on SDG localization to help accelerate the implementation of the Goals at the local level. The Manual highlights the potential of cities to create inclusive and equitable communities, drive productive and sustainable economies, build resilience to climate change, develop in line with low-carbon pathways and protect the integrity of natural systems, leverage the positive aspects of urban culture and heritage and establish more effective and accountable modes of governance in line with the SDGs. The Manual has been developed in partnership between UN-Habitat, the Bureau International des Expositions, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government with the support of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. |
| Understanding the Hargeisa Urban Water Supply Upgrading (HUWSUP) project | 2022 | This document provides an overview of the different components of the water intervention project, the Hargeisa Urban Water Supply Upgrading (HUWSUP). It describes each component, outlines the players involved, and provides an overview of how the intervention will work as a first step toward providing a permanent solution to the water scarcity in Hargeisa, Somaliland. |
| Assessment of Zimbabwe Legislation through the Urban Law Module of the Law and Climate Change Toolkit FULL REPORT | 2022 | |
| UN-Habitat Innovation: Current projects, initiatives and partnerships | 2021 | This brochure takes stock of UN-Habitat’s innovation tools and knowledge as well as current initiatives ranging from normative products to specific incubation projects. It also captures the different partnerships and emerging topics of innovation. |
| Cities and Pandemics: Towards a more just, green and healthy future | 2021 | The UN-Habitat’s report - Cities and Pandemics: Towards a more just, green and healthy future – evidences how cities can reduce the impact of future pandemics and become more prosperous, fair and environmentally friendly. The Report calls for the response and recovery to pandemics to be based on human rights principles. It outlines how cities should lead the move towards a New Social Contract between governments, the public, civil society and the private sector. |
| The territorial dimension of displacement in northern Mozambique | 2021 | In support of planning, management, and implementation of actions to address recovery needs and urban durable solutions, UN-Habitat has developed the position paper « The territorial dimension of displacement in northern Mozambique » that aims to advocate for the promotion and joint implementation of integrated urban interventions improving the living conditions of host communities and IDPs, as well as supporting a local governance mechanism to drive sustainable urban development. |
| UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter: June 2021 | 2021 | UN-Habitat Iraq June Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics. |
| Progress on Wastewater Treatment – 2021 Update | 2021 | This report presents the global status on wastewater treatment and acceleration needs to achieve target 6.3 by 2030, based on the latest data on indicator 6.3.1 (total wastewater flows as well as flows from industrial sources and households). |
| The role of land in achieving adequate and affordable housing | 2021 | The handbook provides tested approaches and practical frameworks for improving access to affordable housing through the leverage of land and includes a range of tax-based, fee-based and development-based policy instruments. It also features regulatory framework to formulate planning standards that reduce land costs and planning and building regulations that permit incremental housing construction, as well as spatial planning that puts land to efficient use. |
| Supporting Planning for Integrated Refugee and Host Communities.- August-September Issue | 2021 | This bimonthly newsletter by UN-Habitat highlights the programmes being implemented by the Humanitarian-Development Practices workstream of the Agency, in partnership with governments, implementation partners, refugee, migrants and host communities. The work stream addresses commitments within the Global Compact on Refugees, Global Compact for Migration, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, to contribute a comprehensive response to "Leave No One Behind". |