Coastal Cities of the Western Indian Ocean Region and the Blue Economy: Strategic Roadmap 2021 WIOMSA and UN Habitat commissioned Arup to prepare a ‘Roadmap for the Development of the Blue Economy in Coastal Cities’, which provides recommendations for cities in current and future blue economy planning, activities and investment. The Roadmap provides strategic and operational blue economy recommendations across case study cities, which stakeholders are encouraged to also read and consider with respect to their city or region.
First Report on the State of Prosperity of the Cities of Bolivia: Primer reporte del estado de la prosperidad de las ciudades de Bolivia 2021 The First Report on the State of Prosperity of the Cities of Bolivia reflects the results of the Prosperous Cities Index (CPI), designed by UN-Habitat.
This index was calculated for 26 urban municipalities in the country in order to provide decision makers with tools that allow them to define a strategic vision for their cities based on data and evidence.
UN-Habitat Lebanon Country Programme Quarterly Newsletter: Urban Digest: 2020 Roundup While Looking Ahead 2021 In this edition, UN-Habitat Lebanon’s newsletter highlights the programme’s efforts to play an active role in the overall international community’s response to multiple crises facing Lebanon including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Beirut Port explosion – in targeting and responding to the needs of those most affected, regardless of their nationality – while maintaining a longer vision of how good urbanization can play a key role in supporting Lebanon steer towards sustainable development.
Beirut City Profile 2021 The Beirut City Profile offers an important multisectoral and spatial analysis about the City of Beirut, including a diagnosis of the wide spectrum of challenges that the city has encountered over the past decades, including the most recent and devastating shock, the Beirut Port explosion. The profile aims to help offer a common understanding of how multiple shocks and vulnerabilities manifest across the city.
UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – August 2021 (English) 2021 UN-Habitat Iraq August Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO) for Cities report 2021 GEO for Cities aims to inform, engage and support dialogue among city decision makers and other actors involved in urban issues. The GEO-6 report, published in 2019, identified urbanization as one of five main drivers of environmental change and also looked at the impact on cities and city residents of related challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Waste Wise Cities Newsletter 13 - December, 2021 2021 "Zero Waste" is the concept of designing out waste and achieving a world with no waste at all, where everything would be put back into the system and kept in closed loops. The newsletter will support you in exploring the model roadmaps, excellent approaches, etc. It is also find the report on official side event at COP 26 as well as ISWA congress. The article and recordings of member cities' Learning Hubs are also available.
The Abu Dhabi Declared Actions: One year of implementation 2021 UN-Habitat has developed a report, The Abu Dhabi Declared Actions: one year of implementation, as part of its commitment to raising awareness of sustainable urbanization; improving knowledge on sustainable urban development and promoting cooperation between stakeholders and constituencies working to advance sustainable urbanization.

The report details successes and highlights actions partners are engaging in to fulfil their commitments.
Global State of National Urban Policy 2021 2021 The Global State of National Urban Policy 2021 report reviews the NUPs of 162 countries across the world. Building on the first edition launched in 2018, the report takes stock and provides analysis of form, scope, and stage of development of NUP for policymakers and urban professionals. As such, this global monitoring aims to unpack how and in what forms NUPs have been developed, implemented and assessed globally.
Mapping Somali Cities| Training Manual 2021 This manual is part of a UN-Habitat strategy for building up capacity of local and state government in Somalia and laying the foundation for the establishment of functional urban development departments able to cope with the tremendous urban development challenges of the country. Mapping is only one of the technical skills at the base of urban planning.