| Territorial Governance and Food Markets for Sustainable Food Systems | 2025 | This White Paper is a collaboration of UN-Habitat’s Urban-Rural Linkages Program with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) as background for discussions at the upcoming UN Food System Summit Stocktaking (UNFSS+4). The paper draws upon recent working papers, expert group meetings including the GAIN-FAO-Rikolto Local and Traditional Food Markets Global Technical Meeting (June 2024), programmatic delivery, and reports from organizations referenced in this paper. Noting the contributions received from the World Farmers Markets Coalition, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, EcoAgriculture Partners, HealthBridge and the Resilient Local Food Supply Chains Alliance. |
| Urban Resilience Action Plan for Sahab, Jordan: Planning for Climate, Urban, and Biodiversity Action | 2025 | |
| Accelerating sustainable urban futures: a practical guide for challenge-driven innovation in cities | 2025 | Building on the work of Challenge Works and UN-Habitat, this publication guides local government leaders and innovators on how to apply challenge-driven innovation methods in cities. It offers a step-by-step process and provides real-world examples, useful tips and relevant resources that tackle real challenges identified in cities and communities through innovation. |
| Towards Inclusive Urban Futures: The Integrative Role of Local Development Agencies in Urban Regeneration | 2025 | A concise guide to how Local Development Agencies knit planning, finance and governance to regenerate disadvantaged areas and tackle spatial inequality Local Development Paper V6_2409…, with lessons and cases from Gothenburg, Barcelona, Turin, Santiago, Singapore and Nelson Mandela Bay—aimed at local governments and partners. |
| Textiles-as-a-service - leasing coveralls for kids in Norwegian kindergartens | 2025 | |
| Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Cobija, Bolivia | 2025 | |
| Lebanon – Building destruction and debris quantities assessment - Bekaa Governorate | 2025 | |
| People Friendly Streets in Afghanistan | 2025 | This Urban Street Design Manual offers context-sensitive guidance for creating safer, more inclusive, and people-friendly streets in Afghan cities. It outlines key street elements, design principles, and practical solutions to support sustainable mobility, improve accessibility, and enhance the urban environment for all users. |
| Advancing Urban-Rural Linkages: Digital Technology and Innovative Solutions for Food Flows and Territorial Resilience in East Africa | 2025 | Food security and sustainable urban-rural connections are critical to territorial resilience in East Africa, yet many challenges persist. Smallholder farmers, traders, and policymakers face obstacles such as inefficient value chains, poor infrastructure, and a lack of access to digital tools that could optimize food distribution and market participation. As cities grow and demand for food increases, there is an urgent need to integrate digital innovations into food systems to improve efficiency, transparency, and inclusivity. This strategy paper explores the role of digital technology in enhancing food flows and territorial resilience in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. It presents case studies on successful digital solutions, including mobile applications, e-commerce platforms, and smart agricultural innovations, which are transforming food markets and supply chains. Developed through a collaborative effort involving UN agencies, academia, international NGOs, and government stakeholders, this publication provides a roadmap for implementing digital tools in food systems. |
| Climate Mitigation in Intermediary Cities: Policies for Systemic Change in Kenya and Mozambique | 2025 | Rapid demographic growth and urban expansion are transforming intermediary cities in Kenya and Mozambique. However, limited governance and planning capacity – along with scarce financial resources – are driving these cities towards car-dependent systems, which lock in carbon emissions, reduce accessibility and undermine quality of life. Without timely intervention, current choices risk embedding high emissions and social inequalities for decades to come. Building on the OECD methodology for Systems Innovation for Net Zero and Well-Being, this report develops and applies a practical approach tailored to the realities of intermediary cities in developing countries. Through visioning exercises, systems mapping, and the identification of key areas for transformational change, the analysis demonstrates how Kiambu, Nakuru, Beira and Quelimane can reorient infrastructure investment, land-use planning and mobility policies to achieve low-carbon, people-centred growth. The approach is practical, adaptable and relevant for other fast-growing cities. Local and national policymakers, development partners, planners and investors will find clear diagnostics, actionable insights and replicable tools to align immediate decisions with long-term climate and well-being goals, turning today’s narrow window of opportunity into lasting progress. |