| Mainstreaming Housing into Jordan's National Urban Policy Thematic Guide | 2021 | This guide addresses how housing can be incorporated into policies, specifically the Jordan National Urban Policy, to promote sustainable development. It highlights key issues worth considering and is intended to be utilised as a means of providing direction and guidance to readers through recommendations/checklists to mainstream the several coexisting and consistent housing challenges in Jordan. |
| Urban Observatories: A Comparative Review | 2021 | This first-of-a-kind landscape review examines 'urban observatories,' which are boundary-spanning institutions working at the interface between knowledge production and decision-making that perform an explicit monitoring role on a range of urban issues in one or more human settlements. It builds upon earlier scholarly research on knowledge mobilisation for urban governance and developing a global science to guide city policy. |
| Sustainable Urbanization for Sustaining Peace | 2021 | This paper sets out how working towards sustainable urbanization is crucial for the sustaining peace agenda. It builds on the ongoing reforms of the peace, security and development pillars of the United Nations and it illustrates how UN-Habitat’s expertise and experiences add value to the humanitarian development- peace actions of the UN in the region. |
| Building Participatory Accountability Systems for City Policies - Handbook | 2021 | The Handbook for “Building Participatory Accountability Systems for City Policies” offers guidance on how to develop urban projects and interventions through a participatory and consultative approach with city stakeholders, while allowing for flexibility to tailor interventions to the specific needs of individual cities and regions. |
| Innovación y tecnología digital para la reinvención del Presupuesto Participativo como herramienta de resiliencia social | 2021 | El potencial del Presupuesto Participativo (PP), especialmente el relacionado con los beneficios indirectos generados, sigue sin ser explorado. El PP permite la rápida adopción de acciones y la asignación de recursos financieros que resultan de las interacciones entre habitantes y gobierno.Los autores proponen formas innovadoras de PP para difundir información relevante, aumentar la conciencia y mitigar riesgos e impactos de las crisis naturales, sanitarias y económicas de una forma más efectiva |
| Climate Proofing Toolkit: For Basic Urban Infrastructure with a Focus on Water and Sanitation | 2021 | The Climate Proofing Toolkit is a set of steps, tasks and tools to provide guidance to policymakers, planners, practitioners, engineers and utility managers to ensure that the potential climate change impacts are factored in the design, construction, location and operation of current and future basic urban infrastructure, with a focus on water and sanitation. Thus, as a toolkit, it does not propose a one-size-fits-all solution. |
| Key Messages on Women, Land and Peace | 2021 | Women’s housing, land, and property (HLP) rights contribute to preventing and recovering from conflict and fragility by reducing the likelihood of violent conflicts re-igniting and assisting communities in emerging and recovering from war. They increase food security, agricultural productivity and production, and they are critical to promote the realization of other interconnected human rights. |
| Rapport Atelier Collecte Données - Guinea Conakry | 2021 | L’atelier sera l’occasion pour les participants de s’informer sur les RVC et de l’intérêt de la prise en compte de ces relations dans les politiques, stratégies et plans de développement. Par le biais d’une animation dynamique, les participants auront l’occasion de s’exprimer, de donner leur avis, de faire des remarques et suggestions, de partager leurs expériences sur les processus de collecte des données. Les principaux supports de l’atelier seront des présentations PTT sur les RVC, le projet URL en Guinée et l’utilisation d’outils techniques (applications, bases de données …). Ces présentations devront faciliter la compréhension du contexte d’action et des RVC et les outils techniques quant à eux touchent à l’acquisition/amélioration des compétences techniques en matière de collecte de données. L’atelier se déroulera sous forme de plénières et de travaux pratiques pour une meilleure appropriation des outils techniques et des méthodes de collecte des données. |
| City-Wide Public Space Assessments in Palestine (اللغة العربية: تقييم الأماكن العامة على مستوى المدينة في فلسطين) | 2021 | The city-wide public space assessments in Palestine are prepared to provide verifiable data on women’s experiences in public spaces. The assessments are conducted in five (5) urban areas, namely: Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem cluster in the West Bank and Khan Younis in Gaza Strip. The assessments have utilized UN-Habitat’s city wide public space assessment toolkit and adopted an active participatory approach with high engagement of the targeted municipalities. |
| The Block by Block Playbook: Using Minecraft as a participatory design tool in urban design and governance | 2021 | The purpose of this playbook is to outline UN-Habitat’s approach to using Minecraft as an enabler to encourage community participation in urban design and governance. |