UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – December 2021 2021 UN-Habitat Iraq December Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
Gender-Sensitive design for the Cairo BRT 2021 Greater Cairo faces rising congestion, pollution, and a lack of access to opportunities. Responding to these issues, the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), in partnership with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), are planning a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Greater Cairo. In the initial phase, the BRT network aims to provide improved connectivity between the new community of 6th of October City and central Giza and Cairo.

Until recently, transport planning and operations have tended to take a “one-size-fits-all” approach, assuming that men and women will benefit equally from improvements in transport services. In reality, women and men have different expectations from a transport system and different perceptions of security. To develop a better understanding of the challenges faced by women while using the transport system, the ITDP and UN-Habitat conducted a series of surveys and focus groups with commuters in the city.
Waste Wise Cities Newsletter 10 - April 2021 2021 The Waste Wise Cities Newsletter is published bi-monthly and provides articles on different waste-related topics, e.g. the Sustainable Development Goals, Tools and certain waste management technologies, introduces Waste Wise Cities Affiliates, gives updates about activities and highlights upcoming and past events. At the moment the newsletter is available in English, French and Spanish.
Data Gathering for Somalia Cities | Training manual 2021 The manual is meant to fit into a training course for data gathering in Somalia. It serves as an introduction for local government and other interested stakeholders, guiding through the different scales and themes relevant to the context, the different methods of gathering data, and the types of data that can be gathered. 
Towards a new generation of Voluntary Local Reviews: Connecting VLRs and VNRs 2021 Final report of the global Expert Group Meeting “Towards a new generation of Voluntary Local Reviews: Connecting VLRs and VNRs” held 23 and 24 February 2021, organized by UN-Habitat, UCLG and the support of Madrid City Council (Spain).
The Role of Public Spaces for COVID-19 Response in Refugee Settlements: A study of Kakuma-Kalobeyei, Turkana County, Kenya 2021 In Kakuma-Kalobeyei, northern Kenya, streets, public spaces and shared public facilities have played a critical role in supporting host and refugee communities in their day-to-day activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several gaps in public spaces in Kakuma-Kalobeyei which need to be addressed in the short-, medium- and long-term.
Guide for Mainstreaming Housing in Lebanon’s National Urban Policy 2021 Access to affordable, adequate and secure housing presents a major challenge in Lebanon, especially in big urban centres. The housing sector is characterized by a persistent housing–income disconnect and supply–demand mismatch. Besides long-standing issues, the sector’s challenges have also exacerbated due to the multiple crises facing the country – protracted Syrian refugee crisis, 2020 Beirut Port explosion, and socioeconomic crisis.
Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for Ghana under the Adaptation Fund Project “Improved Resilience of Coastal Communities in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana”. 2021 Under the thematic area of “Disaster risk reduction and early warning systems” from the Adaptation Fund, the project Improved Resilience of Coastal Communities in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana aims at increasing resilience to climate change and human-induced hazards. More concretely, resilience to coastal erosion and coastal flooding.
UN-Habitat Iraq Newsletter – March 2021 2021 UN-Habitat Iraq March Newsletter: Provides an update on UN-Habitat’s activities in Iraq as well as relevant policy and advocacy topics.
Spotlight on UN-Habitat Lebanon’s Work (2019 – 2021) 2021 Since 2006, UN-Habitat in Lebanon has focused on responding to successive crises that the country has witnessed, including: The war of July 2006, The Syrian refugee crisis, COVID-19, the Beirut Port explosion, and the current socio-economic crisis.

In a country that is close to 90% urban by population, hosting 1.5+ million refugees – UN-Habitat also focuses on implementing effective, area-based, multi-sectoral humanitarian-development nexus response, while laying the foundation for lo