| Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: Implementing the Pinheiro Principles in the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic) | 2025 | This handbook is designed to provide practical guidance to national and international actors, institutions, and organizations working to protect the housing, land, and property rights of refugees and displaced persons. It contributes to achieving sustainable solutions by applying the Pinheiro Principles to displacement situations across the Middle East and North Africa region. |
| Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Kerkennah Archipelago, Tunisia | 2025 | |
| Integrating Nature-based Solutions into Urban &Territorial Planning - Building Biodiverse & Resilient Cities | 2025 | This playbook provides a practical guide for urban actors to integrate Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into projects and policy actions. It outlines a flexible, action-oriented process that can be adapted to different local contexts and scales, applied across diverse themes and sectors, and supports the integration of nature into decision-making. |
| Future Cities Advisory Outlook 2025: AI and Cities | 2025 | Projections indicate that by 2050, urban populations will grow by 2.3 billion, challenging the capacity of existing city systems., posing a vital question: Can 10 percent of a city's current resources support its sustainable high-quality development? “AI + City” provides the answer, transforming fragmented silos into synergistic systems that significantly enhance efficiency. This report delivers the City Intelligence framework, four-phase roadmap, twelve cases and the “AI + City” global collaboration initiatives to scale this power, offering a blueprint for a better urban future. |
| Healthier Cities and Communities through Public Spaces | 2025 | This paper explores the potential of public spaces to foster healthier cities, with a specific focus on the role of urban planners and local governments. It introduces the topic by examining global agendas that highlight the interconnectedness of public spaces and health, emphasizing the synergies between them. The paper outlines seven strategies proposed by UN-Habitat for enhancing health outcomes through public spaces and concludes with five actionable recommendations to effectively implement these approaches. |
| Closing the Loop on textile waste (CTL), a flagship program of Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF) | 2025 | |
| 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. |
| Évaluation de l’économie circulaire dans le secteur du bâtiment et de la construction au Sénégal | 2025 | This assessment pilots the National Circularity Assessment Framework for Buildings in Senegal, establishing a baseline for circularity in the buildings and construction sector. It maps material flows, environmental footprint, and socio-economic impacts, and sets out recommendations to accelerate the country’s circular transition. |
| Lebanon – Building destruction and debris quantities assessment - Baalbek-Hermel Governorate | 2025 | |
| Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance Annual Report 2024 | 2025 | UN-Habitat’s 2024 Global Water Operators’ Partnership Alliance Annual Report highlights how Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) are strengthening public utilities through peer support. Marking GWOPA’s 15th anniversary, it showcases impact, innovation and growing momentum to advance SDG 6 and build a more water-secure future. |