| Bridging the Affordability Gap: Towards a Financing Mechanism for Slum Upgrading at Scale in Nairobi | 2019 | It is estimated that one quarter of the world’s urban population lives in informal settlements and these exist in nearly all regions and countries, including in highly developed countries.8 However, almost without exception, countries around the world have singularly failed to implement upgrading of informal settlements at scale. |
| Flyer on Abjad and human security principles | 2019 | The flyer introduces the objective of the Abjad Centre and Shankal group, while highlighting the Human Security principles. |
| Barcelona Resilience Week Report | 2019 | The report provides an overview of participation and detailed outcomes of all main sessions, including the six urban resilience dialogues. Partner events, workshops and site visits are also featured |
| Yokohama Action Guidance for the ACCP | 2019 | |
| Declaration of the First Global Stakeholder Forum of the First UN Habitat Assembly ‘Toward a New Stakeholder Contract for the New Urban Agenda’ | 2019 | |
| Evaluation of the Clean and Green Cities Programme (6/2019) | 2019 | The main objective of the CGC was to improve state-society relations, urban stabilisation and job creation, where urban citizens see municipalities delivering basic neighbourhood services, thus leading to increased hope and government legitimacy. |
| Jazan City Profile | 2019 | The City Profile Report brings together diagnostic urban analysis and aligns that analysis with the UN-Habitat sustainable development framework to achieve the Saudi Vision 2030, NUA and SDGs. This tool helps in understanding the current while guiding the future planning of the city, whilst defining a clear strategy for sustainable development. This tool considers spatial planning in relation to legal aspects and Municipal and Local economy mechanisms. |
| Fundamentals of Planned Urbanization: Training Companion | 2019 | The Fundamentals of Planned Urbanization is a training companion on the principles of planned urbanization. It supports UN-Habitat’s efforts to develop human resources and institutional capacity for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11). The companion includes eight modules on the state of urbanization in the world, global agreements on urbanization, fundamentals of planned urbanization, planned city extensions, housing, urban mobility, slum upgrading and climate change. All modules are accompanied by presentations, interactive exercises, case studies, and opportunities for peer-to-peer exchange, and can be conducted over the course of a five-day training. Depending on interest and time available, the training can be tailored to focus on more specific topics and/or made shorter. |
| Waste Wise Cities Newsletter 1 | 2019 | This Issue of the newsletter looks at Waste Wise Cities Campaign at 1st UN-Habitat Assembly, Theme of 2019 World Habitat Day, Results from our member questionnaire, Our Advisory Group and a Call to Action. |
| Addressing Systemic Barriers for Achieving Sustainable Urbanization in Emerging Economies: Learnings from the 19 Cities of the Global Future Cities Programme | 2019 | Through a comparative analysis of the 19 cities of the Global Future Cities Programme, the report shares experiences and knowledge gained during the Programme’s Strategic Development Phase. It identifies common urban trends in urban planning, mobility, resilience and data, as well as underlying systemic barriers and enablers for sustainable urban development observed across the Global Future Cities. |