2020 Achievements


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We rolled out UN-Habitat’s immediate response plan covering 75 projects in 37 countries with USD 32 million raised and reprogrammed to support the most marginalized most quickly.


2

Throughout the year we provided support to 6.8 million people in 37 countries and 262 cities to adapt to the global health crisis and resulting social-economic fallouts by implementing 71 projects with more than 250 partners.

3

Working with CitiIQ, we created a global database on city preparedness and pandemic responses involving 1,700 cities across all regional groups.

4

We worked with partners to ensure that social cohesion and community resilience are a pillar of the United Nations framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19.

5

UN-Habitat worked with key agencies and local governments to bring learning and recommendations forward in the United Nations Secretary-General’s Policy Brief: COVID-19 in an Urban World.


1

The City Prosperity Initiative was used to guide decision-making in around 50 countries by establishing linkages between data, knowledge and policy actions.


2

We collected data on 77 indicators from with the Global Urban Indicators Database from 1,500 urban areas in 132 countries with the Global Urban Indicators Database.

3

We prepared a Global Monitoring Framework as a universal urban monitoring system.

4

We launched the Urban Agenda Platform to support monitoring of progress to achieve the New Urban Agenda and urban related SDGs.


1

We provided support to 36 national governments and more than 20 cities , benefitting more than 300,000 people by improving living conditions in informal settlements.


2

We supported the local implementation of the SDGs through 30 sustainable, integrated and inclusive urban projects, achieving scaled transformative change in 19 cities.

3

96 cities used participatory planning methodologies and collected spatial data to increase social cohesion between migrant, displaced and host communities under several regional and country teams.

4

The HerCity platform provided a digital toolbox to create more inclusive, equal and sustainable cities and promote participation of girls and young women in urban planning using innovative digital technologies in 17 cities.


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UN-Habitat’s total income in 2020 was USD 193.7 million, representing 76.6 per cent of its target


2

Since January 2020, we have signed agreements with 191 partners: Governments (51), United Nations entities (18), Local Governments (26) and Civil Society Organizations (96).


3

Projects financed by the Adaptation Fund totalled over USD 49 million , supporting the community-level adaptation of infrastructure to climatic changes in south-eastern Africa, Cambodia, Jordan, Lebanon, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Pakistan and Vietnam, significantly increasing the portfolio to benefit 14 countries


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World Cities Report 2020:
The Value of Sustainable Urbanization



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2020 Catalogue
of Services



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United Nations System-wide Guidelines on Safer Cities and Human Settlements



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The New Urban Agenda Illustrated