“With more and more of the world’s citizens living in unsustainable informal settlements, and with climate change worsening as global temperatures rise, it’s clear the need to rise up to address the sustainability of our urban poor has never been greater.”

“Following the Beirut Port explosion, I began working in the Karantina rubble collection and sorting site to support the Rubble to Mountains initiative through separating the rubble by material type: glass, plastics and metal. We are doing our best to help Lebanon and especially the people of Beirut.”

“For Mitrovica North municipality, considering the challenges it has faced in the last 20 years to ensure a good quality of life, the sustainable urban mobility plan will solve the issues of traffic jams, safety, accessibility for all, contribute to the health and environmental protection, and create opportunities for sustainable development of other areas with the main focus on people and social equality. This leads us to our vision to be a ‘15-minute city’. This whole participatory process has been made possible by the great support of UN-Habitat, for which we as a municipality are more than grateful.”

“We are happy to partner with UN-Habitat in the provision of water to these vulnerable communities which will ensure improved hygienic measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Somaliland, raise awareness about the pandemic among the urban poor, as well as ensure that they have water for their domestic use.”

“It is very important to know that we have someone we can count on during this pandemic and very good to receive a visit from professionals bringing this kit and kindness because at this moment we are very alone. I am very grateful”

“Property registration, using Geographic Information System, will not only ease and increase property tax collections but will also enhance transparency and accountability in the revenue collection process.”

“This resilient housing project in Tboung Khmum is the first-ever project in Cambodia to recover from the disaster and improve the livelihood at the same time through the Build Back Better approach.”

“With the adoption of National Land Policy in Nepal, we are committed to implementing groundbreaking reform in the land
administration and management sector. One reform is to address the situation of the landless and regularize informal land tenure. As conventional techniques of mapping and land information management are costly and time-consuming, we were looking for a fit-for-purpose approach. The application of participatory mapping and open-source tools for land information management has been a great solution. We appreciate the support of UN-Habitat and other stakeholders in this effort.”MAP

“The future of our planet lies in our cities and towns. We have to get them right. We believe UN-Habitat has the knowledge, expertise and experience to make a real difference on the ground.”

“With the rising need to support IDPs’ living conditions and their daily security, the efforts of UN-Habitat are valuable because they focus on both the provision of urgent support and on sustainable solutions for IDPs to effectively settle down in their desired destinations with a more concrete sense of their land property.”

“Thanks to the Government of Japan and UN-Habitat, we can finally move into our own houses and regain livelihoods.”

“I was jobless, sitting at home depressed with no plans. The training brought back hope in my life. I have learned new skills that will help me to find a job in the park or elsewhere.”

“In the past, I would take a whole day to pay safayi (property tax) fees for my house. Getting new safayi notebooks was even tougher. A property owner had to wait for days for the engineers to survey the house, pay for transport of the engineers and provide lunch. Through the CFA programme, all properties are surveyed and an invoice is delivered to your doorstep. Getting a new safayi notebook now takes less than 15 minutes thanks to the CFA team.”

“The handwashing station near the market is very useful; people who are going back home after buying fish, meat and vegetables can wash their hands here and be safe from COVID-19.”