The purpose of this playbook is to outline UN-Habitat’s approach to using Minecraft as an enabler to encourage community participation in urban design and governance.

Report on UN-Habitat trainings piloting the asset-based approach from the Sourcebook for Integrating health into urban and territorial planning.

The handbook provides tested approaches and practical frameworks for improving access to affordable housing through the leverage of land and includes a range of tax-based, fee-based and development-based policy instruments. It also features regulatory framework to formulate planning standards that reduce land costs and planning and building regulations that permit incremental housing construction, as well as spatial planning that puts land to efficient use.

The ESSS 3.1 describes UN-Habitat’s commitments, roles, and responsibilities towards environmental and social (E&S) risks and impacts associated with its activities. The ESSS 3.0 ensures that that E&S risks and impacts are managed from the conceptualization to the implementation of projects and programmes, in accordance with local regulations and international standards.

The Climate Proofing Toolkit is a set of steps, tasks and tools to provide guidance to policymakers, planners, practitioners, engineers and utility managers to ensure that the potential climate change impacts are factored in the design, construction, location and operation of current and future basic urban infrastructure, with a focus on water and sanitation. Thus, as a toolkit, it does not propose a one-size-fits-all solution.

One of the most significant challenges facing urban authorities in developing countries is finding the funds needed to support and sustain urban development. Without funds, the authorities are unable to meet the ever-growing demand for basic services, maintenance and new infrastructure – including land services that ensure tenure security.

The report investigates the nexus between land and conflict in the Jubaland State of Somalia. From the analysis emerges that the key causes of conflict are environmental, socio-economic and governance-related. Each of these dimensions is tightly related to how land and land-related resources are accessed, managed and controlled.

The objective of the “HOW TO” GUIDE FOR INTEGRATING IMPACT EVALUATION INTO PROGRAMMING is to provide a clear step-by-step guide to establishing evaluations for implementers of land tenure and governance interventions. The “How to” Guide elaborates key steps, processes and tools needed by evaluators and practitioners for integrating impact evaluation into programming and to support better planning and implementation of land tenure and governance interventions.

A lack of capacity in the land management and administration is a key reason that land policies are not effectively implemented in many countries and, indeed, is a reason that those policies are inappropriate or become outdated. This Guide outlines a process for assessing the capacity of the land management and administration system in a country as a whole.