The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award is one of the most prestigious human settlements awards. It was launched in 1989 to recognize outstanding initiatives and practices that improve human settlements, provide housing, highlight the plight of people living in poverty or displaced by conflict, and contribute to enhanced quality of urban life to leave no one behind.

Please note that nominations should come from third parties. It is not possible to nominate yourself, your own organization, programme, institute, or initiative.

We accept nominations for the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award in English only by 30 April 2025 using the below form.

You can find more details and information on how to nominate candidates in the nomination guide.

Details of the Submitter

NOTE: It is not possible to nominate yourself, your own organization, programme, institute, or initiative.

Details of the nomination

(Individual, Organization, Programme, Institute or Initiative)
Indicate if nomination is for:

Outlining main achievements

Provide substantive information about the nominated organization or individual, including their mission, goals, history, and experience in sustainable urbanization and housing:
Provide a description of the situation or problem addressed, the objectives, target beneficiaries, investments (capacity, material, financial), activities undertaken, outputs, initiative duration, achievements, change and impact of the actions. Include photographs or other evidence of the outputs and results:
List the partners involved, detailing their roles and levels of participation in the initiative’s planning, design, implementation, and funding:
Provide the estimated number and types of beneficiaries (e.g., women, children, youth, people living in poverty, displaced persons etc.) Describe the initiative's impact on their living conditions, including social, economic, environmental, health, education, employment, security of tenure, and crime or other related aspects. Support the description with both qualitative and quantitative data:
Indicate whether this is a replicable best practice and demonstrate its potential for replication at local, national, regional, and global levels. Where applicable, provide an explanation of the replication process:
Describe the key innovative aspects of the initiative. What is new, different and creative in design, implementation or impact:
Describe how the initiative has been recognized and provide a list of references, articles, publications, and media reports, starting with the most recent. Include URLs for each source where available:
Describe how the initiative aligns with SDG 11, highlighting its relevance to target indicators such as housing, informal settlements, transport, and public spaces. Specify connections to any of the specific targets within SDG 11:
Describe how the initiative aligns with the World Habitat Day theme, which is on urban crisis response and highlight existing tools that play a critical role in urban response, recovery and reconstruction in crisis contexts:
Describe any efforts or activities that align with or contribute to achieving sustainable development goals:
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