Through advocacy, communication and outreach, UN-Habitat mobilizes public, political and financial support and collaborative action to inspire qualitative change in national development plans, policy frameworks, development practice and investment choices for sustainable urban development at the local, national and global level.

World Urban Forum 11

World Urban Forum

The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization. WUF11 will be held in the Polish city of Katowice from 26-30 June 2022. The theme of WUF11 is Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future.
Climate Action 4 Cities

Climate Action 4 Cities

We supercharge ideas to solutions and take action in cities and communities to win the race of climate action.
Annual Report 2020

Annual Report 2020

This is UN-Habitat’s first annual progress report on the implementation of the strategic plan 2020-2023. The report sets out progress towards planned results against indicator targets for 2020. Explore the interactive report.
World Cities Report

World Cities Report

The World Cities Report 2020 shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. 
Financing Sustainable Urban Development

Financing Sustainable Urban Development

The intention of the initiative is to identify lessons on how to strengthen urban finance, building on a range of city case studies from countries selected to represent different levels of urbanisation and structural transformation, examples, and discussions with key stakeholders. Explore the interactive report.
World Cities Day

World Cities Day

World Cities Day was established in 2013 as the day to raise awareness on global urbanizations trends. The first global celebration of the World Cities Day was in Shanghai, China on 31 October 2014, under the sub-theme Leading Urban Transformations.
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World Urban Campaign

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities. Its goal is to place the Urban Agenda at the highest level in development policies. It is coordinated by UN-Habitat and driven by 180 partners and networks  from around the world. 
World Habitat day

World Habitat Day

World Habitat Day offers an opportunity to focus on the state of our towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter. It is also intended to remind the world that everyone has the power and the responsibility to shape the future of our cities and towns.

Partner with us

UN-Habitat strives to establish strategic partnerships with organizations that advocate for sustainable urbanization. It also partners with organizations that can implement and monitor national urban policies and programmes.