The Spatial Development Strategic Framework, also known as the city-region plans for Hebron, Ramallah and Al-Bireh, and Jerusalem governorates adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the overarching framework to promote for the process of sustainable spatial development, and the achievement of harmonious urbanization through better functional urban-rural linkages in Palestine.

UN-Habitat has been active in the Somalia urban sector for more than 30 years to promote sustainable and participatory urban development. Responding to the implementation of Somalia National Development Plan 9 and Somaliland National Development Plan II, UN-Habitat’s interventions in Somalia focuses on durable solutions for IDP’s, strengthening urban planning and municipal finance to address urbanization challenges and at the same time enhance service delivery capacity; and to improve...

Good monitoring and evaluation (M&E) establishes clear links between past, present and future initiatives and development results. Monitoring and evaluation can help an organization extract relevant information from past and ongoing activities that can be used as the basis for programmatic fine-tuning, reorientation and future planning: This includes establishing a baseline or database to monitor against objectives, outputs (throughout the policy process) and outcomes. Without effective...

The Human Rights Impact Assessment Mechanism (HRIAM) has been designed as a monitoring tool for spatial planning in Area C of the West Bank. The HRIAM introduces a methodology which maximizes the advantages of spatial planning for ensuring human and humanitarian rights through communal or¬ganization and steadfastness; planning coherence at the local, regional and national levels; and ensures that the implementation of collective rights in the long run are not un-dermined by short-term...

This sourcebook identifies a comprehensive selection of existing resources and tools to support the incorporation of health into UTP, including advocacy frameworks, entry points and guidance, as well as tools and illustrative case studies. It does not provide prescriptions for specific scenarios – these should be determined by context, people and available resources.

Caribbean Strategy for Informal Settlements Upgrading (CSISU) recognizes that informal settlements are a product of failures in the shelter, land and housing systems, evident in the lack of capacity to adequately meet shelter needs and provide employment and services in step with urbanization in the Caribbean. While these factors affect households across the socio-economic spectrum, informal settlements are disproportionately burdened, as they are home to a significant proportion of lower...

This report highlights UN-Habitat’s 2019 work with the federal government, and its Member States in responding to the Somalia National Development Plan priorities and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (particularly SDG 11) and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). Working as a member of the UN County team, UN-Habitat’s interventions are underpinned by the agency’s core normative programming on inclusive and sustainable development of cities.

UN-Habitat’s Sub-Saharan Africa Atlas presents a graphic overview on the state of urbanization, regional frameworks and UN-Habitat’s portfolio in the region, as well as a country profile comprised by urbanization status, projects currently under implementation and urban challenges in the countries.

This Placemaking toolkit is based on the experience of UN-Habitat Palestine and its partners, mainly Ministry of Local Government in designing and implementing placemaking interventions in 11 Palestinian communities under the framework of the Spatial Planning Support Programme for Area C, West Bank.