The city of Trujillo in Peru, within the framework of the "Accountability Systems for Measuring, Monitoring and Reporting on Sustainable City Policies in Latin America" project has produced its first voluntary local report on Trujillo's progress towards SDG 11. The report presents the city's progress and its commitment to the 2030 Agenda.

The city of Chimbote in Peru, within the framework of the "Accountability Systems for Measuring, Monitoring and Reporting on Sustainable City Policies in Latin America" project has produced its first voluntary local report on Chimbote's progress towards SDG 11. The report presents the city's progress and its commitment to the 2030 Agenda.

The city of Niterói in Brazil, within the framework of the "Accountability Systems for Measuring, Monitoring and Reporting on Sustainable City Policies in Latin America" project has produced its first voluntary local report on Niterói's progress towards SDG 11. The report presents the city's progress and its commitment to the 2030 Agenda.

En 1991, la Guinée s’est dotée d’un outil de maîtrise de la croissance urbaine rapide, à savoir le Schéma National d’Aménagement du Territoire (SNAT) dont la finalité générale consistait à « modifier et optimiser la répartition des individus et de leurs activités sur le territoire national dans un souci d’équilibre géographique, d’épanouissement social, d’efficacité économique et environnementale ». Le présent rapport porte sur l’examen participatif de la mise en œuvre de cet outil.

The Governance Assessment Framework for Metropolitan, Territorial and Regional Management (GAF-MTR) and its two-step assessment tools present an analytical and practical vision of governance. They propose the understanding of governance as a complex process in which institutional solutions, decision-making and collective action must work together.

This midterm evaluation assessed UN-Habitat Afghanistan’s Municipal Governance Support Programme (MGSP). The programme’s overall objective is to “improve stability and stimulate local economic development in target municipalities through enhancing municipal governance, increasing local revenues, improving tenure security and strengthening the social contract between citizens and the state.”

The “Future Cities Advisory Outlook 2020: Urban Technologies in China” is the first report of the UN-Habitat China Future Cities Council (CFCC), an initiative convened by UN-Habitat China and supported by Chinese private sector companies with an interest on charting out how digital solutions and technologies can create better cities and places leaving no one behind.
The CFCC report reviews China’s emergent smart urbanization policy frameworks as well as the endeavours of private sector…

In cities and urban areas in East Africa, livelihoods and incomes of populations are seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for those living in informal settlements. These urban populations are more vulnerable to food insecurity and unstable livelihoods as they mainly depend on the informal sector. It is estimated that the number of food insecure people in East Africa will increase to more than 41 million people because of COVID-19 including 14 million urban dwellers.

The UN Secretary-General has launched the UN Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 to save lives, protect societies, recover better. As part of the response, the UN Secretary-General is issuing policy briefs to provide ideas to governments on how to address the consequences of this crisis and COVID-19 in an urban world is part of this series .