Background 

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is inviting national, regional and local governments, private sector (preferably registered with the UN Global Compact), non-governmental organizations, foundations, educational institutions, and other interested organizations to express their interest in hosting the Global Observance of World Cleanup Day 2025. On 8 December 2023, World Cleanup Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in…

Civil works- Construction of Mud-block production sheds and latrine in 2 locations (Darera Arba, Babile, Oromia Region and Awbere town, Awbere Woreda, Somali Region), ETHIOPIA

UN-Habitat’s Ethiopia Country Programme with the funding of SIDA and SDC is launching an invitation to bid (EIB) to seek an implementing partnership for the project “Strengthening Resilience of Disaster-Affected Communities Through Durable Solutions in Oromia and Somali Regions of Ethiopia’’…

The “Improving Community Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Informal Settlements in Homs and Aleppo” project is a central initiative under UN-Habitat’s Integrated Post-Earthquake and Early Recovery Project, launched in response to the February 2023 earthquake that severely affected informal settlements in these cities. Focusing on the neighborhood of Al-Bayada in Homs and Al-Fardos neighborhood in - Bab Al Nyrab Service Directorate in Aleppo, the project aims to build urban…

About African Clean Cities Platform

Africa has with 3.5% the highest urbanization rate in the world. It is one major reason why municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities in the region; low-income cities in Africa are expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years. To address this ever-increasing waste issue, the African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP) was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique,…

1. Introduction / Background  

GWOPA is the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance with its Secretariat led by UN-Habitat and hosted in Bonn, Germany. GWOPA leads the global movement for Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs). These peer-support partnerships between water and sanitation service providers work by harnessing the skills, knowledge, and goodwill within a strong utility to build the capacity and improve the…