Overview
UN-Habitat’s governance structure is a three-tier structure made up of the UN-Habitat Assembly, the Executive Board and the Committee of Permanent Representatives. The General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution A/RES/73/239 decided to dissolve the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and to replace it with a United Nations Habitat Assembly of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat Assembly). UN-Habitat Assembly is a universal body composed of the 193 member states of the United Nations and convenes every four years at the Headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi. The Executive Board is composed of 36 member states elected by the UN-Habitat Assembly and meets three times a year to increase the oversight by Member States of UN-Habitat operations. The Committee of Permanent Representatives of UN-Habitat (CPR) meets twice every four years in an open-ended manner. The three governing bodies together are intended to strengthen the accountability and transparency of UN-Habitat, and provide an effective oversight mechanism for UN-Habitat to enhance its normative and operational activities.
Upcoming meetings
The second session of 2026 of the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) will be held from 24 to 25 November 2026, at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi.
The fourth open-ended meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives will take place from 14 to 18 June 2027, at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi.
Previous meetings
The first session of 2026 of the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) was held from 20 to 21 April 2026, at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi.
The resumed second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly was held from 29 to 30 May 2025, at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi.
The third open ended meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives was held from 26 to 28 May 2025, at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi.
| Title | Governing body | Type of document | Meeting | Meeting date Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HSP/EB.2026/19: Report of the Executive Director on the Draft work programme of UN-Habitat and draft budget of the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation for 2027 | Document | Second session of 2026 of the Executive Board | ||
| Draft work programme and draft budget of UN-Habitat for the year 2021 | Document | 2020 first session of the Executive Board meeting | ||
| HSP/EB.2020/12 Progress in the implementation of the strategic plan for the period 2020−2023: draft resource mobilization strategy | Document | 2020 first session of the Executive Board meeting | ||
| HSP/EB.2026/21: Reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services and of the Ethics Office and related UN-Habitat activities: Note by the Secretariat | Document | Second session of 2026 of the Executive Board | ||
| Agenda for the meeting | Document | 2020 first session of the Executive Board meeting | ||
| HSP/EB.2026/16 -Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme at its first session of 2026 | Document | First session of 2026 of the Executive Board | ||
| HSP/OEWG-H.2026/INF/5: Summary of the report on National Housing Policies: A global perspective | Document | The third session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Adequate Housing for All | ||
| HSP/EB.1/7 - Report of the Executive Director on Progress in the implementation of resolution 1/1 on the UN-Habitat strategic plan for the period 2020-2023 | Document | Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme First Meeting (resumed) | ||
| UN systemwide Guidelines on Safer Cities and Human Settlements | Document | 2020 first session of the Executive Board meeting | ||
| HSP/EB.2026/18/20: Report of the Executive Director on the Normative and operational activities of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, including updates on the country programmes in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Kenya (Advance) | Document | Second session of 2026 of the Executive Board |
| Title | Governing body | Meeting Type | Meeting date Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Assembly Bureau Meeting (Tuesday morning) | UN-Habitat Assembly | ||
| 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Regional Groups (Tuesday morning) | UN-Habitat Assembly | ||
| 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Gender Forum on Women and the New Urban Agenda | UN-Habitat Assembly | ||
| 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Ministerial Roundtable on Infrastructure, Cities and Local Action: Mobilising communities for the SG's Climate Action Summit 2019 | UN-Habitat Assembly | ||
| 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Young Women to Women | UN-Habitat Assembly |