The Gender Policy and Plan (GPP) 2020-2023 is UN-Habitat’s roadmap for promoting
gender equality throughout its work. It is aligned with the organizational Strategic
Plan (2020-2023) and supports the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) through its contribution to their implementation. The GPP
elaborates the gender dimensions of the programmatic results and the relevant
indicators for measuring success, as well as steps to…

Cities for Girls, Cities for All is the report from the Vinnova Innovation for Gender Equality Project. It show cases the results of the Her City toolbox, the implementation of our partnership projects, but also provides guidelines for gender and intersectional sensitive participatory planning, design and implementation.

Urban areas account for two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, making them major contributors to climate change. Cities are already suffering from extreme weather events, flooding, subsidence, storms, heat waves, water scarcity, droughts, and sea-level rise, among other climate change effects. Additionally, the laws, institutions, and policies governing urban planning in cities have unintended effects on their capacity to adapt to the changing climate.

The purpose of UN-Habitat’s Climate Change Strategy for the Arab Region (2022-2025) is to support curbing the impact of climate change on Arab cities and communities through resilience building, reduction of urban vulnerabilities, advancing adaptation and mitigation actions for the development of sustainable cities and mainstreaming climate considerations in urban policies and plans.

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 provides a global overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest available data and estimates. It tracks the global and regional progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.

This guide introduces the urban observatory model and provides a summary of the key requirements and steps in setting up an urban observatory. More details for the requirements and aspects presented in this summary version are available in the full version of the guidebook titled “A Guide to Setting up an Urban Observatory”.

As the world continues to urbanize it is also becoming metropolitan. Whether horizontal spreading, dispersed urbanization or periurbanization, the physical extent of urban areas is growing much faster than their population, thereby consuming more land for urban development. Those phenomena have made many cities grown beyond the boundaries of their central municipality or “city proper” configuring bigger and denser metropolises. This is a trend still present in all world regions and affecting…