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Flagship Report
World Cities Report 2026: The Global Housing Crisis: Pathways to Action
The current global housing crisis is the outcome of decades of insufficient investment, rapid urbanization, economic instability, and displacement caused by conflict and disasters. Recent global estimates indicate that… Read more
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Annual Report
Annual Report 2025
The 2025 Annual Report presents how UN-Habitat advanced housing-led sustainable urban development as a foundation for more inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. Framed around the principle that the future of… Read more
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Country Report
​UN-Habitat Lebanon Rapid Municipal Assessment Report
2026
​​Rapid Municipal Assessment of conflict-affected areas in Lebanon, presenting key findings on service delivery, infrastructure damage, and municipal capacities to support evidence-based recovery and humanitarian planning.​
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Guide to creating urban public SPACES for children
2026
Public spaces to play are important to children's health and development and are a core right. Yet with increasing urbanization, access to public spaces to play is shrinking, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This guide, developed by UN-Habitat, WHO and UNICEF, highlights the importance of public spaces for optimizing children's health and well-being, and realizing their comprehensive rights. It provides support for practitioners in developing and improving public…
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MERP RM Manual
Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Municipal Resource Mobilization Manual - Building the capacity of municipalities and unions of municipalities
2025
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BDDQA-Baalbek-Hermel
Technical Report
Lebanon – Building destruction and debris quantities assessment - Baalbek-Hermel Governorate
2025
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BDDQA-Bekaa
Technical Report
Lebanon – Building destruction and debris quantities assessment - Bekaa Governorate
2025
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Press Release
Helping Homs recover: Japan and UN-Habitat launch major urban renewal initiative
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DURABLE SOLUTIONS PROGRAMMING IN AFGHANISTAN
Paper
unhabitat_durable_solutions_programme_final.pdf
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DURABLE SOLUTIONS PROGRAMMING IN AFGHANISTAN
Paper
unhabitat_durable_solutions_programme_final.pdf
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
The Urban Law and Conflict Series (Volume 3, Early Recovery): Enhancing Urban Law to Protect Housing, Land and Property Across the Conflict Cycle
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Call for Proposal
Application guidelines
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Call for Proposal
Application guidelines
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Technical Report
Quality of Life in Cities Experiences of cities piloting the Quality of Life Index
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Press Release
UN-Habitat and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to advance sustainable urbanization across the Horn and Eastern Africa
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Regional Report
Land Governance in the Middle East: Regional Perspectives for Improved Land Administration and Access to Housing
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