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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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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Municipal Resource Mobilization Manual - Building the capacity of municipalities and unions of municipalities
2025
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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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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 (Advance)
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HSP/EB.2026/22: Report by the Executive Director on the Outcomes of the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (Advance)
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HSP/EB.2026/23: Report by the Executive Director on the Outcomes of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the midterm review of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (Advance)
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WHD Programme
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Outcome from HLPF 2026 and from HLM on NUA
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WHD Key Messages 2026
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Presentation by the Secretariat on World Cleanup Day
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Presentation by the Secretariat on HLM
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Summary Academic Dialogue - Future of the Cities
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