This framework represents a comprehensive guide for Arab countries emerging from conflict and crisis situations to design and implement sustainable reconstruction activities that accelerate efforts towards building forward better. Drawing on analyses of over 100 reports and consultations with multiple stakeholders across relevant sectors, including government officials, planners, investors, and others, in Iraq, Libya, the State of Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere, the framework serves as an…

This report explores some of the critical challenges that converge at the intersection of climate change and land governance. Some of these challenges are droughts, desertification, disaster risk, land and water management, land degradation and restoration, soil erosion and conservation, biodiversity, and food security.

This report provides an overview on the importance of the Informal Waste and Recovery Sector (IWRS) for ending plastic pollution. It outlines how the current negotiations towards a global instrument to end plastic pollution can leverage a just transition of the IWRS. It calls for the just transition of the IWRS to be fair, inclusive, and equitable, generating and preserving decent work opportunities in a way that leaves no one behind.

Through smart city initiatives, digital technologies are increasingly applied in cities to modernize city operations and transform service delivery. This report features findings from a systematic literature review and a global online survey completed by approximately 300 respondents, who have reported on the smart city governance practices of more than 250 municipalities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

People living in cities around the world use a wide range of municipal services on a regular basis. Services provided to residents such as garbage collection, the provision of playgrounds, parking spaces, streetlights, affordable housing, social support and public transport all require a local government that is committed to facilitating good quality of life in the city. As city governments undergo digital transformation, the digital and physical aspects of the city become more closely…

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…

La crise sociopolitique s’est progressivement transformée en conflit armé dans les régions du Nord-Ouest et du Sud-Ouest au Cameroun, cette situation a entrainé des vagues massives de personnes déplacées et installées dans les régions voisines de l’Ouest et du littoral. Les répercussions de ces flux démographiques ont été rapides sur la cohésion sociale au sein des collectivités hôtes au niveau individuel, économique, socioculturel et sociopolitique avec des tensions diverses. Face à la…