This report is a photograph of the socio-economic situation of young people in the cities of Colombia. It serves as an input for the discussion, analysis and reflection, about public policies focused on this population.

El objetivo de este estudio es comprender las oportunidades y los desafíos de las estrategias de rendición de cuentas, transparencia y participación pública a nivel local mediante la investigación de 91 casos tomados de las bases de datos de mejores prácticas locales. Centrándose en 9 casos exitosos en Bolivia, Brasil y Perú, el autor encuentra que las iniciativas exitosas crean un sentido de propiedad del programa para los actores participantes. A partir de los análisis de casos, el autor…

The report provides the Governing Council with an overview of UN-Habitat’s progress during the period 2015 – 2017. The information presented builds upon UN-Habitat’s perspective throughout this process and the accounts of member States and IG-UTP partners in adopting and using the Guidelines within their specific contexts.

The Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) brings together experts and cities to contribute to improved migration governance at city level, including migrants' access to basic services and human rights. Implemented since 2015, the project is working with the cities of Amman, Beirut, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Tangiers, Tunis, Turin and Vienna to increase the knowledge base on urban migration and nurture a peer-to-peer dialogue to support mutual learning on specific urban…

National WOPs are taking place in a number of countries, but as they are generally small in nature and self-funded, they often go under the radar of global WOPs monitoring. Although few studies have been conducted on National WOPs, they are assumed to carry many of the advantages of south-south partnerships: such as easier knowledge sharing owing to similarities in culture, language, laws and policies.

This publication summarizes the work that UN-Habitat carried out in Kiambu County to increase the own-source revenue of the county. It highlights the significant impact of the project.
This publication describes the intervention that was carried out by UN-Habitat in Nampula. It explains the impact of the project and what can be done differently in the future.

The report provides an assessment of key sources revenue for the Homa Bay County Government. Upgrading of local markets is one such source of revenue to the County Government.

The profile provides a synopsis on the main urbanization trends and challenges facing the people of Palestine, and the interventions coordinated and spearheaded by UN-Habitat in partnership with local and national stakeholders to localize the Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 11 and the New Urban Agenda.