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Annual Report 2024
UN-Habitat’s 2024 Annual Report, Adequate Housing for All, highlights global efforts to address the housing crisis and advance sustainable urbanization. The report showcases progress in reducing inequality, promoting… Read more
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World Cities Report 2024: Cities and Climate Action
Cities are both the victims of climate change and among its worst offenders: though disproportionately exposed to its impacts, they are also responsible for generating a significant share of global greenhouse gas… Read more
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Annual Report
Shanghai Manual: A Guide for Sustainable Urban Development in the 21st Century - 2024 Annual Report
2024
The Shanghai Manual 2024 Annual Report showcases globally implemented urban best practices that present urban actors with innovative solutions to help cities navigate the complex challenges that they face today. Following the theme of ‘youth leading climate and local action for cities’, the report explores the potential of young people as urban change makers with a particular regard to climate action and urban environmental sustainability.
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Technical Report
Kakuma Regeneration Strategy: Enhancing Self-Reliance for Refugees and Hosting Communities in Turkana County, Kenya
2023
The Kakuma Regeneration Strategy promotes economic growth, sustainability, self-reliance, and integration of hosts and refugees in the new Kakuma Municipality in Kenya. It offers a path to overcoming economic, environmental, and socio-cultural challenges through physical revitalisation, improved governance, and a transition away from traditional models of hosting refugees in camps.
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Kenya Habitat Country Programme Document (HCPD) 2023 - 2027
2023
This Habitat Country Programme Document (HCPD) 2023 – 2027 outlines the Government of Kenya & UN-Habitat’s key priorities in Kenya and is in line with UN-Habitat’s mandate under the Governing Council Resolution 21/2 of 2007. Through this HCPD, the Government of Kenya and UN-Habitat will be able to accelerate the urgent urbanization and human settlements development agenda in Kenya through four Key focus areas
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Managing and financing urban development through physical & land use planning processes in Kenya: A guidebook for county governments
2022
The purpose of the Guidebook is to strengthen the ability of County Governments in Kenya to utilize existing legislation and provide key insights in the coordination of spatial planning policies. These policies define location and character of development and the economic regulation of resources necessary to deliver value for money. It identifies physical and land use policy, operational and regulatory issues and incorporates financing strategies to implement them.
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Brief
Research Briefing Vol 3: Urbanization in North Rift Kenya
2022
These briefs are based on a study designed to establish prevailing socio-economic conditions, the nature of businesses and the local economic development in Turkana West, and the trends of urbanization in North Rift Kenya. The research is available as three volumes: (1) Volume 1 focused on Households’ Socio-Economic Conditions, (2) Volume 2 is on Businesses and Local Economic Development (LED), and Volume 3 is a profile of the Urbanization Trends in North Rift region of Kenya.
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Brief
Research Briefing Vol 2: Businesses and Local Economic Development in Turkana West, Kenya
2022
These briefs are based on a study designed to establish prevailing socio-economic conditions, the nature of businesses and the local economic development in Turkana West, and the trends of urbanization in North Rift Kenya. The research is available as three volumes: (1) Volume 1 focused on Households’ Socio-Economic Conditions, (2) Volume 2 is on Businesses and Local Economic Development (LED), and Volume 3 is a profile of the Urbanization Trends in North Rift region of Kenya.
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Brief
Research Briefing Vol 1: Socio-Economic Conditions in Turkana West, Kenya
2022
These briefs are based on a study designed to establish prevailing socio-economic conditions, the nature of businesses and the local economic development in Turkana West, and the trends of urbanization in North Rift Kenya. The research is available as three volumes: (1) Volume 1 focused on Households’ Socio-Economic Conditions, (2) Volume 2 is on Businesses and Local Economic Development (LED), and Volume 3 is a profile of the Urbanization Trends in North Rift region of Kenya.
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Technical Report
Socio Economic Development in Turkana West, Kenya Volume III: Regional Context: Urbanization in North Rift Kenya
2022
This report is based on a study designed to establish prevailing socio-economic conditions, the nature of businesses and the local economic development in Turkana West, and the trends of urbanization in North Rift Kenya. This report (Volume 3) is focused on Urbanization in North Rift Kenya. It is part of 3 reports produced by the study. The other two reports are Volume 1: Households’ Socio-Economic Conditions, and Volume 2 on Businesses and The Local Economic Development.
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Technical Report
Socio Economic Development in Turkana West, Kenya Volume II: A Report on Businesses and The Local Economic Development
2022
This report is based on a study designed to establish prevailing socio-economic conditions, the nature of businesses and the local economic development in Turkana West, and the trends of urbanization in North Rift Kenya. This report (Volume 2) is focused on Businesses and The Local Economic Development. It is part of 3 reports produced by the study. The other two reports are Volume 1: Households’ Socio-Economic Conditions, and Volume 3 on Urbanization Trends in the North Rift Region of Kenya.
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Agenda to Action: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Nine Cities Across the Globe
Posted on February 23rd, 2026
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Document
HSP/EB.2026/9 : Report of the Executive Director on implementation of United Nations Habitat Assembly resolutions through the strategic plan for the period 2026–2029 (Advance)
Posted on February 23rd, 2026
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Technical Report
urban_resilience_action_plan_urap_for_cobija_bolivia.pdf
Posted on February 21st, 2026
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Technical Report
Urban Resilience Action Plan (URAP) for Charagua, Bolivia: Planning for Climate, Urban, and Biodiversity Action
Posted on February 21st, 2026
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