Featured

Annual Report
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

Flagship Report
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
- Reset filters
- 144 results
- (-) Resilience and Risk Reduction
Highlighted

Technical Report
Assessment report of the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change in vulnerable urban communities in Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Lucia
2025

Technical Report
Learning from the pandemic recovery for a more green and resilient future for all. Cities and human settlements of Small Island Developing States
2025

Global Report
WUF12 Perspectives. Voices on localization for sustainable urban development
2025
WUF12 Perspectives is a new UN-Habitat analysis capturing the views of participants from the World Urban Forum 12 held in Cairo in 2024, focused on localization. It highlights three dimensions—implementation, representation, and translation—and identifies nine key elements to guide stakeholders in embedding localization into sustainable urban development and advancing global SDG localization efforts.
Read now
Learn more

Annual Report
Annual Report 2024
2025
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 prosperity, acting for climate change and building resilience. Through case studies and impact data, it details efforts in addressing adequate housing worldwide.
Read now
Learn more

Brief
A Brief Guide to Women's Land Rights in Afghanistan
2024
This brief provides information on legal mechanisms to protect the Housing, Land and Property (HLP) rights of women in Afghanistan. The guidance note is not a legal document, but provides information and analysis from the Housing, Land and Property Task Force (HLPTF). The HLPTF is a sub-cluster of the Protection Cluster, and part of Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Country Team. The content of this brief is extracted from UN-Habitat’s (forthcoming) Housing, Land and Property Rights Guide.
Read now
Learn more

Country Report
Exploration and Practice of Urban Regeneration in Wuhan
2024
Urban regeneration is a crucial process for cities, involving the redevelopment, transformation, and reutilization of urban land and assets through collaboration with multiple stakeholders. In China, urban development is shifting from rapid urbanization to sustainable regeneration. Wuhan, a major city, has been exploring this transition. Reports by the UN Human Settlements Programme and Wuhan Planning Institute offer insights into Wuhan’s successful regeneration models and concepts.
Read now
Learn more

Technical Report
World Smart Cities Outlook 2024
2024
The report provides groundbreaking insights into the current state of smart city developments globally. By analyzing trends, challenges and opportunities, it offers a robust evidence base to foster inclusive, sustainable and people-centred smart cities. With recommendations for policymakers and other actors, it serves as a global reference for advancing digital transformation and innovation in urban areas while addressing regional disparities and digital divides.
Read now
Learn more

Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Multilayered Vulnerability Assessment Handbook - Resilience planning for urban, biodiversity and climate action
2024
The Multilayered Vulnerability Assessment (MVA) tool, developed under UN-Habitat's RISE-UP flaghip programme, helps communities and cities assess vulnerabilities by mapping and assessing the intersection of climate risks, urbanization trends, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. It identifies and appraises vulnerability hotspots from spatial overlaps and areas of concentrated vulnerability which helps to better inform planning, resource mobilization and investment for systemic urban…
Read now
Learn more

Urban Profile
POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS of Urban Resilience to Climate Change & Inclusion of Vulnerable Communities in the city-regions of Afgoye, Burco and Jowhar in Somalia
2024
This publication presents findings from a European Union and UN-Habitat commissioned Political Economy Analysis (PEA) on factors that influence policy, government institutions, and local communities in the context of displacement and rapid urbanisation in Burco, Jowhar, and Afgoye.
Read now
Learn more

Document
Financing Our Urban Future: Scaling Up Investment In and Through Cities
Posted on June 30th, 2025
Read now

Document
Roadmap of meetings of the Governing Bodies of UN-Habitat 2025 (version 27 June 2025)
Posted on June 27th, 2025
Read now


Others
Monitoring and Evaluating National Urban Policy: A Guide-French
Posted on June 26th, 2025
Read now


Others
Addressing Climate change in National Urban Policy-French
Posted on June 26th, 2025
Read now

Others
How to Formulate a National Urban Policy – A practical Guide - French
Posted on June 26th, 2025
Read now

Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Road Safety Design Guidelines for Afghan Cities
Posted on June 26th, 2025
Read now

Document
Provisional list of participants for OECPR-3 and UNHA2.2
Posted on June 25th, 2025
Read now