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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

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
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WUF12 Report
2025
The WUF12 Report provides an overview of the programme, participation and strategic highlights from the twelfth session of the World Urban Forum, held in Cairo, Egypt. It showcases the sustainability, inclusivity and diversity of the Forum, reflecting the collective efforts to advance sustainable urban development and implement the New Urban Agenda.
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
People Friendly Streets in Afghanistan
2025
This Urban Street Design Manual offers context-sensitive guidance for creating safer, more inclusive, and people-friendly streets in Afghan cities. It outlines key street elements, design principles, and practical solutions to support sustainable mobility, improve accessibility, and enhance the urban environment for all users.
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Annual Report
PLGS Annual Report 2024
2025
Building upon a successful 2023, the 2024 Annual Report of the Policy, Legislation and Governance Section (PLGS) showcases continued progress towards achieving sustainable urban development. Through a range of impactful activities, PLGS strengthened its collaboration with donors, development partners, and beneficiary countries, advancing UN-Habitat work on policy, legislation, governance, metropolitan management, and urban-rural linkages.
This report highlights key achievements,…
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Urban Profile
Multi-layered Vulnerability Profile for Sahab City
2025
The Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Sahab City analyzes urban, climate change, and biodiversity dimensions to identify vulnerable areas and hotspots. It provides critical insights for resilience planning, highlighting challenges such as urbanization, environmental degradation, and socio-economic vulnerabilities, while offering strategies for sustainable urban development.
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Baardheere Strategic Urban Plan for Durable Solutions to Displacement
2025
The displacement crisis in Somalia is a longstanding problem exacerbated by natural disasters, floods, droughts, and continued conflicts throughout many parts of the country. The persistent influx of displaced persons continues to impose challenges on urban areas while hindering social, economic, and environmental development. The issues extend beyond just humanitarian concerns. Cities and towns in Somalia must quickly absorb large numbers of newcomers, putting pressure on the existing…
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Berdaale Strategic Urban Plan for Durable Solutions to Displacement
2025
The displacement crisis in Somalia is a longstanding problem exacerbated by natural disasters, floods, droughts, and continued conflicts throughout many parts of the country. The persistent influx of displaced persons continues to impose challenges on urban areas while hindering social, economic, and environmental development. The issues extend beyond just humanitarian concerns. Cities and towns in Somalia must quickly absorb large numbers of newcomers, putting pressure on the existing…
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Technical Report
Vision, Area Planning, and Action Plan Report for Kafr El-Battikh City-Egypt
2025
In the light of the analytical work and the exchanges carried out during the first part of the UPIMC programme in Damietta Governorate, this report developed a strategic vision based on an urban strategy developed in full engagement of all stakeholders. This report, which is the output of the second component, draws on the spatial profile that has been created to generate a common strategic vision and scenario and to provide an action plan for accomplishing it by identifying priority…
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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides
Housing, Land and Property (HLP)-Sensitive Urban Law: Enhancing urban law to protect HLP across the conflict cycle (Conflict Prevention)
2025
As the world continues to urbanize, cities face greater challenges in responding to humanitarian crises and achieving sustainable post-conflict development that upholds everyone’s right to adequate housing. The impacts of conflict are increasingly being experienced in urban areas around the world – as seen in modern crises such as those in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Yemen and Syria – putting the housing, land and property (HLP) rights of civilians at risk. HLP issues arise in conflict contexts,…
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Annual Report
2023-2024 ANNUAL REPORT National Urban Policy Programme, Phase Two: ‘Scaling up People-Centered Smart Cities through National Urban Policies’
2024
UN-Habitat’s National Urban Policy Programme (NUPP) continues to play a pivotal role in advancing inclusive, resilient, and sustainable urban development globally through national and subnational urban policies. This 2024 edition of the Korea-funded National Urban Policy Programme (K-NUPP) report presents progress made during year two of the second phase of the programme, with a focus on activities undertaken and results achieved in 2023/2024, while providing a forward-looking view of planned…
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Global Report
innovate4cities-the-cities-and-local-governments-brief.pdf
Posted on July 4th, 2025
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Document
Roadmap of meetings of the Governing Bodies of UN-Habitat 2025 (version 2 July 2025)
Posted on July 2nd, 2025
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Technical Report
RISE UP for Sustainable Urban Resilience Multi-layered Vulnerability Profile for Debre Birhan Cit
Posted on July 1st, 2025
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Document
Financing Our Urban Future: Scaling Up Investment In and Through Cities
Posted on June 30th, 2025
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