This Urban Profile summarises analyses and data collected across different systems, sectors and key actors from the spatial perspective in an attempt to contribute, in an effective way, to the development of a shared understanding of the complexity of urban crisis in the context of Baidoa.
The document was prepared by The South West State Ministory of Public Works, Reconstruction and Housing (MPWRH) with the support of UN-Habitat within the framework of the UN Joint Programme for Local…

The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide local and regional governments with an unprecedented opportunity to contribute to the achievement of global targets and participate as peers in the post-2015 vision and sense of purpose of the international community. It is argued that 65% of the SDGs could not be achieved unless local government is fully and equitably involved in implementation. Over the past few years, the localization of the SDGs has brought about huge…

Ce rapport de 279 pages est l’une des études devant servir de base aux activités conceptuelles du « Programme SANITA Villes Durables » en Guinée. Il dresse un état des lieux du développement urbain et des politiques publiques devant permettre d’élaborer, entre autres, (i) une politique urbaine nationale (PUN), (ii) un nouveau Schéma national d’aménagement du territoire et (iii) un Schéma d’urbanisme du Grand Conakry.

Local authorities have played a major role to curtail COVID-19, particularly in vulnerable urban settings, while maintaining critical services.
To identify problems and suggest solutions, UN-Habitat assessed 34 Unions of Municipalities and 5 individual municipalities, covering 52 per cent of Lebanese municipalities. The report highlights key urban challenges and proposes several mitigating measures.

This technical guide aims to describe the urban observatory model and to provide the necessary guidance on how to set up and maintain an urban observatory by local and national governments, city leaders and various stakeholders involved in monitoring, reporting and making investment and policy decisions at the local and national urban levels.

This guide provides governments with practical opportunities for incorporating urban climate action and human settlement issues into NDC revision and enhancement processes. It is primarily targeted at national governments, specifically NDC coordination teams, but also provides insights for sub-national governments, the wider urban community, networks and non-governmental organisations aiming to support NDC enhancement and implementation process. It includes promising examples from submitted…

COVID-19, a global pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), is crippling the global economy and upending people’s lives thereby threatening sustainable development across all its dimensions. Africa is also facing the dire consequences of the crisis, necessitating timely response, recovery and rebuilding policies and strategies. Globally, urban areas are the epicenters of the epidemic accounting for most of the confirmed COVID-19 cases.

The State of Arab Cities report 2020 is driven by a sense of urgency around the headlong expansion of urbanization, in an area where more than two-thirds of the population will reside in cities by the middle of this century. In 1950, just two cities of the region had a million people, whereas by 2025 this is expected to reach 31. At a time whereas many Arab countries are undergoing major infrastructure initiatives and the proliferation of new cities, it is particularly useful to examine the…

UN-Habitat has conducted an objective, evidence-based assessment on the application of physical planning laws in 18 cities of the Land-Rich Developed Countries Region. The selection of cities is based on the UN Global Sample of 200 cities as a statistically and regionally representative dataset. The study considers whether the law is being applied as written and informs the discussion on the effectiveness of legislative design. This publication portrays the findings from the study with…