Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting "Urban Development Financing: The challenges of Local Governments in Developing Countries” held in Barcelona, Spain, 25-26 June 2014

The final evaluation of UN-Habitat’s role in the Millenium Development Goal Achievement Fund (MDG-F) joint programme for Latin America and the Caribbean was conducted between November 2013 and March 2014 by two independent consultants.

Proceedings of the Workshop 23-24 September 2013, Silver Springs Hotel, Nairobi. The workshop provided a forum for the schools of planning to explore better ways of promoting the association’s objectives in Kenya and increase collaboration with UN-Habitat.

The African Urban Agenda (AUA) is an initiative by
UN-Habitat tailored to establish and strengthen
partnerships between state and non-state actors
towards advancing a new urban agenda.
The project aims at raising the profile of urbanization
as an imperative for development in Africa.

The land challenge is central to the broader youth dynamics of migration, employment, livelihoods and belonging. The more than 1.8 billion youth living worldwide represent not only a land challenge, but an untapped potential in moving the tenure security agenda forward.

En Ecuador, de acuerdo a datos del último censo, más del 62% de la población se concentra en las áreas urbanas. Sin embargo, el acelerado proceso de crecimiento urbano, sumado a la falta de
políticas urbanas eficientes, ha derivado en la generación de ciudades inequitativas y excluyentes. Por eso, es necesario modificar esta tendencia y asumir colectivamente la responsabilidad en la construcción de ciudades incluyentes, planificadas, ordenadas, seguras y equitativas de manera integral.…

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting “PLANNING CITY EXTENSIONS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACE FOR EXPANDING CITIES” held in Barcelona, Spain, 16-18 September 2013

The Asia-Pacific region has more than half of its population composed of young people. The region is experiencing quite a number of positive developments but equally in the same measure registers quite a number of challenges amongst which are unemployment, poverty and increased population in slums.

WUF6 World Urban Youth Assembly. Participation of Youth representatives from developing Countries at the UN-Habitat World Urban Youth Assembly and World Urban Forum 6.