Trainings on smart cities for African city leaders
November 2nd, 2022
Northern Ghana project led by UN-Habitat comes to a close, providing resilient infrastructure
September 13th, 2021
Tamale, Ghana, 8 September 2021—A three-year joint United Nations project, led by UN-Habitat, to provide resilient and flood prone water supply infrastructure in northern Ghana has come to a close…
Recipient of a UN-Habitat project to supply clean water in northern Ghana lauds the benefits
July 29th, 2021
Tamale, Ghana 28 July 2021—Samata Abdullahi believes that installing a water tank in her Shichegu neighbourhood, courtesy of a project led by UN-Habitat in the Disaster Prone Communities in northern…
Residents of an informal settlement in northern Ghana get aid to better fight Covid-19
July 28th, 2021
Tamale, Ghana 27 July 2021—Residents of Ward K community in northern Ghana Tuesday received two hand washing stations and two water tanks through a United Nations initiative, a move that increases…
United Nations supports Ghana's vision to upgrade slums and informal settlements and reduce urban poverty
December 1st, 2020
Ramatou Quaye is a 21-year old boxer and a member of Ghana’s National Boxing Team, the Black Bombers since 2014. Ramatou lives in the Ga Mashie area, an indigenous Ga community of about 200,000…
UN Deputy Secretary-General sees impact of UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in Ghana
November 24th, 2020
Accra, Ghana 16 November 2020 – The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed visited the informal settlements of Ussher Town and Jamestown in Ghana’s capital which have been transformed by UN-…
UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in Ga-Mashie, Ghana to feature at World EXPO 2021
September 24th, 2020
24 September 2020 - UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) project in Ga-Mashie, Accra, Ghana is in the spotlight. The project has attracted the attention of the jury of the…
Accra’s steps toward clean air: The Essence of the Urban Health and Short-lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Project – Urban-LEDS II synergy highlight
September 7th, 2020
This story originally appeared in Urban LEDS on September 7, 2020. 7 September 2020 - By introducing a great number of specific climate actions through case studies from all over the world, the guide…
UN-Habitat intervention helps to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana’s slums
August 24th, 2020
Accra 24 August 2020 - In the informal settlements of Ghana, the news of the COVID-19 outbreak was met with alarm as residents could not afford preventative measures. However UN-Habitat and partners…
Cities twinning to share waste management experience officially sign up online
July 20th, 2020
20 July 2020 – UN-Habitat’s Executive Director virtually opened the Signing Ceremony of the Waste Wise Cities Challenge, which brings together cities looking to improve management of their municipal…
UN-Habitat pairs cities striving to manage their municipal solid waste with expert counterparts
June 22nd, 2020
Nairobi, June 2020 – As part of its Waste Wise Cities, UN-Habitat is bringing together cities that are looking to improve the management of their municipal solid waste with mentor cities committed to…
UN-Habitat provides water and handwashing facilities for tens of thousands in Ghana’s informal settlements
June 22nd, 2020
Accra, June 2020 - UN-Habitat is providing three communities in Ghana’s capital with facilities for handwashing to assist the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 The current COVID-19 pandemic has…