UN-Habitat Executive Director visits Colombia and Panama to visit officials, view projects
December 6th, 2021
Panama City, Panama, 4 December 2021 -- The Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, visited for the first time Colombia and Panama to discuss sustainable urban development,…
Participants at COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus discuss critical need for housing
May 11th, 2020
Nairobi, 7 May 2020 - The third online COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campuses, focusing on housing, was organized by the World Urban Campaign with Habitat for Humanity and Compass Housing Services, the…
Women’s leadership will be critical in the post-COVID-19 era #BeyondTheOutbreak
May 11th, 2020
6 May 2020 - The twelfth thematic live learning experience organized by UCLG and UN-Habitat provided an opportunity for local and regional women leaders from across the world to outline their key…
Supporting those in informal settlements and economy during COVID-19 and beyond
May 4th, 2020
The latest in the series of Live Learning Sessions organized by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and UN-Habitat, which took place on April 29 focused on vulnerable and marginalized…
Opinion: Slums are the next front line in the fight against the coronavirus
May 4th, 2020
The spread of COVID-19 has transformed many of the world’s great cities into tragic household names as their reported cases and deaths rise: Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, New York City, and more. But as the…
Ensuring income and investment in local service provision is critical for global recovery #BeyondTheOutbreak
April 28th, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting local service provision throughout the world. The Live Learning Session on local finance highlighted how essential it is for local and regional governments to have…