UN-Habitat trainings on sustainable development planning to serve as benchmark for locally-led sustainable settlement solutions

December 22nd, 2021

Kismayo, Somalia, 22 December 2021 – Building on similar successful steps, UN-Habitat has held training workshops to provide guidance and capacity building on settlement planning so stakeholders can…

UN-Habitat strengthens support to cities facing influx of internally displaced people

September 29th, 2021

Nairobi, 29 September 2021- On the eve of the report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, UN-Habitat renews its commitment to furthering the…

Infrastructure Value Chain Analysis in Baidoa Could Help Strengthen Economic Opportunities

September 13th, 2021

Baidoa, Somalia, September 2021 – Policymakers, investors and partners in Somalia’s South West State interim capital City can now benefit from a UN-Habitat study that has identified the construction…

Vulnerable families in Somalia’s Kismayo receive aid to cope with COVID-19

August 30th, 2021

Kismayo, Somalia, August 2021 – As part of a multi-pronged approach to build community resiliency and support recovery efforts, residents of hardest-hit communities in western Kismayo, Jubaland,…

Mobile money transfers support vulnerable families in Somalia’s capital during the pandemic

April 22nd, 2021

Mogadishu, Somalia, 22 April 2021- UN-Habitat is overseeing a cash transfer initiative to more than 1,500 vulnerable families in the Somali capital to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

UN-Habitat and SIDA partner in cash transfer initiative to cushion Kismayo residents from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

April 14th, 2021

KISMAYO, SOMALIA 13 April 2021 - UN-Habitat has disbursed the first tranche of direct cash transfers of USD 70 each to 250 vulnerable households in Western Kismayo as part of the COVID-19 response…

UN-Habitat in property registration drive aimed at increasing revenue and better service delivery in Baidoa

March 17th, 2021

Baidoa Somali March 2021- Over 21,400 properties were mapped and registered in a recently concluded mapping exercise in Baidoa district through the Joint Programme on Local Governance (JPLG) under UN…

EU and UN-Habitat join forces to improve the response to COVID and other crises in Mogadishu

February 4th, 2021

Mogadishu, 3 February 2021- UN-Habitat today launched a COVID-19 response project in Mogadishu funded by the European Union. The USD 6.964 million (EUR 5.275 million) project will support…

Somali civic leaders benefit from assorted training by UN-Habitat and the federal government

November 9th, 2020

Mogadishu, 9 November 2020-- UN-Habitat through the Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralization (JPLG) in partnership Somalia’sMinistry of Interior, Federal affairs and Reconciliation (…

UN-Habitat trained facilitators deliver the Local Leadership Management training to Somalia’s Warsheikh district council

October 8th, 2020

Hirshabelle, Somalia 8 October 2020- Twenty-nine councillors from Warsheikh district successfully completed the Local Leadership Management (LLM) training in Warsheikh, Hirshabelle State of Somalia.…