Local tax payments in Somaliland and Puntland soar due to mobile phone payments
August 21st, 2020
Somaliand and Puntland, August 2020 - UN-Habitat, through the Joint Programme on Local Governance (JPLG) has supported the Ministries of Interior for Somaliland and Puntland to introduce a mobile…
New Urban Land Management Law to guide land issues in Puntland, Somalia
August 17th, 2020
Puntland, Somalia, July 2020- Puntland parliament approved the Urban Land Management Law which will for the first time establish clear guidelines on the governance, and management of urban land. The…
Decongestion of IDP settlements as a prevention and control measure for COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia
August 6th, 2020
August 2020- The Shelter Cluster, Camp Management and Camp Coordination Cluster (CCCM) and UN-Habitat Somalia have come up with a framework that provides the overall guidance for the decongestion and…
UN-Habitat joins forces with leading experts to propose urban solutions for internally displaced people
May 17th, 2020
15 May 2020; UN-Habitat has called for a “proactive urban response to displacement” in a joint paper on the growing phenomenon of urban displacement for the UN’s High Level Panel on Internal…
Harnessing the Voices of Youth to Increase Democratic Space in Southwest State, Somalia
May 5th, 2020
Mogadishu, 6 May 2020—An initiative of UN-Habitat and sister UN agencies has seen an upsurge in the number of young people getting elected into the Southwest state parliament of Somalia.The young…