UNEP Regional Office for West Asia & UN-Habitat Regional Office of Arab States sign Letter of Agreement to work on promoting cities climate adaptation and green recovery and reconstruction
August 25th, 2021
Manama, Cairo 24 August 2021 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia and UN-Habitat Regional Office of Arab States signed a Letter of Agreement (LoA) to join…
Colombia considers UN-Habitat program to mitigate refugee crisis
August 24th, 2021
Cucuta, Colombia, 24 August 2021 – Over the past seven years, more than five million Venezuelans have fled their homeland due to a variety of political and economic strains. When the migratory…
UN-Habitat supports Sierra Leone urban planning capacity building
August 23rd, 2021
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 20 August 2021 – To help the Government of Sierra Leone to develop a better National Urban Policy (NUP) process, UN-Habitat this month conducted a workshop to develop…
UN-Habitat helps young Brazilians produce award-winning documentary in informal settlements
August 18th, 2021
Alagoas, Brazil, August 2021 - “A camera in your hand and an idea in your head.” The phrase by famous Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha summarises the essence of the documentary “Visão das Grotas” (“…
Mobile taxation expanded to four districts of Somalia after a successful pilot
August 16th, 2021
Garowe, Puntland, Somalia, August 2021- The mobile phone-based tax payment system in Garowe, supported by UN-Habitat, through the Joint Programme on Local Governance (JPLG) is being expanded to four…
UN-Habitat workshop addresses issues migrants and displaced populations face in urban settlements
August 13th, 2021
Amman 13 August 2020 – A workshop held in the Jordanian capital last month discussed ways to improve access to reliable services and socio-economic opportunities for migrants and displaced…
UN-Habitat promotes urban resilience projects to support sustainability
August 13th, 2021
Teresina, Brazil, 13 August 2021 -- UN-Habitat has developed a City Resilience Profile and Urban Diagnosis Report for this northern Brazilian city as prelude to multi-stakeholder workshops that will…
City-level COVID-19 data reveal fourth-wave surge
August 12th, 2021
Nairobi, 12 August 2021 – UN-Habitat and CitiIQ have collected daily COVID-19 data for more than 2,600 cities around the world since May 2020, data which are processed and made publicly available so…
UN-Habitat Executive Director’s Statement on the latest IPCC Report on Climate Change
August 12th, 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released its much-anticipated report: Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis. This report outlines the data and analysis which…
UN-Habitat and Habitat for Humanity International renew partnership to address affordable housing around the world
August 12th, 2021
Partnership will focus on COVID-19’s global impact, intersection of housing and health, climate change, and sustainable development goals…
Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Maimunah Mohd Sharif on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2021
August 11th, 2021
9 August 2021 On the occasion of the 2021 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UN-Habitat joins the international community in stressing and reiterating that indigenous peoples’…
UN-Habitat helps India to develop solid waste management roadmap
August 10th, 2021
Mangaluru, India, 10 August 2021 – The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) – the city’s urban body - and more than half a million residents of this southern India city will next month benefit from…
Homelessness, SDG 1, and Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19
August 5th, 2021
Participants at side event “Homelessness, SDG 1 and Sustainable Recovery from COVID19: Poverty left behind”, organised this month, agreed that lack of standardized data collection methodologies on…
Vernacular architecture gives impetus for social gathering space for women in Ramallah
August 5th, 2021
Ramallah, State of Palestine, 5 August 2021 – To enhance the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and to reduce vulnerability of girls and women to violence, UN-Habitat and partners have…
Beirut Port explosion: a year on Lebanon's capital city struggles to pick up the pieces
August 4th, 2021
Beirut, 4 August 2021 - One year after the devastating Beirut Port explosion has seen Lebanon’s capital city continue to struggle to pick up the pieces. According to a recent UN-Habitat assessment of…