Five regions and more than 120 cities in Spain implement the New Urban Agenda
April 28th, 2022
Madrid, Spain, 27 April 2022 - More than 120 cities and towns in Spain are implementing Local Action Plans under the Spanish Urban Agenda, following the principles of the New Urban Agenda, to become…
Over 1,300 Somali drought victims to benefit from cash transfers from UN-Habitat and Sweden
April 28th, 2022
Kismayo, Somalia, 26 April 2022- UN-Habitat has disbursed the first tranche of direct cash transfers of USD 60 each to 221 households in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and villages in…
UN-Habitat stakeholders advisory group calls for more action and consultation
April 28th, 2022
Nairobi, 27 April 2022 – Global stakeholders meeting earlier this month agreed on the need for action and commitment by UN-Habitat and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) partners to promote partnerships,…
UN-Habitat and partners unveil OCEANIX Busan, the world’s first prototype floating city
April 27th, 2022
New York, 26 April 2022 – UN-Habitat, the Busan Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea, and OCEANIX today unveiled at the UN Headquarters the design of the world’s first prototype sustainable…
UN-Habitat joins the opening of the World Urban Pavilion to promote SDGs
April 26th, 2022
Toronto, Canada, 26 April 2022 – The World Urban Pavilion, an international partnership which hopes to advance the knowledge of urban development and the implementation and the promotion of the…
Promoting integrated solutions through capacity building in Refugee settlement
April 22nd, 2022
Nairobi, Kenya, 21 April 2022 – When COVID-19 wreaked havoc, UN-Habitat learned quickly that reliable and accurate data helped significantly in Housing, Land, and Property Rights (HLP). Unfortunately…
Sustainable urbanization and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
April 21st, 2022
New York/Geneva, 19 April 2022 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) will convene a special meeting on sustainable urbanization and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda on…
UN-Habitat programme contributes to climate mitigation, resiliency in Brazil
April 19th, 2022
Teresina, Brazil, 22 April 2022 – The temperature in this northeast Brazilian city increased by over 2 degrees Celsius in the last century -a rate above the global 1°C average. It is the poorest…
UN-Habitat project in Sudan contributes to climate adaptation measures
April 19th, 2022
Khartoum, Sudan, 22 April 2022 – When the first case of COVID-19 hit Sudan on 12 March 2020, it created more than a national dilemma that most countries in the world also had to deal with. It also…
UN-Habitat helps Pakistan to lower greenhouse gas emissions in slums
April 19th, 2022
Karachi, Pakistan, 22 April 2022 – Pakistan is the most urbanized nation in South-East Asia but more than a third of that population faces urban challenges. Karachi, the country’s most populated city…
UN-Habitat Building Resilient Settlements for the Urban Poor in south-east Africa
April 19th, 2022
Lilongwe, Malawi, 22 April 2022 – As the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt across south-east Africa, an integrated approach is critical to strengthen climate action, improve urban…
What’s in a definition? A lot, when it comes to data collection
April 14th, 2022
Naivasha, Kenya April 14 – Until not long ago, urban planners, housing authorities, or officials in any country would have been hard-pressed to give a definition of what constitutes a city, urban…
UN-Habitat and Microsoft work to make datacentre communities more inclusive and sustainable
April 13th, 2022
Queretaro, Mexico, 13 April 2022 – The Microsoft Corporation is using UN-Habitat’s urban planning and sustainability expertise to improve the quality of life of the communities near the datacenters…
Nominations for the 2022 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award now open
April 13th, 2022
Nairobi, 13 April 2022 – UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency focusing on sustainable urbanization, is calling for nominations for its prestigious Scroll of Honour award. The award, launched in 1989…
Mozambique National Urban Forum build consensus on strategic principles for the National Urban Policy
April 12th, 2022
Maputo, Mozambique, 12 April 2022 –Policymakers, national and international specialists, civil society organizations and partners attended the country’s second National Urban Forum to discuss how the…