Launch of Her City – a digital platform to support girls’ participation in urban planning
March 10th, 2021
8 March 2020 – To mark International Women’s Day, the independent think tank Global Utmaning together with UN-Habitat, launched the Her City Toolbox, – an open-source digital platform that guides…
UN-Habitat re-establishes its country presence in Morocco signaling a strengthened partnership on sustainable urbanization
March 9th, 2021
Rabat, 8 March 2021 – UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency for sustainable urbanization, opened a new country office in the Moroccan capital Rabat which will serve as a strategic urban development…
Hand washing stations in Nairobi’s biggest dumpsite officially launched to tackle COVID-19 pandemic
March 9th, 2021
Nairobi, 1 March 2021 – UN-Habitat and its counterpart agencies launched handwashing stations in Dandora dumpsite where more than 3,000 waste pickers are working, and hundreds of thousands of urban…
UN-Habitat European Union and Garissa County Government hold workshop to discuss future of Decommissioned Camps in Dadaab Refugee Complex
March 8th, 2021
Daadab, Kenya, 8 March-- UN-Habitat, in collaboration with Garissa County Government, led a semi-virtual workshop to discuss the future of the decommissioned refugee camps within Dadaab Refugee…
New Earth Observations Toolkit provides opportunities for improved monitoring of global urban targets
March 6th, 2021
Nairobi, 5 March 2021 - UN-Habitat has launched the "Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements" providing national and local governments and others with data and…
Groundbreaking Innovate4Cities Conference to explore climate crisis solutions
March 4th, 2021
Innovate4Cities 2021 Conference - a multi-day virtual event October 11-15 4 March 2021- The Innovate4Cities Conference will be an international gathering at the nexus of cities, climate change…
UN-Habitat and the European Union to help Burkina Faso’s cities supporting large numbers of displaced people
March 4th, 2021
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - 25 February 2021; With over one million internally displaced people in Burkina Faso, the European Union has launched a project to support four of the cities most impacted…
Youth discuss creative climate action in interactive meetings
March 3rd, 2021
February 2021 - Over the past few months the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea has been hosting the #Youth4ClimateLive Series with Connect4Climate - World Bank Group and the Office of UN…
Voluntary Local Reviews are changing the way we think of SDG localization and the approach to the National Reviews
March 2nd, 2021
Madrid, Spain, 25 February 2021 - UN-Habitat and UCLG, with the support of the Madrid City Council, brought together representatives from local, regional and national governments, United Nations…
UN-Habitat and JICA surveys to assess impacts and challenges of COVID-19 on Kenyan and Ugandan urban areas
March 2nd, 2021
Nairobi, 2 March 2020— UN-Habitat has announced that, in collaboration with JICA , it will conduct a survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya and Kampala in…
UN-Habitat partner with sister agencies to support durable solutions for IDPs in Somali Region, Ethiopia
February 27th, 2021
Jigijiga, Ethiopia 25 February 2021—UN-Habitat, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recently launched the first Stakeholder Consultation…
Beirut explosion, six months on. UN-Habitat’s response and what lies ahead
February 23rd, 2021
By Taina Christiansen, Head of the UN-Habitat Lebanon Country Programme Beirut, Lebanon, 26 February 2021 - More than six months have passed since the Beirut Port explosion, which changed the city…
Urban Girls and women redesign their cities using digital tools
February 22nd, 2021
23 February 2021 - The vision of a group of young women to turn their crime ridden neighbourhood in Sweden into a thriving, safe area has led to the creation of a digital toolbox called Her City on…
Conference discusses development progress in the Arab region through good land governance and increased land tenure security
February 22nd, 2021
Cairo, Egypt, 22 February 2021 –The challenges and solutions related to good land governance and land tenure security will be discussed at the second Arab Land Conference in Cairo this week. The…
UN-Habitat helps Chengdu scoop top urban planning prize
February 22nd, 2021
Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China - Chengdu has been awarded China’s most prestigious urban planning prize - The ‘Outstanding Urban Planning and Design Award’. This recognises work by the Chengdu…