European Union boosts progress towards SDG6 through a 9 million Euro WOP Programme with UN-Habitat
September 2nd, 2020
The EU Water Operators’ Partnerships Programme, funded by the EU and implemented by UN-Habitat GWOPA, will support public water and sanitation utilities in developing contexts. Bonn, Germany 2…
#Housing2030 – New partnership between UN-Habitat, UNECE and Housing Europe supports affordable housing
August 27th, 2020
27 August 2020 - UN-Habitat has joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and Housing Europe in coordinating the #Housing2030 initiative to promote affordable housing in Europe…
Kenyan football star partners with UN-Habitat to provide masks for Nairobi slum dwellers
August 27th, 2020
Nairobi, 26 August 2020—Kenyan football star Victor Wanyama has partnered with UN-Habitat to provide face masks to inhabitants of two of Nairobi’s informal settlements to protect them against COVID-…
New Recommendations released after COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus’ Second Series
August 27th, 2020
Nairobi, 27 August 2020 - The second COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus Series organized by UN-Habitat ended with a set of key recommendations produced through 32 virtual webinars engaging more than 2,…
UN-Habitat includes COVID-19 prevention as schools prepare to reopen in cyclone affected region of Mozambique
August 27th, 2020
Beira, Mozambique, 27 August 2020 - UN-Habitat in Mozambique has adapted its activities on disaster risk reduction in schools to respond to the new challenges brought by COVID-19 Because of the…
Ethiopia’s open air markets are redesigned with SIDA support to limit COVID-19 spread
August 25th, 2020
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 21 August 2020 – Ethiopia’s Minister of Urban Development and Construction Ms. Aisha Mohammed laid a cornerstone in a ceremony in the northern city of Bahir Dar to mark the…
UN-Habitat and UNHCR launch a Settlement Profiling Tool to support infrastructure prioritization for the displaced
August 25th, 2020
25 August 2020 – After working closely together on coordinating infrastructure investments in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh, UN-Habitat and the United Nations High…
UN-Habitat intervention helps to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana’s slums
August 24th, 2020
Accra 24 August 2020 - In the informal settlements of Ghana, the news of the COVID-19 outbreak was met with alarm as residents could not afford preventative measures. However UN-Habitat and partners…
Vast majority of the world’s cities affected by COVID-19 according to UN-Habitat survey
August 24th, 2020
August 2020 - A crowd-sourced survey conducted by UN-Habitat which attracted replies from 113 countries found that 95 per cent of respondents lived in cities that had reported at least one COVID-19…
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…
Key messages for World Humanitarian Day
August 19th, 2020
Wednesday 19 August - UN-Habitat is on the frontline of the world’s urban crises, responding immediately to help people most in need and to ensure a quick recovery. We work closely with communities…
Pacific Youth encouraged to claim their rights to participation and leadership!
August 18th, 2020
Suva, Fiji, 14 August 2020 - The Fiji Informal Settlements (FRIS) project celebrated International Youth Day 2020 in Suva, Fiji. Organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (…
UN-Habitat executes a model safe project in Sao Tome in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic
August 18th, 2020
Roça Sundy, Sao Tome and Principe 18 August 2020—UN-Habitat’s technical knowhow recently came in handy for a project undertaken by a local firm, Here Be Dragons (HBD) to improve housing conditions…
UN-Habitat provides water to the displaced in Somaliland to curb the spread of COVID-19
August 18th, 2020
Hargeisa, Somaliland, August 2020 UN-Habitat has supplied one million litres of clean water to internally displaced people in two settlements on the outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland. The…
