45 Cities to endorse digital rights in cities
January 7th, 2020
Nairobi, 7 January 2020 – The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights rounded up the end of 2019 with a review of the work done throughout the year. The coalition, formed by Amsterdam, Barcelona and New…
Only two weeks to register for the 10th World Urban Forum
January 6th, 2020
Marking three decades of participatory decision-making for public finances
January 6th, 2020
Nairobi, 6 January 2020—The year 2019 marked the 30th anniversary since participatory budgeting (PB) was first implemented in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Since its first implementation, UN-Habitat has…
UN-Habitat and partners in WASH project in Yemen
January 2nd, 2020
UN-Habitat, in close collaboration with the Government of Japan and local authorities, has been working on the emergency response to the immediate Shelter and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)…
Featuring the role of cities in climate action at COP25 Week 2
January 2nd, 2020
The second week of the COP25 exhibited a proactive voice of local and city leaders, meant to continue to instill key messages on local actions. Monday 9 December opened at the European Union…
UN-Habitat engaged in training policy-makers on sustainable urban mobility in Africa
December 19th, 2019
Abuja, Nigeria: The maiden edition of the Africa Sustainable Urban Mobility Course took place from 24th - 30th November 2019 at the campus of the National Open University of Nigeria in Abuja. The…
Youth from Kenya’s coast call for support to engage in the Blue Economy
December 19th, 2019
Mombasa, Kenya December 2019 – Young people from Kenya’s coastal region called for more support to effectively engage in the Blue Economy sectors at the Youth and Blue conference, Harnessing Economic…
Mindanao youth hack green solutions for Marawi rehabilitation
December 19th, 2019
Myanmar holds National Urban Policy Forum
December 18th, 2019
Nay Pyi Taw, 18 December 2019 – UN-Habitat in partnership with the Department of Urban Housing and Development (DUHD) of the Ministry of Construction (MoC) of Myanmar hosted “The National Urban…
UN-Habitat’s urban resilience tool, CityRAP, is featured in the Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
December 17th, 2019
NAIROBI, 17 December 2019 - UN-Habitat’s urban resilience tool called City Resilience Action Planning or CityRAP has been featured in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. The…
Featuring the role of cities in climate action at COP25 Week 2
December 16th, 2019
MADRID, 16 December 2019 - The second week of the COP25 featured the voices of local and city leaders, meant to continue to instill key messages on local actions. Monday 9 December opened at the…
International Urban Training Centre promotes sustainable urbanization in Asia
December 16th, 2019
Young Women Climate Changemakers come together at COP 25
December 15th, 2019
Waste Wise Cities Campaign (WWCC) reaches 100 member cities!
December 11th, 2019
NAIROBI, 11 December 2019 – This December the city of Kisumu in Kenya has been welcomed by UN-Habitat as the 100th member city into the Waste Wise City Campaign (WWCC). Since the campaign was…
UN-Habitat holds side event in Barcelona on innovative tools for citizen consultation in Latin America
December 11th, 2019
BARCELONA, 11 December 2019 - The Capacity Development Unit of UN-Habitat organized the side event at the recent Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona called Using innovation and mobile phone…