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…
Liberia’s National Urban Forum focuses on developing National Urban Policy
December 9th, 2019
Climate Change Conference concludes its first week on Local Government and Cities Day
December 9th, 2019
MADRID, 8 December 2019 - The Climate Change Conference concluded its first week with the local governments making a strong presence to discuss how cities can better mitigate emissions and adapt to…
Kenya launches the Habitat Housing Project
December 6th, 2019
MAVOKO, KENYA, 6 December 2019 – Today the President of Kenya, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, launched the Habitat Heights Housing Project in Lukenya, Mavako. This is a project of the United Nations Office for…
Cities Investment Platform – An opportunity for cities and investors to connect at WUF10
December 6th, 2019
From Private Sector Partnerships to Business Engagement, Habitat is shifting its business model from funding projects to financing solutions. This long term thinking will leverage financial resources…