The 2022 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award nominations extended until 15 August

July 12th, 2022

UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency focusing on sustainable urbanization, has extended the deadline to receive nominations for its prestigious Scroll of Honour Award. The new closing date is 15…

Add your voice to the Katowice Declared Actions

July 8th, 2022

The Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum in Katowice ended with a call to act to advance sustainable development. The premier UN conference on urbanization took place on 26-30 June 2022 in…

Amman to launch the first report analysing SDGs at the local level in the Arab Region

July 7th, 2022

Amman, Jordan, 7 July 2022 – Crucial to the understanding the state of cities and building their resilience is up-to-date information, data and analyses of urban contexts and trends. The Greater…

UN Report: Intersecting global crises threatening SDGs, impacting food supplies, health, education, and security worldwide

July 7th, 2022

New York, 7 July 2022 - The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 reveals that the convergence of increased fighting, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the long-term climate crisis, could…

Citizens and governments must work together to avert global water shortage, says an expert

July 5th, 2022

Water shortage is a global worsening reality but there are may ways the existing resources can be used more wisely, says a UN-Habitat expert on the issue. In an interview with the German broadcast…

UIA 2030 Award Winners

June 29th, 2022

UN-Habitat training to enhance service delivery in Somaliland

June 27th, 2022

Hargeisa, Somaliland, 27 July 2022 – As part of its mandate to deliver capacity building to local officials to enhance delivery of equitable social services, UN-Habitat and partners this month…

Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum opens in Katowice, Poland

June 27th, 2022

Katowice, Poland (27 June 2022) – The leading global conference on sustainable urbanization opened with a call to double efforts to tackle the challenges presented to cities by COVID-19, the climate…