2020 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award Winners Announced
September 8th, 2020
Nairobi, 8 September 2020 – The winners of this year’s UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour, one of the world’s most prestigious awards presented to those working on urbanization, have been selected. This…
Accra’s steps toward clean air: The Essence of the Urban Health and Short-lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Project – Urban-LEDS II synergy highlight
September 7th, 2020
This story originally appeared in Urban LEDS on September 7, 2020. 7 September 2020 - By introducing a great number of specific climate actions through case studies from all over the world, the guide…
UN-Habitat China and partners in Wuhan share COVID-19 response experiences
September 2nd, 2020
Wuhan, China, 2 September 2020 - The COVID-19 Wuhan Guidance Papers were released globally today in a widely attended webinar hosted from Beijing and Wuhan. UN-Habitat China together with its…
Former slum dwellers in Myanmar’s largest city enjoy new housing
September 2nd, 2020
Yangon, Myanmar, 2 September 2020 - “Yoma Housing Project is a dream come true!” says Daw San San Aye, a mother of three who lived with her family in a shack in an informal settlement before being…
European Union funded project in Nepal creates new opportunities for home workers during pandemic
September 2nd, 2020
Lalitpur, Nepal 2 September 2020 – An EU-funded project to support Nepal’s informal sector workers hit hard by the COVID-19 prevention measures has provied them with work producing facemasks.…
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…