UN-Habitat completes strategic plan for Egyptian waterfront city
September 9th, 2019
Cairo, 05 September 2019 - In the light of outstanding success that the UN-Habitat has achieved with the government of Egypt in the development of the El-Alamein New City, the Strategic Planning and…
UN-Habitat and ITDP launch project aimed at making Ethiopian urban towns’ streets safer
September 9th, 2019
Addis Ababa 9 September 2019 - With the support by the United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund, UN-Habitat, in collaboration with the Institute of Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) recently…
A Time to Act: Climate, Youth Peace and Security
September 6th, 2019
Nairobi, 6 September 2019 – The urgency of climate action has never been clearer. Every half degree of global warming matters. Cities are one of the cornerstones in this quest to limit global warming…
UN-Habitat's Climate Action
September 5th, 2019
UN-Habitat a key player in the UN System to catalyze city and local climate action The upcoming UN Climate Action Summit aims to boost ambitions of fighting climate change. In that context, UN-…
Kenya's coast: An ongoing project is transforming two slums into sustainable communities
September 3rd, 2019
Mombasa, 4 September 2019 - "The first customers show up shortly after six," says Mathilda Chonga as she peers outside her shop into the dawn. With jerry cans in their hands, the residents are…
The World Urban Forum (WUF10) Newsletter Vol.1
September 2nd, 2019
The Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10) will take place from 8 to 13 February 2020 in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates with the theme Cities of opportunities: Connecting culture and…
Asia-Pacific’s largest and most diverse Urban Forum will debate the region’s urban future
September 2nd, 2019
Penang - From 15-17 October 2019, UN-Habitat, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific (ESCAP) and Urbanice Malaysia will convene the region’s largest multi-stakeholder…
African Clean Cities Platform most popular side event in Tokyo
August 30th, 2019
Yokohama, 26-28 August 2019 – The African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP) is a knowledge sharing and investment promotion platform developed to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) around waste…
Kenya’s Kisumu County to benefit from UN-Habitat’s support to enhance own source revenue and urban finance
August 29th, 2019
Kisumu, August 28, 2019 – UN-Habitat re-confirmed its commitment to providing the County Government of Kisumu in Kenya with a comprehensive report on its own source revenues. The report forms part of…
Urban monitoring framework comes of age in Egypt
August 29th, 2019
The urban monitoring framework was piloted on four small cities in El Gharbeia Governorate and it aims at enhancing the urban monitoring tools adopted by the National Urban Observatory (NUO) by…
Rapid City and Neighbourhood Profiling in Yemen – developing capacity to train stakeholders
August 26th, 2019
The UN-Habitat and European Union joint Rapid City and Neighbourhood Profiling project in Yemen aims to support and improve the humanitarian and recovery response through providing better urban…
Three female humanitarians empower themselves by empowering others in post-conflict Marawi
August 20th, 2019
19 August 2019, Makati City, Philippines – In the Philippines over 40 per cent of humanitarian workers are women and they were honoured during this year’s World Humanitarian Day, which focused on the…
Registration opens for the World Urban Forum (WUF10) in Abu Dhabi
August 20th, 2019
Nairobi, 20 August 2019 - The Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10) will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 8 –13 February 2020, and registration has opened for delegates to…
Young people from Korea and Kenya support transforming education
August 16th, 2019
Nairobi, 13 August 2019 – Some 70 delegates from Korea and over 300 young delegates from Kenya converged at United Nations offices in Gigiri to celebrate the “Korea-Kenya Youth Forum: Driving…