Caribbean Strategy for Informal Settlements Upgrading (CSISU) recognizes that informal settlements are a product of failures in the shelter, land and housing systems, evident in the lack of capacity to adequately meet shelter needs and provide employment and services in step with urbanization in the Caribbean. While these factors affect households across the socio-economic spectrum, informal settlements are disproportionately burdened, as they are home to a significant proportion of lower…

UN-Habitat is responding to a growing volume of requests from both national and local governments to help them prepare for, prevent, respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on more than 40 years of urban experience, much of it in humanitarian situations, we are focusing on the city-level response to the crisis.

This booklet and the planning process described is a starting point for guiding further long-term development initiatives like the Mogadishu Spatial Strategic Plan Plan and to apply tools for land management and balanced area development.

The New Urban Agenda was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, on 20 October 2016. It was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at its sixty-eighth plenary meeting of the seventy-first session on 23 December 2016.

The Financial Sustainability Strategy for Kalobeyei Settlement aims to support the implementation of the “Kalobeyei Settlement Advisory Development Plan” developed by UN-Habitat, which provides a long-term and integrative approach to guide appropriate development for the Kalobeyei Settlement in Turkana, Kenya.

This document is intended to disseminate the conceptual and methodological principles implemented during the process of formulating the Integral Management Policy of the Habitat Sector of Bogotá D.C. to 2030. Thus, it begins with a description of the institutional and administrative context of the city of Bogotá and its habitat sector, conformed by district entities’ which objective is the provision of the basic conditions to reach an adequate habitat. Taking as starting point the institutional…

The Myanmar Climate Change Strategy (MCCS) contributes to materialize the Myanmar Climate Change Policy (MCCP) Vision for the Country to be a climate-resilient, low-carbon society that is sustainable, prosperous and inclusive, for the wellbeing of present and future generations. It aims to guide action to achieve its strategic vision, goal and objectives.

Myanmar’s vision is to be a climate-resilient, low-carbon society that is sustainable, prosperous and inclusive, for the wellbeing of present and future generations.

The purpose of this Policy is to provide long term direction and guidance to: (a) Take and promote climate change action on adaptation and mitigation in Myanmar; (b) Integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation considerations into Myanmar’s national priorities and across all levels and sectors in an iterative…

The Myanmar Climate Change Master Plan (2018-2030) has been formulated and adopted with the view toward mainstreaming a series of prioritized sectoral short, medium and long term actions identified in the Myanmar Climate Change Policy and Strategy.

The Myanmar Climate Change Master Plan (2018-2030) showcases the result of extensive in-depth sectoral consultations and bilateral discussions by line ministerial departments and enterprises, city development committees, research and…