This framework represents a comprehensive guide for Arab countries emerging from conflict and crisis situations to design and implement sustainable reconstruction activities that accelerate efforts towards building forward better. Drawing on analyses of over 100 reports and consultations with multiple stakeholders across relevant sectors, including government officials, planners, investors, and others, in Iraq, Libya, the State of Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere, the framework serves as an operational tool laying out valuable insights and practical recommendations for action by governments and partners across the region.

The Arab States region is subject to ongoing challenges from political upheavals, socio-economic disparities, conflicts and terrorism to natural disasters, desertification, periodic dust and sandstorms, and water scarcity. The cumulative impacts lead to significant pressures on and, at times, an outright destruction of infrastructure, displacement of populations, and environmental degradation. Sustainable reconstruction is an important component for any post-conflict and post-crisis strategy that can contribute to sustainable and lasting peace, stability, and prosperity.

This publication is a joint UN-HABITAT and UNDP effort to investigate access to basic urban services in the Adjacent Areas (AAs) of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. AAs are informal Palestinian gatherings that are located along the boundaries of official Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. In terms of access to basic urban services, AAs represent "Grey Areas" since they are denied both public and UNRWA basic urban services, given that the latter are provided within the boundaries of the official camps only. 

This report is based on a dialogue process through 2014,  whose  purpose  was  to  respond  to  the  following  questions:  how  will  the  Post-2015  Devel-opment Agenda be implemented at the local level?; what  local  governance  processes, tools, institutions, mechanisms, and other means of implementa-tion  are  needed  to  achieve  the  future  sustainable  development goals (SDGs)?; and how can the voices of local stakeholders be amplified and their inclusionin  intergovernmental  processes  be  supported?  Localization  is  an  important  element  of  effective  multi-level  governance,  and  provides  the  means  to  make  the  Post-2015  global  discussions  relevant  to  local populations in a framework of greater ownership

Venice City Solutions 2030 – This document  gathers  the  conclusions  and  recommendations  by  participants  to  the “Venice City  Solutions  2030 –Financing  the  SDGs”  that  took  place  in  Venice,  Italy  on  16th and  17thNovember 2018.

The United Nations World Water Development Report, Leaving no one behind, launched 19 March 2019 during the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and in conjunction to the World Water Day, demonstrates how improvements in water resources management and access to water supply and sanitation services are essential to addressing various social and economic inequities, such that ‘no one is left behind’ when it comes to enjoying the multiple benefits and opportunities that water provides.

Recognizing  GC’s  importance  and  the  vital  role  it plays in Egypt and the whole Arab and African region,  the  GOPP  has  formulated  the  future  vision of the GC as a first step to prepare the GC strategic  plan.  A  number  of  international  and  local  experts  specializing  in  various  fields  have  participated in the development of the GC future vision.
This  report  presents  the  proposed  vision  and  specifies   the   GC   development   policies   and   projects required to facilitate the preparation of the GC urban development strategy. The  study  area  will  cover  the  urban  mass  of  the  Cairo  Governorate  and  some  areas  of  the  Governorates of Giza and Qalyubia, in addition to   some   of   new   urban   communities   (6th   of   October,  Sheikh  Zayed,  the  15th  of  May,  New  Cairo, Obour, Shorouk and Badr)