In this issue:

• Compact cities to address climate change
• Myanmar Climate Change Alliance begins activities
• Recent and Upcoming Events
• National Adaptation Planning (NAP) workshop
• World...

In this issue:

• Integrating urban and peri-urban agriculture into city-level climate change strategies
• Side event at United Nations Environment and Social Council (ECOSOC) focuses on cities and climate change
...

In this issue:

• Environmental Management Information Systems in CCCI cities
• CCCI pilots Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in three cities
• CCCI starts to implement evaluation recommendations
• ARCADIS contributes t...

This report presents UN-Habitat's main achievements in 2012. They range across the whole continuum of operation and normative projects, from post-conflict and post-disaster recovery to urban planning and climate change adaptation.

Other rep...

This report represents the Mid-Term Evaluation  of UN‑Habitat’s Cities and Climate Change Initiative. The Initiative was launched in 2008 and to date has been implemented in three phases: August 2008 to July 2010 (Phase I), August 2010 – D...

• Sustainable resettlement and reconstruction in flood-prone peri-urban areas of Saint Louis, Senegal
• Training event on Vulnerability Assessment and Local Climate Change Planning Methodologies
• Trainin...

In this issue:

• Lessons from Suwon: Perspectives from a youth leader
• Lessons from Suwon: Perspectives from a young urban planner
• UN-Habitat trains youth on energy efficiency
• Muhammed Ali rec...

Depuis 36 ans, le Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains (ONUHabitat) mène des activités dans de nombreux pays africains et ce portefeuille de projets, qui ne fait que s’étoffer, est l’un des plus importants de l’institution.<...

In this issue:

• Partnership between water operators in Sri Lanka and Australia focuses on adaptation to climate change
• CCCI supports piloting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Protocol in Kampala and elsewhere
• UN-Ha...

       In this issue:

• Youth Caravan to COP17 in Durban, South Africa: UN-Habitat CCCI Youth Participate in Historic Event
• Thirteen Urban Districts in Rwanda Sign Up for Making Cities Resilient Campaign
• Climate Change ...

Conventional land administration systems rarely improve tenure security for the poor. Many people, especially poor and disadvantaged people, do not have their tenure relations to land included in a formal administration system with women, in parti...

In this issue:

• UNACLA highlights the importance of sustainable transport networks for cities and towns
• UNACLA at the 10th Metropolis Congress
• Former UNACLA member is appointed Deputy Executive Director of UN-HABITAT
...

UN-Habitat, the United Nations city agency, has been engaged with the Arab States region for over 30 years and over this period, UN-Habitat has expanded its operation to more than 10 countries in the region.

This brochure presents an overvi...

UN-Habitat, the United Nations city agency, has been engaged with the Arab States region for over 30 years and over this period, UN-Habitat has expanded its operation to more than 10 countries in the region.

This brochure presents an overvi...

In this issue:

• Partners launch Global Protocol for Community-scale GHG Emissions
• UN-Habitat Applies for Accreditation as Agencies of the Global Environment Facility and Adaptation Fund
• Sihanoukville officials in city-...

盖茨基金会引领人们寻求更好的卫生设施

• 新加坡水资源保护的模范&#...

In this issue:

• Primary school supports innovative approach to flood risk management in Kampala
• Responding to an ever increasing demand, the Cities and Climate Change Initiative takes action in Asia and the Pacific
• Upc...

This tool provides local policy-makers and major stakeholders with a methodology to plan for climate change. These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (respon...

The City is the Home of Prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are reali...

UN-Habitat, the United Nations city agency, has been engaged with the Arab States region for over 30 years and over this period, UN-Habitat has expanded its operation to more than 10 countries in the region.

This brochure presents an overvi...

UN-Habitat, the United Nations city agency, has been engaged with the Arab States region for over 30 years and over this period, UN-Habitat has expanded its operation to more than 10 countries in the region.

This brochure presents an overvi...

UN-Habitat, the United Nations city agency, has been engaged with the Arab States region for over 30 years and over this period, UN-Habitat has expanded its operation to more than 10 countries in the region.

This brochure presents an overvi...

The increasing prominence of the youth bulge in most urban areas presents a unique opportunity, as they represent the most dynamic human resource available. Their numbers today are larger than at any point in human history. Yet this group suffers ...

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In this issue:

• How the Gates Foundation is leading the campaign for better sanitation,
• Singapore’s model strategy for water conservation,
• New report reveals UN sanitation target will not be reached, and
• One m...

In this issue:

• Pilot initiatives in Sorsogon City address climate change;
• One year after conference, Green Building Movement struggles to take root in Africa
• UN-Habitat and UNEP join forces on Ecosystem-based adaptati...

Land is a scare resource involving a wide range of rights and responsibilities. When poorly managed, it can become contentious often leading to disputes, conflict, degradation and other problems, all of them drivers of slum development and poverty...

The 21st session of the annual World Water Week in Stockholm under the theme “Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanizing World” provides a good opportunity to build on the outcome of this year’s World Water Day celebrations coordinated b...

In this issue:

• Innovative School Designs Increase Climate Resilience in Mozambique
• Mapping the Risks to a Batik Industry City in Indonesia
• First Sub-Regional Workshop of CCCI Held in Fiji

Other Issues:

Climate induced risks such as rising sea levels, tropical cyclones, heavy precipitation events and extreme weather conditions can disrupt the basic fabric and functioning of cities with widespread reverberations for the physical infrastructure, ec...

The challenges facing cities with regards to the impacts of growing violence and insecurity are numerous and daunting. The need to address crime prevention in cities is apparent.

This brochure highlights the Safer Cities approach run by UN-...

Cities consume the majority of world’s energy and are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the major proportion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollution. At the same time, it is cities, and in particular the urban poor, in the dev...

UN-HABITAT's Habitat Partner University Initiative systematizes the relationship between UN-HABITAT and universities, supporting collaborations towards sustainable urban development and emphasizing comparative advantages of all partners in the fie...

In this issue:

• UN-Habitat Supports Two Municipalities in Mexico in Adapting to Climate Change in the Water Sector
• The UN-Habitat-ARCADIS Partnership Supports the Cities and Climate Change Initiative in Asia
• Preventing fl...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Buildings, Climate Change and Cities;
  
• Ecuador: Eco-Materials for Low Cost and Sustainable building;
  
• World Green Building Council;
  
• Builders Kick-Start...

To enhance credit and support housing and infrastructure improvement for low income end users, UN-HABITAT through the Urban Finance section, has set up finance facilities in Ghana, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. At the sam...

In this issue:

• How Cape Town is rising to the World Cup challenge
• New report highlights progress on Millenium Development Goals
• Interview: Marcio Fortes, Minister of Cities, Brazil

A pesar del avance en los derechos de las mujeres, los derechos a la tierra y a la seguridad de su tenenc...

The STDM, as it stands, has the capacity to br...

Despite progress on women’s rights, rights to land and security of tenure are not enjoyed equally by women and men in many parts of the world. This goes a...

In this issue;

• Afghanistan: citizens on the frontline,
• Mozambique's struggle after the floods,
• Seoul's bid to be the world's greenest city

In today’s urbanizing world, the issues at stake in cities are numerous and complex. UN-HABITAT has been addressing them over the past 30 years by publishing a wide range of information material for researchers, decision makers in central and loca...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Ushering a new era of urban Planning and Management
• Urban Environment Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Philippines: Strengthening institutional capacity to adapt to C...

Decision makers in local government face the ongoing challenge of how to provide services to the residents with limited resources. Whether drilling a new well to provide drinking water, renewing a road surface, buying new buses or issuing drivin...

ONU-Habitat, le programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains, aide les citadins pauvres en transformant les villes pour en faire des lieux plus sûrs, plus sains et plus verts offrant davantage d’opportunités et où chacun peut vivr...

This edition covers the following topics:
The Challenges of Promoting Participatory Urban Planning in The Lake Victoria Region; Urban Governance for Cities in Climate Change; Phase Two: Guidelines on Decentralisation on the Role of Ministeri...

Tomi has a Tummy Ache
Tomi disregards all advice he has been given about drinking clean, boiled water. He regrets it immediately as suffers terribly. Find out w...

Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that tra...

UN-HABITAT helps the urban poor by transforming cities into safer, healthier, greener places with better opportunities where everyone can live in dignity. UN-HABITAT works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, c...

This issue of Urban World covers innovative cities. It examines why learning is the key to smarter urban development.

This issue of Urban World covers innovative cities. It examines why learning is the key to smarter urban development.

In today’s urbanizing world, the issues at stake in cities are numerous and
complex. UN-HABITAT has been addressing them over the past 30 years
by publishing a wide range of information material for researchers, decision
makers in...

For more than 25 years, UN-HABITAT has been working with partners in the Somali region to promote sustainable, participatory urban development. This booklet explains in detail the numerous UN-HABITAT projects that have been implemented, but also e...

This edition covers the following topics:

• World Urban Forum 4: Harmonious Urbanization
• Improving cities through Localizing Agenda 21: Bayamo, Cuba
• World Cities Summit in Singapore
• UNEP works with Nairobi to impro...

This guide su...

The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) aims to establish a continuum of land rights, rather than just focus on individual land titling; improve and develop pro poor land management, as well as land tenure tools; unblock existing initiatives; assist i...

This book is a cross-cultural endeavour to promote global strategies for enhancing security of tenure in the Muslim world. It addresses the gap in both the human rights and Islamic literature on land and property issues.

The 1996 Habitat II Conference, dubbed “The City Summit,” drew the world’s attention to the massive demographic shift taking place.  In 1950, the number of people living in urban areas was 750 million. By 2015, it is estimated that some 4 billio...