| Valuing What Matters in Urban Areas - A position paper of the Quality of Life Initiative | 2024 | The position paper was developed by the academic community of practice of the Quality of Life Initiative and provides context, key takeaways and recommendations for cities and local leaders to use to inform policies that improve quality of life at the local level. The community of practice takes the position that a truly holistic vision of quality of life - and its understanding, measurement, and application - can provide a common thread through which ambitious, inclusive, resilient, sustainable development can progress at the scale and speed demanded by the urgency of the interlinked challenges faced today. |
| Amman Climate Action Plan | 2024 | The Amman Climate Action Plan, in its second iteration, focuses on mainstreaming the climate actions by integrating with its strategy documents, proposing policies and incorporating actions as part of master planning to ensure effective implementation. Apart from GCAP, GAM has collaborated with C40 on several engagements such as C40 Cities-Mayors Migration Council, the Global Mayors Task Force on Climate and Migration and Students Reinventing Cities. Amman has also committed to C40’s Clean Air Cities Accelerator, Pathway towards zero waste and Urban Nature Accelerator. |
| Strategic Engagement of the Quality of Life Initiative at the 12th Session of the World Urban Forum | 2024 | At the 12th Session of the World Urban Forum in Cairo, the Quality of Life Initiative showcased how cities can rethink urban development through a human-centric lens. Our new knowledge document summarizes the strategic engagements at WUF12 and how this will inform our next steps, scaling up to 100 cities in 40 countries in 2025. In the synthesis, we share what we demonstrated at WUF, including leveraging cities as storytellers, forging strategic partnerships, and putting people and health at the heart of what we do. |
| Legislative and Administrative Land and Property Rights Framework: Lebanon | 2024 | This report analyses the land sector in Lebanon by looking at its legal and institutional set up, its stakeholders, and the key land administration functions: land tenure, land value, land use, land development, and land disputes’ resolution. The most important legislation is annexed and a set of preliminary recommendations for consideration by national stakeholders complement the report. |
| Global State of National Urban Policy 2024 | 2024 | A robust national urban policy (NUP) facilitates achieving sustainable urban development as a shared responsibility across levels of government and amongst all actors by setting a shared vision, providing adequate coordination mechanisms, and guiding investments to address national and subnational development priorities. From the analysis of 78 countries across the globe, this edition shows that NUP is increasingly becoming a critical instrument to manage urban challenges and to advance sustainable urbanization, with more than 80% of countries having a NUP in place. The report reviews how countries’ NUPs are fostering adequate, inclusive and sustainable housing. The report also explores how countries are using NUP to enhance their resilience to current and emerging shocks. The report has been co-developed by UN-Habitat and the OECD as a key outcome of the National Urban Policy Programme. |
| Land Governance and Land Rights in Palestine: Analysis and Recommendations (Report & Arabic Brief) | 2024 | This report analyses the land sector by looking at its legal and institutional set up, its stakeholders, and the key land administration functions: land tenure, land value, land use, land development, and land disputes’ resolution. The most important legislation is annexed and a set of preliminary recommendations for consideration by national stakeholders complement the report. |
| Mafraq Spatial Profile | 2024 | Based on a spatially focused and cross-sectoral situational analysis of urban settlements hosting displaced populations, this multi-level profile allows locals, stakeholders, and readers to develop a comprehensive spatial understanding of the existing situation as a basis for evidence-based decision making for long-term urban development strategies and infrastructure investment planning. |
| Douala 3 Spatial Profile - Cameroon | 2024 | This Spatial Profile conducts a comprehensive review of urban areas hosting IDPs, focusing on several sectors. It focuses on the second Subdivision hosting the largest number of IDPs in the city of Douala: Douala 3. Unequal distribution of basic urban services, gaps in public infrastructure, urbanization on areas vulnerable to environmental hazards were identified, mapped and presented. This diagnostic can then be used as a basis for informed decisions regarding short, medium and long-term urban development strategies and infrastructure investment planning. |
| A Road Map Towards a Socioeconomic Development Plan for the Union of Municipalities of Jezzine, South Governorate | 2024 | |
| Urban Regeneration for Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals | 2024 | The paper ‘Urban Regeneration for Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals’ focuses on demonstrating how urban regeneration can drive progress across at least 15 SDGs and advance 45 targets. It includes four case studies from different regions to illustrate the impacts and lessons learnt. |