UN-Habitat promotes urban resilience projects to support sustainability
August 13th, 2021
Teresina, Brazil, 13 August 2021 -- UN-Habitat has developed a City Resilience Profile and Urban Diagnosis Report for this northern Brazilian city as prelude to multi-stakeholder workshops that will…
City-level COVID-19 data reveal fourth-wave surge
August 12th, 2021
Nairobi, 12 August 2021 – UN-Habitat and CitiIQ have collected daily COVID-19 data for more than 2,600 cities around the world since May 2020, data which are processed and made publicly available so…
UN-Habitat Executive Director’s Statement on the latest IPCC Report on Climate Change
August 12th, 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released its much-anticipated report: Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis. This report outlines the data and analysis which…
UN-Habitat and Habitat for Humanity International renew partnership to address affordable housing around the world
August 12th, 2021
Partnership will focus on COVID-19’s global impact, intersection of housing and health, climate change, and sustainable development goals…
Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Maimunah Mohd Sharif on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2021
August 11th, 2021
9 August 2021 On the occasion of the 2021 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UN-Habitat joins the international community in stressing and reiterating that indigenous peoples’…
UN-Habitat helps India to develop solid waste management roadmap
August 10th, 2021
Mangaluru, India, 10 August 2021 – The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) – the city’s urban body - and more than half a million residents of this southern India city will next month benefit from…
Homelessness, SDG 1, and Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19
August 5th, 2021
Participants at side event “Homelessness, SDG 1 and Sustainable Recovery from COVID19: Poverty left behind”, organised this month, agreed that lack of standardized data collection methodologies on…
Vernacular architecture gives impetus for social gathering space for women in Ramallah
August 5th, 2021
Ramallah, State of Palestine, 5 August 2021 – To enhance the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and to reduce vulnerability of girls and women to violence, UN-Habitat and partners have…
Beirut Port explosion: a year on Lebanon's capital city struggles to pick up the pieces
August 4th, 2021
Beirut, 4 August 2021 - One year after the devastating Beirut Port explosion has seen Lebanon’s capital city continue to struggle to pick up the pieces. According to a recent UN-Habitat assessment of…
UN-Habitat and Pan-African real estate company promote affordable housing in Africa
August 4th, 2021
Nairobi, Kenya, 3 August 2021 – To alleviate severe shortages, UN-Habitat is embarking on a partnership to provide one million affordable housing units in Africa in the next seven years. The…
UN-Habitat Launches Open Sustainable Urban Mobility Classroom
August 4th, 2021
UN-Habitat today launches its online classroom “Taking Sustainable Urban Mobility to the Next Level,” a course that provides information on different aspects of the transition to sustainable mobility…
Internally Displaced Families in Marawi Awarded Permanent House and Lot
August 2nd, 2021
Marawi City, the Philippines, 2 August 2021 – Rocma Imam Dumamba still remembers the five-hour walk she and her family endured as they fled Tuca Marinaut, their village in what is officially known as…
Recipient of a UN-Habitat project to supply clean water in northern Ghana lauds the benefits
July 29th, 2021
Tamale, Ghana 28 July 2021—Samata Abdullahi believes that installing a water tank in her Shichegu neighbourhood, courtesy of a project led by UN-Habitat in the Disaster Prone Communities in northern…
Residents of an informal settlement in northern Ghana get aid to better fight Covid-19
July 28th, 2021
Tamale, Ghana 27 July 2021—Residents of Ward K community in northern Ghana Tuesday received two hand washing stations and two water tanks through a United Nations initiative, a move that increases…
UN-HABITAT to lend Guinea expertise on land ownership, integrated city planning
July 28th, 2021
Conakry, Guinea, 28 July 2021 – The Guinean Government has officially asked for UN-Habitat’s technical expertise to organise a National Land Conference later this year, an invitation that the UN…