A new interactive project map sources the best solutions to COVID-19 in the slums
July 27th, 2020
25 July 2020 - UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) along with partner countries and, in cooperation with a research group of the Master Techs4Change at Politecnico di Torino, (…
Permanent handwashing facilities for Kenya’s Nakuru Municipality include taps for drinking water
July 21st, 2020
Nakuru, Kenya, July 2020 – One of Kenya’s largest urban areas, Nakuru, has installed eight permanent handwashing stations with clean drinking water with funding from UN-Habitat to stop the spread of…
Gated Community Development in Our Cities - Sonia Roitman
July 20th, 2020
UN-Habitat and UNOSSC commit to stepping up South-South cooperation on urban issues
July 20th, 2020
18 July 2020 – UN-Habitat and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) providing a framework for cooperation to facilitate and…
Yemeni residents paid to repair their homes destroyed by fighting under UN-Habitat project
July 20th, 2020
Qataba, Al-Hudaydah Governorate Yemen, July 2020 – When fighting broke out in Yemen’s West Coast Districts at the end of 2017, most of the people living in Qataba town fled and their houses were…
Cities twinning to share waste management experience officially sign up online
July 20th, 2020
20 July 2020 – UN-Habitat’s Executive Director virtually opened the Signing Ceremony of the Waste Wise Cities Challenge, which brings together cities looking to improve management of their municipal…
Workshop discusses State of Yemen Cities Report
July 17th, 2020
Aden 18 July 2020 -- UN-Habitat together with local partner, Science and Technology Center (STC) -University of Aden, held a workshop in Aden to discuss the State of Yemen Cities Report covering.…
UN-Habitat, Canada and partners launch One Stop Youth Centre in northern Kenya to prevent COVID-19 spread
July 16th, 2020
Mandera, Kenya, July 2020 - Partners from local and national government, civil society and the private sector came together to launch the One Stop Youth Resource Centre, which will be the base for…
Mayors and experts discuss the importance of towns and municipalities in achieving SDGs
July 15th, 2020
Toronto, Canada, July 2020 - Town leaders, government officials, non-government organizations and the private sector met virtually in preparation for the first “ Habitat in Towns: Collingwood World…
UN-Habitat calls on more partners to join #TakeAction4Cities to face COVID-19
July 14th, 2020
Nairobi, 15 July 2020 – In the three months since its launch on 15 April, UN-Habitat’s COVID-19 Campaign ‘Take Action in Cities and Communities’ has attracted a wide range of organizations working on…
UN-Habitat promotes touch-free handwashing facilities in Kathmandu slums
July 14th, 2020
Kathmandu, 13 July 2020 – UN-Habitat has installed touch-free handwashing facilities in some slum settlements, vegetable markets and temple areas to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Nepal’s capital…
The Anatomy of Density - Shlomo Angel
July 14th, 2020
Nairobi Hub of the International Gender Champions launched
July 13th, 2020
Nairobi, July 2020 - UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif, joined Inger Andersen, her counterpart at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Zainab Hawa Bangura, Director-General of…
UN-Habitat launches climate resilience project in South Eastern Africa
July 13th, 2020
July 2020 - A two-day virtual inception workshop marked the official start of ‘Building Urban Climate Resilience in South Eastern Africa,’ the first multi-country project of UN-Habitat funded by the…
Over 200 participate in dialogue with ministers and mayors on climate action opportunities in 2020
July 13th, 2020
July 2020 – More than 200 participants in the Mayoral-Ministerial Dialogue organized by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) discussed opportunities to accelerate climate action during COVID-19…