LUSAKA, January 2019 – Countries in Southern Africa define their urban or rural areas in diverse ways. Current approaches use criteria such as population size and density, administrative functions, economic purpose and political delineations. This significantly affects both the number of urban areas and the share of population living in such areas in these countries.
Geneva, Switzerland, February 2019 – The Global Alliance for Urban Crises officially launched a series of knowledge products at Humanitarian Networking and Partnerships Week 2019 in Geneva. The products were produced by multi-constituency Alliance Working Groups, and focus on the key objectives, including urban profiling for a shared understanding of crises in urban contexts, stronger
Source: unhabitat.org
Mosul, January 2019 – The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has developed an Initial Planning Framework for the Reconstruction of Mosul to support the reconstruction and recovery efforts of the city government. It outlines recovery priorities, provides a comprehensive reconstruction and planning framework for the greater Mosul area with special focus on the Old
UN-Habitat and UNHCR present “Housing, Land and Property Issues of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon from Homs City”, the second in a series of reports being produced on the HLP conditions of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. This report offers an analysis of the main issues and needs of refugees in the current market that is supplying
Garowe, Puntland, Somalia, February 2019 – In Somalia, it is extremely rare to see a woman working in the construction industry. However nearly two thirds of the young people who have just graduated from a UN-Habitat training course in Puntland State of Somalia are young women. “Project Rajo” (Rajo is Somali for hope) was launched
Call for Expressions of Interest for Cooperation Partners for Agreement of Cooperation Knowledge Sharing Facility: Building Knowledge for Sustainable Urban Mobility in Africa Date first published: 11 February 2019 Deadline for submissions of EoIs: 25 February 2019 Introduction The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations agency for human settlements and
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Issued on: 11 February 2019 ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION Nairobi DUTY STATION Nairobi FUNCTIONAL TITLE Resource Mobilization Strategy Consultant CONTRACT TYPE Consultant POST DURATION 2 months CLOSING DATE 25 February 2019 BACKGROUND UN-Habitat supports achievement of sustainable urbanization works on issues of human settlements throughout the world, focusing on building a better future for villages,
Migration is a defining feature of urbanisation. Cities are places where people come together to live, work and find opportunities. It is also in the city where the reality of social and economic accommodation of newcomers and their interaction with host communities takes place. In this context, the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration project (MC2CM), implemented by
