Monrovia, 19 July 2016— The government of Liberia through the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in collaboration with UN-Habitat and the Cities Alliance early this month started the National Urban Policy (NUP) in the West African country. The policy will provide a coordinating framework to deal with the most pressing issues relating to rapid urban
East Jerusalem, 18 July 2016 –Working hand in hand with partners, UN-Habitat is working on improving public spaces in an East Jerusalem neighbourhood. UN-Habitat is working in partnership with Bimkom -Planners for Planning Rights, Al Enaya Community Center, and the Green Mosque Group are creating an inclusive public space in Wadi Al Joz neighborhood in
We, Members of the UNACLA, praise the current proposals coming from the Habitat III Zero draft outcome document released in May, which includes many of our constituency’s recommendations, drawn up through the Global Taskforce of local and regional governments, including those relating to financing, legal frameworks, governance, “reinforced multi-level governance” approach, city-to-city and decentralised cooperation.
Singapore, 18 July 2016 — Held in Singapore this week, World Cities Summit (WCS) and WCS Mayors Forum saw some 110 Mayors and city leaders representing 103 cities from 63 countries and regions from around the world discussing liveable and sustainable city challenges and integrated urban solutions. At the combined Opening Plenary of the biennial World
Nairobi/Amman 15 July 2016-UN-Habitat, the United Nations organization responsible for human settlements and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), a leading global professional and education services firm, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to carry forward the “Network Eleven Initiative.” The Network Eleven Initiative was launched last year under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council
The “Atlas of Afghan City Regions 2016” is a seminal publication on the spatial and governance data covering five major city regions, which are, Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Jalalabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, and 28 strategic district municipalities. The findings highlight the potential to consider ‘metropolitan’ planning and governance in these five city regions, to harness the power
Nairobi, 15 July 2016– The City of Qazvin, has achieved the unique distinction of being chosen the first ‘City Prosperity Initiative – Metropolitan Cities Global Pilot City’ to monitor the urban SDGs. The ‘City Prosperity Initiative – Metropolitan Cities (CPI-MC) Global Pilot Project’ will enable local authorities to create baseline information on the state of
UN-Habitat roots for localising the SDGsNew York, July 15 –UN-Habitat is at the forefront of efforts to localise the Sustainable Development Goals. Consequently, the agency recently participated in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the United Nations central platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable
City of Sidi Salem is located northern of Kafr el-Sheikh province, and 28 km north of Kafr El-Sheikh city. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), the city stands in 2006 with 45 thousand people,and as for total area for urban cluster of the city amounts to 320.5 acres in 2009.
City of Qaha is following Center of Tookh andl also located 25 km of Cairo Alexandria Agricultural road which starts at Shubra Khaimah. It shaped as a triangle and it was a village in the era of the pharaohs and was following the Kingdom Athribis and then known as Qahor then named Qaha in the
