UN-Habitat
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Founded Since 1975
Company Description
About Us
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. UN-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system.
UN-Habitat works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities. UN-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination and poverty.
Our mission
UN-Habitat works in over 90 countries to promote transformative change in cities and human settlements through knowledge, policy advice, technical assistance and collaborative action.
UN-Habitat’s strategic plan 2020-2023 adopts a more strategic and integrated approach to solving the challenges and opportunities of twenty-first century cities and other human settlements. UN-Habitat’s mission embodies the four main roles of the organization, which can be summarized as: think, do, share, and partner.
THINK: UN-Habitat’s normative work, including groundbreaking research and capacity-building, sets standards, proposes norms and principles, shares good practice, monitors global progress and supports formulation of policies related to sustainable cities and human settlements.
DO: UN-Habitat’s operational work takes various forms of technical assistance, drawing on its unique expertise in sustainable urbanization and crisis response. UN-Habitat implements projects to provide value-added and tailored support to countries.
SHARE: Through advocacy, communication and outreach, UN-Habitat mobilizes public, political and financial support and collaborative action to inspire qualitative change in national development plans, policy frameworks, development practice and investment choices for sustainable urban development at the local, national and global level.
PARTNER: UN-Habitat collaborates with governments, intergovernmental, UN agencies, civil society organizations, foundations, academic institutions and the private sector to achieve enduring results in addressing the challenges of urbanization.
Our Strategy
The Strategic Plan 2020-2023 is repositioning UN-Habitat as a major global entity, a centre of excellence and innovation. In this respect, the Organization is refocusing its niche as the thought leader and go-to agency that sets the global discourse and agenda on sustainable urban development.
Reduced spatial inequality and poverty in communities across the urban-rural continuum
- Increased and equal access to basic services, sustainable mobility and public space
- Increased and secure access to land, and adequate and affordable housing
- Effective settlements growth and regeneration
Enhanced shared prosperity for cities and regions
- Improved spatial connectivity and productivity of cities and regions
- Increased and equitably distributed, locally generated revenues
- Expanded deployment of frontier technologies and innovations for urban development
Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment
- Reduced greenhouse emissions and improved air quality
- Improved resource efficiency and protection of ecological assets
- Effective adaptation of communities and infrastructure to climate change
Effective urban crises prevention and response
- Enhanced social integration and inclusive communities
- Improved living standards and inclusion of migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees through effective crisis response and recovery
- Enhanced resilience of the built environment and infrastructure
Cross-cutting themes
Resilience
UN-Habitat understands urban resilience as the measurable ability of any urban system, with its inhabitants, to maintain continuity through all shocks and stresses. Resilience throughout its programmes and projects, resilience is considered in the Strategic Plan as an important transversal issue that connects UN-Habitat’s work with partners.
Safety
Safety is of key relevance in the 2030 Agenda, which aims for “a world free of fear and violence” “where human habitats are safe” with a number of SDG 11 targets making specific reference to safety. The Strategic Plan recognizes the relevance of safety in ensuring overall improved urban living conditions, social inclusion, inequality reduction, and eliminating social and territorial exclusion patterns.
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