Implementation of the Outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and Strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat)

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), published in 2022.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2018–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/214

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What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics

Financing Governance Human Settlements Sustainable Development Trust Funds Urban Planning

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2024.

2024A/79/606Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), July 2022–June 2024 report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

24 operative paragraphs

Governance of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Looks forward to the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly, to be held from 5 to 9 June 2023 in Nairobi, and recommends the participation of the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council in line with the spirit of integration and universality of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Encourages UN-Habitat, under the guidance of the United Nations Habitat Assembly, to align the strategic planning cycle of UN-Habitat with the cycle for the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations, within existing resources;

Takes note of the review of management and administration in the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) prepared by the Joint Inspection Unit, and encourages UN-Habitat to provide regular updates to its Executive Board on the implementation of the recommendations of this review;

Ensuring adequate funding and improving information to monitor funding trends

Encourages Member States to provide voluntary additional financial resources to service the intergovernmental governance processes of UN-Habitat;

Invites Member States, international and bilateral donors and financial institutions to contribute to UN-Habitat through increased voluntary financial contributions, especially non-earmarked contributions, to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, including the urban basic services trust fund and other technical cooperation trust funds, invites Governments and other stakeholders to provide voluntary predictable multi-year funding and increased non-earmarked contributions to support the implementation of its mandate, and requests the Executive Director of UN-Habitat to ensure that reporting on funding is transparent and easily accessible to Member States, including through the creation of an online registry that contains relevant financial information;

Invites all Member States making financial contributions earmarked for the operational activities of UN-Habitat to ensure that such resources are fully aligned with the strategic plan of UN-Habitat and are in accordance with the priorities of Member States benefiting from those contributions;

Reiterates the need to ensure that UN-Habitat has appropriate capacity to generate, manage and disseminate its evidence-based urbanization knowledge, based on its normative and operational work, building on existing international instruments, assessments and information networks to raise public awareness of critical, as well as emerging, urbanization issues;

Also reiterates the importance of the Nairobi headquarters location of UN-Habitat, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to improve the capacity of UN-Habitat to implement its mandate;

Implementation of the New Urban Agenda to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Reaffirms that, by readdressing the way cities and human settlements are planned, designed, financed, developed, governed and managed, the New Urban Agenda will help to end poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions, reduce inequalities, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in order to fully harness their vital contribution to sustainable development, improve human health and well-being, foster resilience and protect the environment;

Also reaffirms the central role that cities and human settlements can play in sustainable development, and urges UN-Habitat to further support increased participation of governments at all levels and regional organizations in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda to contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular by providing technical assistance aimed at developing the capacity of all levels of government, especially in developing countries, to plan and implement sustainable urbanization and human settlements programmes and projects;

Further reaffirms that youth policies, tailored and adapted to national and local contexts, help ensure that youth development challenges are addressed, and encourages meaningful engagement with youth in urban policy and decision-making processes;

Reaffirms the importance of strengthening the capacities of cities to increase the integration of risk management into preventive urban development policy to create urban resilience;

Also reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind and to taking more tangible steps to support people in vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest behind first;

Recognizes the importance of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda at the local, subnational, national, regional and global levels, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national legislation and practices, as well as policies and priorities;

Encourages UN-Habitat to continue its support to countries in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, giving consideration to evidence-based urban planning practices that promote access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing, inclusive urban prosperity and finance, effective climate action and environmental sustainability, multilevel governance and localization of the Sustainable Development Goals, and effective urban crisis response and recovery;

Also encourages UN-Habitat to continue to assist countries in monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, in complementarity with the Statistical Commission methodology for delineation of cities, urban and rural areas for international and regional statistical comparison purposes, develop a common methodology for aggregating subnational urban statistics, strengthen means of verification of new tier III indicators of targets under Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities and communities, utilizing the Global Urban Monitoring Framework to develop innovative methods, approaches and guidelines for data collection, analysis, monitoring and implementation and harnessing the Urban Agenda platform to share progress, action and knowledge resources on sustainable urbanization, and looks forward to the contributions of UN-Habitat to the high-level political forum on sustainable development, under the auspices of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council in 2023;

Further encourages UN-Habitat to continue promoting and implementing the People-Centred Smart Cities flagship programme to ensure that the benefit of digital transformation is widely shared among all urban dwellers, especially those in vulnerable situations, living in slums and informal settlements, including through developing normative guidance and providing technical support to governments, cities and communities;

Urges UN-Habitat to ensure that its normative and operational activities are balanced, that its normative work guides and is integrated into its operational work and that its experiences in the operational field feed into its normative work;

Encourages UN-Habitat to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations system-wide strategy on sustainable urban development to facilitate coordination among entities of the United Nations system, including the regional commissions, to ensure effective support for countries in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the urban and human settlements dimensions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Also encourages UN-Habitat to continue its collaboration with international development banks and the private sector to ensure coherence of policy support and the alignment of large-scale urban investments with the principles of the New Urban Agenda and to facilitate increased investment in sustainable urbanization, including through, but not limited to, the Multi-Partner Implementation Facility for Sustainable Urban Development, the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, the Adaptation Fund and the Climate Investment Funds;

Calls upon UN-Habitat to continue to work closely with United Nations organizations to promote joint urban programming at the country level, under the leadership of resident coordinators and in collaboration with the United Nations country teams, stakeholders and other development partners, to foster inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities, and to support country efforts towards the Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework;

Review and implementation

Encourages Member States to contribute to the special voluntary trust fund for the purpose of assisting developing countries to attend United Nations Habitat Assembly and UN-Habitat Executive Board sessions, and invites Member States, international financial institutions, donor agencies, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and natural and juridical persons to make financial contributions to the voluntary trust fund;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a progress report to the General Assembly at its seventy-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution, to be entitled “Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”;

Decides, for its next consideration of this topic, to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-ninth session the item entitled “Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”.

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