25 January 2021. Ingil city. UN-Habitat has been supporting the Afghan Government and local communities to implement projects to support the resilience of urban residents to the Covid-19 pandemic and its secondary impacts in 10 Afghan cities. In the city of Ingil, UN-Habitat has supported residents in the 3rd neighborhood in the 3Rd district, where ...

20.December, 2020, Kunduz. Amir Abdul Road area is an ancient area located in the west of Kunduz city. Access Roads in this area, are usually muddy ruts, especially in the wintertime. Residents, particularly the school students, with a daily traverse to classes and play areas have to wade through such a sorry state – that ...

Azhdar Bala is an area located in PD4 of Bamyan City with a high number of Internally Displaced People and marginalized groups. Because of the poor economic situation of residents, houses have not been built to the appropriate standard of construction which resulted in damage from seasonal floods. In addition, the lack of culverts has ...

27 October, Jalalabad. ShanzdaFamily , is an area located in the heart of Jalalabad city, was considered as a rundown place where the local community dumped their rubbish. Residents had to change their routes and paths to avoid passing through the garbage-strewn area. As this situation continued for many years, it became a place where ...

Kabul, 8 January 2019. The Kabul Municipality Nahia Manager for District 15 has awarded the City For All (CFA) Survey Team with a certificate “for accurate and well planned work in surveying and registering of properties”. CFA is a government programme which aims at surveying and registering informal urban properties in 12 cities. So far, ...

Kandahar, 12 August 2018. Kandahar municipality has begun issuing safayi (urban services charge) fees under the UN Habitat-supported City for All programme, which will boost municipal revenues for the city and allow for the expansion of municipal infrastructure and basic services. The City for All (CFA) programme is funded by EU and USAID and is ...

The “City for All” Programme reflects the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan´s (GoIRA) commitment to implement the New Urban Agenda in all its five pillars: Development of a National Urban Policy, Urban Rules and Regulations, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Economy and Municipal Finances, and Local Implementation. The programme is being implemented in ...

21 June Bamyan. Water is essential for life and pure drinking water is a blessing. Unfortunately, people of Zargaran District 3 in Bamyan were deprived of access to drinking water and they had to fetch it from far away. Zargaran is an area informally built over the hills where over 500 informal houses are located ...

19 June 2018, Kabul. One of the novelties introduced by the New Urban Agenda, the UN roadmap for sustainable urbanization for the next 20 years, is the contribution of urbanization to the prosperity of nations. The transformative nature of urban areas relates to the significant opportunities they offer for both formal and informal employment. Cities ...

Kabul, 06 June 2018. The Government of Afghanistan is using GIS, Remote Sensing and ICT technologies to collect and analyze property data for purposes of improving tenure security in urban areas. Through the City for All program, the government is digitizing and mapping all properties in Kabul and 11 other cities. The base maps are ...