Kabul, 8th August 2018 – The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) office in Afghanistan and iMMAP announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming at strengthening collaboration in terms of data sharing, reporting as well as greater coordination in terms of geographical data and knowledge management. This partnership also intends to forge improved collaboration with the Afghanistan ...

2nd August 2018. The UN-Habitat family wishes to extend its warm congratulations to Mrs. Khadija Ahmadi for her recent appointment as Mayor of Nili, the capital city of the Daykundi province. Although it is a great loss for the UN-Habitat team in Afghanistan, Mrs. Ahmadi is a greater gain for Afghanistan and for the people ...

24th July 2018, Kabul. UN-Habitat Afghanistan hosted a three-day Training of Trainers workshop on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Sustainable Development in close cooperation with Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), senior representatives from different national and local authorities in Afghanistan and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). ...

Kabul, 18th July 2018.  The Government of Afghanistan, under the leadership of the Deputy Ministry of Municipalities, hosted the First City for All (CFA) Mayors Conference to discuss the improvement of the safayi fee collection system in eight municipalities: Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar, Bamyan, Nilli and Farah. City for All is a government-led programme ...

27th June 2018, Bamyian. UN-Habitat is pleased to assist and accompany the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in the official launch of the Afghanistan Urban Safety and Security Programme (AUSSP), a three year programme (2018-2021) aimed at promoting safety and security in urban areas of Afghanistan 8 most strategic cities, Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, ...

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, 06th June 2018. Massoda Mahmoodi and Lema Jaheed are two female engineering students from Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU) who participated in the first batch of the UN-Habitat’s Professional Practice Programme (PPP). The PPP is a three to six month programme which brings students from university classrooms to UN-Habitat offices in different provinces providing them ...

Jalalabad, 30th May 2018- The provision of public spaces in a city is one of the constituent elements of sustainable urbanization. Qualitative public spaces are key drivers for inclusiveness, social cohesion and gender empowerment. The city of Jalalabad, in the Eastern part of Afghanistan, has recently inaugurated the first Women’s Park in town. The design ...

Kabul- 18th April 2018- UN-Habitat is pleased to welcome the first batch of 70 female undergraduate students in the framework of the Professional Practice Programme (PPP). The PPP is a six-month programme which aims at increasing opportunities for professional work for female students from Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU). The programme will bring students from KPU ...

Kabul, 5th April 2018- Afghanistan’s rapid urban transformations present an important opportunity for development, job creation and peace-building. A third of its urban population is already living in cities and by 2060, more than half of the population is estimated to reside in urban areas. Providing adequate housing for all is one of the key ...