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 ...

Nairobi – Vienna – New York – Amsterdam – Kabul. 2 December 2020. A new digital land registry for urban informal settlements at the Ministry of Urban Development and Land in Afghanistan is set to address access to secure land rights, one of the key causes and results of conflict in the country. The land ...

25 November 2020, Mazar-e-sharif. Most land in Afghanistan’s cities is documented through customary means, which provide minimal protection of the property rights of women. In response, global-best practice suggests that legal property registration makes great gains in securing women’s land rights, and results in a range of positive benefits, from economic strengthening to increased participation ...

24 November, Kabul. The protracted armed conflict in Afghanistan caused millions of people to leave their country. Forty (40) years back, Zahra’s family from Samangan province, were among those who migrated to Iran due to insecurity, poverty, and unemployment in Afghanistan. Zahra was born in Iran, to this migrant family and has grown up there, ...

22 October 2020 – Herat. The Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS), a digital system to manage invoicing and collection of municipal revenues, was officially inaugurated in Herat municipality by Dr. Noor Ahmad Haidari, the Deputy Governor of Herat Province, Mr. Ghulam Hazrat Mushfaq, the Mayor of Herat, the revenue director of DMM/IDLG and UN-Habitat officials. ...

26th January 2020, Jalalabad city. At the start of the Afghanistan Urban Safety and Security Programme (AUSSP) in 2018, female trainers could not dare to stand in front of men and moderate training or workshop due to cultural restrictions on women in Jalalabad. Following strong social mobilization by the AUSSP team, this is now possible. ...

Kabul, 22nd October 2019 – UN-Habitat provided the first Solid Waste Management hands-on trainings for school children in Kabul City, under the Clean and Green Cities (CGC) programme funded by the Government of Japan, to educate the students how to manage the waste more properly at houses, schools, neighborhoods and the city. The Momena Khatun ...

Singapore, 29th August 2019. The Safe Cities Index of 2019 was successfully launched during the Safe Cities Summit held by The Economist. UN-Habitat Afghanistan was invited to participate in the summit and share experiences of Safer Cities Programme in Asia through the Afghanistan Urban Safety and Security Programme (AUSSP). AUSSP assists the Government of Afghanistan ...

Kunduz, 20th August 2019. UN Habitat has delivered a school safety outreach campaign in Kunduz City on 20 August 2019, under the Afghanistan Urban Safety and Security Programme (AUSSP), in support of the Community Policing Directorate and the Ministry of Interior Affairs. In this outreach campaign, delivered in the Shir Khan School of Kunduz’ 2nd ...

Kabul, 22nd July 2019. The Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Under-Secretary-General Maimunah Mohd Sharif, paid a three-day visit to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on the occasion of the International Symposium about urban informality and upgrading. With more than two decades of presence in Afghanistan, UN-Habitat has contributed to the physical and social reconstruction of the ...