Kandahar, 12th August 2018. The Municipality of Kandahar has recently inaugurated an environmentally friendly public space in an informal neighborhood in District IV: Timor Shahi Park. Located in a previous dumping site area, the new park has become a new recreational area for Kandaharians. Kids, families and women visit the park regularly, especially at night ...

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 (ANMDA), senior representatives from different national and local authorities in Afghanistan and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The objective of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

6th July 2018, Chefchaouen (Morocco).  UN-Habitat Afghanistan participated in the First Edition of the World Forum of Intermediary Cities organized by United Cities and Local Governments (ULCG) and hosted by the City of Chefchaouen in Morocco. The event gathered more than 200 participants, including mayors, representatives of regions and national governments, academia and civil society ...

1st July 2018, Jalalabad. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is distributing land occupancy certificates (OCs) to residents of urban informal urban areas. On 1st July 2018, H.E President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani issued land occupancy certificates during a ceremony in the city of Jalalabad. Five hundred households in Jalalabad received the occupancy certificates (OCs) ...

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, ...

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 ...