Herat, 15th April 2018. Mr. Mohamed Ali is a resident of Herat. He is very grateful to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and to the Government of the Netherlands for paving the streets of his neighborhood in Herat. “As our streets are concreted, now we can easily walk without getting our shoes and ...

Mazar-e-Sharif, 16 April 2018- Miss Khadija Hussaini, 25 years old, is a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif. She holds a university degree in Journalism. Despite of being highly educated, she experienced difficulties in finding a decent job according to her qualifications. Today she is very happy to be a community mobilizer in one of UN-Habitat’s programmes.  Clean ...

Kandahar, 11 April 2018- Qudrutullah, 22, is a resident of Kandahar. After completion of the 12th grade, he was desperately looking for a job for almost 2.5 years. Qudratullah is also responsible for earning the livelihood of a family of eight members. “One day I heard about UN-Habitat CGC program and went to the head ...

Jalalabad, 10 April 2018- Meet with Mrs. Said Bar Bibi, a beneficiary of the UN-Habitat Clean and Green City (CGC) Programme funded by USAID and the European Union. Mrs Bar Bibi has never worked before outside her house. For so many years, her daily life was limited to her kids, husband and family. War and ...

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 ...

Kabul, 05 April 2018- City for All (CFA) has become an integral part of the United Nations development, peace and human rights efforts in Afghanistan. The promotion of land tenure security is indeed a good opportunity to achieve better living standards, securing investments, empowering Afghan women and ending illegal land grabbing. CFA is currently supporting ...

Kabul, 4th April 2018 Afghan municipal authorities have launched a pioneering system which calculates, issues and collects municipal revenues (Safayi revenue) with technical support from UN-Habitat City for All Programme (CFA). Since October 2017, CFA staff has surveyed more than 500.000 households across the country, and delivered municipal tax invoices to over 49,000 in Kabul. ...

Kabul, 04 April 2018- UN-Habitat is pleased to support the launch of a new programme by the Government of Afghanistan addressing the re-integration needs and livelihood opportunities for returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Funded by the European Union and the government of Denmark, the Sustainable Human Settlements in Urban Areas to Support Reintegration in ...

Kabul, 27 March 2018 – Kabul citizens launch a three-day campaign on cleaning, greening and painting the capital city of Afghanistan on the occasion of the beginning of Nawroz. With the technical support of UN-Habitat, this activity intends to raise citizen’s awareness about the relevance of the sustainability of public spaces in our cities. The main activities, ...

Kabul, 14 March 2018.The Mayor of Kabul, Mr. Abdullah Habibzai, inaugurated today the upgrading of seven public parks in an event organized at the “Alawodin park” in District 6 in Kabul city. The upgrading activities are part of the UN-Habitat Clean and Green Cities (CGC) Programme which will implement area-based upgrading and urban services in ...