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promoting the implementation of the un-habitat’s Strategic Plan, contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda!

UN-Habitat’s Policy, Legislation and Governance Section (PLGS) is one of five sections of the Branch and supports national and subnational governments and other partners through the development and dissemination of knowledge, capacity building, conducting policy dialogues and providing advisory services on urban policy, legislation, governance, metropolitan management, and urban-rural linkages

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Metodología para Consolidación Metropolitana en Honduras
Metodología para Consolidación Metropolitana en Honduras

The document titled “Metodología para la Consolidación de Zonas Metropolitanas en Honduras” offers a comprehensive framework designed to promote the…

Voluntary Metropolitan Reviews - SDG11: Climate Resilience. Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico. IMEPLAN-UN-Habitat.
Voluntary Metropolitan Reviews – SDG11: Climate Resilience. Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico. IMEPLAN-UN-Habitat.

Metropolitan areas with the support of UN-Habitat are joining the global movement of Voluntary Reviews of progress on achieving the…

Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition, in the context of urbanization and rural transformation
Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition, in the context of urbanization and rural transformation

In an era in which almost 80 percent of the global population resides in urban and peri-urban (U-PU) areas, understanding…

Multi-level Urban Forums: A Guide
Multi-level Urban Forums: A Guide

Urban Forums are critical and inclusive platforms to domesticate and localize global agendas and to advance evidence-based policymaking and review,…

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