5th Compendium of Inspiring Practices on Urban-Rural Linkages – Special Edition on Intermediary Cities

UN-Habitat is compiling case studies relevant to the Urban-Rural Linkages: Guiding Principles (URL-GP) and Framework for Action on past, ongoing or upcoming interventions. The practices can be policies, strategies, tools, geographic or thematic projects whose aim is to advance territorial development by strengthening urban-rural linkages.

You are invited to submit your case studies on this topic The case studies will be included in the fifth edition of the Compendium of Inspiring Practices of the Urban-Rural Linkages to Advance Integrated Territorial Development, Special Edition on Intermediary Cities, to be published in 2025.

This edition aims to collect experiences on how intermediary cities are enhancing urban-rural linkages. The compendium will present how intermediary cities contribute to effective interaction between urban and rural communities, as well as between human settlements and nature, in the context of the UN-Habitat Guiding Principles on Urban-Rural Linkages.

Full credit will be attributed to the authors and organizations submitting the case studies.

Please see the First, Second and Third editions of the Compendium for reference.

If you have a completed or ongoing project/tool/strategy/policy that you would like to submit, please fill out the dedicated online form or submit a filled out Microsoft Word template to unhabitat-url@un.org, indicating in the subject: “The 5th Call for Case Studies on Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages”. Please keep your answers as concise as possible.

For any enquiries, you can write to unhabitat-url@un.org.