Implementation of the Outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and Strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat)

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 21 Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), published in 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2018–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/214

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/214	Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	4,208	61%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/173	Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	3,547	50%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/224	Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	2,834	75%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/239	Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	2,328	34%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/226	Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)	1,957	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2020–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/344	Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), July 2024–June 2026 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/214
2024	A/79/606	Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), July 2022–June 2024 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/173
2022	A/77/310	Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/224
2020	A/75/296	Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/239

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Financing Governance Human Settlements Sustainable Development Trust Funds Urban Planning

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Governance of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Welcomes the work of the Open-ended Working Group established by the Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), pursuant to General Assembly resolution 72/226, as well as its report,⁷ and its endorsement of its findings and recommendations on changing the governance structure of UN-Habitat;

⁷A/73/726.

Notes the dissolution of the UN-Habitat Governing Council as a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly and its replacement with the UN-Habitat Assembly, in line with the findings and recommendations of the Open-ended Working Group, also notes the first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly, which was held in Nairobi from 27 to 31 May 2019, and built upon the preparations already carried out for the twenty-seventh session of the Governing Council, and further notes that this took effect upon commencement of the first session;

Notes that, in 2019, the Executive Board, after the election of its members by the UN-Habitat Assembly, met for its first session in Nairobi for a duration of three days;

Further notes that the Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat prepared draft rules of procedure for the UN-Habitat Assembly, which were adopted at the first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly, in its decision 1/1 of 31 May 2019;⁸

⁸HSP/HA.1/HLS.2.

Ensuring adequate funding and improving information to monitor funding trends

Decides that the additional requirements, including those to service the new intergovernmental governance processes of UN-Habitat, should be met by existing structures and by streamlining operations, and encourages Member States to make voluntary contributions for the sustainability and predictability of financial resources;

Invites Member States, international and bilateral donors and financial institutions to contribute to UN-Habitat through increased voluntary financial contributions, especially non-earmarked contributions, to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, including the urban basic services trust fund and other technical cooperation trust funds, invites Governments and other stakeholders to provide predictable multi-year funding and increased non-earmarked contributions to support the implementation of its mandate, and requests the Executive Director of UN-Habitat to ensure that reporting on funding is transparent and easily accessible to Member States, including through the creation of an online registry that contains relevant financial information;

Invites all Member States making financial contributions earmarked for the operational activities of UN-Habitat to ensure that such resources are fully aligned with the strategic plan of UN-Habitat and are in accordance with the priorities of Member States benefiting from those contributions;

Implementation of the New Urban Agenda to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Reaffirms that, by readdressing the way cities and human settlements are planned, designed, financed, developed, governed and managed, the New Urban Agenda⁹ will help to end poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions, reduce inequalities, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in order to fully harness their vital contribution to sustainable development, improve human health and well-being, foster resilience and protect the environment;

⁹Resolution 71/256, annex.

Acknowledges the central role that cities and human settlements can play in sustainable development, and urges UN-Habitat to further support increased participation of governments at all levels and regional organizations in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals relevant to cities and other human settlements, in particular by providing technical assistance aimed at developing the capacity of all levels of governments, especially in developing countries, to plan and implement sustainable urbanization and human settlements programmes and projects;

Recognizes the importance of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda at the national, subnational, local, regional and global levels, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national legislation and practices, as well as policies and priorities;

Urges UN-Habitat to continue to develop innovative methods, approaches and guidelines for data collection, analysis, monitoring and implementation, with the objective of supporting Member States, especially developing countries, when needed, in dealing with emerging urban challenges and opportunities;

Recognizes the need to ensure that UN-Habitat has appropriate capacity to generate, manage and disseminate its evidence-based urbanization knowledge, based on its normative and operational work, building on existing international instruments, assessments and information networks to raise public awareness of critical, as well as emerging, urbanization issues;

Urges UN-Habitat to ensure that its normative and operational activities are balanced, that its normative work guides and is integrated into its operational work and that its experiences in the operational field feed into its normative work;

Encourages UN-Habitat to continue to work closely with other entities of the United Nations system, including the regional commissions, as key partners in reaching out to Member States in the regions for the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the urban and human settlements dimensions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;¹⁰

¹⁰Resolution 70/1.

Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind and commit to taking more tangible steps to support people in vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest behind first;

Encourages UN-Habitat to continue its collaboration with international development banks and the private sector to ensure coherence of policy support and the alignment of large-scale urban investments with the principles of the New Urban Agenda and to facilitate increased investment in sustainable urbanization, including through, but not limited to, the Multi-Partner Implementation Facility for Sustainable Urban Development, the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, the Adaptation Fund and the Climate Investment Funds;

Calls upon UN-Habitat to continue to provide normative guidance and operational support to cities and human settlements during the recovery from COVID-19 in order to foster inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and to strengthen the urban dimension in response to the pandemic so as to achieve sustainable development: (a) by facilitating the implementation of the United Nations system-wide strategy on sustainable urban development in close cooperation with the resident coordinator system; (b) by supporting efforts of the Statistical Commission to establish a functional definition of urban areas and develop a common methodology for aggregating subnational urban statistics; and (c) by expanding efforts to secure predictable and stable general purpose funding for UN-Habitat normative and operational activities, while noting the work of the UN-Habitat Executive Board in this regard and its approval of the draft resource mobilization strategy reflected in the report of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat;¹¹ requests the President of the General Assembly, within the existing conference-servicing entitlement of the General Assembly, to convene a one-day high-level meeting during the seventy-sixth session, in collaboration with UN-Habitat, in New York in 2022, to assess progress on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), taking into account the quadrennial report of the Secretary-General on progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda to be presented that year, also calls for voluntary contributions for the preparations of the meeting, and encourages the regional forums for sustainable development to include this topic in their deliberations as inputs for the meeting;

¹¹HSP/EB.2020/12/Rev.1.

Review and implementation

Requests the Secretary-General to establish a special voluntary trust fund for the purpose of assisting developing countries in attending UN-Habitat Assembly and Executive Board sessions, and invites Member States, international financial institutions, donor agencies, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and natural and juridical persons to make financial contributions to the voluntary trust fund;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a progress report to the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution, to be entitled “Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”;

Decides, for its next consideration of this topic, to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-seventh session the item entitled “Follow-up to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”.