Human Settlements

E/RES/2012/27View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 13d Human settlements, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 1982–2017

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2017/24

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	E/RES/2017/24	Human settlements	165	22%Compare
2016	E/RES/2016/24	Human settlements	275	28%Compare
2015	E/RES/2015/34	Human settlements	340	43%Compare
2014	E/RES/2014/30	Human settlements	386	53%Compare
2013	E/RES/2013/22	Human settlements	386	19%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

9 reports · 2012–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/80/696	Progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2017/24
2022	A/76/639 E/2022/10	Progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2017/24
2018	A/73/83	Progress on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2017/24
2017	E/2017/61	Coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2016/24
2016	E/2016/54	Coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda report of the Secretary-General	E/RES/2015/34

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Cities Human Settlements Sustainable Development Urban Poverty

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda;⁴

⁴E/2012/65.

Also takes note of paragraph 2 of General Assembly resolution 66/207 of 22 December 2011, in which the Assembly decided to convene in 2016 a third United Nations conference on housing and sustainable urban development (Habitat III);

Notes the ongoing review of the governance structure of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), which aims to improve its transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness;

Recognizes the progress made in meeting and even surpassing Millennium Development Goal 7, target 11, in terms of improving the lives of slum dwellers, but expresses concern that there has not been enough progress to counter the growth of slums in the developing world, that urban sprawl adds to the urban divide pushing social segregation in cities and suburbs, and that the overall reduction in the world’s urban divide requires greater effort, since the absolute number of slum dwellers actually increased by over 50 million in ten years, and in this regard stresses the need for Governments and development partners to redouble efforts to support plans and strategies at all levels to improve the lives of the urban poor across the developing world;

Encourages Governments to continue to support the work and existing cooperation of UN-Habitat, within its mandate and in line with its medium-term strategic and institutional plan for the period 2008–2013, on issues related to cities and climate change, including its complementary role in matters related to climate change within the United Nations system, in particular in addressing the vulnerability of cities to climate change, with a focus on vulnerable urban populations, slum dwellers, the urban poor and at-risk populations;

Also encourages Governments, according to their circumstances and capacities, to promote sustainability criteria in planning, construction and management for access to clean water and safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, urban and rural services, sustainable waste management, sustainable transport and disaster risk reduction;

Encourages governments at all levels and all relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, to promote the participation and access of people, in particular the poor, to policies, programmes and projects related to basic services, including housing, in order to address the needs of rural and urban populations;

Welcomes the contributions of initiatives at all levels to mobilize investment for slum upgrading, shelter and basic services beyond current targets, and invites the international community to support such efforts;

Emphasizes that, for Habitat III and its preparatory process, full advantage should be taken of planned meetings by aligning with the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth sessions of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat and with the seventh session of the World Urban Forum, and encourages the regular regional ministerial conferences on housing and urban development and other relevant expert group meetings to support the activities of the preparatory process, taking into account that the conference and the preparatory process should be carried out in the most inclusive, efficient, effective and improved manner;

Encourages the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders at the local, national and regional levels in preparations for Habitat III;

Recommends that the General Assembly adopt in a timely manner a resolution on the modalities for Habitat III, and in this regard encourages the United Nations system, in particular the regional and functional commissions and other relevant subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council, to actively support the preparatory process of the conference, as appropriate;

Encourages UN-Habitat to continue to work on the strategic plan for 2014–2019 in consultation with the Committee of Permanent Representatives, in an open and transparent manner, setting realistic and achievable goals for the period that it covers;

Takes note of the report of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat on the review of the governance structure of the Programme,⁵ and encourages UN-Habitat to move this process forward, in cooperation with the Committee of Permanent Representatives, in order to continue on its path towards the improvement of the transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness of its governance structure;

⁵HSP/GC/23/2/Add.1.

Invites the international donor community and financial institutions to contribute generously to UN-Habitat through increased voluntary financial contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, including the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund and the technical cooperation trust funds, and invites Governments in a position to do so and other stakeholders to provide predictable multi-year funding and increased non-earmarked contributions;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to adequately support UN-Habitat in accordance with the mandate of the General Assembly;

Invites Governments to further promote sustainable cities and the role of local authorities in their national development policies and programmes and to consider the environmentally sustainable, socially inclusive and economically productive roles of cities in the post-2015 United Nations development agenda;

Decides to transmit to the General Assembly for consideration at its sixty-seventh session the report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Council for consideration at its substantive session of 2013 a report on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda.

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