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UN-HABITAT

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RESEARCH DIVISION

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Organizational Structure

• One of UN-HABITAT’s four divisions• Consists of three branches and three cross-cutting

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I. Policy Analysis Branch

II. City Monitoring Branch

III. Urban Economy Branch

IV. Global Urban Observatory

V. Gender Mainstreaming Unit

VI. Partnerships and Youth Section

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Mandate

• Coordinates Focus Area 1 (FA1) of MTSIP 2008-2013: “Advocacy monitoring and partnerships”

• Expected Accomplishments of FA1: (i) Improved awareness of sustainable urbanization issues at the local to global levels; (ii) Monitoring of sustainable urbanization conditions and trends improved; (iii) Habitat agenda partners (HAP) actively participate in the formulation of sustainable urbanization policies

• Implements Subprogramme 2 of Human Settlements Programme, i.e. “Monitoring the Habitat Agenda”

• Subprogramme 2 Objective: “To monitor and assess progress towards the attainment of the Habitat Agenda goals and the Millennium Development targets on slums, drinking water and sanitation”

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Strategy

• Global collection, analysis and dissemination of data, including development of gender-disaggregated indicators for measuring progress towards the attainment of internationally agreed human settlements goals

• Evidence-based assessment of the effectiveness of the policies and strategies recommended in the Habitat Agenda and elsewhere, as well as dissemination of lessons learned and best practices identified

• Evidence-based identification, field testing, dissemination and mainstreaming of new and innovative policies and strategies in the areas of urban monitoring, urban economic development, gender and women’s empowerment, and youth and partnerships

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Main Activities: Policy Analysis Branch

• Analysis of human settlements conditions and trends and reporting results to Governing Council & UN General Assembly

• Raising global awareness of emerging human settlements issues and innovative policies

• Main outputs: (i) Global Report on Human Settlements, one of UN-HABITAT’s two flagship reports, published every two years; (ii) Global Dialogue on Human Settlements (occasional research paper series); (iii) UN-HABITAT Lecture Award Series

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• Global monitoring and reporting of urban conditions and trends as well as best practices in urban development

• Raising global awareness of urban conditions, trends, and emerging issues

• Main outputs: (i) The State of the World’s Cities report (one of UN-HABITAT’s two flagship reports, published every two years); (ii) Best Practices Database

Main Activities: City Monitoring Branch

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Latest Issues of Flagship Reports

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Main Activities: Urban Economy Branch

Research-based monitoring of trends in:

• Urban planning and local economic development• Urban poverty, focusing on employment and the informal

sector• Urban-rural linkages (urban-regional development)

Main outputs:

• Technical publications• Pilot projects for testing innovative policies

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• Collection, analysis and dissemination of global data for monitoring the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Millennium Development targets on slums, drinking water and sanitation

• Developing and maintaining global databases on human settlements statistics and indicators

• Main output: UrbanInfo Database

Main Activities: Global Urban Observatory

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Main Activities: Gender Mainstreaming Unit

• Global monitoring of the mainstreaming of gender in human settlements policies and programmes at the country level and identification of lessons learnt

• Mainstreaming of lessons learnt into programmes implemented with the assistance of UN-HABITAT and alone by governments and local authorities

• Field testing of innovative ideas on gender and women’s empowerment

• Main outputs: (i) technical publications; (ii) pilot field projects

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Main Activities: Partners & Youth Section

• Global monitoring of the mainstreaming of partnerships and youth concerns in human settlements policies and programmes at the country level and identification of lessons learnt

• Mainstreaming of lessons learnt into programmes implemented with the assistance of UN-HABITAT and alone by governments and local authorities

• Field testing of innovative ideas on partnerships and on youth needs

• Main outputs: (i) technical publications; (ii) pilot field projects

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