Vacancies

Urbanization underpins one of the key drivers of national economic transformations. This however does not happen spontaneously. Cities and urban centres should be well planned and managed so that they become economic power houses that drive national economic development and offer growing opportunities to all citizens, especially young people and women.  Economic growth should be steered in a manner that is inclusive and sustainable. Further, innovative revenue sources and financing mechanisms should be developed and applied to support investment in infrastructure and improvement in service... Read more

The Land and GLTN Unit within UN-Habitat hosts the Secretariat of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), which is a network of over sixty international institutions that was established in 2006 and since then has been working to promote secure land and property rights for all, through the development of pro-poor and gender appropriate land tools. The programme seeks to implement the “Resolution on sustainable urban development through expanding equitable access to land, housing, basic services and infrastructure”, GC23-17, passed by the 23rd Governing Council in April 2011. The GLTN’s... Read more

There are 863 million slum dwellers globally and if no serious action is taken, the number is projected to rise over the next 30 years to about 2 billion. Unless radical efforts are made to provide a range of affordable housing options and legal and secure land at scale, cities will be host to hundreds of millions of new slum-dwellers. The situation is critical and unprecedented. In response, UN-HABITAT aims to mobilize a global coalition of partners to address the challenge of unsustainable urbanization. UN-HABITAT’s vision is “to help create by 2013 the necessary conditions for concerted... Read more

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) is mandated by the General Assembly to coordinate the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and its twin goals on “shelter for all” and “sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world”. It is the lead United Nations Agency responsible for promoting sustainable urbanization.  This consultancy is needed in the Evaluation Unit, UN-Habitat.

The Urban Planning and Design Branch (UPDB) of UN-Habitat supports countries in developing urban planning methods and systems that address current urbanization challenges. It promotes urban planning approaches to address urban expansion and transformation.

There is indeed an urban planning crisis: the unplanned city is largely inefficient and requires increasing resources to make it more functional and liveable. Only those cities able to embrace different patterns of growth and address inequalities and inefficiencies will be able to provide better lives for their residents, while... Read more

Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning. At COP-21 in December 2015, UN-Habitat/UPDB/CCPU and partners launched Version 1.0 of these Guiding Principles. In the weeks since COP-21, attention has turned to laying the groundwork for operationalizing, using, testing and institutionalizing these Principles, as follows: (i) By the end of January the consultant will have identified a ‘short list’ of existing indicators that potentially could support the practical application of the eight ‘guiding principles’ in cities. (ii) CCPU has begun to actively explore... Read more

Under the overall guidance of the Leaders of RMPU and CPEDU, the incumbent will be expected to deliver a complete IG-UTP Handbook that operationalizes the Guidelines in the development and revision of planning frameworks relevant for national and sub-national scales. The Handbook chapters must cover each of the stages (Diagnosis, Formulation, Implementation and Monitoring & Evaluation) in the review and adjustment of associated policies, laws, regulations and plans for improved and integrated planning frameworks

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The Post is located in the Quality assurance department within the Management and Operations Division. Reporting to the Methods and Oversight Officer, Quality assurance department, the Programme Assistant is responsible for providing assistance in Project Administration and administrative matters addressing the risk of fraud and corruption in un-habitat projects – Anti-corruption and Audit Initiative.

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the RRR Branch in monitoring relief and recovery operations following emergencies, develop lessons learned from recovery situations and responses and develop knowledge management products. In addition, the consultant will support the Settlements Recovery Unit in exploring new approaches to delivering more effective humanitarian assistance, strengthening the resilience of cities to future emergencies.

The UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery for Somalia (JPLG) has established an important platform for seizing the development moment and is also a programme that has translated many of the ambitions of the ‘One UN’ principles into tangible improvements in aid and wider development effectiveness.

BACKGROUND

The project J094 “Towards a New Urban Agenda” aims to promote knowledge management and sharing information for policies and strategies for more compact, socially inclusive, better-integrated and connected cities that foster sustainable urban development in the context of the strategic UN-Habitat’s orientations and discussions over the New Urban Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals and the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (HABITAT III ) that will take place in Quito, Ecuador in 2016.

The consultant will build on the agreed concept on the multiverse of women and tenure developed with the GLTN Secretariat, UN-Women and a reference group comprising of key GLTN partners in the development of the global research and produce a research review report that reports the conclusions of the work and suggests next steps for the GLTN. The key outputs of the consultancy will focus on: developing a road map for the multiverse of women and security of tenure initiative for the next five years (2016-2020 in line with the following parameters:

An international Sub-Regional Focal Point for Urban Resilience who is familiar and experienced with the subject and fully operational in the three working languages in Southern Africa (English, French and Portuguese) is needed to coordinate the implementation of the pilot exercises of the CityRAP Tool in Mozambique, Malawi and Madagascar and the consolidation of the tool methodology, as well as to assist in the delivery of DIPECHO IV, DiMSUR and CA Projects work-plan in 2015 and 2016 at regional level, including implementation and reporting of key activities.