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Since , over. More than. Related Sustainable Development Goals. Many youth are constantly locked out of prospects because they do not have the skills and networks to develop themselves. By providing youth with the practical skills and tools necessary to actively participate in social and working life, the programmes are helping to decrease their vulnerability to the social ills which have so often affected unemployed young people in disadvantaged settings.

Justification Globally, young people have limited opportunities in the formal sector. In Africa, youth unemployment and underemployment can be attributed to slow economic growth and lack of job creation. In the region, many young people are locked out of the formal job sector due to the lack of marketable skills as well as lack of access to financial networks and resources to set up enterprises. Statistics show that youth unemployment is significantly higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

Provide technical and programme expertise to the establishment of UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board in Turkey including but not limited to drafting of concept notes and project documents, participation in stakeholder meetings and; organizing of events and forums.

Facilitate research of the Metropolitan Municipality Youth Project including but not limited to data collection, data analysis and reporting; 4. For frontier technologies and innovations to effectively contribute to urban sustainability, they need to be appropriately applied to ensure that the prosperity they bring is shared among citizens, cities and regions.

This outcome must be realized by a wide array of actors, and UN-Habitat can play a significant role in this process through the experimental research and integration of new technologies and innovative practices, both in normative and operational activities. To make sure that no one is left behind, UN-Habitat is supporting national and local governments with their digital transition, applying a multi-level governance strategy and helping them build skills and capabilities to develop, procure and effectively use digital technologies in an ethical and inclusive way.

Through global advocacy, the programme will ensure that voices from marginalized groups, including children, youth and older people, women in vulnerable situations and people with disabilities as well as cities with less resources are more strongly heard in global platforms, including United for Smart Sustainable Cities, Agile and Open Smart Cities and the Cities for Digital Rights Coalition.

Investment objectives will be guided by the achievement of higher socio, economic and environmental standards and increasing equality in the standards of living achieved, in line with the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and the SDGs.

Across its four domains of change, UN-Habitat actively engages with the private sector, civil society, the academia and other stakeholders. It responds to the fact that ineffective systems of urban governance, limited capacities in urban planning, lack of local resources and funding and poor or non-existent mechanisms to measure results for and impacts on populations seriously impede the achievement of the urban SDGs.

To realize the potential of cities to drive the achievement of the SDGs, the flagship programme will work with cities, other levels of government, communities, business sector and development partners to connect the value chain of data; evidence-based policy; capacity in governance, planning and financing; and, impact investments, to accelerate the achievement of SDGs in cities.

In particular, the flagship programme on SDG cities will support cities to connect data on gaps in implementing the SDGs with strategic planning and capacity strengthening to identify impact investments and access finance for impact at scale. Under its current Strategic Plan , the UN-Habitat domains of change on: Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment; and Effective urban crisis prevention and response, include normative work to support disaster risk reduction and build resilience.

Through the Building the Climate Resilience of the Urban Poor cooperative initiative , UN-Habitat continued to raise awareness of cities and climate change with other United Nations agencies as focal points, within the United Nations system, for sustainable and inclusive urbanization. At the end of the work cycle , UN-Habitat managed to achieve substantive impact in reducing the risk of disaster and building resilience across the world, benefitting more than 1 million people with interventions in sustainable urban reconstruction in post-crisis situations and within protracted conflict environments.

The strategy provides guidance on a series of actions ranging from poverty reduction, inequality, governance, disaster risk reduction, migration, urban and territorial planning, data and information, national urban policies, global, regional, interregional, national and local level strategies.

A Global Stakeholders Forum, attended by over participants, was held on 25—26 May A stakeholder engagement declaration was adopted as a commitment to work in collaboration with member states and UN-Habitat to deliver the New Urban Agenda, relevant Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and the UN-Habitat Strategic — UN-Habitat scaled up its work with the private sector starting with updating of a private sector strategy in consultation with partners.

A business assembly bringing together over 50 private sector organizations took place on 26 May The City Investment Platform and Capital Advisory Facility advocated at the business assembly have drawn interests from corporates, national and local governments as well as that of investment banks.

It also partners with member states to jointly highlight key issues during side-events and other meeting formats of the HLPF.

UN-Habitat contributed to the compilation of reviews and status reports of various goals and supported countries to package the data and status in their Voluntary National review reports. In , UN-Habitat has led the global review of the Goal 11 and coordinated with several agencies and member states on the compilation of the status reports. Over the last years, countries have had an opportunity to report on progress of implementation of Goal 11 targets. Many countries are still working on mechanisms and structures to ensure appropriate engagements and involvement of the various levels of governments.

Strengthening national and local capacities is therefore paramount to enable and build systems that support collection, analysis and dissemination of SDGs data and information.

An effective implementation structure for SDG 11 at the national and sub-national levels requires reliable and effective governance structures and supportive frameworks for financing, innovations and institutional capacity-building, with a well-connected network of stakeholders at global, regional and national levels. This is being achieved mainly through training and direct technical support on the application of monitoring tools and methods. In collaboration with the regional commissions, UN-Habitat has continued to provide regional training in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean, as a cost-effective way to raise awareness on the urban-related monitoring agenda, share knowledge and introduce new tools.

A total of participants from 24 countries benefitted from the regional trainings in Member states, through their urban observatories, are in a better position to produce detailed city-level reports based on strengthened urban observatory systems and personnel skills. Additionally, specific demand-driven country advisory missions for direct technical support to in-country teams assisted national statistical offices to localize urban monitoring tools for the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda reporting as well as to help member states make evidence-based policy decisions.

More countries now have the skills and tools to produce voluntary national reviews and voluntary city reviews with detailed analysis of the urban-related targets and indicators of progress. Since the global monitoring agenda commenced in , the number of Voluntary National Reviews countries have submitted increased from 19 countries in to 45 in , bringing the total number which have submitted at least one voluntary national report to 98 across the — period.

UN-Habitat consults with stakeholder groups on the development and implementation of its strategies and programmes. Initiated by the Executive Director, the flagship programmes signal a paradigm shift in the way that UN-Habitat works and can help to bring about the transformative change in cities and human settlements that we need at this critical moment to leave no one behind.

Home programmes. Five flagship programmes for a decade of action on the sustainable development goals. The UN-Habitat Strategic Plan includes four domains of change that guide all activities of the organization: Reduced spatial inequality and poverty in communities across the urban-rural continuum; Enhanced shared prosperity of cities and regions; Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment; and Effective urban crisis prevention and response.

Flagship Programmes.