Football tournament in Urban October, teams of under 11-year olds from different areas of Nairobi including the informal

settlements, 27 Oct 2018

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PRIORITIES OF THE YEAR Human Settlements Programme

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 World habitat Day event held at the United Nations Gigiri, in celebration of the Global Solid Management of waste. Smarter Cities

1 4 MAIN COMPONENTS OF REFORM

2 OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES Presentation Outline
3 DIVISIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
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 OBSERVANCE Tuesday, 15 Jan 2019

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2019 & BEYOND
From Challenges to Opportunities LOVE & RESPECT

2018 2019 & Beyond

Year of Year of
Challenges Opportunities

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4 MAIN COMPONENTS OF REFORM
Governance Reform/Strategic Plan/Change Process/Organizational Restructuring LOVE & RESPECT

DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY
2018 WUF HLPF 2019

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OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES
Continued focus on changing the work culture LOVE & RESPECT

“UN-Habitat as a Centre of Excellence and Innovation”

Professionalism Impact Talent management Zero tolerance of

• Value added • Capture through • Recognizing/nurturing/pr harassment
• Impact monitoring & evaluation omoting talents
regardless of
grades/functions

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STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2025

Objective Mission
A better quality of life for all UN-Habitat promotes transformative change in cities and human settlements through knowledge,

Vision
in an urbanizing world policy advice, technical assistance and collaborative action to leave no one and no place behind

Sustainable urbanization is advanced as a driver of development and peace, to improve living conditions for all

Domains of Change
Reduced spatial
inequality and poverty Enhanced shared Strengthened climate Effective urban crisis
Org.
performance
in communities across prosperity of cities and action and improved prevention and
Drivers of the urban - rural regions urban environment response
enablers
change
(How)
continuum
1. Monitoring
and knowledge
1. Policy &
Increased and equal access to Reduced greenhouse gas
2. Innovation Legislation Improved spatial connectivity Enhanced social integration and
basic services, sustainable emissions and improved air
and productivity inclusive communities
mobility and public space quality
3. Advocacy, 2. Urban

Outcomes (What)
communication Planning and
Design Improved living standards and
and outreach Increased and secure access to Increased and equitably Improved resource efficiency
inclusion of migrants, refugees
land and adequate and distributed locally generated and protection of ecological
3. Governance and internally displaced
4. Partnerships affordable housing revenues assets
persons
5. Capacity 4. Financing
Mechanisms Effective settlements growth and Expanded deployment of Effective adaptation of
building Enhanced resilience of the built
regeneration frontier technologies and communities and infrastructure
environment and infrastructure
innovations to climate change
6. Systems
and processes
Social inclusion issues: (1) Human rights; (2) Gender; (3) Children, youth and Older Persons; (4) Disability
Crosscutting thematic areas: (1) Resilience; (2) Safety
OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES
Key Programmatic Priorities for 2020 LOVE & RESPECT

Mobility Gender and youth World Cities Report Migration

responsive slum
upgrading & housing

Frontier technologies and Climate change adaptation Waste management Building resilient
innovation and mitigation communities
(smart cities, smart solutions)
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OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES
Main events in 2019 LOVE & RESPECT

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
2019 UNHA HLPF Climate Summit U Oct

MAY JUL SEP OCT

UNHA HLPF Climate Urban
Summit October

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OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES
[Geographically] Q1 focuses on Africa & Asia LOVE & RESPECT

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
2019

Opportunities for
collaboration &
partnership

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OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES
Administration & management priorities LOVE & RESPECT

Status of
Austerity Measures

“Staff are the source of our strength”

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OVERALL UN-HABITAT PRIORITIES
Restructuring LOVE & RESPECT

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DIVISIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Programme Division LOVE & RESPECT

Fulfilling current SP Working towards UNHA Ensuring flexible use of Closure of

& aligning for new SP (connecting major limited core resources projects
programmes) (enhanced
programme oversight
by Executive Board)

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DIVISIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
External Relations Division LOVE & RESPECT

Global positioning Scaling up projects Acting as a driver of Strengthening focal

and leadership and impact international point role with sub
effectiveness national governments

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DIVISIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Management and Operations Division LOVE & RESPECT

Regularization of Developing a Establishing predictable

staffing situation service culture processes
(promoting mobility)

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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Asia & Pacific LOVE & RESPECT

1. ROAP and country offices together will do its utmost to further contribute to the achievement
of the 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda in the region.
2. Make the best use of opportunities available through the UN development system reform
which are already having widespread impact especially at country level.
3. Enhance the impact of UN-Habitat’s activities and its presence/profile in countries by
improving the quality of products and their delivery.

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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Arab States LOVE & RESPECT

1. Resource mobilization: ROAS resource acquisition increased to more than $50m in 2018,
and the aim is to increase resources more, by at least 20% in 2019.
2. Strategic positioning within the new UNDS architecture: ROAS will have a strategy for
wider engagement with Regional SDG, UN Resident Coordinators, and UN Country Teams,
including the optimizing of country presence.
3. UN-Habitat reform agenda: ROAS will contribute strongly to the UN-Habitat reform agenda,
including through piloting reform processes in selected countries.

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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Africa LOVE & RESPECT

1. The Regional Office for Africa (ROAf) will endeavour to improve resource mobilization,
overall project portfolio growth as well as project implementation/delivery rate.
2. To improve portfolio growth and implementation/delivery rate, ROAf will develop a robust
workplan for 2019 by the end of January, with clear priority countries, priority projects and
milestones so as to enable more focused implementation as well as monitoring of progress
and reporting of results objectively at the end of 2019.
3. ROAf will reorganize the management of its country programmes in order to optimize country
presence, in line with the current repositioning of the UN development system, especially
reform of the Resident Coordinator and UN Country Team systems, and will also engage more
systematically with the UN Sustainable Development Group’s regional coordination processes.

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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Europe LOVE & RESPECT

1. Ensure meaningful participation of the EU at the first UN-Habitat Assembly, and subsequently
engagement of the EU in governance of UN-Habitat.
2. Program and facilitate UN-Habitat’s productive participation at key EU urban fora:

 The European Week of Regions and Cities, October 2019, Brussels

 EU Cities Forum, December 2019, Porto

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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
NY Office LOVE & RESPECT

1. Development of UN-system wide coherence in its efforts to assist Member States to harness the
opportunities and meet the challenges of rapid urbanization (HCLP/CEB Paper)
2. Integration of key urban dimensions into the work of the UNSDG:
• Next Generation UNDAF Guidelines
• System-wide Strategic Document
• Strategic Results Groups, specifically elements to promote data (SRG1, TT3, urban indicators), policy
(SRG1, TT1, national urban policy), land and conflict prevention (SRG1, TT4), partnership (SRG4,
TT1-2, WUF, NUSs) and financing (SRG, TT1-3, IFSUD & urban window SDG Fund)
3. Continued advocacy in inter-governmental processes around the opportunities of accelerating
the achievements of the SDGs, delivering on Climate Action, implementing the Global
Compacts on Refugees and Migration through the implementation of the New Urban Agenda,
the localization of the SDGs and the empowerment of local governments. Major
intergovernmental events include HLPF (July), UN General Assembly (Sept).

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REGIONAL LEVEL PRIORITIES
Latin America LOVE & RESPECT

1. Next phase for the Regional Platform for implementation of the New Urban Agenda as an
accelerator of SDGs
2. Renovating the strategic perspective for Latin America and the Caribbean based on key
drivers:
 Urban Innovation
 Urban Integrated Solutions
 Smart Cities

3. Going to next level on institutional deployment in the region, taking into consideration recent
evolutions through:
 Consolidation of the business model through empowered and well equipped multi-country teams
 Aligning with UN Reform through more integration to UN wide work and appropriated co-location
 Making an effort to strengthen attention to the Caribbean

4. Promoting development of field teams as the most important asset of our organization by:
 Creating conditions for more stability of teams, regardless of the type of contract and within the possibilities of UN Common
system rules and regulations
 Advancing on gender parity
 Facilitating more interaction with other UN organizations teams for cross-fertilization and integration

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