Addressing Gender Gaps in Housing Interventions

With more than half of the world’s population living in cities, ongoing urbanization presents both significant opportunities and complex challenges that will shape the global environment.

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A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience

Cities worldwide are facing resilience challenges as climate risks interact with urbanization, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, poverty, and rising socioeconomic in

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More Growth, Less Garbage

More growth, less garbage presents an updated picture of how waste generation can grow if the world continues along the current trajectory and how to consider changing that pat

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Municipal Finance

City local governments have been facing multiple challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic to se

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Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience: Existing Evidence

This report re

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Building on nature: Area-based conservation as a key tool for delivering SDGs

This pioneering, action-oriented guidance demonstrates how the designation and effective manag

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Pancakes to Pyramids: City Form to Promote Sustainable Growth

Towns and cities function as dynamic systems where interactions between people and firms shape urban form, economic performance, and growth patterns.

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Bridging the Gap in Solid Waste Management: Governance Requirements for Results

The primary responsibility for providing on-the-ground services and for ensuring the controlled management of solid waste, on the other hand, lies

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Cities Can: Accelerating Progress Toward the SDGs Through City-led Initiatives

In this report, Devex and City Cancer Challenge explore the challenges and best practices invo

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Kyoto A Creative City : Leveraging Creativity for City Competitiveness and Inclusive Urban Transformation

This report builds on the findings from the Technical Deep Dive (TDD) ‘Creative Cities: Case o

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Cities, Culture, Creativity : Leveraging Culture and Creativity for Sustainable Urban Development and Inclusive Growth

Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial bene

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Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment

Biodiversity underpins urban ecosystem functions that are essential for human health and well-being.

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Market Study for the Philippines: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

Mismanaged plastic waste has growing economic and environmental consequences.

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Market Study for Malaysia: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

Plastics are an integral and important part of the global and Malaysian economy. Since the 1950’s, the use of plastic products globally has expanded twenty-fold, reac

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Project Summaries part 2

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Project Summaries part 1

This report compiles a set of real-world PPP case studies illustrating how cities have structured and implemented partnerships with the private sector to deliver urban infrastructure and services.

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Women, Business and the Law 2021

Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the la

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Market Study for Thailand: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

Plastics are an integral and important  part of the global and Thai economies.

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Inclusive Resilience : Inclusion Matters for Resilience in South Asia

South Asia is one of the region’s most vulnerable to the impacts of natural hazards, particula

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