1. Governing Council
- composed of 58 member countries of the United Nations, with a
membership for four years
- to meet once every two years
- to approve work programme and budget
- The Committee of Permanent Representatives serves as the intersessional
subsidiary body of the Governing Council
- The committee’s two working groups
2. Financial framework
2.1Regular budget, approved by the GA, falls into two major categories,
Section 15: Human settlements, and Section 23: regular programme of
technical cooperation. Its allocations are approved by GA
2.2UN-HABITAT Foundation. Its allocations are approved by GC. It
consists of
- General Purpose Contributions, non-earmarked voluntary
contributions from Governments to support the work programme
- Special Purpose Contributions, earmarked contributions from
Governments and other donors for earmarked activities
2.3Technical Cooperation Contributions, earmarked resources from
Government and other donors for specific country-level activities. Its
allocations are approved by the ED.
UN-HABITAT Funding Distributions 2008-2009
Regular
budget
7%
General
contributions
18%
Technical
cooperation
47%
Special
contribtutions
28%
Regular Budget
固定预算
7%
General
contributions
非指定捐款
18%
Technical
cooperation
技术合作
47%
Special
contribtutions
指定捐款
28%
UN-HABITAT Budget 2001-2008
180.0
160.0
US$ millions
140.0
120.0
100.0
80.0
60.0
40.0
20.0
0.0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
180.0
US$ millions 百万美元
160.0
140.0
120.0
100.0
80.0
60.0
40.0
20.0
0.0
2001
2002
2003
3. Staff for 2008-2009
Professionals 170
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2008
General 103
Total 279
4. The Structure of un-habitat
Executive Director
Deputy Executive Director
Shelter &
sustainable
human
settlements
development
Monitoring
and
research
Regional and
technical
cooperation
Financing
human
settlements
Programme
support
5. Regional and other offices
5.1 UN-HABITAT Liaison Offices in
 New York
 Geneva
 Brussels
 Budapest
5.2 UN-HABITAT Regional Offices:
 Regional Office for Africa and the Arab States based in Nairobi, Kenya
 Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific based in Fukuoka, Japan,
 Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean based in the
Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro
 Warsaw UN-HABITAT Office for Central and Eastern Europe
5.3 Other UN-HABITAT Offices
 Information Office in Beijing, China
 Information Office in Chennai, India
 Information Office in Moscow, Russia
 Technical Office in Tehran, Iran
6. Top ten donors of UN-HABITAT 2007
1
2
Sources
UN regular
Budget
Norway
%
39
15
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Sweden
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Finland
France
USA
Others
11
9
7
7
6
2
1
1
2
7. Five substantive focus areas of UN-HABITAT
 Advocacy, monitoring and partnership
 Urban planning and governance
 Pro-poor land and housing
 Basic infrastructures and affordable services
 Human settlements financing
8. History of UN-HABITAT
1972
United |Nations Conference on the Human Environment,
Stockholm, established UNEP and the United Nations Habitat and
Human Settlements Foundation
1976
First UN Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver
1977
The United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) was
established by GA resolution 32/162. Its location in Nairobi. The
Commission on Human Settlements was designated as a governing
body.
1978
The first meeting of CHS, comprised of 58 member states. CHS
reported to GA through ECOSOC.
1978CHS met every year for 10 working days to approve the work
1989
programme and budget.
CHS decided in 1989 to meet on a biennial basis to provide more
inter-session time for the Secretariat to produce substantive
outputs.
1991CHS gradually reduces duration of its sessions to 5 working days.
1999
1996
Habitat II conference. Habitat Agenda was adopted at the
conference and approved by GA
2001
Istanbul + 5, Special Session of GA. UNCHS was elevated to a
Programme, CHS changed into a Governing Council, and the
Committee of Permanent Representatives in Nairobi as the formal
inter-sessional body of GC, by GA resolutions 56/205 and 56/206.
2003
New rules of procedure for GC was adopted, and a non-voting seat
was allocated to local authorities
9. The mandate of UN-HABITAT
UN-HABITAT is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially
and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing
adequate shelter for all. The main documents outlining the mandate of the
organization are:
The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements, known as the Habitat I
conference when the agency was created at the first major United Nations
conference on human settlements in Vancouver, Canada, 31 May - 11 June
1976.
The Habitat Agenda is the main political document that came out of the Habitat
II conference in Istanbul, Turkey 3 to 14 June 1996. Adopted by 171 countries,
at what was called the City Summit it contains over 100 commitments and 600
recommendations on human settlements issues.
The Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements of 1996 is a reaffirmation of
the Habitat Agenda agreed separately at the Habitat II conference. It notably
reaffirms the commitment of world governments to better standards of living in
larger freedom for all humankind.
Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, is
the United Nations General Assembly Resolution S25.2 of 9 June 2001
reaffirming that the Istanbul Declaration and the Habitat Agenda will remain the
basic framework for sustainable human settlements development in the years to
come.
Resolution A/56/206 of 1 January 2002, is the UN General Assembly resolution
in which governments strengthened the agency by transforming the United
Nations Commission on Human Settlements (Habitat) into a fully fledged
programme renamed as the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-HABITAT), under the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) which
coordinates the work of all the United Nations 14 specialised agencies.
World Urban Forum
WUF1 Nairobi 2002
WUF2 Barcelona 2004
WUF3 Vancouver 2006
WUF4 Nanjing 2008
WUF5 Rio de 2010
The first office of UNCHS was KICC in 1978.
The fundamental mandate is to help governments (central and local) in
designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating housing and urban policies,
and to so from a normative perspective.
The specificity of UN-HABITAT is to combine global norms, messages and
principles with regional adaptation, national policies and local commitments,
and to focus on sustainable and equitable development.
We are driven by poverty eradication, not only by environmental protection.
Our comparative advantage is, not our size (small), or our expertise
(insufficient). It is our blue flag, which means objectivity, neutrality and
accountability.