This fund promotes the poverty reduction aims of Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda for better, more sustainable and equitable towns and cities throughout the developing world. It provides grants ranging from USD 5,000 to USD 25,000 for new ideas and solutions for job creation, good governance, adequate shelter and secure tenure.Read more.

Some of the world’s leading popular artists and musicians from Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, Greenland, Sudan, Germany and South Africa work with UN-HABITAT to raise awareness of urban issues.  Through their performances, they tell passionate stories and highlight issues ranging women’s rights to urban slum conditions.Read more

In 2009, UN-HABITAT launched its new children’s series of books on water and sanitation. Enjoy the stories!