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Bhopal becomes the first Indian city to prepare a Voluntary Local Review
08 May 2023: The city of Bhopal in India joined the growing global movement on the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals...
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UN-Habitat India
- Apr 7
- 8 min
India's Rally for Garbage Free Cities on International Zero Waste Day
March 29, 2023: In line with the theme for International Day of Zero Waste 2023 - ‘Achieving Sustainable and Environmentally Sound...
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UN-Habitat India
- Apr 6
- 2 min
Side Event on Building Accessible and Inclusive Cities and Communities in Asia and the Pacific
Date & Venue: 28 March 2023, 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm GMT+7 | UNCC, Bangkok Organizers: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...
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UN-Habitat India
- Apr 5
- 5 min
Five Steps Towards Building Barrier - Free Schools
There are two drivers behind India’s inevitable growth into an economic powerhouse – an expanding population of consumers and a sizeable...
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UN-Habitat India
- Mar 30
- 3 min
Help cities adopt a robust action plan to tackle waste
Published in Hindustan Times, Opinion, March 30, 2023: We need an urgent paradigm shift in current practices of linear waste management...
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UN-Habitat India
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Need of Tech-centric Innovation in the Plastic Waste Management sector
Monday, February 6, 2023: Ms. Swati Singh Sambyal, Waste Management Specialist, UN-Habitat India gave a special address at the workshop...
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UN-Habitat India
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Developing schools without barriers
Developing inclusive and accessible schools will help challenge perceptions about children with disabilities and actualise the...
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UN-Habitat India
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
Building climate resilience collectively
In an article for The Hindu, UN-Habitat India Senior Urban Planner Mansi Sachdev & Urban Planner Pushkal Shivam suggest that a...
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UN-Habitat India
- Sep 20, 2022
- 3 min
2022 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award winners announced
Nairobi, 16 September 2022: The winners of this year’s UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award, one of the most prestigious prizes presented to...
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UN-Habitat India
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
Festival of Places 2022 Place Stories 2.0
Indian cities and towns have intriguing multi layered shared social spaces that are experienced in unique ways by each individual....
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UN-Habitat India
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
Workshop on Action Plan for Solid Waste Management concluded in Thiruvananthapuram
February 24, 2022: Under the project, “Waste Wise Cities: Tackling Plastic Waste in the Environment” funded by the Alliance to End...
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UN-Habitat India
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Sustainable Cities for Climate Resilience
Urban October presents an opportune moment to focus on the post-pandemic future of our cities and highlight the necessity for...
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UN-Habitat India
- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
Workshop on Action Plan for Solid Waste Management concluded in Mangaluru
On 29th June 2021: Under the project, “Waste Wise Cities: Tackling Plastic Waste in the Environment” funded by the Alliance to End...
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UN-Habitat India
- Jul 6, 2021
- 2 min
Participatory Planning in Practice
Under the Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot (SCIAP) The Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) necessitate people centered...
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UN-Habitat India
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
UN-Habitat and UK hold dialogue on changing weather trends in India
Hyderabad, India, June 2021 - To mark World Environment Day, the British Deputy High Commission in Hyderabad and UN-Habitat India...
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UN-Habitat India
- Jun 9, 2021
- 5 min
Re-imagining Cities towards Zero Waste - A roadmap to resource recovery
COVID-19 has only burdened the health infrastructure of our cities but the pandemic has further amplified the challenges of waste...
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UN-Habitat India
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
UN-Habitat concluded the Inception Workshop with Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation
17 March 2021, New Delhi: Under the Waste Wise Cities (WWC) programme, UN-Habitat has developed the Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT), based...
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UN-Habitat India
- Feb 4, 2021