Our New Urban Agenda Learning Series
UN-Habitat is pleased to invite you to join the New Urban Agenda Learning Series, a dynamic global capacity-building initiative designed to empower governments at all levels, stakeholders and UN-Habitat teams with innovative tools, knowledge, and peer-to-peer exchanges that are key to driving the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the New Urban Agenda.
How can we collectively collaborate, share solutions and learn from each other to help overcome pressing urban challenges and turn NUA commitments into tangible and long-term results?
UN-Habitat has designed this Learning Series to address the need for increased opportunities to share practices and learn about solutions developed to tackle urban challenges while building inclusive, resilient, and sustainable cities and communities.
What to expect
The Learning Series offers a dynamic blend of real-world experiences, expert insights, and hands-on tools to support the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the New Urban Agenda across regions. Each session brings together diverse voices, from government representatives to policy makers and urban experts.
Expect interactive discussions, reflections and debates, peer learning, and deep dive into practical case studies that will help further translate NUA commitments into effective actions on the ground.
Global webinar
How can the New Urban Agenda (NUA) help cities tackle today's urban challenges?
This webinar will create a space for reflection regarding the previous reporting cycle on the New Urban Agenda, set the tone for the NUA Learning Series, build global momentum and highlight the relevance of the NUA in today’s urban development landscape.
Through interactive sessions and expert panels, participants will have the opportunity to engage in collective reflection on progress, challenges, and strategic opportunities in NUA implementation, monitoring and reporting, while identifying practical ways to support the Learning Series and its objectives.
This webinar contributes to UN-Habitat’s broader commitment to strengthening governments at all levels and stakeholders’ ownership of the New Urban Agenda by positioning them as co-creators in its implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
How do we translate the New Urban Agenda from global commitments into tangible change on the ground?
You'll explore the Means of Implementation, the essential tools and approaches that move commitments into practice. Keynote panels will highlight how countries are integrating NUA principles into National Urban Policies, while also sharing common challenges and success stories.
Interactive sessions will enable participants to identify practical opportunities for advancing the NUA in their own contexts over the next four years. The event concludes with a call to action, inviting participants to undertake specific next steps that ensure learning is translated into measurable contributions to sustainable urban development.
Regional webinar
How can cities across the region secure the resources needed to make the New Urban Agenda a reality?
This webinar explores two key pillars of implementation: urban financing and its application in housing, informal settlements, and land management. Together, these shape inclusive, resilient, and sustainable cities.
Participants will learn how stronger regional financing approaches and integrated housing and land strategies can address informality, strengthen tenure security, and expand access to urban opportunities.
Through expert insights and regional case studies, the session will showcase innovative funding mechanisms, participatory upgrading, and multi-level coordination driving transformative urban action. Interactive discussions will promote peer learning and practical strategies to advance local resource mobilization and inclusive urban development.
What does it take to plan cities that are both inclusive and resilient?
This regional webinar explores how New Urban Agenda principles and the Right to the City can be translated into planning and design practices that respond to local realities and promote equity, participation, and well-being for all.
Participants will gain insight into how NUA goals connect to practical approaches for inclusive urban planning, emphasizing access to housing, land, public space, and basic services as fundamental rights. Regional panels will showcase how planning frameworks are being aligned with these principles to address informality, climate resilience, and spatial justice.
Interactive sessions will encourage participants to identify gaps, opportunities, and actionable steps while learning from peers across different contexts. The webinar will close with a collective call to action—inviting each participant to propose one short-term measure to advance inclusive, resilient, and rights-based urban planning in their own context.
How can inclusive participation and effective land management transform cities from the ground up?
This regional webinar explores how participatory governance and sound land use practices can drive more equitable, transparent, and sustainable urban development in line with the New Urban Agenda.
Speakers will share practical examples of how cities are building partnerships, strengthening land governance, and coordinating across institutions to manage growth and improve access to land and services. The discussion will highlight how inclusive participation not only improves planning outcomes but also strengthens accountability and trust between communities and authorities.
Regional panels will present diverse experiences in managing land, balancing competing interests, and ensuring that land use decisions reflect social, economic, and environmental priorities.
Interactive activities will engage participants in identifying gaps, opportunities, and short-term actions to enhance collaboration, transparency, and equitable land management in their own contexts.
How can cities across the region use indicators to capture progress and guide change?
This webinar highlights how NUA indicators can be applied not just for measurement, but as practical tools to inform policies, mobilize resources, and strengthen coordination across governance levels.
Expert presentations will demonstrate how indicator-based assessments support evidence-driven decision-making and stronger urban governance systems. Regional case examples will show how cities are adapting indicators to their own contexts.
Through an interactive workshop will give participants the opportunity to apply what they have learned, exploring concrete methods for selecting, adapting, and using indicators in their own local and national settings.
Global webinar
How can reporting become more than paperwork, and instead fuel stronger governance?
This global webinar explores how NUA reporting can move beyond compliance to become a driver of reflection, dialogue, and institutional learning.
The session will reframe reporting as a tool for change, showing how it can align planning, budgeting, and accountability processes. Keynote panels will discuss common challenges and opportunities in integrating reporting with urban governance systems, while case studies will demonstrate how cities are already leveraging this alignment to strengthen decision-making and accelerate NUA implementation.
In interactive discussions, participants will identify enabling conditions and priority actions needed to promote more integrated planning and reporting over the next four years.
What have we learned together, and where do we go from here?
This final global session brings the Learning Series to a close by synthesizing outcomes across regions and emphasizing the need for sustained collaboration to advance NUA implementation.
The session gathers the major lessons of the series through a global reflection panel, guiding participants in drawing out the most relevant tools, strategies, and insights that can be adapted to their own contexts.
The webinar looks at a forward-looking call to action, as participants define specific contributions, they will make to continue advancing the New Urban Agenda in their work and communities.