UN-Habitat relies almost entirely on voluntary contributions from governments, local authorities, multi-donor trust funds, intergovernmental institutions and the private sector.

Around 70% of the agency’s funds is used for earmarked country programmes on sustainable urbanization while 30% is used for core normative work including developing evidence-based normative knowledge, tools, capacity building and policy development to support the design, plan and manage sustainable towns and cities.

Our work focuses on seven main levers of sustainable urbanization namely urban land, legislation and governance, planning and design, economy, basic services, housing and slum upgrading, risk reduction and rehabilitation as well as research and capacity building.