Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD), Government of Nepal in collaboration with UN-Habitat Nepal, Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC), Nepal National Urban Forum (NNUF) and various national urban stakeholders, organized a one-day event to commemorate the World Habitat Day (WHD) 2024 with the theme “Engaging Youth to Create a Better Urban Future” and convene the Nepal National Urban Forum with the theme “Financing Localization and Localizing Finance” on 7th October, 2024 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Nepal’s engagement in the 12th session of the World Urban Forum

Government of Nepal, Ministry of Urban development (MOUD) in collaboration with UN-Habitat Nepal and various stakeholders working in the field of urban and housing development organized a workshop to mark the World Habitat Day (WHD) 2023, on 2nd October with the theme ‘Resilient Urban Economies: Cities and Drivers of Growth & Recovery’.

On the 10th of August 2023, the government of Nepal, through the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation launched a new UN-Habitat led land governance project, “A safety net of innovative land tenure solutions for near-landless sharecroppers and for a greener rural Nepal”.

The aim of the event is to assess how stakeholders are considering, developing and rolling out adequate responses to challenges like developing national and sub-national spatial planning policies and instruments stemming from economic shifts, increasing natural disaster and climate change, among others.

World Habitat Day was observed on 17th October 2022, in a 1-day event jointly organized by Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD) and UN-Habitat through Nepal National Urban Forum (NNUF) and key stakeholders.