The ceremony of the first Monday of October as “World Habitat Day” was held with the cooperation of the National Human Settlements Committee in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (MRUD), Urban Regeneration Corporation of Iran (URCI), UN-Habitat office in Tehran and Tehran Municipality. In addition to the representatives of the UN-Habitat office in ...

The new Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) was signed during the 11th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF11) in Katowice, Poland, 26-30 June 2022. A delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran headed by the Minister of Roads and ...

The experience and findings of the National Urban Policy Programme (NUPP) in I.R. Iran were presented and discussed during the 11th World Urban Forum (WUF11) networking event on 28 June 2022. The pilot phase of the National Urban Policy Programme (NUPP): “Developing NUP and Smart City Strategies in Iran” started in 2017. In the first step, the “Diagnosis ...

The office was officially inaugurated in 2009; UN-Habitat Tehran office and the Government of I.R. Iran entered into a protocol amendment agreement in July 2014 to expand the official mandate from disaster mitigation to a fully-fledged UN-Habitat office and continue to provide in-kind contributions to UN-Habitat for another 5 years until July 2019. Based on ...