Naw Thin Thin Shwe, Tun Aung Pru, Vishnu Prasad 1st April 2o2o Daw Yin Thein runs her own store at the busy Ma Gyi Myaing Market in Sittwe, Rakhine State. For households and small business owners like her in Sittwe township, the battle against Covid-19 comes at a time of acute water shortage. While water ...

    Yangon, 11 March 2020 – A handover ceremony for a water treatment plant as an in-situ slum upgrading project took place on 10th March in Dala township, Yangon. In Yangon, informal settlements have developed in all parts of the city; most of the growth however is spatially concentrated in and around the ‘resettlement areas’ ...

    Nay Pyi Taw, 16 December 2019 – UN-Habitat in partnership with the Department of Urban Housing and Development (DUHD) of the Ministry of Construction (MoC) of Myanmar hosted “The National Urban Policy Forum of Myanmar – Final Consultation”. The Forum was successfully held on 16th December 2019 at the Myanmar International Convention Center II (MICC-II) ...

   Nay Pyi Taw, 23 October 2019 – “The Consultation Workshop on Smart City Strategy for National Urban Policy (NUP) in Myanmar” was jointly organized by UN-Habitat in partnership with the Department of Urban Housing and Development (DUHD) of the Ministry of Construction (MoC). The workshop was held on 23rd October 2019 at Mingalar Thiri Hotel in ...

   Nay Pyi Taw, 22 October 2019 – UN-Habitat in partnership with the Department of Urban Housing and Development (DUHD) of the Ministry of Construction (MoC) of Myanmar jointly hosted “The Consultation Workshop on National Urban Policy (NUP) for Myanmar”. The workshop was successfully held on 22nd October 2019 at Mingalar Thiri Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw. ...

   A large fire outbreak took place in the Htein Bin Dumpsite in Hline Thar Yar Township in April 2018. The fire raged for nearly 3 weeks affecting many people in the vicinity. It was brought under control and finally extinguished only through the strenuous and combined efforts of the government, YCDC and the fire ...

   5th ~ 6th August 2019 – UN-Habitat in partnership with the Department of Urban Housing Development, Ministry of Construction supported the Yangon Region Government to organize a two-day workshop titled “Slums and Informal Settlements in Yangon: The Way Forward” on 5th and 6th of August at the Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon. The Chief ...

President U Win Myint announced the two new policies – the National Environmental Policy and the Myanmar Climate Change Policy – at an event marking World Environment Day in the capital. More than 400 attended the announcement, including senior government officials from Union ministries, states and regions and representatives from civil society, academic institutions, businesses ...

  With the coordination of the International Cooperation Study Program by Fukuoka Prefecture Government and the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and Pacific ROAP, ten students from different universities in Fukuoka made a two-day study visit to UN-Habitat, Myanmar and its project sites from 25 to 26 Feb 2019. On the first day, the visiting ...