With the coordination of Fukuoka City, the Solid Waste Management Adviser’s Network Fukuoka (SWAN-Fukuoka), UN-Habitat Myanmar, and UN-Habitat Bangkok Liaison Office, participants from UN-Habitat Myanmar and selected INGO/NGO in Myanmar, visited Bangkok and Chonburi in Thailand from September 5th to September 9th, 2022. The program was designed to exchange knowledge and share understanding of the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in disease and virus prevention. However, most COVID-19 recommendations are impractical for informal settlements. Overcrowding, poor housing conditions, and a lack of access to water, sanitation, and waste management facilities make any form of physical or social distancing extremely difficult, and even ...

   Preventing the spread of COVID viruses through distribution of home care support packages to target households The majority of households in the informal settlements of Yangon rely on day-to-day work to meet their basic needs, and they do not have any savings or financial reserves to fall back on in times of crisis. This ...

Providing safe drinking water to those in need during the hot summer months As the summer heats up, communities in the informal settlements is having trouble getting enough drinking water. On average, the daytime temperatures reach more than 37 degrees Celsius on most days. Over 24,060 ten-liter water bottles have been distributed to 12,030 households ...

   Installing hand-washing stations in Yangon’s informal settlements and Rakhine benefits the most vulnerable communities Since the first wave of COVID-19 outbreak in Myanmar, UN-Habitat has been providing COVID-19 preventive measures to the communities in Rakhine and Yangon’s Informal Settlements, such as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), soaps, hand sanitizers, and COVID-19 awareness IEC materials. As ...

Caption: Handwashing stations set up by UN-Habitat in informal settlements (Photo: © UN-Habitat) 16 September 2021 Continuing our COVID-19 response, recovery and prevention efforts from 2020 to protect the most vulnerable people in peri urban areas and highly densely populated areas, UN-Habitat will be working in 8 townships of Yangon, reaching out to at least ...

21 February 2021 (Yangon) The United Nations Country Team in Myanmar expresses profound concern over the events yesterday at the Yadanarbon Shipyard in Mandalay in which security forces used lethal force against demonstrators, reportedly killing two and leaving dozens wounded, some of whom remain in serious condition.  The United Nations Country Team in Myanmar extends its ...

   30 October 2020. Nay Pyi Taw /Yangon – UN-Habitat in partnership with the Department of Urban Housing and Development (DUHD) of the Ministry of Construction (MoC) of Myanmar celebrated “World Cities Day”. The Event was successfully held on Friday 30 October 2020 on a zoom virtual platform. The United Nations General Assembly designated 31st ...