BUILDING PLACES THAT WE ALL
CALL HOMEFirst published 2023 by United Nations HumanSettlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
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List of Photos and Credits
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Page 1: Learning urban culture by playing (credit: Altangadas Gombo/UN-Habitat Mongolia)
Page 2 (Up) Urban Mobility: An overview of Shanghai, China (credit: Julius Mwelu/UN-Habitat)
Page 3 (Up-Left): Maimumah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat and UnderSecretary-General of the United Nations
Page 4 (Up-Right): Mainstreaming Leave No One Behind: Simulation exercises and experiencesharing for pilot training program with IIT Kharagpur (credit: UN-Habitat India)
Page 4 (Down-Right): Illustration of Hanoi Creative City (credit: Tu Na/UN-Habitat Viet Nam)
Page 5 (Up-Right): 2019-01-03_workshop (credit: UN-Habitat Philippines)
Page 5 (Down-Right): Engaging with communities and women in construction (credit: UNHabitat Pakistan)Page 6 (Down-Right): Promoting Urban Agriculture through capacitating and engaging with
communities and women (credit: UN-Habitat Nepal)
Page 8 (Up-Left): Sustainable Human Settlements in Urban areas to support Reintegration inAfghanistan (credit: UN-Habitat Afghanistan)Page 8 (Up-Right): Households holds materials received shelter project Afghanistan (credit: UNHabitat Afghanistan)Page 8 (Down-Left): 4/7 community-based small-scale water supply system in Attapeu province,
southern Lao PDR (credit: UN-Habitat Lao PDR)
Page 8 (Down-Right): Resident of newly constructed houses drive tractor to his farm (credit: UNHabitat Lao PDR)
Page 9 (Up-Left): Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) (credit: UN-Habitat Myanmar)
Page 9 (Up-Middle): Project for the urgent improvement of solid waste management in Yangon
City (credit: UN-Habitat Myanmar)
Page 9 (Up-Right): Handwashing station with soap to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in
informal settlements (credit: UN-Habitat Myanmar)
Page 9 (Down-Left): PacificPage 9 (Down-Right): Covid and Climate Resilience Fiji
Page 10 (Up-Left): Nowshera Pakistan: Recurring floods damage the lives of individuals, destroy
infrastructure and render much drinking water infrastructure unusable in affected areas (credit:UN-Habitat Pakistan)Page 10 (Up-Right): Adapting and building resilience to climate change through sustainableurban solutions in collaboration with Adaptation Fund (credit: UN-Habitat Pakistan)Page 10 (Down-Left): Marawi (credit: UN-Habitat Philippines)
Page 10 (Down-Right): Healthy Oceans and Clean Cities Initiatives (HOCCI) (credit: UN-HabitatPhilippines)
Page 11 (Up-Left): Indian Housing Project (credit: UN-Habitat Sri Lanka)
Page 11 (Up-Right): Empowering genders through skills training in carpentry and masonry(credit: UN-Habitat Sri Lanka)
Page 11 (Down-Left): UN-Habitat booth at Vietnam National Urban Forum (credit: UN-Habitat
Vietnam)Page 11 (Down-Right): Creative Gate – Public space and Art installation at Hanoi Design
Festival (credit: UN-Habitat Vietnam
Page 12 (Up): Maimumah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat at COP27
Page 13 (Bottom): EU Ambassador visits local products heritage tourism (credit: UN-HabitatNepal)•••••

Page 14 (Up-Left): Ingrid Macabare, Solid Waste Management Head of the Environment andNatural Resources Office in Ormoc City (credit: UN-Habitat Philippines)
Page 14 (Down-Left): Rebuilding public amenities after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, UNHabitat sought to preserve the intangible heritage and transfer knowledge to the younger
generation (credit: UN-Habitat Nepal)
Page 15 (Up): Surveying the socioeconomic situation and housing conditions in Yangon's
informal settlements
Page 15 (Down-Right): Jonh Chanthy, resident of Sihanoukville, Cambodia (credit: UN-HabitatCambodia)
Page 16 (Up): ACROS Fukuoka (credit: ACROS Fukuoka)