Partnership Of Undp And Un-Habitat Syria In Capacity Development In Municipal Planning

The crisis has reduced the urban planning capacity of local municipalities while greatly increasing the demands on municipalities to provide planning and technical support to identify, manage, and respond to recovery, returns, and reconstruction needs.  Municipalities together with the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment (MOLAE), will be required to create strategic municipal plans that are interactive, inclusive, and are able to support recovery, returns, and reconstruction.

Based on UN Habitat’s People’s Process for Recovery and Reconstruction, and within the framework of Law 107, UN Habitat and MOLAE have developed a municipal and neighbourhood planning process that relies on the establishment of a Municipal Service Center to rapidly restore municipal planning capacity to support recovery, returns, and reconstruction in the most conflict-affected municipalities. A central component of the Municipal Service Centre is an urban management information system (MIS).