Helping Access Basic Infrastructure Technical Assistance and Training (HABITAT)

The goal of HABITAT is to provide access to short- and long-term technical services, training, and capacity-building related to improving urban and local governance in the following five functional areas:
1. Improved urban and local government public service delivery with an emphasis on transportation, water and sanitation;
2. Improved autonomy, transparency, responsiveness and accountability of urban and local governments;
3. Enhanced ability of urban and local governments to adapt to climate change, improve environmental management practices and pollution control systems;
4. Improved urban and local government disaster preparedness, response and recovery; and
5. Improved urban and local government finance, creditworthiness and borrowing.