Approaching the conference on Habitat III in 2016, each UN country member has to prepare a national report reporting their achievement of the Habitat Agenda, which will then be used as inputs for formulating the next agenda of Habitat III. This national report consists of implementation of the Habitat Agenda, issues and challenges faced by each member country, and thoughts that contribute towards the future agenda. UN Habitat provided the guideline and format for the writing of the national reports that comprise six topics, thirty issues and twelve indicators. The sixth topics are (1) Urban Demographic; (2) Land and Urban Planning, (3) Environment and Urbanization; (4) Urban Governance and Legislation; (5) Urban Economy, and (6) Housing and Basic Services.
This national report would not reflect the commitment from the head of the Nation, as was presented as the documents from Habitat Agenda. This new format is seen as the elaboration and the reformulation of the commitment of Habitat Agenda, specifically on adequate shelter for all and sustainable human settlement. The shift from the field of housing and settlements towards sustainable urbanization is in line with the transformation at the world scale. The world has become more urbanized, and generates its own problems and challenges for the future existence of the human settlements.
UN Habitat views that the concentration of human settlements for the next two decades is sustainable urbanization.
