Yangon City Context Report
Yangon City Context Report
Summary
The Yangon City Context Report is part of a series of reports provided for each city of the Global Future Cities Programme, serving as a tool to frame the proposed Programme interventions within the characteristics and conditions of each city. The City Context Report provides a general analysis of the spatial, financial, and legal conditions in the city, followed by potential impact of the interventions, and a set of evidence-based recommendations for successful implementation and maximised benefits. In Yangon, the project is called Revitalizing Streetscapes: unlocking the potential of Yangon City's assetsCountry
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
City
Yangon
Partner
UN-Habitat
Themes
Strategy & Planning
Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1 - End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 8 - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17 - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development