{"id":5657,"date":"2026-01-29T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/29\/un-habitat-urbanization-afghanistan-skills-investment-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:30:20","slug":"un-habitat-urbanization-afghanistan-skills-investment-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/29\/un-habitat-urbanization-afghanistan-skills-investment-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-Habitat Urges Skills Investment Amid Rising Urbanization in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Afghanistan has warned that the increasing migration of residents from rural areas to cities, without targeted investment in skills, could create serious economic and social challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This UN agency announced in a message on Thursday, 9th Dalw, that the urban economy, in order to meet labor market demands, requires diverse skills and various specializations to provide decent work opportunities for citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The message emphasized that with the intensifying trend of urbanization, providing technical and vocational education can help people live with dignity in urban environments and participate in economic activities.<\/p>\n<p>UN-Habitat also stated that urbanization in Afghanistan is on the rise and, based on the agency&#8217;s estimates, by the year 2026, one in every two residents of the country will live in cities; a development that highlights the urgent need for urban planning and job creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-Habitat warns that rising urbanization in Afghanistan requires targeted skills investment to address economic and social challenges by 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}