Housing for Post-Crisis Return: Enabling Durable Solutions

Housing is not just shelter—it’s the foundation of recovery for communities affected by crises, displacement, and conflict. Secure, adequate housing supports stability, resilience, and the ability to rebuild lives and livelihoods.

This session will showcase practical approaches that place housing at the centre of crisis recovery and reconstruction, focusing on the needs of displaced persons and returnees. It will highlight strategies for safe, inclusive, and durable solutions that enable communities to return, rebuild, and thrive after disruption.

Featured Practices:

• Integrated Housing and Settlement Upgrading in Afghanistan’s Areas of Return; Afghanistan – UN-Habitat
• Social Housing in Partnership with Japanese Private Entities and NGOs; Iraq – UN-Habitat Iraq
• Azerbaijan’s Great Return Programme: Localizing Contemporary City Planning Approaches; Azerbaijan – State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Speakers

• Stephanie Loose, Country Programme Manager/Head of Agency, UN-Habitat Afghanistan  
• Ramil Jahangirov, Head of the Department on Project Management in the Liberated Areas, State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Ryosuke Teraoka, Head of Kurdistan Region of Iraq Office/Project Manager of the Japan Village Project, UN-Habitat Iraq