Limited access of the population to affordable, healthy and energy-efficient housing and inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities is framed by the insufficient capacity of national governments to develop and implement evidence-based housing and urban development policies. The project aim is to strengthen national capacities for the development of evidence-based policies for sustainable housing and urban development in four selected countries: Albania, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. The project will assist national governments in the selected beneficiary countries by elaborating a policy paper and guidelines for the collection and analysis of the national data on housing and urban development, providing advice on the development of evidence-based policies, promoting intersectoral cooperation and building capacity on sustainable housing through the provision of advisory services, training materials, organization of workshops and online trainings. The project will support achieving Sustainable Development Goal 11 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” The project will build on the current efforts of the UNECE and UN-Habitat to establish evidence based policies through the country profiles on housing and land management, the organization of the monitoring of the implementation of the Strategy for Sustainable Housing and Land Management in the UNECE region for the period of 2014-2020 (ECE/HBP/2013/3), the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing, and the UN-Habitat Global Housing Strategy. The national stakeholders of the project are governments, including representatives of housing and urban development (key stakeholders), energy, finance, and environmental authorities in the beneficiary countries. Local authorities, private sector, academia and civil society, will be also involved in the project. The main organizations involved in project implementation are UNECE (lead agency) and UN-Habitat (an implementing partner).