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Safer Cities: City Changer Toolkit  
View Details 'I'm a City Changer' is the awareness-raising initiative of World Urban Campaign. It is about: • Positive urban development • Solutions to urban challenges • Giving voice to cities and people to change our urban future. The Global Network...
Year: 2014, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
City Resilience Profiling Programme: 2014 Brochure  
View Details As the main UN Agency responsible for ensuring the sustainable development of cities, towns, and other human settlements, UN-Habitat is strategically placed to coordinate the humanitarian and development efforts of multiple actors and policy makers a...
Year: 2014, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Women in Post-Conflict Settlement Planning  
View Details Ten principles can be followed to produce the sort of equal post-conflict settlement planning that can help to build communities that have a better basis of becoming peaceful and sustainable. These are: 1. Gender factors should be integrated in po...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter projects 2011/2012  
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This book contains summaries of shelter projects that have been implemented in response to conflicts, complex emergencies, and natural disasters from different parts of the world. The projects highlight issues such as rental support, settlement,...

Year: 2013, Number of pages: 150, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter Projects 2010  
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By the end of 2010, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2010, over 400 natural disasters were reported killing over 300,000 people and affecting more than 300 million ...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 136, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT in the Somali Region Newsletter: Updates on the latest urban interventions - 13th issue  
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In this issue:

  • Mogadishu schools now operational

Year: 2012, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Focus on Mozambique  
View Details The aim of this publication is to present UN-Habitat's activities in Mozambique for reducing the vulnerability of local population living in disaster-prone areas which have been implemented since 2002. Particular attention is given to innovative arch...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
New Hospital Design  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
New School Design  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
RetroMaintenance of Hospitals  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
RetroMaintenance of schools  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Cities Resilience Profiling Programme Brochure  
View Details Cities are safer places to live and work as urban managers are able to implement strategic development planning and programmes that target speci!c indicators of resilience to multi-hazard catastrophic events.
Year: 2012, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Turning Around the Tsunami  
View Details N-HABITAT Working in Partnership with Sri Lanka Description/Abstract: After the tsunami hit Sri Lanka in December 2004, UN-Habitat has taken a lead role in the shelter recovery and rehabilitation efforts in partnership with the Government of Sri Lank...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Recuperando la primera centralidad de la ciudad  
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el segundo Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mejores Practicas Urbanas se centro en el analisis y en la discusion de la relacion entre la ciudad en expanison y la ciudad construida. De esta actividad resultaron valiosos aprotes en la construccion del ...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 206, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land and Property: UN-HABITAT in Disaster and Conflict Contexts  
View Details This document provides an overview of the land issues that arise after natural disasters and conflicts take place. It also summarises the mechanisms available to mainstream land issues in humanitarian response efforts.
Other brochures in human ...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Settlement Planning: UN-HABITAT in disaster and conflict contexts  
View Details After a disaster, cities face a massive influx of displaced people and relief actors; breakdown of services; weakened institutions; and destruction of infrastructure and buildings.
This brochure provides an overview of the importance of post-cr...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter and Housing: UN-HABITAT In disaster and conflict contexts  
View Details Housing reconstruction enables people to rebuild their lives and their communities. Following a disaster, houses are the most prolific area of destruction. This brochure provides an overview of the issues surrounding reconstruction and the approaches...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Humanitarian Crisis: UN-HABITAT In disaster and conflict contexts  
View Details With global urbanisation more crises are occurring in cities. There is an increasing recognition that preventing and responding to urban crises is fundamentally different from rural contexts.
This brochure introduces the issues that ought to be...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Introductory Handbook on Policing Urban Space  
View Details The overall objective of this Handbook is to outline the new, innovative techniques and to explain how they have been applied to address crime problems in low- and middle-income countries. The various programmes, policies and approaches described her...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Safer Cities: A safer and just city for all  
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The challenges facing cities with regards to the impacts of growing violence and insecurity are numerous and daunting. The need to address crime prevention in cities is apparent.

This brochure highlights the Safer Cities approach run by UN-...

Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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