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The State of Urban Youth 2012/2013 |
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The increasing prominence of the youth bulge in most urban areas presents a unique opportunity, as they represent the most dynamic human resource available. Their numbers today are larger than at any point in human history. Yet this group suffers the...
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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Gender and Prosperity of Cities |
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There are two main standpoints that propagate the benefits of urbanisation. One is that cities are associated with opportunities for wealth generation. Concomitant to this is the idea that urban women supposedly enjoy greater social, economic, politi...
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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Cities of Youth |
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Youth are key to the prosperity of cities in the developing world, yet many barriers prevent them from fulfilling this role - most notably access to education, vocational training, and employment. It is crucial that governments and institutions assis...
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 80, Type of publication: Book
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Housing and Slum Upgrading |
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Access to adequate housing is a fundamental human right and is enshrined in numerous international agreements and conventions. Yet millions of women and men continue to live in towns and cities without security of tenure and with inadequate housing a...
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book
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A Compendium of Case Studies on Gender Mainstreaming Initiatives in UN-Habitat |
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Whilst we recognize that much work has been done in the mainstreaming of gender equality in human settlement, UN-Habitat acknowledges that much more is required. This compendium of case studies is designed to bring into one document some of the gende...
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book
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UN-Habitat One Stop Youth Center Model |
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The One Stop Youth Centre is a partnership between UN-Habitat and local governments. Its model recognizes that youth engagement and empowerment through training and capacity development is pertinent to addressing the challenges faced by young peop...
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Year: 2013,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Gender Equality Action Plan |
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This report is a documented progress on the implementation of the GEAP
covering period from April 2010 to August 2012.
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 58, Type of publication: Book
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World Urban Youth Assembly 4 |
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Participation of Youth representatives from developing
Countries at the UN-Habitat World Urban Youth Assembly and
World Urban Forum 6
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 74, Type of publication: Book
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Gender and Urban Planning |
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If policies to improve and enhance places are to address gender inequality, they must also take into account the issues and needs of both women and men. The policy implications are clear. Gender-sensitive urban planning starts with the needs of peopl...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 74, Type of publication: Book
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Young People |
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Although the proportion of young people in cities is growing rapidly, few studies take into account the diversity of and views on their urban experiences. This is an examination of the lives, capacities, and agencies of urban youth in the developing ...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 104, Type of publication: Book
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Youth 21: Building an Architecture for Youth Engagement in the UN Sytem |
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The Youth 21: Building an Architecture for Youth Engagement in the UN System report explores how youth have been historically engaged within the UN system. The report highlights both the challenges and the successes of youth’s engagement, and buildin...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Youth Empowerment for Urban Development |
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The approach of UN-Habitat’s Youth Empowerment Programme is to explore and demonstrate how youth-led initiatives can make a significant and unique contribution to accelerating the drive towards sustainable urbanization and achievement of the Millenni...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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ICT, Urban Governance and Youth |
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The ICT, Urban Governance and Youth is the fourth report in the Global Youth-Led Development series. The report aims to develop a conceptual framework to accommodate rapidly changing dynamics in three areas of urban development: the demographics of t...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Urban Youth and Sport for Development |
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The potential of sport as a tool for development is being harnessed by a range of organizations across the world. The United Nations has argued that “well-designed sport-based initiatives are practical and cost-effective tools to achieve objectives i...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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State of the Field in Youth-Led Development |
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Informed by earlier findings from a web-based survey of youth-led development initiatives, this report analyzes data derived from UN-Habitat Urban Youth Fund projects. It focuses only on registered youth-led groups, drawing on application and monitor...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Experiences and Lessons from the Urban Youth Fund Grantees in Africa and Asia |
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Informed by in-depth case studies of 13 youth fund funded projects, it analyzes experiences and lessons-learned from these projects. In contrast to the first two reports, it is having a more in-depth focus on a few selected projects. The reader is en...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Lessons and Experiences from the Urban Youth Fund |
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The Urban Youth Fund – Lessons and experiences is the fifth report in the Global Youth-Led Development series. Informed by in-depth case stories of youth fund funded projects, it analyzes experiences and lessons-learned from these projects. In contra...
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Year: 2012,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Les Formules de Tenure Partagee pour les Femmes |
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Cette publication fournit un tour d’horizon mondial des droits sur les biens matrimoniaux et de co-propriété, tant dans la législation qu’en pratique, et cherche à cerner des formes de tenure plus innovantes et susceptibles de bénéicier aux femmes.
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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Youth Development in MENA Cities |
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Using data collected from a desk study and the State of the One Stops evaluation report (UN-Habitat, 2009), this publication will argue that the demographic “youth bulge” which is primarily happening in the developing world and increasingly in cities...
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Year: 2011,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Designing and Evaluating Land Tools with a Gender Perspective |
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It cannot be assumed that women and men benefit in the same way from initiatives in the land sector. Depending on the political, economic and cultural context, it is often women, and particularly poor women, who face significant barriers in obtaining...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book
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Gender and Economic Development |
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This report surveys research and policy in the field of gender and economic development, with particular emphasis on economic literature and practice. The begins with a history of gender and economic development thought, and includes a statistical ov...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 166, Type of publication: Book
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Youth and Prosperity of Cities: Summary report |
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The African Urban Youth Assembly held in Abuja, Nigeria in July 2011, provided youth, youth groups, and development practitioners engaged in social, political and economic dimensions of youth work and urban development the oppotunity to discuss and e...
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Year: 2011,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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QUESTIONS TRANSVERSALES Outil d’évaluation pour la prévention du crime |
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Le présent Outil d’évaluation pour la prévention du crime est un instrument qui a
été mis au point conjointement par l’Office des Nations Unies contre la drogue et le
crime (UNODC) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements
humains ...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 72, Type of publication: Book
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State of the Urban Youth 2010/2011: Leveling the Playing Field |
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This report is based on data from UN-HABITAT’s Global Urban Indicator Database, as well as surveys of, and focus group discussions with, selected representative groups of young people in five major cities located in four developing regions: Rio de Ja...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 86, Type of publication: Book
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Detailed Programme of the World Urban Youth Assembly March 2010 |
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The World Urban Youth Assembly will be launched on March 19, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, three days prior to the beginning of the Fifth session of the World Urban Forum. This format provides youth with the opportunity to discuss and debate issues...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Messenger of Truth Programme Brochure |
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As a response to the marginalization of urban young people, UN-HABITAT launched the Messengers of Truth Programme in 2004 in Barcelona. The Programme aims to highlight how the arts can help address urban youth empowerment and employment; urban peac...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Ideas To Action |
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This report represents the findings of two parallel surveys: a survey on Youth and Harmonious Urbanization and one on Youth-Led Development.
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
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Working with Parliamentarians |
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Parliamentarians are very important and vibrant partners of UN-HABITAT in promoting sustainable housing and urban development. They are the representatives of the people and pressure group on the government to set the priorities of national agenda ...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book
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Les critères d’évaluation du genre pour les outils fonciers à grande échelle |
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Comment décider si un outil foncier correspond bien aux besoins des femmes comme à ceux des hommes? En dépit des avancées dans le domaine des droits des femmes, ceux qui concernent la terre et la sécurité du régime foncier ne sont pas également répar...
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Year: 2010,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Youth entrepreneurship & empowerment |
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The year 2007 has gone down in history as the year, when for the first time half of humanity was living in towns and cities. In just a generation to come, this figure will rise to two-thirds of all human beings as the world witnesses the fastest rate...
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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World Urban Forum 4 Brochure |
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The Fourth Session of the World Urban Forum held in Nanjing, China from 3-6 November 2008 drew nearly 8,000 participants from 146 countries. The Forum, held every two years, is now established as the world’s premier conference on cities.
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Year: 2009,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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Urbanization for Human Development: Politics in a World of Cities |
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El mundo es desde 2008 mayormente urbano, estimandose que las ciudades adquieran ademas cada vez mayor protagonismo. En terminos globales, el proceso de urbanizacion ha venido de la mano de una ampliacion del desarrollo humano. Al igual que en los pa...
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Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 505, Type of publication: Book
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