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Crime in Nairobi: Results of a City wide Victim Survey; Safer Cities Series 2  
View Details This publication is part of the Safer Nairobi project, funded by UNDP, which is working towards a city-wide crime prevention strategy. This survey is a diagnosis on both crime itself and insecurity surrounding crime in Nairobi. A fundamental requirem...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 131, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Water Education in African Cities - Report of an Expert Group Meeting, Johannesburg South Africa, 30 April - 2 May, 2001  
View Details This publication highlights the importance of introducing education in schools and communities of how to effectively manage the use of water in African cities. This is the work of the "The Expert-group Meeting , held in Johannesburg, South Afric...
Year: 2001, Number of pages: 243, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Youth delinquency and the criminal justice system in Dar es salaam, Tanzania  
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Violent crime and delinquency threaten the quality of life of urban dwellers in Dar es Salaam. During the 1990’s the annual crime increase in Dar es Salaam was 8,1%. Not only does this
divert scarce resources from urban social development, bu...

Year: 2000, Number of pages: 89, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Women’s Rights to Land, Housing and Property in Post conflict situations and During Reconstruction  
View Details This report was prepared as an output of Habitat 1998/99 Work Programme, the objectives of which include the formulation of shelter policies focusing on the needs of vulnerable groups and assisting government and partners in civil society in adopting...
Year: 1999, Number of pages: 90, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Crowding and Health In Low-income Settlements  
View Details The publication presents the findings of a detailed field study carried out by UNCHS (Habitat) in Guinea Bissau (1993-1995) to establish precise epidemiological relationship between overcrowding and community health. It is targeted at the sector prof...
Year: 1998, Number of pages: 95, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Women Constructing their lives: Evaluative Case Studies on Women in the Construction Sector  
View Details Using case studies from Ghana, India, Jamaica and Mexico, the study describes the experience of women in acquiring construction skills and their attempts, with varying degrees of success, to gain employment and acceptance in this male-dominated secto...
Year: 1997, Number of pages: 144, Type of publication: Book
Report of the International Workshop on Women’s Access, Control and Tenure of Land, Property and Settlement  
View Details Report of the International Workshop: The Report summarises the conclusions and recommendations of the workshop on "Women’s Access, Control and Tenure of Land, Property and Settlements," held in Gavle, Sweden, October 1995.
Year: 1996, Number of pages: 253, Type of publication: Book
Women and Shelter Development - A compilation  
View Details This film is compiled from 9 short films from Bolivia, Colombia, Jordan, Rwanda Sri Lanka and Tanzania, dealing with women and shelter.
Year: 1996, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Las Mujeres en el desarrollo de los asentamientos humanos (aclarando las cosas)  
View Details Las Mujeres en el desarrollo de los asentamientos humanos (aclarando las cosas)
Year: 1995, Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book
Praja Sahayaka Sewaya (Community Assistance Service in Sri Lanka)  
View Details This report studies the process of developing a new approach for community development which is rooted within the communities and reaches out to the poor communities. This horizontal community to community approach has evolved from a system of commun...
Year: 1995, Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
Women’s Empowerment: Participation in Shelter Strategies at the Community Level in Urban Informal Settlements  
View Details The publication is as a result of UN-HABITAT’s process whereby the participation and the actual situation of women vis a vis men in their actual environments can be measured and monitored over time.
Year: 1995, Number of pages: 119, Type of publication: Book
Human Settlement Interventions in Addressing Crowding and Health Issues  
View Details This publication is the outcome of UN-HABITAT’s efforts to bridge the knowledge gap between the shelter and health sectors and to improve the understanding among sector professionals on environmental health aspects of human settlements. The publica...
Year: 1995, Number of pages: 133, Type of publication: Book
Community Construction Contract System in Sri Lanka (THE)  
View Details The publication argues the need for new approaches to infrastructure service delivery and describes one innovative approach as developed in Sri Lanka. The community construction contract is explained in detail, including the procedures of awarding co...
Year: 1994, Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
Community participation in Bolivia  
View Details This publication traces the development, over a seven-year period, of a UN-HABITAT funded project into an autonomous Bolivian institution: the Pro-Habitat Foundation. Through all the structural and conceptual changes the process has involved, the tea...
Year: 1993, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book
Urban Poor as Agents of Development: Community Action Planning in Sri Lanka (THE)  
View Details Describes the principles and the application of the community action planning and management approach (or CAP) as developed by the National Housing Development Authority of Sri Lanka in its Urban Housing Programme. The CAP approach aims to empower th...
Year: 1993, Number of pages: 88, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Improving of the Quality of Elderly and Disabled People in Human Settlements, Vol. I and II  
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Its aim is to assist decision-makers in national and local government to develop effective and affordable strategies to address the common problems facing elderly and disabled people and to improve their daily lives. The work of officials, resea...

Year: 1993, Number of pages: 167, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Participacion Communitaria para el desarollo de los asentamientos humanos  
View Details Participacion Communitaria para el desarollo de los asentamientos humanos
Year: 1993, Number of pages: 65, Type of publication: Book
Community Participation Training in Zambia: The DANIDA/UNCHS Training Programme  
View Details Documents the experience of the Training Programme in Zambia. The report examines the impact of the programme and looks in particular at the process of how this assistance was given. It highlights some of the lessons that have been learned in this su...
Year: 1992, Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book
Focus On Women for The Global Strategy For Shelter  
View Details A summary of recommendations from the report on a UNCHS (Habitat) Seminar to Promote the Participation of Women in all Phases of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000
Year: 1991, Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book
Project Support Communications (Four) Audio-Visual( Community participation)  
View Details The module is meant for training of project staff of human settlement projects especially extension workers and other field staff. It consists of three parts, namely messages and media, some selected media and tricks and tips.
Year: 1990, Number of pages: 79, Type of publication: Book
 
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