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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)
Gender Issue Guide: Gender Responsive Urban Research and Capacity Development  
View Details Women, men, girls and boys are differentially affected by the conditions of urbanization. For instance, women are ???invariably disadvantaged compared to men in cities in terms of equal access to employment and shelter, health and education, tra...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 26, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender and Prosperity of Cities  
View Details 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...
Year: 2013, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender Responsive Urban Planning and Design  
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While many cities are hubs of economic growth, employment, and cultural life, urbanization has resulted in pronounced socioeconomic inequalities, exclusion, and segregation. The objective of this gender issue guide on urban planning and design i...

Year: 2013, Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing and Slum Upgrading  
View Details 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...
Year: 2013, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
A Compendium of Case Studies on Gender Mainstreaming Initiatives in UN-Habitat  
View Details 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...
Year: 2013, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender Equality Action Plan  
View Details This report is a documented progress on the implementation of the GEAP covering period from April 2010 to August 2012.
Year: 2013, Number of pages: 58, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Les Formules de Tenure Partagee pour les Femmes  
View Details 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.
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender and Urban Planning  
View Details 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...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 74, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Improving Gender Equality and Grassroots Participation through Good Land Governance  
View Details This training package provides an introduction to the important, complex, and sometimes daunting theme of improving land governance as a means to enhance gender equality and grassroots participation in land matters. This training package is designed ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 146, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Designing and Evaluating Land Tools with a Gender Perspective  
View Details 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...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender and Economic Development  
View Details 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...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 166, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming in UN-HABITAT  
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The objectives of the evaluation are to assess UN-HABITAT's efforts in mainstreaming gender across its programmes and policies, and the appropriateness of its institutional arrangements and strategic partnerships for the promotion of gender equa...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
IGUALDAD DE GÉNERO PARA CIUDADES MÁS INTELIGENTES: Desafíos y Avances  
View Details La promoción de la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres es la tercera de los ocho Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio consensuadas por la comunidad mundial en el año 2000, a fin de hacer frente a los desafíos sobrecogedores de prin...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Les critères d’évaluation du genre pour les outils fonciers à grande échelle  
View Details 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...
Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender evaluation criteria for large-scale land tools  
View Details How can we judge if a land tool is responsive to both women and men’s needs?

Despite progress on women’s rights, rights to land and security of tenure are not enjoyed equally by women and men in many parts of the world. This goes a...

Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Gendering Land Tools  
View Details This publication, from the Global Land Tool Network, presents a mechanism for effective inclusion of women and men in land tool development and outlines methodologies and strategies for systematically developing land tools that are responsive to bo...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Women's Safety Audit: What Works and Where?  
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In many cities women and girls face violence not only in their homes and in relationships, but also in public spaces due to poor urban design and poor management of public spaces. Whether it is due to threats, intimidation, harassment, sexual at...

Year: 2009, Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
The Global Assessment on Women's Safety  
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Women are at risk of violence both in public and private spheres, in and around the home, in neighbourhoods and at city level. Risk is infl uenced by urban design choices and the organisation of public services including transport and energy, am...

Year: 2009, Number of pages: 85, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender Equality for a Better Urban Future: An overview of UN-HABITAT's Gender Equality Action Plan (2008-2013)  
View Details The Gender Equality Action Plan provides a strategic framework for gender mainstreaming throughout UN-HABITAT programmes and activities. This publication provides an overview of the plan.
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
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