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| Women in Post-Conflict Settlement Planning |
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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...
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Year: 2014,
Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book
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| Gender Issue Guide: Gender Responsive Urban Research and Capacity Development |
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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...
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Year: 2014,
Number of pages: 26, 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| IGUALDAD DE GÉNERO PARA CIUDADES MÁS INTELIGENTES: Desafíos y Avances |
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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...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 42, 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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| Gendering Land Tools |
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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...
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Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book
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| Gender Equality for Smarter Cities: Challenges and Progress |
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Towns and cities are increasingly important places for tackling gender inequalities. This book highlights some of the key gender issues we face in the context of rapid urbanisation in the developing world. It also provides an overview of UN-HABITAT...
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Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book
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| Gender in Local Government: A Sourcebook for Trainers (Portuguese) |
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Good local governance cannot exist without giving due attention to gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN-HABITAT has therefore made great efforts to mainstream gender both internally and in its work with partners.
The Training and Capacit...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 149, Type of publication: Book
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| Gender Mainstreaming in Local Authorities - Best Practices |
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Since the 1980s, there has been growing recognition of the need to ensure women's equal access to urban public spaces. Many initiatives to mainstream gender by local governments have been documented. Some are comprehensive and are based on supporti...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book
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| GLTN Gendering Land Tool Development |
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Implementation of women’s land, property and housing rights is often frustrated by the lack of effective gendered land tools. One of the values and priorities of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is that every tool must be gendered, as must the pro...
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Year: 2007,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law. |
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Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice. This document is a reference guide to international human rights standards identifying both the su...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book
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| Mainstreaming Gender Water and Sanitation |
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This strategy document emphasizes the benefits of entrusting the responsibility to groups of women and men of taking control of solving their water and sanitation problems at the local level, particularly slums which are highly deficient in water and...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book
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| UN-HABITAT Partnership with the Gender and Water Alliance |
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UN-HABITAT is the Agency mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT has been actively engaged for thirty years in supporting...
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Year: 2006,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Framework for Gender Mainstreaming |
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This Framework is a work in-progress given the dynamic nature of the development environment and the huge challenge of gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation sector, hitherto heavily dominated by male and operated largely on engineering conce...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 31, Type of publication: Book
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| Guía Práctica: Municipios en Búsqueda de Equidad |
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The main goal of this document is to be a pratical tool for local governments interested in implement gender view in their human development policies. Descriptions, examples and good practices on municipal gender policies can be found in this docum...
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Year: 2005,
Number of pages: 54, Type of publication: Book
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