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Not About Us Without Us: Working with grassroots organisations in the land field  
View Details This publication, from the Global Land Tool Network, presents a the grassroots mechanism it plans to promote for the effective inclusion of local community groups (grassroots). The involvement of the grassroots is crucial at all stages of land-rela...
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender Equality for Smarter Cities: Challenges and Progress  
View Details 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...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender in Local Government – A sourcebook for Trainers  
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Local governments are increasingly realizing the importance and benefits of addressing gender equality and equity in their decision making, policies, programmes and services. Many are rising to the challenge.

This source book is intended t...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 161, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender in Local Government: A Sourcebook for Trainers (Portuguese)  
View Details 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...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 149, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land Registration in Ethiopia: Early Impacts on Women  
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This publication from the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) belongs to a series of research reports examining the changing landscape of land tenure security in developing countries. The intent is to provide up-to-date information to land professio...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 25, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender Mainstreaming in Local Authorities - Best Practices  
View Details 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...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
GLTN Gendering Land Tool Development  
View Details 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...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Safer Cities Toolkit  
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This Local Crime Prevention Video illustrates a process based approach that builds on growing international consensus regarding the development of local crime prevention strategies.

Year: 2007, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law.  
View Details 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...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Mainstreaming Gender Water and Sanitation  
View Details 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...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Navigating Gender in Development of Water and Sanitation in Urban Areas – A Rapid Gender Assessment of the Cities of Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh (India)  
View Details This publication has been brought out in partnership with Mahila Chetna Manch, an NGO based in Bhopal (India). It forms the basis of gender mainstreaming strategy for water and sanitation initiatives in these four project cities. The assessment highl...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 96, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT Partnership with the Gender and Water Alliance  
View Details 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...
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Framework for Gender Mainstreaming  
View Details 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...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 31, Type of publication: Book
Gender and Involvement of Women in Local Governance  
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This manual was translated and adapted to Somali language and culture during the Good Governance and Leadership Training Programme (GLTP). Principles and practices of gender balance for local governance are explain...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 150, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol.11 No. 1, Women in Cities  
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Cities, towns and villages have not been a priority for women’s action in the last decade. Is this because the Beijing Platform for Action was weak in addressing problems that women fa...

Year: 2005, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Expert Group meeting on Gender and Women’s issues in Human Settlements  
View Details Expert Group meeting on Gender and Women’s issues in Human Settlements
Year: 2005, Number of pages: 74, Type of publication: Book
Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America  
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This set of four reviews provides a broad overview of the national and local legal framework related to land, housing, inheritance and marital property rights in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua. This includes a description of relevant poli...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 390, Type of publication: Book
Gender Mainstreaming in Water and Sanitation - Report of the Expert Group Meeting Held in Mombasa , Kenya.  
View Details Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on gender mainstreaming.The meeting was a critical step in the implementation of an overall Gender Mainstreaming Strategy Initiative (GMSI), designed to ensure the mainstreaming of gender within the WAC Programme
Year: 2005, Number of pages: 64, Type of publication: Book
Guía Práctica: Municipios en Búsqueda de Equidad  
View Details 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...
Year: 2005, Number of pages: 54, Type of publication: Book
Serie de Análisis sobre la ley, la tenencia de la tierra y el género: América Latina  
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Los señalamientos y la presentación del material de esta publicación no implican la expresión de opinión alguna por parte del Secretariado de las Naciones Unidas con respecto al estatus legal de ningún país, territorio, ciudad o área, ni de sus ha...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 390, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
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