The Mauritius National Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the stu...

The Mauritius urban profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to ...

Le profilage urbain consiste en une évaluation rapide des conditions de vie urbaine, afin de définir les actions à mener, en identifiant les besoins prioritaires, sur le renforcement des capacités nécessaire et sur les réponses institutionnelles p...

Le profilage urbain consiste en une évaluation rapide des conditions de vie urbaine, afin de définir les actions à mener, en identifiant les besoins prioritaires, sur le renforcement des capacités nécessaire et sur les réponses institutionnelles p...

The San Fernando Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is ...

The Urban Profiling is an accelerated and action oriented urban assessment of needs and capacity building gaps at national and local level. It is currently being implemented in over 20 countries in Africa, the Carribean and the Pacific. Urban Prof...

Pointe-Noire est une ville de la République du Congo située au centre-ouest de l'Afrique sur la façade atlantique. Du fait de l'activité pétrolière et de son port en eau profonde, elle peut être considérée comme le poumon économique du pays. La vi...

IN THIS ISSUE

• Towards Sustainable Solutions for Improved Living Conditions of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 
• Strengthened Municipal Capacities for Improved Local Strategic Planning 
• Al Fayhaa Sustainable Development S...

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Mbale is a Municipality in Mbale District in the eastern part of Uganda. It began as a commercial centre for Arab slave traders and later attracted Indian traders who had come to East Africa to build the railway line. Eventually, Mbale became the ...

Kitgum Town is located in Chua County and is bordered by Labongo Layamo to the west and north and Labongo Amida to the east and south. The town is steadily recovering from a long civil war and its growth is mainly as a result of its close proximit...

In this issue:

• Mogadishu schools now operational

IN THIS ISSUE

• Lebanon Municipal Forum 2012: More than 600 Participants 
• Local Strategic Planning: Launching UN-Habitat Training Guidebook
• The 2012 Municipal Best Practices: Aytaroun Municipality and UoMs of Al Fayhaa an...

Lilongwe, the largest city in Malawi, became the capital and administrative City of Malawi in 1975 after relocating from Zomba. Lilongwe has witnessed a high urbanization rate ever since, accelerated by the relocation of all government head office...

The urban profiling in Brikama consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at the local and national level. The purpose of the study ...

The urban profiling in Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The...

To promote the alignment of UN-HABITAT normative and operational activities at country level, a UN-HABITAT Lebanon programme was developed. It aims at supporting governments and their development partners to achieve more sustainable urbanization. ...

IN THIS ISSUE

• Conference on Access to Housing in Lebanon: In Celebration of World Habitat Day 2011
• City-to-City Experience Exchange: Study Tour to Jezzine Union of Municipalities
• Local Strategic Planning: Harnessing N...

• ProgrammeUrban planning workshops;
  
• Community-based rehabilitation in Mogadishu ;
  
• Land and Urban Management Instit...

The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. With the subtitle: Governance, inequity and urban land markets, the report uncovers cr...

Le profil national est la synthèse des conclusions d’un bureau d’études, d’entretiens avec les acteurs clés et d’informations communiquées par les autorités. Les différents participants aux consultations se sont entendus sur la nécessité de déli...

La structure urbaine de la plupart des centres urbains du Niger est caractérisée par l’existence de noyaux d’habitat anciens, auxquels se sont juxtaposés des lotissements successifs. La filière de l’auto-construction constitue le mode dominant d...

Située à 440 km à l’est de Saint Louis et à 700 km de Dakar sur la rive gauche du fleuve Sénégal, la commune de Kanel n’a été créée qu’en 1997. L’habitat est concentré sur une superficie de 53 ha, soit 45% de la superficie totale urbanisée. Les ...

Située au centre-ouest du Sénégal dans la région du même nom, la commune de Kaolack se présente comme un carrefour des axes de communication et d’échanges entre populations d’horizons divers. Elle joue un rôle d’intermédiaire sur le plan commerc...

The National Urban Profile focuses on the findings of a desk-study, interviews with key actors and a town consultation with key urban actors and institutions. Consultation participants agreed to address the salient urban issues including poverty, ...

Following the model of the other agencies of the United Nations System, the 2008 – 2009 UN-HABITAT Country Programme has its sources within the national priorities defined by the Poverty Reduction Strategic Framework. It falls under the United N...

On 1 January 2008 Cape Verde moved from the group of Least Developed Countries to the Middle Development Country group. This milestone called “graduation” is decisive for the future of the volcanic archipelago of half a million people which, des...

This HCPD is based on the Human Settlement areas of the country’s UNDAF, and on the Action Plan 2007-2011 led by the DRC Ministry of Urban Planning and Housing. The UN system supports the priorities and needs embodied in the DRC Poverty Reduction ...

The Government of Ecuador is in the process of creating a new Constitution that will change the laws and regulations, public policies and institutions will change as a result. Within this context, the HCPD is aim to support this process and its ef...

The Habitat Country Programme Document for Malawi outlines the main development objectives and priorities in the area of shelter and human settlements in Malawi. In collaboration with the Government, local and international partners, and other UN ...

UN-HABITAT had been present in Nepal intermittently since the late 1980s engaging in a number of technical assistance programmes in the field of human settlements development. In 2005, the Water for Asian Cities was launched in the country focus...

The Programme in Sri Lanka is based on a rich portfolio of recent and ongoing projects in the human settlements sector. Through interaction with Sri Lanka’s development partners and increasingly also humanitatian agencies, the HCPD has been prepar...

The current Benin HCPD 2008/2009 is a strategic document which will help UN-HABITAT to have a coherent framework of intervention for a fruitful cooperation with Benin Government. It succeeds to be in perfect match with the Growth for Poverty Reduc...

In Ethiopia, the profiling was undertaken under the leadership of national and local authorities. This initiative has been carried out locally in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Ambo, as well as nationally. The Ethiopia National Profile focuses on th...

For more than 25 years, UN-HABITAT has been working with partners in the Somali region to promote sustainable, participatory urban development. This booklet explains in detail the numerous UN-HABITAT projects that have been implemented, but also e...

The 6th edition of the SUDP Newsletter details activities of the programme over the past few months, partcularly in urban services, urban management, and governance. Two special sections focus on UN-HABITAT’s role in complex emergencies and plan...

Systematic Land Information and Management: A Technical Manual for the Establishment and Implementation of a Municipal Geographic Information System

Mozambique, which is located on the south eastern coast of Africa, has a population of 20 million. Emerging from a devastating civil war in 1992, the country has grown at an annual rate of nearly 10 percent. The post war recovery has been descri...

Hosting 30 percent of the urban population of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia and the diplomatic centre of Africa, is one of the fastest growing cities on the continent. Its population is currently thought to be 4 million. Its geo...

It is Ethiopia's second largest city with 384 000 inhabitants and with the rapid urban growth witnessed in the city, Dire Dawa's urban population is expected to grow by nearly 50 percent by the year 2015. One third of the urban population has no...

Moçambique situa-se na costa oriental de África, é um país com uma população aproximada de 20 milhões de habitantes. Saído de uma Guerra civil devastadora em 1992, o país tem crescido a uma taxa anual de quase10%. A sua recuperação pós-guerra te...

Le Sénégal se distingue dans la sous région par sa longue histoire de décentralisation et l’enracinement de ses collectivités locales, notamment des communes des centres urbains. Le Sénégal est en effet le premier pays d’Afrique Noire à connaîtr...

The 5th edition of the Somalia Urban Development Programme (SUDP) Newsletter covers the main activities carried out by UN-HABITAT and its partners in the last months in Somalia. This issue focus on: (1) Lotteries of the allocation of the houses in...

It reviews one year of SUDP (also marked by the first session of the SUDP Steering Committee Meeting) highlighting benefits and constraints of a fast growing programme. Articles focus on the support given by UN-OCHA to ...

It focuses on the latest achievements of the Somalia Urban Development Programme: completion of the Municipal Authority Building in Garowe, training of the new councillors in Puntland, and property registration and taxa...

It reviews one year of SUDP (also marked by the first session of the SUDP Steering Committee Meeting) highlighting benefits and constraints of a fast growing programme. Articles focus on the support given by UN-OCHA to ...

It gives background information about the programme, its components and activities.

It gives background information on the shelter projects implemented in Somalia by UN-HABITAT and funded by the Government of Japan.

This brochure illustrates how to develop a property database - with the help of GIS - to establish a property taxation system and increase the municipal revenues. UN-HABITAT is developing such system in Hargeisa, expecting a substantial empowermen...

Kisumu is Kenya?sss third largest city and is located in the Western Highlands on Lake Victoria. Kisumu?sss status as a stronghold of the opposition has negatively impacted its development, as the area was largely neglected until the emergence o...