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Newsletter February 2013 issue  
View Details This edition of our newsletter follows up on the events of the Habitat Partner University Initiative in the World Urban Forum 6, Naples 2012, and highlights new opportunities within the Initiative.
Year: 2013, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Decentralization in Iraq  
View Details This report presents the outcomes of UN-HABITAT 's International Conference on Decentralization, Local Governance and Service Delivery: Sharing Experience and Sustaining Progress in Urban Iraq, which took place in Amman, Jordan from 8-10 May 2011. Th...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Newsletter 5  
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In this issue find information for academia interested in engaging in this years World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy.

Year: 2012, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Newsletter 1  
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In this issue -

  • Habitat Partner University Initiative at the Governing Council 
  • Dates confirmed for HPUI Global Meeting
  • Climate Change Meeting to be held in Kampala
  • HPUI E-Forum Concluded
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Newsletter 2  
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In this issue

  • University Workshop on Urban Climate Change Education to be held in Bonn
  • Habitat Partner University Initiative launches Logo Competition
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Strategic Urban Development Plan for Masaka Municipality  
View Details Masaka Strategic Urban Development Plan has been prepared by the UN-HABITAT in collaboration with the Municipality of Masaka. It is one in a series of six plans developed under phase I of the UN-HABITAT Urban Planning programme in the Lake Victor...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hidden Cities  
View Details The global report Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban Settings is one important component of the overall WHO strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and global health communities to reduce health ineq...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hidden Cities ABRIDGED Arabic  
View Details is the abridged version of the global report Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban Settings is one important component of the overall WHO strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and global health commun...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hidden Cities ABRIDGED Chinese  
View Details this is the (chinese) abridged version of the global report Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban Settings is one important component of the overall WHO strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and glo...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hidden Cities ABRIDGED English  
View Details This is the abridged version of the global report Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban Settings is one important component of the overall WHO strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and global health...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
La Face cachée des villes  
View Details Le rapport mondial La Face cachée des villes : Mettre au jour et vaincre les inégalités en santé en milieu urbain constitue une composante importante de la stratégie générale de l’OMS et d’ONU-Habitat visant à renforcer les interventions des acteurs ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hidden Cities ABRIDGED Russian  
View Details Глобальный доклад «„Скрытые“ города: выявл ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Las ciudades ocultas: revelación y superación de las inequidades sanitarias en los contextos urbanos  
View Details El informe mundial Las ciudades ocultas: revelación y superación de las inequidades sanitarias en los contextos urbanos es un importante componente de la estrategia general de la OMS y ONU-Hábitat para reforzar la respuesta de las comunidades sanitar...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
La Face Cachée des Villes  
View Details Le rapport mondial La Face cachée des villes : Mettre au jour et vaincre les inégalités en santé en milieu urbain constitue une composante importante de la stratégie générale de l’OMS et d’ONU-Habitat visant à renforcer les interventions des acteurs ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Lignes directrices internationales sur la décentralisation et l’accès aux services de base pour tous (French)  
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La présente brochure comprend deux séries de lignes directrices approuvées par le Conseil d’administration d’ONU-Habitat en 2007 et 2009. En les approuvant, les Etats membres des Nations Unies se sont engagés à promouvoir la décentralisation et ...

Year: 2009, Number of pages: 36, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Localising the Millennium Development Goals - A guide for local authorities and partners  
View Details This publication is designed to inspire and guide local authorities, implement activities at the local level to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Ecosystems and Biodiversity, The Role of Cities involvement  
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Although cities occupy just 2 per cent of the Earth’s surface, their inhabitants use 75 per cent of the planet’s natural resources. Cities draw on their surrounding ecosystems for goods and services, and their products and emissions can affect reg...

Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Coastal Pollution, Role of Cities  
View Details From space, the earth looks blue. Over 70 percent of the planet’s surface is covered by water, the majority of which is in the world’s seas and oceans. Half the world’s population lives within 100 km of the sea, and three-quarters of all large cities...
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme (MuSPP)  
View Details In April 2006, the Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme (MuSPP) was launched. This programme is funded by the Swedish Government through the Swedish International Development Agency, and implemented by UN-HABITAT in Kosovo. The Programme prov...
Year: 2006, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Management Programme Newsletter:Vol 1 No3, April2002,  
View Details From 29 April to 3 May 2002, Nairobi Kenya played host to the UN-HABITAT’s opening session of the World Urban Forum. The purpose of the Forum was to strengthen and promote the implementation of the Habitat Agenda.  The overall thematic focus was ther...
Year: 2002, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Management Programme Newsletter: Vol 1 No2, Jan2002,  
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The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements has undergone a historic transition. The General Assembly, at its meeting in New York on 21 December 2001, decided to transform, with effect from 1 January 2002, the United Nations Centre for Human S...

Year: 2002, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Management Programme Newsletter:Vol 1 No1, Oct 2001,  
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Since its inception in 1986, the Urban Management Programme has undergone significant changes reflected in the three phases through which it has passed. It has gone from a research phase through an operational phase based on regional ...

Year: 2001, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Implementing the Habitat Agenda: Urban Management Programme City Consultation Case Studies (UMP No. 28)  
View Details This comprehensive review of the world’s cities analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of the global trends towards social and economic integration and the rapid changes in information and communication technologies.The Uni...
Year: 2001, Number of pages: 344, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Management Programme 1997-2001  
View Details The Urban Management Programme Phase Three Report covers activities of the programme from 1997-2001. The report features lessons and experiences from each of the four regions, Africa, Asia, Arab States and Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition...
Year: 2001, Number of pages: 71, Type of publication: Book
Reassessment Of Urban Planning And Development Regulations In African Cities  
View Details This publication attempts to review existing urban development planning regulations in Africa, and to identify some key factors that hinder the realization of sustainable urban development. The publication provides policy-makers in the urban developm...
Year: 1999, Number of pages: 71, Type of publication: Book
Reassessment of Urban Planning and Development Regulations in Asian Cities  
View Details This publication attempts to review existing urban development planning regulations in Asia, and to identify some key factors that hinder the realization of sustainable urban development. The publication provides policy-makers in the urban developmen...
Year: 1999, Number of pages: 85, Type of publication: Book
Towards an East African Community Development Initiative (Country Human Settlements Profiles-Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda)  
View Details UN-HABITAT through its Community Development Programme initiated a process of assisting African countries to face up to the challenges in human settlements development. As a follow up to the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, the programme in 1997...
Year: 1998, Number of pages: 59, Type of publication: Book
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Assessing Regional Development Planning in the Management of Urbanization  
View Details Experiences from Developing Countries: This publication contains the main papers presented at the Expert Group Meeting on Assessing Regional Development Planning in the Management of Urbanization, Nairobi, May 1997. Three main questions that were add...
Year: 1997, Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book
Regional Development Planning and Management of Urbanization: Experiences from Developing Countries  
View Details This volume contains the main papers presented at the Expert Group Meeting on Assessing Regional Development Planning in the Management of Urbanization, held at the UN-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi in May 1997.
Year: 1997, Number of pages: 232, Type of publication: Book
Management of Secondary Cities in Southeast Asia (THE)  
View Details Third in a series after two covering Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa, this book looks at the urban management challenges where local administrations have to grapple with rising unemployment and the related social and economic consequences, such ...
Year: 1996, Number of pages: 160, Type of publication: Book
Reappraisal of the Urban Planning process (A)  
View Details This book is an outcome of deliberations and papers that were presented at the International Conference on Re-appraising the Urban Planning Process as an Instrument for Sustainable Urban Development and Management held in Nairobi from 3 to 7 October ...
Year: 1995, Number of pages: 265, 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
Monitoring and Evaluation: From Project to Programme in Zambia  
View Details The report was prepared to give accessibility to the Zambian programme which UN-HABITAT had been assisting between 1988 and 1994. It is based on project documents, field visits and discussions with key actors.
Year: 1994, Number of pages: 43, Type of publication: Book
The Management of Human Settlements: The Municipal Level  
View Details This report is a revised and updated version of the theme paper on the improvement of municipal management, which was presented to the Commission on Human Settlements at its fourteenth session in April 1993. The report contains five parts addressing ...
Year: 1993, Number of pages: 119, 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)
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
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
La Gestión urbana habitacional en Chile: informe del equipo de trabajo  
View Details Es un informe t(§cnico sobre fa gesti6n urbana y habitacional en Chile tanto en el sector piblico como en el sector privado.
Year: 1992, Number of pages: 97, Type of publication: Book
Urban Development for the conservation and rehabilitation of historic city of Plovdiv  
View Details Urban Development for the conservation and rehabilitation of historic city of Plovdiv
Year: 1991, Number of pages: 39, Type of publication: Book
The Incremental-development Scheme: A Case Study of Khuda-ki-basti in Hyderabad, Pakistan  
View Details Case study of a scheme intended to reach the lowest income group of that community, the scheme is based on the idea that people should settle before houses and infrastructure are constructed and that, once settled, they can develop their housing and ...
Year: 1991, Number of pages: 43, 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
Annotated Bibliography on Regional (Sub-National) Development Plans, Programs and Projects in Developing Countries with Special Emphasis on Settlement Issues 1980-1990  
View Details This is a Bibliography by country, subject, and documents, with an index of authors, on aspects of human settlements such as land, shelter, infrastructure, services, and sustainability.
Year: 1990, Number of pages: 43, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Communications pour l’appui aux projects (un) principes de base ( Community participation)  
View Details Communications pour l’appui aux projects (un) principes de base ( Community participation)
Year: 1990, Number of pages: 45, Type of publication: Book
Guidelines for Planning of Rural Settlements and Infrastructure: Road Networks  
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This report is one of a series of documents dealing with rural development issues related to the planning of human settlements and of their supporting networks within settlements and in settlement hinterlands. This series is not directly concerned...

Year: 1985, Number of pages: 53, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Role of Small and Intermediate Settlements in National Development (THE)  
View Details Classifies the factors to be taken into account when defining the role of small and intermediate settlements in national planning: identifies the potential and limitations of such settlements; and suggests the steps needed to establish realistic goal...
Year: 1985, Number of pages: 97, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Community Participation in Squatter Settlements Upgrading  
View Details Community Participation in Squatter Settlements Upgrading
Year: 1984, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book
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