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Safer Cities: City Changer Toolkit  
View Details 'I'm a City Changer' is the awareness-raising initiative of World Urban Campaign. It is about: • Positive urban development • Solutions to urban challenges • Giving voice to cities and people to change our urban future. The Global Network...
Year: 2014, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Safer Cities: A safer and just city for all  
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The challenges facing cities with regards to the impacts of growing violence and insecurity are numerous and daunting. The need to address crime prevention in cities is apparent.

This brochure highlights the Safer Cities approach run by UN-...

Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Building Urban Safety through Slum Upgrading  
View Details Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant i...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 109, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
CUESTIONES INTERSECTORIALES Instrumento de evaluación de las necesidades en materia de prevención de la delincuencia  
View Details El presente Instrumento de evaluación de las necesidades en materia de prevención de la delincuencia es una herramienta de evaluación elaborada conjuntamente por la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (UNODC) y el programa de ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
QUESTIONS TRANSVERSALES Outil d’évaluation pour la prévention du crime  
View Details Le présent Outil d’évaluation pour la prévention du crime est un instrument qui a été mis au point conjointement par l’Office des Nations Unies contre la drogue et le crime (UNODC) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 72, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guía para la prevención local hacia políticas de cohesión social y seguridad ciudadana  
View Details Esta Guía ha sido realizada en colaboración entre la Agencia de Naciones Unidas HABITAT y la Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado (UAH) de Chile. Quiere ser una herramienta para todas las personas u organizaciones que implementan o deseen implementa...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 143, 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)
Environment and Urbanization  
View Details This paper summarizes the outcome of an international conference on addressing the issue of urban youth in conflict with the law in Africa. It discusses the most effective responses to youth crime and violence which centre on prevention and inclusion...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 12, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
SAFER DAR ES SALAAM (TANZANIA)  
View Details This Local Crime Prevention Video illustrates a process based approach that builds on growing  consensus regarding the development of local crime prevention strategy in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania
Year: 2008, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Hábitat y el desafio de las micorfinanzas  
View Details La pobreza abruma, aunque algunas veces, de tanto observarla, se vuelve silenciosa. Pero, sobre todo, atenta contra la dignidad de los pobres. Sus manifestaciones incluyen, entre las principales, desnutrición, falta de educaci ón y salud y, en partic...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 190, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Booklet: Safer Cities Promotional Booklet  
View Details It is projected that by 2030, two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities around the world. Another feature of the new urban age is that the global number of slum dwellers is now set to top the 1 billion mark. At this turning point in h...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Victimisation in Tanzania: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara  
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To better understand crime and public perceptions of safety in Tanzania, victimisation surveys w...

Year: 2007, Number of pages: 96, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Crime in Dar es Salaam  
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In March 2000, two studies were conducted into crime and violence in Dar es Salaam – a victim survey and a series of in-de...

Year: 2007, Number of pages: 64, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Report: Urban Safety - Safety for all  
View Details The inspiration for the Johannesburg conference came in 1996 during the Vancouver conference on crime prevention for practitioners. It was realised that South Africa had an important role to play in the international crime prevention debate, both as ...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 83, Type of publication: Book 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
Booklet: Safer Cities Promotional Booklet (in Spanish)  
View Details Se calcula que hasta 2030, dos tercios de la humanidad vivirán en ciudades en todo el mundo. Otra característica de la nueva era urbana es que la cifra global de habitantes de tugurios va a superar la marca de 1 billón. En este momento de cambio hist...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Crime Prevention and Youth at Risk  
View Details This Compendium has been compiled to accompany the Workshop on Strategies and best practices in crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk in the context of the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justi...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Strategy on Youth at Risk in Latin America  
View Details The goal of this document is to make evident the situation of young people living at risk in Latin America and to propose policies to face this problem.
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 36, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Global Campaign on Urban Governance: Youth, Children and Urban Governance  
View Details This policy paper forms part of UN-HABITAT’S Global Campaign on Urban Governance. The Campaign fosters the implementation of the Habitat Agenda goal of achieving sustainable human settlements in an urbanising world. Improving urban governance has bee...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 91, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Strategy paper on Urban Youth in Africa  
View Details This strategy paper has been developed in the context of UN-Habitat’s Safer Cities Programme, and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). It forms part of UN-Habitat’s work on urbanization, the inclusive city, the problems of urban yout...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 87, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
A better childhood in the city  
View Details The special needs of children and young people have to be part of urban development and planning - from the beginning and not as an afterthought. Children and young people must be listened to. They must be allowed to take an active role in the commun...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 11, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
HABITAT Y ESPACIO PUBLICO  
View Details Es muy satisfactorio para UN-Hábitat presentar este interesante libro .HÁBITAT Y ESPACIO PÚBLICO., donde se concretan algunos de los productos de la asistencia técnica que la Agencia se ha comprometido a ofrecer en el contex­to del proyecto COL/41657...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 337, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hábitat y financiación  
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Celebrados ya los 15 años de nuestra Constitución de 1991, y sin dejar atrás las heridas y los efectos políticos del aleve ataque terrorista a las torres gemelas del World Trade Center de Nueva York, e inmersos en la interesante discusión que se v...

Year: 2007, Number of pages: 302, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
World Habitat Day 2007 - A safe city is just a city  
View Details One of the most significant causes of fear and insecurity in many cities today is crime and violence. Between 1990 and 2000, incidents of violent crime per 100,000 persons increased from 6 to 8.8. Recent studies show that over the past five years, 60...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Booklet: Youth and Crime in Nairobi  
View Details As part of a crime survey conducted in Nairobi from April to July 2001, which indicated that youth delinquency is considered as a problem by the residents of Nairobi, a youth offender profile was carried out. The study aimed at identifying the family...
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
La microfinanciación de la vivienda  
View Details Este documento tiene por objeto presentar las consideraciones más relevantes de los trabajos adelantados en el marco del proyecto “Desarrollo de las microfinanzas para la vivienda”, financiado a través de First Initiative, e indicar como se fue estru...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 161, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
HÁBITAT Y POBREZA  
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Vivimos en una gran transformación a nivel global; una mutación antropológica y por lo tanto cultural, basada en la incorporación masiva de las tecnologías informáticas, en la descentralización productiva y la creación de la empresa en red, así no...

Year: 2006, Number of pages: 184, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Journal: Urban Safety Newsletter  
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Crime does not happen spontaneously. It grows out of an unequal and exclusive society, and outof a lack of institutional and social control. Moreover, the criminal justice system, including police, courts and sons, is poorly adapted t...

Year: 2005, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Video: Municipalities at Crossroads  
View Details The video is a documentation of the consultative meeting on enhancing cities held in Durban,South Africa
Year: 2005, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
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