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Slum Upgrading Facility Pilot Programme End-of-Programme Evaluation  
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The evaluation assessed the performance of the Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) and its associated projects in the four pilot countries: Ghana, Indonesia,

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 120, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Ghana: Tamale City Profile  
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Tamale is the fourth largest city in Ghana with a population of 293,881 people and a growth rate of 3.5%. The size of Tamale is approximately 922km sq. The city is the capital of the Northern Region and many people from all over the northern reg...

Year: 2010, Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Cameroun: Profil Urbain de Yaoundé  
View Details La population de Yaoundé, capitale du Cameroun, est estimée à 1,5 million d’habitants et on y retrouve tous les groupes ethniques du pays.  Alors qu’on estime que 67% de la population urbaine du pays habite dans les quartiers dits spontanés, cette pr...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 41, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Cameroun: Profil Urbain National du Cameroun  
View Details Les villes camerounaises, particulièrement les plus grandes d’entre elles, sont confrontées à de nombreuses difficultés liées à la prolifération de l’habitat spontané, à l’insalubrité, à l’enclavement de certains quartiers sous intégrés, à l’insécuri...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 28, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Burkina Faso: Profil Urbain De Ougadougou  
View Details La commune de Ouagadougou se situe au centre du Burkina Faso dont elle est la capitale.  Les questions d’environnement et surtout d’assainissement figurent en tête de la liste des problèmes majeurs après l’épineux et vital problème de l’approvisionne...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Local Finance Facilities  
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To enhance credit and support housing and infrastructure improvement for low income end users, UN-HABITAT through the Urban Finance section, has set up finance facilities in Ghana, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. At the sam...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Homes, Neighbourhoods, Happiness  
View Details This leaflet addresses UN-HABITAT’s Urban Finance strategy. It describes the different types of financing approaches used by UN-HABITAT and its partners in enhancing sustainable credit and investment for affordable and social housing. It also iden...
Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Revolving Fund Loan Programme in Africa and the Middle East  
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UN-HABITAT is providing loans to affordable, social housing and infrastructure projects through a Revolving Housing Finance Loan Fund Programme called ERSO (Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations).

This leaflet provides informa...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Revolving Fund Programme in Asia  
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UN-HABITAT is providing loans to affordable, social housing and infrastructure projects through a Revolving Housing Finance Loan Fund Programme called ERSO (Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations).

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Revolving Loan Fund Programme in Latin America  
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UN-HABITAT is providing loans to affordable, social housing and infrastructure projects through a Revolving Housing Finance Loan Fund Programme called ERSO (Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations).

This leaflet provides informati...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Newsletter January 2009  
View Details Welcome to the January 2009 SUF Newsletter! As the new year begins, SUF is pleased to be a position where the Local Finance Facilities in Ghana, Indonesia and Sri Lanka are established with staff and funding for operation and development. The LFFs ha...
Year: 2009, Periodicity: - Not available -, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Newsletter April 2009  
View Details April is a milestone month for Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF). The Pilot Team concludes a two and a half year contract and the Programme Management Unit in Nairobi UN-HABITAT takes full control of all SUF activities.
Year: 2009, Periodicity: - Not available -, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Working Paper 9  
View Details It is estimated that up to 1 billion people live in slums in the cities of the world – one sixth of humanity – and that the numbers are rising. The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Pilot Programme was established in 2004 to examine ways in which in...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 82, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
THE UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) WORKING PAPER 11  
View Details Housing in Thailand has generally not been considered the responsibility of local government. The National Housing Authority (NHA) was set up in 1973. Initially the work of the National Housing Authority focused on the construction of houses and flat...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 28, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
THE UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) WORKING PAPER 10  
View Details The multi-stakeholder and multi-sector approach of the Slum Upgrading Facility provides a forum for the voices of poor communities and slum dwellers to be heard. Based on the experience of implementing the SUF pilot project in Indonesia, the first an...
Year: 2009, Number of pages: 28, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
World Urban Forum 5 Brochure (Russian)  
View Details UN-HABITAT and the Government of Brazil welcome you to the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro which will be held from 22 to 26 March 2010. The theme of the Forum in 2010 is ''The Right to the City: Bridging the Urban Divide.''
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Newsletter, January 2008  
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In this edition we talk about the importance of savings schemes in slums, and the why slum dwellers should be involved in decisions around design and affordability of upgrading projects. This is a part of the “Finance Plus” approach of SUF – it is...

Year: 2008, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Newsletter, April 2008  
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The Slum Upgrading Facility has had a busy first quarter, building and detailing SUF finance facilities in Ghana, Indonesia and Sri Lanka in readiness to undertake lending and project monitoring. This is not an easy task. The lead article in this ...

Year: 2008, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
18 Poster Do’s and Don’ts of Financing Slum Upgrading  
View Details Ensure that financing for slum upgrading is recognised as a priority within national development planning and as a key investment element contributing to economic growth. This emphasis should be reflected in a slum upgrading budget line within nation...
Year: 2008, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Newsletter, July 2008  
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For many people, buying a home is the most expensive purchase of their lives, and it requires a mortgage from the bank. But slum dwellers do not have access to formal credit for homes or home improvement. The Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) Pilot Pr...

Year: 2008, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Gardho - First steps towards strategic urban planning  
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The publication contains the spatial analysis of Gardho, a town in the Puntland State of Somalia.

This publication presents the results of the urban spatial analysis carried out by UN-HABITAT experts under the guidance of municipal author...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT and The Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme - Strategy Document  
View Details UN-HABITAT is one of the key partners of the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP). KENSUP was initiated in 2001 by the Government of Kenya (GoK), and it is complemented and supplemented by UN-HABITAT through cooperation outlined in a Memorandum of...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 75, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Newsletter (October 2008)  
View Details It is easy enough to define what a guarantee is. Harder to define is how to apply a guarantee, and how to make it work. Guarantees are not products to be promoted in themselves. In other words, they should not be part of the first discussions a...
Year: 2008, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF)  
View Details UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Work plan 8. Explains what they are, how they will work and why they are important. A key element of the SUF Pilot Programme work is that of establishing local finance facilities with a specific remit to support slu...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 15, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) Guidelines Action Planning Methodology and Development  
View Details These Guidelines are produced to assist low income groups and slum dwellers organizations, to set out their plan for residential area upgrading , home improvements and new low income housing in such a way that potential commercial banks and finance o...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
High Level East Africa Peer Exchange on Government Enablement of Private Sector Lending for Affordable Housing Nov 2005  
View Details At its Twentieth Session in April 2005, the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT comprising 57 member states of the United Nations convened a high level dialogue on “Financing Human Settlements” in Nairobi, Kenya. Lasting over 3 hours in duration, the dia...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
The Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) Handbook  
View Details This Handbook provides new thinking about how to pay for improvements to existing underserved lowincome neighborhoods, and how to pay for appropriate new low-income residential neighborhoods. Both require dedicated and assigned land, paved access, st...
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Community-based Housing Credit Arrangements in Low-income Housing: Assessment of Potentials and Impacts  
View Details The report documents the proceeding of an expert group meeting held on community-based housing credit arrangements in low-income housing. The objective of the expert group meeting was to bring together experts on community-based housing finance in lo...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book
Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation (CMHC) Series No. 1  
View Details   Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation (CMHC) Series No. 1
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 35, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter Co-operatives in Eastern and Southern Africa  
View Details A review of current and potential contributions of co-operatives to shelter development in Eastern and Southern Africa. Based on studies in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe, the report also reviews the structure and organisation of ...
Year: 2001, Number of pages: 122, Type of publication: Book
 
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