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Displaced people’s rights to the city: Planning for Slum Prevention – Strategies for Somali Cities  
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It gives general background on the Somali urban situation and on the contemporary rural-to-urban migration. It illustrates the UN-HABITAT approach in finding sustainable solutions for the reintegration of displace...
Year: 2005, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
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
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
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)
Urban Environment Newsletter (September, 2005)  
View Details The latest edition is published. Inside the third edition you find information about:
  • A secret well kept - How could 10,000 cities access it?
  • SCP in Nigeria:Towards Participatory Urban Planning
  • Capacity Building: Success and ...
Year: 2005, Periodicity: Biennial, Type of publication: Periodical 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)
Policy Dialogue Series: Youth, Children And Urban Governance - Number 2  
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In our rapidly urbanizing world, children and young people often form a majority of urban populations, living in increasingly over-crowded and dangerous environments, without access to the basic human rights to which there is overwhelming agreemen...

Year: 2004, Number of pages: 91, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol.10 No. 2, Reviving the Habitat Agenda  
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The Habitat Agenda recognises that the struggle for sustainable development will be attained or flounder in towns and cities. Humanity has entered the 21st century, the urban millennium. And there is growing consensus that in order to reap the fru...

Year: 2004, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroot Women’s Perspective on Good Governance  
View Details Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women’s Perspective on Good Governance, describes locally designed strategies through which grassroots women’s groups initiate and engage in ongoing dialogue with local authorities, with a view to influence polic...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 80, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Tools to Support Transparency in Local Governance  
View Details The publication is a guide for all urban stakeholders - policy makers, professionals, private sector, civil society organizations and concerned citizens working to improve the quality of life in their cities.
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 187, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Diagnosis of Insecurity Report in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea  
View Details In 2002, the Government of Papua New Guinea with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and technical assistance from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) launched the Safer Port Moresby Initiative with ...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 76, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Report of The Regional Consultations On Values-based Water Education for Asia and the Pacific  
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Year: 2004, Number of pages: 167, Type of publication: Book
Municipalities at Crossroads  
View Details The video is a documentation of the consultative meeting on enhancing cities held in Durban, South Africa
Year: 2004, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Unheard Voices of Women  
View Details This video looks at problems of water and sanitation faced by women and young girls living in slums in some parts of the world namely Dar es Salaam(Tanzania),New Delhi (India) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Year: 2004, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Urban Environment Newsletter (August, 2004)  
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In 2003, the Bayamo environmental profile assessed that 80 per cent of public...

Year: 2004, Periodicity: Biennial, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Report: Preventing Gender-based Violence in the Horn, East and Southern Africa  
View Details Preventing Gender-based Violence in the Horn, East and Southern Africa : A Regional Dialogue. Raising Voices and Safer Cities Programme 2004
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 82, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Hábitat y Desarrollo Humano completo  
View Details Este trabajo se inscribe en una reflexión global sobre el hábitat y su relación con las teorías de la complejidad; no pretende formular o probar hipótesis derivadas de modelos, sino servir para la discusión de los problemas del desarrollo humano terr...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 243, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol. 9, No. 3, Water and sanitation in cities  
View Details Cholera is endemic in East Africa. Yet every couple of years when it rains heavily, storm
water washes accumulated human waste,mainly from informal settlements lacking
minimum sanitation facilities, into open boreholes and other water sourc...
Year: 2003, Periodicity: Monthly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol. 9, No. 2, Young people in an urbanizing world  
View Details In a world where the number of young people has become the
largest in history relative to the adult population, the need to take urgent and
ever more innovative approaches to the problems facing them is greater than
ever.
Year: 2003, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol. 9, No. 1, Innovative Urban Financing  
View Details Because cities are centres of national economic growth and prosperity, it is ironic
that municipal authorities are usually shortof sufficient money to meet their
responsibilities.
Year: 2003, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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