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Moonbeam Brochure November 2008  
View Details The United Nations World Youth Report 2007 states that youth make up 25 per cent of the global working-age population, but account for 43.7 per cent of the unemployed. In the Africa region, 27 percent of youth are neither in sc...
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Opportunity fund Brochure  
View Details During the 21st session of the Governing Council that oversees the work programme and budget of UN-HABITAT, member countries in 2007 passed a resolution calling on the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT set up a special fund to help young people living...
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Global Partnership Initiative  
View Details The greatest threat youth face today is exclusion and marginalization from decisions that affect them. Unemployment, crime, HIV/AIDS, neglect by the authorities and often abandonment to their fate because of various forms of discrimination top the li...
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Youth entrepreneurship & empowerment  
View Details The year 2007 has gone down in history as the year, when for the first time half of humanity was living in towns and cities. In just a generation to come, this figure will rise to two-thirds of all human beings as the world witnesses the fastest rate...
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Gender Equality for a Better Urban Future: An overview of UN-HABITAT's Gender Equality Action Plan (2008-2013)  
View Details The Gender Equality Action Plan provides a strategic framework for gender mainstreaming throughout UN-HABITAT programmes and activities. This publication provides an overview of the plan.
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Not About Us Without Us: Working with grassroots organisations in the land field  
View Details This publication, from the Global Land Tool Network, presents a the grassroots mechanism it plans to promote for the effective inclusion of local community groups (grassroots). The involvement of the grassroots is crucial at all stages of land-rela...
Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT Brochure (Arabic)  
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UN-HABITAT helps the urban poor by transforming cities into safer, healthier, greener places with better opportunities where everyone can live in dignity. UN-HABITAT works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, c...

Year: 2009, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Business for Sustainable Urbanisation - Challenges and Opportunities  
View Details The UN has embarked on a broad and continuous programme of institutional change and reform towards becoming a more effective and accountable institution. One important part of this process has been the opening of the United Nations to non-state actor...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Rapid Urban Sector Profiling for Sustainability  
View Details The methodology for Rapid Urban Sector Profiling for Sustainability was developed by the Regional Office for Africa and the Arab States (ROAAS) and sister units within the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT), supported by a contrib...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Tan Tan: Profil environnemental  
View Details Le profil du secteur urbain de la ville de Tan Tan, initié par le Bureau régional pour l’Afrique et les Pays arabes (ROAAS) du Programme des Nations Unies pour les Etablissements Humains– UN-HABITAT, s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet « Profil du sect...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material 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)
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)
UN-HABITAT Partnership with the Gender and Water Alliance  
View Details UN-HABITAT is the Agency mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT has been actively engaged for thirty years in supporting...
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT Partnership with the Gender and Water Alliance  
View Details UN-HABITAT is the Agency mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT has been actively engaged for thirty years in supporting...
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)
SUDP – Somalia Urban Development Programme  
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It gives background information about the programme, its components and activities.

Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Emergency Assistance for Resettlement of Returnees and Internally Displaced People in Somali Cities  
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It gives background information on the shelter projects implemented in Somalia by UN-HABITAT and funded by the Government of Japan.

Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Somaliland Urban Sector Priorities  
View Details The brochure illustrates the urban development priorities highlighted by the participants during the Somaliland Urban Forum, held in April 2005. The Municipalities of Berbera, Boroma, Burao, Erigavo, Gebiley, Hargeisa and Sheikh participated in the m...
Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Municipal Revenue Generation through Property Taxation – Better Information for Better Cities – the Case of Hargeisa  
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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...

Year: 2006, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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