Guide pratique pour les Décideurs Politiques - Loger les Pauvres dans les Villes Africaines. 8: Les autorités locales. Faire face aux défis urbains d’une manière participative et intégrée - French Language Version 2011 Le présent Guide pratique n° 8 donne un bref aperçu des autorités locales en Afrique et des défis (et opportunités) urbains auxquels ils doivent faire face.
Gambia: Brikama Urban Profile 2011 The urban profiling in Brikama consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at the local and national level.
Quick Guides for Policy Makers - Housing the Poor in African Cities. 5: Housing Finance. Ways to help the poor pay for housing 2011 The objective of this Quick Guide is to introduce some of the key concepts of housing finance and to provide a quick overview of how a housing finance system works.
External Evaluation of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation Trust Fund - Part 1: Synthesis Report 2011 During the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund's Advisory Board meeting in 2010, the Government of Norway announced its intention to undertake an external evaluation of its support to the Trust Fund. Subsequently, the Governments of Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, in collaboration with UN-Habitat, decided to jointly undertake the evaluation.
Gender Mainstreaming Impact Study, Document 04 2011 This impact assessment identifies how the water and sanitation initiatives implemented under the Water Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch of UN-HABITAT, have strategically mainstreamed gender aspects in its various initiatives and to identify achievements and impact, challenges, lessons learned and provide recommendations.
Enabling Shelter Strategies 2011 Enabling shelter strategies call for a fundamental shift in the role of government, from provider to enabler of affordable housing.
Cairo - a City in Transition 2011 UN-HABITAT's Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partners institutions, on-the-ground interviews, insights and images.
Kenya Country Impact Study - Volume 2 2011
Lebanon Urban Profile: A Desk Review Report 2011 Lebanon is a small country with a total population of 4,223,553 (World Bank, 2010). Recent figures show that 87% of this population currently live in urban areas with the majority - estimated at 64% - residing in large agglomerations mostly in the metropolitan areas of Beirut and Tripoli (UN-HABITAT, 2008).
The growth of cities in Lebanon has paralleled the urbanization process that is taking place globally. The conditions generated out of urbanization have a number of universal commonalities.This paper has been prepared to serve as a background paper for the first report on the State of the Arab Cities to be published by the UN-HABITAT, the Arab League and the Arab Town Organization.
Program Planning and Evaluation In Urban Youth Centres , Volume 5 2011 This manual exists as one of a growing library of materials produced by UN-HABITAT for use by and in the One Stop and We Are the Future Urban Youth Centres.