State of the Urban Youth 2010/2011: Leveling the Playing Field 2010 This report is based on data from UN-HABITAT’s Global Urban Indicator Database, as well as surveys of, and focus group discussions with, selected representative groups of young people in five major cities located in four developing regions: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Mumbai (India), Kingston (Jamaica), Nairobi (Kenya) and Lagos (Nigeria).
Guidelines for the Redevelopment of Central Ger area 2010 This Guideline is one of three Urban Development Guidelines that seek to respond to overlying issues in each of the Ger areas in Ulaanbaatar, integrating lessons learnt from past interventions and initiatives, and providing a support framework for dealing with the current challenges of urban development.
Lake Victoria water and sanitation brochure 2010 Gives a progress on the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation programme. The objective of the lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative is to make a substantial and rapid contribution to the achievement of internationally-agreed water and sanitation goals in secondary towns in the lake Victoria region in East Africa. The programme has so far targeted 10 towns and is now being scaled up to another 15 towns.
5 Temas Selectos del Hábitat Latinoamericano 2010 The publication presents five experiences about housing, local economic development, management of solid waste in Latin American Countries, youth and citizen participation in five cities of Latin America.
Cameroun: Profil Urbain National du Cameroun - French Language Version 2010 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’insécurité, au chômage et à la montée du grand banditisme.
Mozambique Cities Urban Profile: Maputo, Nacala and Manica 2010 Urban Profiling is a rapid, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priorities, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at the local and national levels.
Shelter Projects 2009 2010 By the end of 2009, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution.
Hidden Cities ABRIDGED Chinese 2010 This is the (chinese) abridged version of the global report Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban Settings is one important component of the overall WHO strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and global health communities to reduce health inequities in an increasingly urbanized world.
Count me in , Surveying for tenure security 2010 This book is about involving and engaging urban poor communities in one of the first steps of any participatory planning or upgrading initiative.
Sao Paulo; A tale of two cities 2010 UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intercity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground interviews, insights and images. São Paulo: A Tale of Two Cities launches the series, providing a close look at this vast mega city of internal contradictions and complexities.