| Eritrea: National and Cities Urban Profile | 2008 | Urban Profiling is an assessment of needs and capacity building gaps at the city level. |
| Quick Guides for Policy Makers - Housing the Poor in Asian Cities. 5: Housing Finance. Ways to help the poor pay for housing | 2008 | This Quick Guide introduces some of the key concepts of formal housing finance and an overview of how both the formal and informal systems of delivering housing finance work especially with regard to the urban poor. |
| Hacia la solución de una crisis mundial: Año Internacional del Saneamiento 2008 (Spanish Language Version) | 2008 | El 20 de diciembre de 2006, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas declaró que 2008 sería el Año Internacional del Saneamiento. |
| Institutional Harmonisation Processes in the Kenyan Land Sector:A Case Study of the Time Period 2003–2007 | 2008 | Since the early 1990’s aid modalities and their effectiveness have been repeatedly scrutinised with the aim to promote aid and thus development effectiveness through institutional harmonisation, often referred to as Harmonisation, Alignment and Coordination (HAC). |
| Derechos Seguros al Suelo para Todos - Spanish language Version | 2008 | Esta publicación está destinada a los legisladores y a las autoridades públicas. Es para los que trabajan en la gestión y desarrollo del suelo y buscan las mejores maneras de garantizar los derechos y satisfacer la creciente demanda por suelo. |
| National Strategy on Urban Crime Prevention in Tanzania | 2008 | In 2007 Tanzania committed to the development of a national strategy on urban crime prevention. The National Strategy on Urban Crime Prevention in Tanzania is the culmination of 10 years of work on safety in Tanzania. |
| How to Establish an Effective Land Sector | 2008 | This guide presents a general overview on institutional harmonisation processes, i.e. the various factors and tools included in fostering institutional harmonisation in a sector. |
| Sheikh - First steps towards strategic urban planning | 2008 | The publication documents the process undertaken by the Sheikh Municipality, records the outcomes of the first broad consensus on urban issues, priority interventions and action plans, introduces the spatial analysis as a tool for strategic planning, and provides a comprehensive methodological tool for strategic urban planning. |
| Quick Guides for Policy Makers - Housing the Poor in Asian Cities. 1: Urbanization. The role the poor play in urban development | 2008 | This Quick Guide 1 looks at some of the current trends in urbanization in Asia, including urban-rural migration, the links between Qurbanization and poverty and the state of formal and informal housing in the context of urbanization. |
| Gender Mainstreaming in Local Authorities - Best Practices | 2008 | Since the 1980s, there has been growing recognition of the need to ensure women's equal access to urban public spaces. |