Sans des institutions locales fortes et un personnel motivé, la réforme de la décentralisation et des établissements humains ne donnera pas les résultats escomptés en matière de développement.

Detail the scale of inadequate provision of water and sanitation, impacts on health and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the formation of slums, as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It also evaluates the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. The report argues that the number of slum dwellers is growing and will continue to increase…

Since 1991, UN-Habitat has been implementing programmes addressing women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming in its’ overall activities. This evaluation assesses what the Women and Habitat Programme (WHP) and the Gender Unit have achieved in these areas. The Evaluation also focuses on understanding the relevance of UN-Habitat partnership with organizations dealing with women and habitat issues. Information and views were gathered from UN-Habitat staff and documents, as well as key partners.…

Cities in a Globalizing World presents a comprehensive review of the world’s cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of global trends towards social and economic integration.

This handbook, The Councillor as Facilitator, is one of the series of 12 and is intended for use primarily by trainers in national training institutions for local government or training units within local governments themselves. As an additional assistance for trainers using these handbooks, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) has published a companion Trainer’s Guide for Training of Elected Officials containing trainer’s notes and information prepared exclusively for the…

Kama ambavyo imeonyeshwa na ukaguzi wa mahitaji ya mafunzo uliofanywa na Kituo cha Umoja wa Mataifa cha Makao ya Binadamu Habitat) mahitaji ya mafunzo ya maofisa wa serikali ambao wamechaguliwa (madiwani) au ya wanasiasa yanaonekana ya dharura sana kote ulimwenguni. Wakati huo huo, mafunzo haya yanaonekana maeneo yenye kushugulikiwa kwa kiwango cha chini zaidi miongoni mwa yale yanayo jenga uwezo kwa minajili ya maendeleo ya mneneo maalum na usimamizi wa miji.

This publication introduces the general development status of cities in Vietnam on different dimensions, from history, administrative characteristics, land, population, labor structure, to economic, cultural-social aspects, infrastructure, and environment.

Gizo is the provincial center for the Western province and is located approximately 370 kilometers from Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands.