Le Sénégal est situé entre 12° et 16 °30 de latitude nord et 11°30 et 17°30 de longitude ouest, sur une superficie de 196 712 km², à l’avancée la plus occidentale du continent africain dans l’océan Atlantique, au confluent de l’Europe, de l’Afrique et des Amériques, et à un carrefour de grandes routes maritimes et aériennes.

Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers.

This Guideline is an outcome of the deliberations of the workshop. This guideline will serve as a “ready-reckoner” for post-disaster and post-conflict recovery programme implementers. At the same time, it addresses some of the implementation policy issues and provides guidance in the methodologies to be applied. This guideline attempts at presenting the complex process of recovery in a simple and practical manner.

Developing new land policies can be a long and difficult process.

This paper summarizes the outcome of an international conference on addressing the issue of urban youth in conflict with the law in Africa.

This publication on Secure Land Rights for All demonstrates how secure land rights are particularly important in helping to reverse three types of phenomena: gender discrimination; social exclusion of vulnerable groups; and wider social and economic inequalities linked to inequitable and insecure rights to land.

This Working Paper critically assesses the potential role of local authorities in promoting biodiversity conservation in the Lake Victoria Cities within the existing global framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Since the year 2000 the City of Toronto, Canada's most populous municipality, has mounted a sustained, high-profile campaign to ensure the devolution of more powers and resources from its provincial and federal counterparts.

Local governments are increasingly realizing the importance and benefits of addressing gender equality and equity in their decision making, policies, programmes and services. Many are rising to the challenge.