The Government of Ecuador is in the process of creating a new Constitution that will change the laws and regulations, public policies and institutions will change as a result.

Esta Guía, es parte de una serie de Publicaciones del Programa Ciudades más Seguras de la Agencia de Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos ONU-HABITAT, y ha sido elaborada por la Universidad Alberto Alberto Hurtado(UAH), de Chile.

Land is increasingly recognised as an important governance issue.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the world's most pressing crises.

Today and more than ever before, cities are home to humanity’s great expectations.

The development of the Country Program Document and the activities to be carried out were guided by the orientations given by the Government for the period 2005-2010, the relevant recommendations resulting from six workshops organized in 2007 and 2008 within the framework of the formulation of both the National Housing Policy and Urban Policy in Burundi and by the strategic axes identified in common programming documents such as the CSLP, the UNDAF and the CCSP.

On 1 January 2008 Cape Verde moved from the group of Least Developed Countries to the Middle Development Country group.

The next two years the Government of Colombia will promote the strategy of Amicable Cities defined in the National Development Plan 2006-2010 for the improving of housing and the promotion of macro projects of national interest for land housing and services supply at the regional level.

Costa Rica is in the process of implementing its urban development planning system.