This impact assessment identifies how the water and sanitation initiatives implemented under the Water Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch of UN-HABITAT, have strategically mainstreamed gender aspects in its various initiatives and to identify achievements and impact, challenges, lessons learned and provide recommendations.

UN-HABITAT has played a central and very active role in the recent debate on the future of urban planning.

This UN-HABITAT Country Programme Document is prepared in the context that Vietnam is one of the first eight pilot countries for implementation of the One UN Initiative following the recommendations of the UN High Level Panel on System-Wide Coherence.

This book looks at the process and outputs of the Localising Agenda 21 programme in Nakuru (Kenya), Essaouira (Morocco), Vinh (Vietnam) and Bayamo (Cuba), an reflects on the relationship between sustainable visions for possible futures and strategic urban projects.

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.