UN-HABITAT, through the Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme, has implemented a pilot project to document some outstanding urban policies and laws.

A preliminary effort to identify whether, and to what extent, indigenous peoples enjoy the right to adequate housing in different regions of the world.

his report describes UN-HABITAT’s projects in the over 50 countries in which they are currently active.

This paper gives an overall vision of the strategy that has been adopted by UN-HABITAT to ensure that all the relevant Millennium Development Goals, generally, and the goals that target directly the urban poor, more specifically, become an integral part of the priorities and actions of its different organizational units.

This is the first Report of the Advisory group on forced evictions (AGFE) to the Executive Director of UNHABITAT.

The Local Economic Development (LED) series is a resource for local governments, businesses and civil society organizations to help them initiate and implement local economic development interventions through a strategic planning process.

The hardships that have confronted the people of former Yugoslavia throughout the past decade have been unprecedented in post-World War II Europe.

Security of Tenure is one of the cornerstones of Millennium Development Goal 7 on the improvement of the lives of slum dwellers, and is the main focus of the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure

The most fundamental challenges of cities-big and small-are linked to their capacity to generate wealth and economic opportunities.