Gobernanza y Seguridad Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe ( Serie: Aprendiendo de la Innovación, 2004)

This publication is designed for national and local authorities, the police, and civil society organisations which contribute to urban safety development at the local level.

The development goal of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance is to
contribute to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance.

This publication is set to highlight the broad range of issues that requires consideration with regard to local democracy and decentralization in East and Southern Africa. It aims at providing brief overviews on decentralization processes in the five selected countries in the region. It summarizes the many different aspects of decentralization highlighting key issues that need to be addressed by practitioners.

The Special Session of the General Assembly for an Overall Review and Appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, known as Istanbul+5, held on 6-8 June 2001 in New York introduced in the General Assembly a new forum for debate.

This handbook 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.

This second booklet in the series intended for managers intending to attend Operations and Maintenance workshop is designed to help the participants and their local governments become better equipped to launch a successful O&M programme.

The last publication in the TQMn series includes two workshop designs: one based on information that participants bring to the workshop, information drawing on O&M situations in their own local governments while the second one is based on learning experience drawn from field work in a host local government.