UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Work plan 8. Explains what they are, how they will work and why they are important.

The paper summarizes and critically examines collaborative research efforts in the field of Latin American urban studies in the latter half of the 20th century.

Secondary urban centres vary widely, both in terms of economic base and water service delivery models.

To meet the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals some 300,000 people have to be provided with improved water supplies and 440,000 with improved sanitation every day during the period 2001-2015.

This paper presents an analysis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows to the water and sanitation sector, based on data gathered from the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and Creditor Reporting Systems (CRS) databases.

In this paper, John Friedmann critically examines the assumption that exports and external investments are the driving forces of growth in cities of developing countries.

This background paper for the 2003 expert group meeting on housing rights monitoring presents a framework for the development of a set of housing rights indicators. A set of 6 housing rights elements and 17 housing rights indicators is proposed in the report.