This new book, which is jointly published by UN-HABITAT and the Università IUAV di Venezia, gives an account of different policies, practices and governance models that are addressing the issue of international migration in an urbanizing world.

The report is highlighting the priorities to intervene in the fastest urbanizing region of the world.

The Situation Analysis is a collaborative effort between the Municipal Council of Kisumu (MCK), Government of Kenya (GoK) and the United Nation Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT).

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

Los señalamientos y la presentación del material de esta publicación no implican la expresión de opinión alguna por parte del Secretariado de las Naciones Unidas con respecto al estatus legal de ningún país, territorio, ciudad o área, ni de sus habitantes, ni con respecto a la delimitación de sus fronteras o límites, ni acerca de su sistema económico y grado de desarrollo.

The Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) started in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam in 1992 under an initiative known as the Sustainable Dar es Salaam Project. Dar es Salaam was one of the first demonstration cities in Africa where environmental planning and management were revitalized under the SCP, a joint initiative of UNHABITAT and UNEP to implement Agenda 21.

Others cities were Ismailia in Egypt, Accra in Ghana, Dakar in Senegal, Ibadan in Nigeria, and Lusaka in Zambia.…

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 was released to mark the theme of World Habitat Day 2004 - Cities: engines of rural development - and in support of the UN-HABITAT conference on Urban-Rural Linkages Approach to Development, 1-4 October 2004.