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.

Towns and cities are increasingly important places for tackling gender inequalities.

Livingstone, the capital of Northern Rhodesia before independence and before Lusaka became the capital, is the largest town in Zambia’s Southern Province and the tourist capital of Zambia.

Este Manual de Perguntas pretende responder de forma directa e prática às perguntas gerais sobre como implementar, de maneira eficaz, um Orçamento Participativo.

The present Manual of Frequently Asked Questions intends to respond in a direct
and practical way to the general question of how best to implement a Participatory
Budget.

Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization.

This report documents many effective and equitable examples of sustainable urbanization that are helping to define a new role for urban planning.

In recent years, the humanitarian community has looked inward, learning from their past experiences in providing emergency shelter for the ever-increasing number of populations suffering from crises worldwide.

The goals of the structure plans are towards achieving environmental sustainability in the context of achieving State and Local Economic Development Strategies, Millennium Development Goals and Habitat Agenda, orderly and healthy development, the contributions of cities to sustained economic growth, poverty reduction, sustainable livelihoods, good governance and gender empowerment.