Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting ¨Planning Compact Cities: Exploring the possibilities and limits of densification¨ held in Seville, Spain, 13rd-14th March 2017

This report is a photograph of the socio-economic situation of young people in the cities of Colombia. It serves as an input for the discussion, analysis and reflection, about public policies focused on this population.

El objetivo de este estudio es comprender las oportunidades y los desafíos de las estrategias de rendición de cuentas, transparencia y participación pública a nivel local mediante la investigación de 91 casos tomados de las bases de datos de mejores prácticas locales. Centrándose en 9 casos exitosos en Bolivia, Brasil y Perú, el autor encuentra que las iniciativas exitosas crean un sentido de propiedad del programa para los actores participantes. A partir de los análisis de casos, el autor…

The report provides the Governing Council with an overview of UN-Habitat’s progress during the period 2015 – 2017. The information presented builds upon UN-Habitat’s perspective throughout this process and the accounts of member States and IG-UTP partners in adopting and using the Guidelines within their specific contexts.

As part of the inception phase of the programme (September 2016 – August 2017), a comprehensive baseline assessment of the local governance environment was rolled-out which included four domains: Municipal and Civil Society Organizations baseline assessment, Public opinion focus groups, and Gender Analysis.

Gender Analysis in north Kosovo and concerned local authorities presents key findings of collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated household, workplace and community data/information in the four Serbian municipalities in the north of Kosovo. The analysis covers key areas of concern such as demography, labour market, local economy, health, education, politics, natural resources, infrastructure, safety, etc. so as to gain insights into what resources are available in the targeted communities,…

The Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) brings together experts and cities to contribute to improved migration governance at city level, including migrants' access to basic services and human rights. Implemented since 2015, the project is working with the cities of Amman, Beirut, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Tangiers, Tunis, Turin and Vienna to increase the knowledge base on urban migration and nurture a peer-to-peer dialogue to support mutual learning on specific urban…