In Zambia the Sustainable Cities Programme was implemented in Lusaka from 1994-2001 to address high levels of poverty and inequality experienced in the city resulting from a shrinking economy as the country’s copper-dominated export sector started to dwindle and government’s capacity to adequately deliver public services was impaired.

Decision makers in local government face the ongoing challenge of how to provide services to the residents with limited resources.

This Working Paper critically assesses the potential role of local authorities in promoting biodiversity conservation in the Lake Victoria Cities within the existing global framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

The world continues to urbanize at an unprecedented pace and this year, for the first time ever, over half of the world’s population will be living in cities.

This publication is addressed to stakeholders at all levels, setting out specific promises and challenges of achieving sustainable urbanization. It elaborates on many of the issues raised at the first World Urban Forum that was held at UN-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi in April-May 2002. At that Forum, a full range of Habitat Agenda partners came together to develop the concept of “sustainable urbanization” and to discuss its implementation.

Guide for Community Based Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) (THE)