This manual describes the components of sound financial management, revenue generation, budget formulation and execution, financial information and control for use in course on urban financial management, particularly in relation to the rapidly growing cities and towns of Africa.

This is a Bibliography by country, subject, and documents, with an index of authors, on aspects of human settlements such as land, shelter, infrastructure, services, and sustainability.

This report summarizes the experience carried out on national housing strategies in four developing countries, that is Barbados. Jamaica, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

The report of a meeting intended to provide a framework which will enable policy-makers, professional, and practitioners to analyse specific employment and human settlements situations, and to develop national and sub-national strategies with the overall objective of promoting employment-creation and income-generation.

These training materials have evolved from many years of work with managers representing a wide range of settings worldwide.

This report takes a good view of human settlements development which ft defines as the development of living conditions of the people, both in the context of the individual family and the community in which that family lives. It is the result of a field mission which took place in July 1989 in Viet Nam.

A report addressing the issues of operation and maintenance of infrastructure water facilities.

The urbanization of developing countries and the growth of spontaneous settlements are taking place on such a scale that national and local governments cannot cope with the demand for decent shelter conditions.

Deals with the necessity of energy conservation in developing countries as they become industralized and their populations grow - the need for increasing amounts of energy places a heavy burden on energy-supply systems.