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Her City – A Guide for Cities to Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Planning and Design together with Girls (third edition)
2021
Her City supports urban development from a girl’s perspective. It guides urban actors to implement projects through a step-by-step methodology providing an open and digitally accessible platform for all.
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Waste Wise Cities Tool
2021
Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT) guides readers through 7 steps to collect data on municipal solid waste (MSW) generated, collected, and managed in controlled facilities. The tool provides a household survey guide for total MSW generation, a questionnaire to identify the MSW recovery chain and criteria to check the environmental control level of waste management facilities in a city.
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Urban and Territorial Planning for Health: a Training Manual
2020
The "Integrating Health into Urban and Territorial Planning: A Practical Training
Guide" is a comprehensive sourcebook developed by UN-Habitat in partnership with
the World Health Organization (WHO). Building on the sourcebook, this training
manual addresses the need to incorporate health and well-being into urban and
territorial planning. It is an essential tool for urban health professionals, planners,
decision-makers, and civil society…
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The Matrix of Functions to Strengthen Integrated Territorial Development in Maputo Metropolitan Area
2020
UN-Habitat developed the Spatial Development Framework (SDF) methodology with tools like the Matrix of Functions, to assist national, regional and local governments to make spatially informed strategic decisions to achieve policies, plans or strategies, based on the empirical understanding of the territorial dynamics. UN-Habitat implemented the MoF in Maputo Metropolitan Area to support an integrated territorial development for the area and prepared this report to present the results.
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Guidelines on markets' spatial adaptation for COVID-19 prevention in urban areas of Mozambique
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Guidelines on markets' spatial adaptation for COVID-19 prevention in urban areas of Mozambique
2020
COVID-19 pandemic is affecting urban areas all around the world, especially high-density public spaces and informal settlements. Despite the willingness to act, local Municipalities in Mozambique often lack technical and financial capacities. To support them, UN-Habitat in the context of the Urban Task Force for COVID-19, prepared this manual for markets’ spatial adaptation for COVID-19 prevention.
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Urban Profiling Toolbox
2020
Urban profiling is a methodology implemented in various conflict-affected countries in the region. Through urban profiles, UN-Habitat seeks to provide up to date, holistic documentation and analysis of the impact of the crisis in key cities, synthesising information and insight from existing sources and priority sectors, supplemented by direct field research by UN-Habitat teams based in each city.
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Quick Guide to Bus Sector Modernisation
2020
This guide is intended for governments that want to take more responsibility over the public transport services being operated in their cities: in particular, cities where the bus systems are currently informal and unregulated. The pillars of public transport regulation and business planning in this guide are based on the authors’ experience with bus and BRT systems across both the developed and developing world.
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Sub-National Urban Policy: A Guide
2020
Subnational Urban Policy: A Guide, is an instrument to support urban management for governments and stakeholders, especially at the subnational level. It is based on experiences collected at different levels of sub-national governments and regions around the world. It broadens knowledge and commitment to better understand what subnational urban policies are, what they are for, who benefits from them, and the problems they try to solve.
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The New Urban Agenda Illustrated Handbook
2020
The New Urban Agenda Illustrated handbook prepared for all urban stakeholders globally supports a stronger understanding and implementation of the propositions contained in the New Urban Agenda.
The handbook analyses the contents and propositions of the New Urban Agenda and their synergies with the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets, and enriches them with visual illustrations, examples from all over the world and practical propositions for action.
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Presentation on Strategic plan 2026-2029
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Proposed Roadmap for 2024 meetings of the Governing Bodies of UN-Habitat (January 2024 to June 2024)(Version 4 April 2024)
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HSP/EB.2024/11: Report by the Executive Director on actions to improve the internal management, policies and procedures of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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HSP/EB.2024/11: Report by the Executive Director on actions to improve the internal management, policies and procedures of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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HSP/EB.2024/11: Report by the Executive Director on actions to improve the internal management, policies and procedures of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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HSP/EB.2024/11: Report by the Executive Director on actions to improve the internal management, policies and procedures of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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HSP/EB.2024/11: Report by the Executive Director on actions to improve the internal management, policies and procedures of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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