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Quick Guides for Policy Makers
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Number of pages
43
Publication date
2008
Publisher
UN-Habitat

Quick Guides for Policy Makers - Housing the Poor in Asian Cities. 6: Community-Based Organizations. The poor as agents of development

This Quick Guide examines how community organizations can be valuable and resourceful partners when it comes to finding viable solutions to their own housing problems.

It looks at how community organizations have developed in Asia, how they function and what tools they use, which are useful for policy makers, in particular in the context of decentralization.