The Strategic Urban Development Plan of Homa Bay is an initiative of the UN-HABITAT taking place in collaboration with Homa Bay Municipal Council.

In the past fifty years, there has been an unprecedented increase in urban population which directly translates into a mushrooming of slums worldwide.

UN-HABITAT has played a central and very active role in the recent debate on the future of urban planning.

Second Meeting of East African Community Ministers of Water, Ministers of Finance, and Development Partners of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative on Scaling Up of the Lake Victoria Region Water and Sanitation Initiative

The publication is a toolkit specifically prepared to help local authorities raise internal and external resources to finance implementation of priority projects and programmes.

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.

Since the early 1990’s aid modalities and their effectiveness have been repeatedly scrutinised with the aim to promote aid and thus development effectiveness through institutional harmonisation, often referred to as Harmonisation, Alignment and Coordination (HAC).

This guide presents a general overview on institutional harmonisation processes, i.e. the various factors and tools included in fostering institutional harmonisation in a sector.