This publication is designed for national and local authorities, the police, and civil society organisations which contribute to urban safety development at the local level.

This survey report is part of the Safer Cities Nairobi Project aiming at shedding light on the hidden problem of violence against women, and to address the gaps of information that persist on this subject.

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.

The publication highlights the Sustainable Cities Programmes approach and reviews the achievements in the period from 1990 to 2000 and looks ahead to future directions of the SCP based lessons of experience gathered from the ongoing city projects.

This report provides an overview of the importance of Water Demand Management (WMD) in South Africa. It highlights the significance of improving water use efficiency in the Vaal River System.

This publication has been designed to provide results and analysis of data collected by UN-HABITAT in 1998, five years after the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul.

Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation (CMHC) Series No. 1

The development goal of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance is to
contribute to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance.