The Initial Phase of the Water for African Cities (WAC) project has provided excellent value for relatively modest investments. It has amply demonstrated the validity of three interrelated programme concepts to the realization of integrated urban water resource management: water demand management (WDM), the protection of water sources, and the introduction of water into school education.

This Chapter summarises the Forward-Looking Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming as carried out by UN-HABITAT, based on Lessons Learned from the Women and Habitat Programme (WHP) and the Gender Unit.

At the beginning of 2004, after the UN-Habitat Global Campaigns on Secure Tenure and Urban Governance had been in operation for four years, the Committee of Permanent Repre

This report presents an evaluation of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF III) that took place in Vancouver, Canada, from 19-23 June 2006. It was attended by 10,121 participants from 109 countries.

Sida has made a long-term commitment to support the sustainable development of the Lake Victoria region. One of the activities supported by Sida is to establish and develop a co-operation network for the local authorities in the Lake Victoria Basin. LVRLAC is a network organisation founded by the local authorities in the Basin in 1997.

This report is based on (i) a review of the original feasibility study and all relevant documents that were prepared during the design phase, including (but not limited to) the operations manual, scoping papers, trip reports, country strategy papers, progress reports, budget proposals and proposals by the winning consortium for the Slum upgrading Pilot teams.

UN-HABITAT/ UNEP commissioned a Mid-Term Review (MTR) of phase 2 of the Global sustainable cities programme (SCP) and localising Agenda 21 (LA21) 2003 -2007 in consultations with the Government of the Netherlands and Belgium, carried out during October 2005 – February 2006.

This forward-looking evaluation, commissioned by UN-Habitat, is a product of two weeks of intensive discussions, interviews and listening followed by three week of literature review and reflections.

UN-HABITAT has produced five flagship reports since 1986. In December 1979, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 32/114 mandated UN-HABITAT (then known as the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements) to prepare the Global Report on Human Settlements, to be issued every five years.

This evaluation has been carried out in response to the resolution adopted by the Governing Council during its 22nd session in April 2009, GC/22/10.