This series of publications, “Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development Planning: A guide for Municipalities” is a consolidation of the materials initially developed as UN-HABITAT’s response to the specific requirements of the Balkan context.

The series has been suitably modified to be able to serve as a generic guideline for the training of urban planners in the area of urban strategic planning. This volume addresses action planning processes.

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country cities. This report

(i) reviews regulatory factors constraining the development and operation of urban informal sector enterprises.

(ii) examines innovative experiences regulatory reform in cities of three developing countries with large urban informal sectors.

(iii) identifies successful policies and develop policy guidelines for streamlining municipal regulation of the sector with a view to enhancing the income of the urban poor.