In the vast majority of countries land and housing affordability is a critical contemporary challenge. While in different countries and regions the specificities of the challenge vary, the universal truism is that it is becoming increasing difficult for the vast majority of urban residents to obtain and retain adequate and affordable land and housing. This series canvases the state of affordable land and housing in four regions facing major affordability difficulties: Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and Europe and North America (member countries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). Each volume firstly explores the major trends in housing conditions, availability, quality and tenure modalities.

Following this, each volume analyses housing policy responses to address growing affordability problems and the improvement of substandard housing conditions. Lastly, key recommendations for local, national and international policy initiatives that can increase the provision of affordable housing in the respective regions is provided.

A practical guide to conducting comprehensive national housing profiles with a direct objective of understanding the housing sector, while offering evidence-based data to inform policy reform. The housing profile process also aims to be highly participatory and engage multi-stakeholder groups that influence and are influenced by the housing sector.

This is a guide that has global relevance to a world that is rapidly urbanizing and where populations growth continues to create unprecedented housing demand, particularly in developing countries.

Today, the housing situation in Nepal, especially for the urban poor, remains far from adequate. Indeed, urban dwellers in Nepal have been finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing due to rapid price rises in land.

Such is the challenge that the Government of Nepal approached UN-HABITAT to help it formulate its new national housing policy. This publication, the Nepal Housing Sector Profile, is a comprehensive, in-depth outcome of that request.

The Ghana Urban Housing Sector Profile is a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the urban housing sector, focusing on its strengths and weaknesses. The Profile contributes to the creation of a framework that enables provision of adequate housing for all. It builds a comprehensive understanding of the functioning of the urban housing sector that can serve as authoritative reference for all actors in the housing sector.

It provides a series of recommendations for policy design and to the key stakeholders in the housing delivery system, including prioritized actions necessary for its improvement.

The Tunisia Urban Housing Sector Profile is a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the urban housing sector, focussing on its strengths and weaknesses. The Profile contributes to the creation of a framework that enables provision of adequate housing for all. It builds a comprehensive understanding of the functioning of the urban housing sector that can serve as authoritative reference for all actors in the housing sector. It provides a series of recommendations for policy design and to the key stakeholders in the housing delivery system, including prioritized actions necessary for its improvement.

The Malawi Urban Housing Sector Profile is the first in a new UN-HABITAT report series. It is an analytical tool to support a comprehensive assessment of housing delivery systems in different countries tackling access to land, housing finance, basic infrastructure/services, building materials and technology amongst other issues hindering the housing sector to work properly.

It draws recommendations to enable better housing delivery for all.

This book aims to be a resource for future evaluations and policy making. The evaluation focuses on two key questions: what were the success factors in achieving housing in the particular context of the reconstruction in Aceh and Nias; and what can be learned about the role of government and civil society in order to achieve successful housing recovery in the future.

A comparative analysis has been instructive, as the Aceh post-disaster context was complex and likely unique, especially with regard to the free influx of many international organizations with more funding available than could often be spent within a reasonable time frame.

Lorsque le commandant français, Protet, faisait hisser le drapeau français sur Dakar le 25 mai 1857, la future grande ville située sur l’extrémité occidentale du Sénégal, en bordure de l’Océan Atlantique, n’était qu’un petit village Lébou.

Mais sa position géographique privilégiée, son rayonnement de ville carrefour (entre l’Afrique, l’Europe et l’Amérique) ainsi que certains événements survenus au cours de son développement urbain (capitale de l’AOF) feront de Dakar un grand centre qui impose dès lors son influence et sa polarisation sur le plan national et international.

Le but ultime du Profil du Secteur Urbain est de contribuer au développement de la politique de réduction de la pauvreté urbaine aux niveaux local, national et régional en Afrique et dans les Pays Arabes. Il s’agit ici d’évaluer les besoins et les mécanismes de réponse et ce, en gardant toujours à l’esprit les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD).

Notre politique consiste à soutenir des activités telles que le renforcement des capacités (formation des cadres dans l’administration; attribution de matériel, conseil en organisation), des programmes de développement visant à faciliter l’accès à un habitat décents et aux services urbains de base pour les plus démunies et de promouvoir une législation en faveur de l’équité entre les sexes et d’un plus grand respect de l’environnement.

L’approche est basée sur les TDR standards développés par la Commission européenne (CE) et déjà mis en oeuvre par ONU HABITAT en Somalie.

Le but ultime du Profil du Secteur Urbain est de contribuer au développement de la politique de réduction de la pauvreté urbaine aux niveaux lo-cal, national et régional en Afrique et dans les Pays Arabes. Il s’agit ici d’évaluer les besoins et les mécanismes de réponse appropriés et ce, en gardant toujours à l’esprit les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD).

Notre politique consiste à soutenir des activités telles que le renforce-ment des capacités (formation des cadres dans l’administration; attribution de matériel, conseils en organisation), des programmes de développe-ment visant à faciliter l’accès à un habitat décent et aux services urbains de base pour les plus démunis et de promouvoir une législation en faveur de l’équité entre les sexes et d’un plus grand respect de l’environnement.