Le Sénégal est situé entre 12° et 16 °30 de latitude nord et 11°30 et 17°30 de longitude ouest, sur une superficie de 196 712 km², à l’avancée la plus occidentale du continent africain dans l’océan Atlantique, au confluent de l’Europe, de l’Afrique et des Amériques, et à un carrefour de grandes routes maritimes et aériennes.

Il est bordé au nord par la Mauritanie, à l’est par le Mali, au sud par la Guinée Bissau et la Guinée Conakry et à l’ouest par l’océan Atlantique sur une façade de 700 km. La Gambie située entre les régions de Kaolack et de Ziguinchor, forme une enclave sur le cours inférieur du fleuve du même nom.

This Quick Guide 1 looks at some of the current trends in urbanization in Asia, including urban-rural migration, the links between urbanization and poverty and the state of formal and informal housing in the context of urbanization.

The guide examines the housing and land policies and programmes highlighting those which have been most effective to date. 

This Quick Guide describes ways of addressing low-income housing. It reviews well - tried methods of improving the housing environments of people living in slums and informal settlements, and providing adequate housing for future generations living in Asia’s cities.

The guide examines considerations needed to improve these settlements, and to produce housing at a city-wide scale.

This Quick Guide examines how formal and informal land markets in Asian cities work, how they have succeeded or failed to make decent, secure, affordable land accessible to the urban poor and how community organizations, support institutions and government agencies are finding innovative ways to improve the poor's access to land for their housing.

This Quick Guide explores several practicable and replicable alternatives to evictions which are being tested, refined and scaled up by governments, community groups and support institutions in Asia.

In almost all cases, poor communities are central creative partners in these processes. The guide rpresents guidelines to help policy makers to build better formal procedures to minimize forced eviction.

This Quick Guide introduces some of the key concepts of formal housing finance and an overview of how both the formal and informal systems of delivering housing finance work especially with regard to the urban poor.

The guide provides insights to innovative ways in affordable housing finance for the urban poor living in Asia’s cities.

This Quick Guide examines how community organizations can be valuable and resourceful partners when it comes to finding viable solutions to their own housing problems.

It looks at how community organizations have developed in Asia, how they function and what tools they use, which are useful for policy makers, in particular in the context of decentralization.

This Quick Guide reviews the characteristics of rental housing markets and how they function. The issue of demand and supply of rental housing are discussed, followed by policy options to regulate, promote and expand rental housing - especially for the urban poor living in Asia’s cities.

This report provides a comprehensive review of the challenges for low and moderate income housing. It focuses on the issues of affordability, accessibility and sustainability in resolving the housing problem. It looks at both formal and informal instruments and how experiences in developed countries and instruments in addressing middle income households can help inspire solutions for low and moderate income housing.

The report examines a whole range of major instruments and experiences across the developing and developed worlds. It will provide inspirations for governments, local authorities, partners, private sectors and civil society in their pursuit of innovative instruments to meet the challenges of affordability, accessibility and sustainability in realising the vision of “adequate shelter for all”.

The case studies comprise a selection of initiatives in the enhancement and conservation of cultural heritage, contained in UN HABITAT’S Best Practices Database.

They represent all regions of the world and demonstrate a variety of entry points, methods and approaches. Environmental, economic and social sustainability are critical considerations in all of them.