The UN-Habitat Country Programme Documents are tangible components of the plan and a genuine endeavour to strategically develop country programmes in a consultative and inclusive process involving UN-Habitat’s country team and headquarter branches, national governments, sister agencies from the UN Country Team, and development partners.

The formulation of the Kenya Country Programme Document (2013–2015) comes at a time when Kenya is in transition to a devolved system of governance under a new constitution and also after the Government of Kenya has formulated Vision 2030 (and its five-year midterm plans), a strategic plan that aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrialized, middle-income country.

It also comes at a time when the UN Country Team in Kenya has started the formulation of the next UN Development Assistance Framework (2014–2019). It is intended to overcome fragmentation in the delivery and implementation of UN-Habitat's programme in Kenya , enhance UN-Habitat's effectiveness, encourage close collaboration with the Government of Kenya, relevant civil society and private sector organizations, the UN Country Team, and the donor community in Kenya.

The Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) is an accelerated and action-oriented urban assessment of needs and capacity-building gaps at the city level.

The programme is supported by funds from the European Commission’s European Development Fund and it is currently being implemented in over 30 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. PSUP uses a structured approach where priority interventions are agreed upon through consultative processes.

The PSUP methodology consists of three phases:

(1) a rapid participatory urban profiling at national and local levels, focusing on Governance, Local Economic Development, Land, Gender, Environment, Slums and Shelter, Basic Urban Services, and Waste Management, and proposed interventions

(2) detailed priority proposals

(3) project implementation

PSUP in Trinidad encompasses a national profile, as well as profiles for San Fernando, Scarborough and Port of Spain. This is the Trinidad and Tobago national report and it constitutes a general background, a synthesis of the six themes (Governance; Slums, Shelter, Land and Tenure; Basic Urban Services; Inclusive and Safer Cities; Local Economic Development; and Disaster Management, Climate Change and Environment), and priority project proposals.

The Port of Spain Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to develop urban poverty reduction policies at local, national, and regional levels, through an assessment of needs and response mechanisms, and as a contribution to the wider-ranging implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

The study is based on analysis of existing data and a series of interviews with all relevant urban stakeholders, including local communities and institutions, civil society, the private sector, development partners, academics, and others. The consultation typically results in a collective agreement on priorities and their development into proposed capacity-building and other projects that are all aimed at urban poverty reduction.

The San Fernando Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to develop urban poverty reduction policies at local, national, and regional levels, through an assessment of needs and response mechanisms, and as a contribution to the wider-ranging implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

The study is based on analysis of existing data and a series of interviews with all relevant urban stakeholders, including local communities and institutions, civil society, the private sector, development partners, academics, and others. The consultation typically results in a collective agreement on priorities and their development into proposed capacity-building and other projects that are all aimed at urban poverty reduction.

Pointe-noire est une ville de la République du congo située au centre-ouest de l’Afrique sur la façade atlantique. du fait de l’activité pétrolière et de son port en eau profonde, elle peut être considérée comme le poumon économique du pays. la ville s’étend sur des terrains peu élevés, sa superficie actuelle est estimée à 114 400 ha.

La ville est constituée d’une série de petits plateaux séparés les uns des autres par de larges zones insalubres, ce qui crée de graves problèmes d’assainissement et de communication. la population de la municipalité de pointe-noire est de 1 100 000 habitants, répartis sur 4 communes. la ville compte 48 % d’habitants de moins de vingt ans et 33 % de chômeurs. la langue la plus parlée est le kikongo suivie du français, langue officielle du pays.

Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas.

Impact on urban safety has occurred somewhat unexpectedly. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the pages of this book: urban policy integration.

The evaluation assessed the performance of the Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) and its associated projects in the four pilot countries: Ghana,Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. The evaluation was requested by the donors of the SUF Programme i.e., the Governments of Norway, Sweden/Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Department for International Development of theUnited Kingdom.

It also responded to UN-Habitat Governing Council Resolution 20/11 which requested for an independent evaluation of the SUF pilot phase to inform decision making on how to proceed with the project. The evaluation found that one of the main outcomes of the pilot phase was the establishment of the local finance facilities which represent an important innovation that has the potential for impacting the lives of millions of slum dwellers, not only in the four pilot countries but throughout the developing world.

It is estimated that up to 1 billion people live in slums in the cities of the world – one sixth of humanity – and that the numbers are rising. The UN-HABITAT Slum Upgrading Facility Pilot Programme was established in 2004 to examine ways in which innovative finance mechanisms can help address this problem. The Slum Upgrading Facility is a technical cooperation and seed capital facility with a central purpose: to test and develop new financial instruments and methods for expanding private sector finance and public sector involvement in slum upgrading on a large scale. It is funded by the governments of the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden.

The Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) operates under the premise that slums can be upgraded successfully when slum dwellers are involved in the planning and design of upgrading projects and able to work collaboratively with a range of other key stakeholders. Slum Upgrading Facility works with local actors to make slum upgrading projects “bankable” – that is, attractive to retail banks, property developers, housing finance institutions, service providers, micro-finance institutions, and utility companies. Slum Upgrading Facility has pilot projects in Ghana, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania, where various approaches are being tested to support the purpose of the Pilot Programme.

Housing in Thailand has generally not been considered the responsibility of local government. The National Housing Authority (NHA) was set up in 1973. Initially the work of the National Housing Authority focused on the construction of houses and flats.

Then, from 1977 into the 1980’s there was a programme of sites and service development. This was significant because it led to an acceptance that slum dwellers could stay in their existing locations rather than being relocated. Slum upgrading also began in Thailand in 1977 and has continued to evolve to the present time.

The multi-stakeholder and multi-sector approach of the Slum Upgrading Facility provides a forum for the voices of poor communities and slum dwellers to be heard.

Based on the experience of implementing the SUF pilot project in Indonesia, the first and single most important issue to resolve for slum upgrading is secure land tenure.