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| Shelter Co-operatives in Eastern and Southern Africa |
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A review of current and potential contributions of co-operatives to shelter development in Eastern and Southern Africa. Based on studies in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe, the report also reviews the structure and organisation of ...
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Year: 2001,
Number of pages: 122, Type of publication: Book
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| Land survey and Large-Scale Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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This publication promotes the facilitation of property rights and tenure security to all segments of the population through effective and efficient planning and management of land.
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Year: 2001,
Number of pages: 134, Type of publication: Book
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| Compressed earth blocks |
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The poster illustrates the main stages of production including sieving the soil, measuring and mixing of components, moulding, quality control, curing and stacking. It also includes guidelines on the proper building practices when using compressed ea...
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Year: 2001,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Ferro-cement channels |
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Ferro-cement, a layer of steel mesh (chicken mesh) embedded in mortar, is a durable, waterproof, versatile and economical solution that can be used for roofs. Despite its obvious advantages, ferro-cement is not used extensively in developing countrie...
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Year: 2001,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Dome construction |
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In many countries, people are depending on wood for roof construction. Yet, deforestation has raised the price of timber to a level that is unaffordable for the poor. Dome construction is an ancient woodless building technique that needs to be revive...
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Year: 2001,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Vault construction |
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Vault construction is an ancient building technique that can be revived especially in countries with scarcity of timber. However, as the shape of the vault is crucial for stability, construction of vault requires often stability studies and well-trai...
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Year: 2001,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Rammed earth construction |
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Rammed earth is a building technique where humid relatively sandy soil is rammed in layers between shutters made of metal or timber. It is often stabilized with cement or lime. It is a non-polluting energy-saving building material that lends itself f...
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Year: 2001,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Strategies To Combat Homelessness |
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One of the most comprehensive works on homelessness globally. Provides a typology and examples of strategies to prevent and combat homelessness. It also includes typologies and characteristics of homeless people (and street children), and a discussio...
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Year: 2000,
Number of pages: 202, Type of publication: Book
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| Position Paper On Housing Rights |
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Outlines the basis for developing the United Nations Housing Rights Programme (UNHRP), a joint initiative of UNCHS (Habitat) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to address and implement relevant resolutions of the Commission on H...
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Year: 2000,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Innovative and Effective Approaches to Housing |
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This booklet is intended as guides to UNCHS (Habitat)’s Best Practices Database. It aims to help local policy makers learn about innovative approaches to housing, technology tools and methods, that have proved successful in urban areas around the g...
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Year: 1999,
Number of pages: 91, Type of publication: Book
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| Shelter, Employment and the Urban Poor |
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Local and national Governments -- and of international development programmes -- must therefore be to actively support and advocate poverty-reduction strategies based on labour-intensive shelter delivery using local resources and linking the goals of...
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Year: 1995,
Number of pages: 3, Type of publication: Book
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| Improving Rural Shelter In Developing Countries |
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This publication aims at beginning to fill the vacuum in rural shelter policy: firstly, by developing a conceptual framework for rural shelter policy which takes into account several issues which are currently important in development, namely, pove...
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Year: 1995,
Number of pages: 46, Type of publication: Book
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| Community Construction Contract System in Sri Lanka (THE) |
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The publication argues the need for new approaches to infrastructure service delivery and describes one innovative approach as developed in Sri Lanka. The community construction contract is explained in detail, including the procedures of awarding co...
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Year: 1994,
Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
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