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Focus on Mozambique  
View Details The aim of this publication is to present UN-Habitat's activities in Mozambique for reducing the vulnerability of local population living in disaster-prone areas which have been implemented since 2002. Particular attention is given to innovative arch...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
New Hospital Design  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
New School Design  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
RetroMaintenance of Hospitals  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
RetroMaintenance of schools  
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UN-Habitat ROAP in partnership with UNISDR Asia Pacific Secretariat developed a Tool Kit to assess the safety of critical infrastructure, focusing on schools and hospitals in South Asia. The Tool Kit for assessing critical infrastructure safety, p...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Cities Resilience Profiling Programme Brochure  
View Details Cities are safer places to live and work as urban managers are able to implement strategic development planning and programmes that target speci!c indicators of resilience to multi-hazard catastrophic events.
Year: 2012, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter Projects 2010  
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By the end of 2010, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2010, over 400 natural disasters were reported killing over 300,000 people and affecting more than 300 million pe...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 136, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT in the Somali Region Newsletter: Updates on the latest urban interventions - 13th issue  
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In this issue:

  • Mogadishu schools now operational

Year: 2012, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Turning Around the Tsunami  
View Details N-HABITAT Working in Partnership with Sri Lanka Description/Abstract: After the tsunami hit Sri Lanka in December 2004, UN-Habitat has taken a lead role in the shelter recovery and rehabilitation efforts in partnership with the Government of Sri Lank...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Recuperando la primera centralidad de la ciudad  
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el segundo Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mejores Practicas Urbanas se centro en el analisis y en la discusion de la relacion entre la ciudad en expanison y la ciudad construida. De esta actividad resultaron valiosos aprotes en la construccion del ...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 206, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land and Property: UN-HABITAT in Disaster and Conflict Contexts  
View Details This document provides an overview of the land issues that arise after natural disasters and conflicts take place. It also summarises the mechanisms available to mainstream land issues in humanitarian response efforts.
Other brochures in human ...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Settlement Planning: UN-HABITAT in disaster and conflict contexts  
View Details After a disaster, cities face a massive influx of displaced people and relief actors; breakdown of services; weakened institutions; and destruction of infrastructure and buildings.
This brochure provides an overview of the importance of post-cr...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter and Housing: UN-HABITAT In disaster and conflict contexts  
View Details Housing reconstruction enables people to rebuild their lives and their communities. Following a disaster, houses are the most prolific area of destruction. This brochure provides an overview of the issues surrounding reconstruction and the approaches...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Humanitarian Crisis: UN-HABITAT In disaster and conflict contexts  
View Details With global urbanisation more crises are occurring in cities. There is an increasing recognition that preventing and responding to urban crises is fundamentally different from rural contexts.
This brochure introduces the issues that ought to be...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Introductory Handbook on Policing Urban Space  
View Details The overall objective of this Handbook is to outline the new, innovative techniques and to explain how they have been applied to address crime problems in low- and middle-income countries. The various programmes, policies and approaches described her...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Safer Cities: A safer and just city for all  
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The challenges facing cities with regards to the impacts of growing violence and insecurity are numerous and daunting. The need to address crime prevention in cities is apparent.

This brochure highlights the Safer Cities approach run by UN-...

Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Lebanon Urban Profile - October 2011  
View Details This report has been prepared to serve as a background document for the first report on the State of the Arab Cities to be published by the UN-HABITAT, the Arab League and the Arab Town Organization.
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Libro Blanco de la seguridad y la convivencia de Medellín  
View Details El Libra Blanco de la Seguridad y la Convivencia de Medellín es una herramienta de gobernanza mediante la cual se pretende identificar las problemáticas sociales e institucionales que inciden en el aumento de los índices de violencia. De igual manera...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 196, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
CUESTIONES INTERSECTORIALES Instrumento de evaluación de las necesidades en materia de prevención de la delincuencia  
View Details El presente Instrumento de evaluación de las necesidades en materia de prevención de la delincuencia es una herramienta de evaluación elaborada conjuntamente por la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (UNODC) y el programa de ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
UN-HABITAT in the Somali Region Newsletter: Updates on the latest urban interventions - 9th issue  
View Details News, analysis, and programme updates related to the UN-HABITAT Somalia Programme
Year: 2010, Periodicity: Monthly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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