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| Urbanization for Human Development: Politics in a World of Cities |
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El mundo es desde 2008 mayormente urbano, estimandose que las ciudades adquieran ademas cada vez mayor protagonismo. En terminos globales, el proceso de urbanizacion ha venido de la mano de una ampliacion del desarrollo humano. Al igual que en los pa...
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Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 505, Type of publication: Book
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| Gender Mainstreaming in Local Authorities - Best Practices |
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Since the 1980s, there has been growing recognition of the need to ensure women's equal access to urban public spaces. Many initiatives to mainstream gender by local governments have been documented. Some are comprehensive and are based on supporti...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book
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| Best Practices on Social Sustainability in Historic Districts |
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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, metho...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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| Booklet: Safer Cities Promotional Booklet (in Spanish) |
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Se calcula que hasta 2030, dos tercios de la humanidad vivirán en ciudades en todo el mundo. Otra característica de la nueva era urbana es que la cifra global de habitantes de tugurios va a superar la marca de 1 billón. En este momento de cambio hist...
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Year: 2007,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Tomorrow’s Crises Today: the humanitarian impact of urbanisation |
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This photo book focuses on different humanitarian problems facing the urban poor by taking illustrations from different cities around the world. We cover a range of ills that affect the urban poor such as the lack of decent housing, water, work, sani...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 112, Type of publication: Book
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| Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law. |
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Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice. This document is a reference guide to international human rights standards identifying both the su...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book
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| Habitat Debate Financing for the Urban Poor |
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Part of the overall reform of the United Nations, this plan covering the years 2008-2013, provides a new shared vision. It is forged in the collaboration of all parties, from Governments to Local authorities and other Habitat Agenda partners, to th...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book
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| GLTN Gendering Land Tool Development |
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Implementation of women’s land, property and housing rights is often frustrated by the lack of effective gendered land tools. One of the values and priorities of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is that every tool must be gendered, as must the pro...
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Year: 2007,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Grassroots Participation in Land Tool Development |
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The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) partners would like to ensure genuine grassroots participation in its land tool development initiatives, to ensure that high quality, pro poor and useful tools will be designed and used in practice. GLTN will, by d...
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Year: 2007,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Booklet: Safer Cities Promotional Booklet |
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It is projected that by 2030, two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities around the world. Another feature of the new urban age is that the global number of slum dwellers is now set to top the 1 billion mark. At this turning point in h...
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Year: 2007,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| UN-HABITAT Partnership with the Gender and Water Alliance |
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UN-HABITAT is the Agency mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT has been actively engaged for thirty years in supporting...
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Year: 2006,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| UN-HABITAT Partnership with the Gender and Water Alliance |
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UN-HABITAT is the Agency mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT has been actively engaged for thirty years in supporting...
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Year: 2006,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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| Kenya: Mavoko Urban Profile |
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Mavoko is situated in Machakos District some 25 km south east of Nairobi. It has an estimated population of 65,000 and is popularly known as Athi River. Mavoko appears to offer a good opportunity for the expansion of the Nairobi Metropolitan Region...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
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| Mainstreaming Gender Water and Sanitation |
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This strategy document emphasizes the benefits of entrusting the responsibility to groups of women and men of taking control of solving their water and sanitation problems at the local level, particularly slums which are highly deficient in water and...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book
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