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Habitat Debate Vol.11 No. 1, Women in Cities  
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Cities, towns and villages have not been a priority for women’s action in the last decade. Is this because the Beijing Platform for Action was weak in addressing problems that women fa...

Year: 2005, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Journal: Urban Safety Newsletter  
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Crime does not happen spontaneously. It grows out of an unequal and exclusive society, and outof a lack of institutional and social control. Moreover, the criminal justice system, including police, courts and sons, is poorly adapted t...

Year: 2005, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Policy Dialogue Series: Youth, Children And Urban Governance - Number 2  
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In our rapidly urbanizing world, children and young people often form a majority of urban populations, living in increasingly over-crowded and dangerous environments, without access to the basic human rights to which there is overwhelming agreemen...

Year: 2004, Number of pages: 91, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroot Women’s Perspective on Good Governance  
View Details Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women’s Perspective on Good Governance, describes locally designed strategies through which grassroots women’s groups initiate and engage in ongoing dialogue with local authorities, with a view to influence polic...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 80, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Gobernanza y Seguridad Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe  
View Details This publication describes some of the important issues related to the challenge of preventing and reducing violence in the cities of the region. It also presents some of the experience and expertise transfers, the direct exchange between local act...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 55, Type of publication: Book
Report: Preventing Gender-based Violence in the Horn, East and Southern Africa  
View Details Preventing Gender-based Violence in the Horn, East and Southern Africa : A Regional Dialogue. Raising Voices and Safer Cities Programme 2004
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 82, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Unheard Voices of Women  
View Details This video looks at problems of water and sanitation faced by women and young girls living in slums in some parts of the world namely Dar es Salaam(Tanzania),New Delhi (India) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Year: 2004, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Habitat Debate Vol. 9, No. 2, Young people in an urbanizing world  
View Details In a world where the number of young people has become the
largest in history relative to the adult population, the need to take urgent and
ever more innovative approaches to the problems facing them is greater than
ever.
Year: 2003, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Forward Looking Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming in UN-HABITAT  
View Details Since 1991, UN-HABITAT has been implementing programmes addressing women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming in its’ overall activities. This evaluation assesses what the Women and Habitat Programme (WHP) and the Gender Unit have achieved in these...
Year: 2003, Number of pages: 61, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Survivors Speak: A snapshot survey on violence against women  
View Details This survey report is part of the Safer Cities Nairobi Project aiming at shedding light on the hidden problem of violence against women, and to address the gaps of information that persist on this subject. The publication highlights the main forms of...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 139, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol. 8, No. 4, Towards Woman-friendly Cities  
View Details “Gender mainstreaming involves change.It involves the transformation of the culture
of public procedures and decision making;of public priorities and the allocation of
resources. It is about creating equitable and equal partnerships with wo...
Year: 2002, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Crime in Nairobi: Results of a City wide Victim Survey; Safer Cities Series 2  
View Details This publication is part of the Safer Nairobi project, funded by UNDP, which is working towards a city-wide crime prevention strategy. This survey is a diagnosis on both crime itself and insecurity surrounding crime in Nairobi. A fundamental requirem...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 131, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Water Education in African Cities - Report of an Expert Group Meeting, Johannesburg South Africa, 30 April - 2 May, 2001  
View Details This publication highlights the importance of introducing education in schools and communities of how to effectively manage the use of water in African cities. This is the work of the "The Expert-group Meeting , held in Johannesburg, South Afric...
Year: 2001, Number of pages: 243, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Youth delinquency and the criminal justice system in Dar es salaam, Tanzania  
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Violent crime and delinquency threaten the quality of life of urban dwellers in Dar es Salaam. During the 1990’s the annual crime increase in Dar es Salaam was 8,1%. Not only does this
divert scarce resources from urban social development, bu...

Year: 2000, Number of pages: 89, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Women’s Rights to Land, Housing and Property in Post conflict situations and During Reconstruction  
View Details This report was prepared as an output of Habitat 1998/99 Work Programme, the objectives of which include the formulation of shelter policies focusing on the needs of vulnerable groups and assisting government and partners in civil society in adopting...
Year: 1999, Number of pages: 90, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Crowding and Health In Low-income Settlements  
View Details The publication presents the findings of a detailed field study carried out by UNCHS (Habitat) in Guinea Bissau (1993-1995) to establish precise epidemiological relationship between overcrowding and community health. It is targeted at the sector prof...
Year: 1998, Number of pages: 95, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Women Constructing their lives: Evaluative Case Studies on Women in the Construction Sector  
View Details Using case studies from Ghana, India, Jamaica and Mexico, the study describes the experience of women in acquiring construction skills and their attempts, with varying degrees of success, to gain employment and acceptance in this male-dominated secto...
Year: 1997, Number of pages: 144, Type of publication: Book
Report of the International Workshop on Women’s Access, Control and Tenure of Land, Property and Settlement  
View Details Report of the International Workshop: The Report summarises the conclusions and recommendations of the workshop on "Women’s Access, Control and Tenure of Land, Property and Settlements," held in Gavle, Sweden, October 1995.
Year: 1996, Number of pages: 253, Type of publication: Book
Women and Shelter Development - A compilation  
View Details This film is compiled from 9 short films from Bolivia, Colombia, Jordan, Rwanda Sri Lanka and Tanzania, dealing with women and shelter.
Year: 1996, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Las Mujeres en el desarrollo de los asentamientos humanos (aclarando las cosas)  
View Details Las Mujeres en el desarrollo de los asentamientos humanos (aclarando las cosas)
Year: 1995, Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book
 
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