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...

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...

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...

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...

Today, the housing situation in Nepal, especially for the urban poor, remains far from adequate. Indeed, urban dwellers in Nepal have been finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing due to rapid price rises in land. Such is the challenge ...

UN-HABITAT had been present in Nepal intermittently since the late 1980s engaging in a number of technical assistance programmes in the field of human settlements development. In 2005, the Water for Asian Cities was launched in the country focus...

This Quick Guide introduces some of the key concepts of formal housing finance and an overview of how both the formal and informal systems of delivering housing finance work especially with regard to the urban poor. The guide provides insights to ...

This Quick Guide examines how community organizations can be valuable and resoureful partners when it comes to finding viable solutions to their own housing roblems. It looks at how community organizations have developed in Asia, how they function...

This Quick Guide describes ways of addressing low-income housing. It reviews well - tried methods of improving the housing environments of people living in slums and informal settlements, and providing adequate housing for future generations livin...

This Quick Guide reviews the characteristics of rental housing markets and how they functio. The issue of demand and supply of rental housing are discussed, folowed by policy options to regulate, promote and expand rental housing - especially for ...

This Quick Guide explores several practicable and replicable alternatives to evictions which are being tested, refined and scaled up by governments, community groups and support institutions in Asia. In almost all cases, poor communities are centr...

This Quick Guide examines how formal and informal land markets in Asian cities work, how they have succeeded or failed to make decent, secure, affordable land accessible to the urban poor and how community organizations, support institutions and g...

Nine out of every 10 children in Nepal suffers some form of malnutrition. This programme unravels the complex causes and effects of Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) through the stories of people in Nepal who live with it on a daily basis.

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