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Book National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups

Download or read book National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups (1994) deals with the problems encountered by the poor in their struggle to find shelter. Based on examples from India, Indonesia and Mexico (and to some extent Nigeria) this report by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements focuses on how current shelter policies are leaving the urban poor out of the shelter delivery process, and provides descriptions of successful projects of shelter improvement. The report found that the implementation of the shelter policies in the case studies has not been a total success. Legal restrictions and building regulations have, for instance, not been reformed to any substantial degree, and the availability of affordable and relevant building materials for the poor has not been significantly improved. This report will be of interest to those planners and policy makers hoping to learn from case study initiatives in housing the urban poor."--UN-HABITAT.

Book Policy Programme Options for Urban Poverty Reduction

Download or read book Policy Programme Options for Urban Poverty Reduction written by Franz Vanderschueren and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the specific actions which municipalities and city governments may take in contributing to urban poverty reduction. It highlights examples of issues, options, and constraints which urban government have to address in grappling with poverty and focuses on municipalities and other city-level government entities as a critical institutional level on intervention, particularly in addressing issues relating to service delivery. (Adapté du résumé des auteurs).

Book Shelter Co operatives in Eastern and Southern Africa

Download or read book Shelter Co operatives in Eastern and Southern Africa written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shelter  Employment and the Urban Poor

Download or read book Shelter Employment and the Urban Poor written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium

Download or read book Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium written by Kulwant Rai Gupta and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Collection Of Essays By Academics And Practitioners From Around The World Underscores Issues And Concerns Of Sustainable Urban Development And Best Practices In Terms Of Theory As Well As Praxes. Contributors Have Made An Attempt To Critically Reconcile The Hypothetical With The Applied In Order To Arrive At Innovative Solutions For Urban Good Governance In The Context Of The Steady Proliferation Of Habitats And Conurbations All Over The World. Their Papers More Often Than Not Transcend Regional Specifics To Address The Common Agenda Of Urban Development Debates As Informed By Assorted Modernization Perspectives In The 21St Century. This Volume Brings Together Social Scientists, Development Consultants And Nonprofit Professionals So That Multipositional Theories And Multicultural Praxes Might Be Reflected In Their Papers Based On Empirical Research And Field-Level Insights. It Is Expected That This Volume Will Provoke Fresh Debates And New Ideas That Will Facilitate Theory-Building As Well As Formulation Of Paradigms For Good Practices And Sustainable Urban Applications.The Book Would Be Found Highly Useful By Town Planners, Municipal Administrators, Ngos Working In The Field Of Urban Development And Common Readers Interested In Urban Problems And Policies. It Will Be Equally Valuable For Policy Makers As Well As Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Urban Economics, Urban Sociology, Urban Geography And Public Administration.

Book The Human Settlements Conditions of the World s Urban Poor

Download or read book The Human Settlements Conditions of the World s Urban Poor written by Inge Jensen and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Co operation for Habitat and Urban Development Directory of Non governmental Organisations in OECD Countries

Download or read book International Co operation for Habitat and Urban Development Directory of Non governmental Organisations in OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1997-12-19 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This specialised Directory provides information on over 1 700 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in the field of habitat and urban development.

Book Financing Urban Shelter

Download or read book Financing Urban Shelter written by Un-Habitat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the establishment of a strong shelter sector. As Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005 emphasizes, one of the key challenges in meeting the Millennium Declaration Goal on slums is mobilization of the financial resources necessary for both slum upgrading and slum prevention by supplying new housing affordable to lower income groups on a large scale. . . . It is my hope that, by highlighting the impacts of current shelter financing systems on low-income households and by identifying the types of financing mechanisms that appear to have worked for them, this report will contribute to the efforts of the wide range of actors involved in improving the lives of slum dwellers, including governments at the central and local levels, as well as non-governmental and international organizations.' From the Foreword by KOFI ANNAN, Secretary-General, United Nations Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and analyses housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding, highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums. Recent shelter finance policy development is discussed at the international and national levels, and the directions that could be taken to strengthen shelter finance systems are examined. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. It is an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The preceding issues of the Global Report on Human Settlements have addressed such topics as An Urbanizing World, Cities in a Globalizing World and The Challenge of Slums. Published with UN-HABITAT

Book Enabling Shelter Strategies

    Book Details:
  • Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
  • Publisher : UN-HABITAT
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789211317671
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Enabling Shelter Strategies written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guidelines on how to Undertake a National Campaign for Secure Tenure

Download or read book Guidelines on how to Undertake a National Campaign for Secure Tenure written by Global Campaign for Secure Tenure and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Reappraisal of the Urban Planning Process

Download or read book A Reappraisal of the Urban Planning Process written by Alexander Clement Mosha and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Child Labor and the Urban Third World

Download or read book Child Labor and the Urban Third World written by Subrata Sankar Bagchi and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living. The problem of child labor has also been exacerbated to an unprecedented level in the urban areas of the Third World countries during this period. Yet the dominant discourses on this problem have come from the Western observers or have some prior Western presence in its understanding of the problem, which defers the Third Worldly understanding of the situation. The author argues that a paradigm shift is needed to incorporate various local discourses in order to effectively address the problem of child labor. Based on a decade of fieldwork among the poor and marginalized population in the city of Kolkata, Child Labor and the Urban Third World will give readers an idea of how this problem has become inextricably bound with various other local conditions, such as the security of tenure in the houses.

Book Strategies to Combat Homelessness

Download or read book Strategies to Combat Homelessness written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: