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- Best
Practices Database
- This searchable
database contains over 1100 proven solutions from more than 120 countries
to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing
world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which communities, governments
and the private sector are working together to improve governance, eradicate
poverty, provide access to shelter, land and basic services, protect
the environment and support economic development.
- Community
Development Programme (UNCHS)
- Building network
of networks, promoting ties of confidence and a learning organization
culture to strengthen participatory governance as a fundamental requirenment
for sustainable development of human settlements
- Managing
Water for African Cities (MAWAC)
- Managing Water
for African Cities (MAWAC) is a joint initiative of United Nations Environment
Programme UNEP and United Nations Centre for Human Settlements UNCHS
(Habitat)
- Programme
“pour des Villes plus Sûres”
- Le Programme “pour
des villes plus sûres” a vu le jour en 1996 - dans le cadre du Programme
de Gestion Urbaine - à la demande de maires de villes africaines qui
désiraient s’attaquer à la violence urbaine en développant une stratégie
de prévention au niveau de la ville. Le programme est mis en oeuvre
par le Centre des Nations Unies pour les Etablissements Humains (Habitat),
en accord avec le Programme de l’Habitat
- Programme
des cités durables
- Le Programme des
Cités durables (PCD), conjointement mis en oeuvre par le PNUE et le
CNUEH (Habitat), a été officiellement reconnu par les conseils d'administration
des deux organismes des Nations Unies chargées respectivement des questions
urbaines et environnementales, comme leur principal outil de mise en
oeuvre à la fois de la composante environnementale du Programme pour
l'habitat et d'Action 21 au niveau des villes.
- Urban
Management Programme
- The Urban Management
Programme (UMP) was launched in 1986 as an initiative of UNDP, UNCHS,
the World Bank and several bilateral partners (currently the UK, Sweden,
Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany). It is one of the largest
urban global technical assistance programmes of the UN system. The UMP
develops and applies urban management knowledge in the fields of participatory
urban governance, alleviation of urban poverty and urban environmental
management, and facilitates the dissemination of this knowledge at the
city, country, regional and global levels.
- The
Global Campaign for Good Urban Governance
- The Habitat Agenda,
adopted at the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
(Habitat II) in Istanbul in June 1996, commits UNCHS (Habitat) to working
towards the establishment of good urban governance in the world’s towns
and cities. The Global Campaign for Good Urban Governance signals a
new and strategic approach to achieve this goal.
- United
Nations Centre for Human Settlements Regional Office for Latin America
and the Caribbean
- Primary among them is
Istanbul + 5 which, in June 2001, at the Special Session of the General
Assembly (G.A.) of the United Nations, will have the task of reviewing
the degree of implementation of the commitments made by the international
community at the Habitat II Conference. Important work is also taking
place at the national level, ranging from legal and institutional reform
to programme implementation, and each country will, in due course, prepare
its own presentation and reporting for Istanbul + 5.
- The
UNCHS(Habitat) Fukuoka Office
- The primary responsibility
for the implementation and follow up of the Habitat Agenda rests, of
course, with individual governments, and their national and local partners.
The UNCHS(Habitat) Fukuoka Office provides support to their efforts,
and monitors progress being made in the region. The tasks of the office
cover many aspects of human settlement development and reflect the mandate
of the centre.
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