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REPORTS, GUIDES, DECLARATIONS and more...
Browse through UN-HABITAT’s library of reports, resolutions, declarations, training materials and best practices, by theme, or view them alphabetically and chronologically |
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Report of the Capacity Building Workshop |
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The Capacity Building Workshop was held at the UN-HABITAT Headquarters in Gigiri from 16 to 18 October 2006. It was organized by UN-HABITAT to scope the capacity building activities required to support and sustain infrastructure investments under the Lake Victoria Region Water and Sanitation Initiative (LVWATSAN).
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Mozambique, Cities Without Slums, Analysis of the Situation & Proposal of Intervention Strategies. |
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The initiative “Cities Without Slums in Eastern and Southern Africa1”, promoted by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT), seeks to contribute to the accomplishment of the Target 11 of the Objectives of the Millennium Declaration: “ to improve the life conditions of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020”; by working with the member states, with the objective of improving the lives and conditions of people living or working in informal settlements, in the selected cities of the sub-area. Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Lesotho are the first nine chosen countries for the pilot initiative.
Country: Mozambique |
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Independent strategic evaluation of the performance and impact of UN-HABITAT Programme Managers |
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In its resolution 20/15, the Governing Council requested the Executive Director “to undertake an independent strategic evaluation of the performance and impact of the Habitat Programme managers (HPMs) before the end of 2006 and to report thereon to the Governing Council at its twenty-first session”. The terms of reference of this evaluation were finalized by the Secretariat at the end of 2005,
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Mozambique Land Regulation |
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Land Use Plans are strategic, informative or normative documents essentially aimed at producing socially useful territorial spaces or parcels based on the principles and guidelines of territorial land use.
Country: Mozambique |
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MECHANISM FOR GENDERING LAND TOOLS: A Framework for Delivery of Women’s Security of Tenure |
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After wide-ranging stakeholder consultations, the strategies and outline for this mechanism were adopted at a dedicated high status round table on gendering land tools at the World Urban Forum on 21st of June 2006.
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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) |
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At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 13 September 2006, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the General Committee, decided to include in the agenda of its sixty-first session the item entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)” and to allocate it to the Second Committee.
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Policy Paper 1 - Community Managed System for Operation, Billing & Collection of Water Charges |
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The Urban Local Bodies are mandated to make adequate provision for the management and maintenance
of all municipal water works and construction of new works for providing supply of suitable water for
public and private purposes. This requires adequate resources which are to be raised from consumers.
Inadequacies in management include high proportions of non-revenue water, poor billing arrangements,
limited metering, non-viable pricing, lack of proper municipal dues collection, and poor revenue recovery
rates leading to commercially non-viable urban local bodies, and inadequate service coverage especially
in the slum and squatter settlements to improve service delivery. The prevailing water tariffs are generally
below the actual cost of water supply. Moreover, the urban water supply sector has traditionally been
plagued with high levels of inefficiencies leading to poor service delivery. This leads to a poor willingness
to pay among the consumers and consequent poor collection of water charges and financial losses to the
urban local bodies. Rationalization of water tariff and its billing and collection system is one of such
measures to improve fund mobilization.
Country: India |
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Policy Paper 2 - Measures for Ensuring Sustainability of Rainwater Harvesting |
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Urban centers in India are facing an ironical situation with regard to water today. On one hand there is
acute water scarcity and on the other, the streets are often flooded during the monsoons, requiring
managerial efficiency of the Urban Local Bodies to use the surplus water of the rainy season to overcome
the deficiency in other seasons. The shortage of ground water is more pronounced due to urbanization
and limited open areas available for recharge of ground water. In some cities ground water extraction has
reached very high levels and has brought problems like declining water table, failures of wells/ tube wells
and deterioration in ground water quality and quantity. Water is more than often been seen as a cause for
social conflicts, protests, demonstrations and road-blockades. In the given situation rainwater harvesting
could prove to be a solution for overcoming this scenario.
Country: India |
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Report of the Capacity Building Workshop
Mozambique, Cities Without Slums, Analysis of the Situation & Proposal of Intervention Strategies.