Research and Development Division

Training and Capacity-Building Section

Main Manuals/Handbooks for Local Leadership, Governance and Urban Management Capacity-Building



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LOCAL GOVERNANCE MANUALS

Title: Training for Elected Leadership Series - set of 13 volumes
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-121242-6, from HS/324/94E to HS/336/94E.
Details: 1995; E; F; R; S; $30.
Summary: This series of 13 handbooks on Elected Leadership Training covers eleven different roles performed by the local elected councillor. The package includes a trainer's guide and overview document, in addition to the 11 workbooks. Each handbook contains a self-study essay describing the role and enough training designs to provide the trainer with options to address specific needs and circumstances. The user-friendly training package, which can also be used as a practical on-the-job guide, is a primer that addresses the behavioral roles of elected officials.
Publication details follow:
- Trainer's guide for training of elected officials; 74pp.
- Perspectives on training elected leaders: handbook 1; 38pp.
- The councillor as policy-maker: handbook 2; 42pp.
- The councillor as decision maker: handbook 3; 50pp.
- The councillor as communicator: handbook 4; 42pp.
- The councillor as facilitator: handbook 5; 54pp.
- The councillor as enabler: handbook 6; 42pp.
- The councillor as negotiator: handbook 7; 46pp.
- The councillor as financier: handbook 8; 54pp.
- The councillor as overseer: handbook 9; 38pp.
- The councillor as power broker: handbook 10; 42pp.
- The councillor as institution builder: handbook 11; 50pp.
- The councillor as leader: handbook 12; 34pp

Title: The Councillor as Guardian of the Environment
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-807-1513-5, HS - 44497E.
Details: 1997; 190pp; E; $15
Summary: This publication is an extension of the Training of Elected Leadership series. It reflects a continuation of style and design ideas, but focuses on a particular thematic role confronting local councillors - providing leadership in the resolution of conflicts between economic and physical development and the natural environment. The handbook offers a consistent set of strategies for sustainable development: gaining awareness and creating visions; partners and coalitions; assessing risks; determining options and consequences; mobilizing resources; and achieving and sustaining results. The handbook is comprised of an essay and a series of workshop components, including a wide variety of case studies.



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MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENT MANUALS:

Title: Manual for Collaborative Organizational Assessment in Human Settlements Organizations: a Manual for Assessing the Effectiveness of Human Settlements Institutions
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 171-3; HS/248/92E.
Details: 1992; 172pp; E;. $12
Summary: This manual is designed specifically for analysing the effectiveness and the efficiency of day-to-day performance in agencies and authorities responsible for providing public goods and services. Describes a process that is collaborative in design.

Title: A Guide to National Training Needs Assessment for Human Settlements: A Competency-Based Approach
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 194-2; HS/267/91E.
Details: 1992; 112pp; E; $12
Summary: This publication is intended for use by operating agencies as an aid in making training decisions and by training institutions as a guide for upgrading their training programmes.

Title: Manual for Training Needs Assessment in Human Settlements Organizations A Systematic Approach to Assessing Training Needs
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131038-5; HS/114/87E.
Details: 1992; 146pp; A; E; S; $12
Summary: This publication is intended for use by managers of operating agencies as an aid in making training decisions and by training institutions as a guide for upgrading their training programmes.



A = Arabic | E = English | S = Spanish



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TRAINING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES:

Title: Guide for Designing Effective Human Settlements Training Programmes
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 183-7; HS/256/91E.
Details: 1992; 160pp; E; $12.
Summary: Intended to help close the training information gap, this publication was tested during training courses conducted for UNCHS (Habitat) by one of the authors. Written around in-house training, it stresses experiential learning. Includes a blueprint, case study, and tool kit.

Title: Designing Human Settlements Training in African Countries. Vol. 1. Case Study
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131258-2; HS/315/94E.
Details: 1995; 132pp; E; $12.
Summary: Volume one of this practical on-the-job guide for trainers in the form of a "how to do it" case study of a capacity-building institute departing from the traditional mode of offering a standardized training programme and moving to customized demand-based and client-centred problem-solving management and leadership training and institutional development in a hypothetical African country.

Title: Designing Human Settlements Training in African Countries. Vol. 2. Training Tools Study
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131260-2; HS/316/94E.
Details: 1995; 174pp; E; $12.
Summary: This volume contains a set of tools that will help trainers in building successful training and organizational development programmes. The tools are arranged so that the trainer will know which one works best for what task. Tools are cross-referenced with the case study in Vol. 1.

Title: Designing Human Settlements Training in Asian Countries. Vol. 1: Case study
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131266-3; HS/344/95E.
Details: 1995; 132pp; E; $12.
Summary: Volume one of this practical on-the-job guide for trainers in the form of a "how to do it" case study of a capacity-building institute departing from the traditional mode of offering a standardized training programme and moving to customized demand-based and client-centred problem-solving management and leadership training and institutional development in a hypothetical Asian country.

Title: Designing Human Settlements Training in Asian Countries. Vol. 2: Training tools
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131267-1; HS/345/95E.
Details: 1995; 174pp; E; $12
Summary: This volume contains a set of tools that will help trainers in building successful training and organizational development programmes. The tools are arranged so that the trainer will know which one works best for what task. Tools are cross-referenced with the case study in Vol. 1.

Title: Designing Human Settlements Training in European Countries. Vol 1: Case study
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131269-8; HS/346/95E.
Details: 1995; 132pp; E; R; $12
Summary: Volume one of this practical on-the-job guide for trainers in the form of a "how to do it" case study of a capacity-building institute departing from the traditional mode of offering a standardized training programme and moving to customized demand-based and client-centred problem-solving management and leadership training and institutional development in a hypothetical European country.

Title: Designing Human Settlements Training in European Countries. Vol 2: Training tools
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-121270; HS/347/95E.
Details: 1995; 174pp; E; R; $12.
Summary: This volume contains a set of tools that will help trainers in building successful training and organizational development programmes. The tools are arranged so that the trainer will know which one works best for what task. Tools are cross-referenced with the case study in Vol. 1.



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MANUALS AND CASES FOR SETTLEMENT MANAGERS AND TRAINERS:

Title: Guide to Managing Change for Urban Managers and Trainers
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 0077-6; HS/151/89E.
Details: 1992; 186pp; E; R; S; $12.
Summary: Covers a variety of training programmes directed at closing the principal skill gaps and promoting new approaches, methods and techniques in general management and organization of development needed by urban managers. Materials in this guide support the demand-driven, client-centred and action-oriented training approach.

Title: Total Quality Maintenance in Local Government Operations and Maintenance - Set of five Volumes
Doc. No.: ISBN 92-1-131301-5, from HS/392/96E to HS/396/96E
Details: 1996; E; $15
Summary: This series of training materials was developed, in collaboration with the Urban Management Programme, in response to the capacity-building objectives of Agenda 21, as a skills building programme specifically to benefit public managers with Operations and Maintenance responsibilities. The programme consists of two workshop designs: one is classroom based the second places participants in consultant roles applying their TQMn skills in collaboration with the managers of a host local government.
Publication details follow:
- Reader on Concepts and Strategies with Case Study. TQMn, Vol. 1; 40pp.
- Participant's Pre-Workshop Assignment. TQMn, Vol. 2; 16pp.
- Blueprint for Action: Participant's Workbook. TQMn, Vol. 3; 49pp.
- Workshop Agenda. TQMn, Vol. 4; 20pp.
- Workshop Agenda with Trainer's Notes. TQMn, Vol. 5; 28pp.



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GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DEVELOPMENT:

Title: Daughters of Sysiphus: A Study of Gender-related Behaviour Differences in the Search for Shelter Among Low-income Heads of Households in Kingston, Jamaica. E.
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131087-3; HS/166/89/E.
Details: 1990, 149 pages, E; $12
Summary: This study seeks to identify the significant gender differences in the search for shelter and to determine their implications for the design and implementation of interventions aimed at improving the shelter situations of low-income households. The case studies consist of the life stories of twelve women from low income neighbourhoods of Kingston.

Title: Women and the Urban Crisis: The Invisible Management of Housing and Services, by Marie Dominique de Suremain, Lucy Cardona, Marisol Dalmazzo, with the collaboration of Catalina Hinchey Trujillo.
Doc. No.: HS/354/95S, ISBN 92-1-331043-9
Details: 1995, 181 pages, E; S; $12
Summary: Based on research carried out between 1987-1989 in 15 cities in Colombia, the authors document how women react collectively to the absence of adequate housing and services. Women's contribution to the management of their neighbourhoods and cities is often unrecognised, hence the subtitle, "the invisible management of housing and services".

Title: Women's Empowerment: Participation in Shelter Strategies at the Community Level in Urban Informal Settlements: prepared by Faranak Miraftab, based on a manual prepared by Mazingira Institute.
Doc. No.: HS/355/95E
Details: 1995, 120 pages, E; $12
Summary: This manual describes the process by which the participation and actual situation of women vis-à-vis men in actual living environments can be measured and monitored over time, through the gathering of community level data, and the identification of significant indicators of women's situations. The manual outlines how to carry out surveys and how to analyze and use the data. It is based on the experience of ten countries representing all the developing regions

Title: Getting the Issues Right: Women in Human Settlements Development
Doc. No.: HS/341/95E, ISBN-92-1-131263-9
Details: 1995, 52 pages. E; F; S; A; C; $10
Summary: This book is based on the information kit for World Habitat Day 1994. It discusses the roles, needs and problem of women in the human settlements development process. Five main themes are covered: settlements planning and management; management of the environment; housing policy; housing design; access to finance; right to land and property and networking and information sharing.

Title: Our Lives, Our Homes, Ourselves: A Fun Book to Help Young People Get the Issues Right Concerning Women in Human Settlements Development
Doc. No.: HS/438/96E,F,S, ISBN: 92-1-131317-1
Details: 1997, 14 pages, E; F; S; No charge
Summary: This is a version of the "Getting the Issues Right" (above) specially written for young people. It looks at the issues using simple language, games and exercises. It is ideal for classroom or group discussion settings.

Title: Compendium on Women and Habitat. Written by I.C. de Vries and S. Keuzenkamp.
Doc. No.: ISBN: 9070219 514
Details: 1996, 160 pages; E; $8
Summary: The compendium gives a brief summary of all major world conference outputs, starting with the Vancouver Declaration of 1976, all documents have been analyzed in the way they cover gender and habitat issues. Written for the Habitat II Conference, Istanbul, 1996 and covering conferences from 1976-1996.

Title: International Conference on Women's Access, Control and Tenure of Land, Property and Settlements: Report.
Doc. No.: HS/430/96/E; ISBN: 92-1-131312-0
Details: 1996, 253 pages; E; $12
Summary: Proceedings of a conference held in Gavle, Sweden in October 1995. Experts from different parts of the world presented country specific case studies, describing different levels of access by women to land, property and security of tenure. Conclusions and recommendations cover such areas as cultural practices, the policy context, the legal and regulatory framework, as well as economic considerations.

Title: Why Focus on Women?
Doc. No.: HS/456/95E,F,S,A
Details: 1995, 4 pages, E; F; S; A; No charge
Summary: This leaflet examines some common "myths" regarding women's access to housing and basic services, explains what the reality is, why it is necessary to focus specifically on women and by what actions this can be achieved

Title: Women Constructing Their Lives: Evaluative Case Studies on Women in the Construction Sector
Doc. No.: HS/442/97E,F,S,A; ISBN: 92-1-131323-6
Details: 1997, 60 pages, E; F; S; A; $12
Summary: 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 sector

Title: Women in Human Settlements Development
Doc. No.: 1995; one hour video with films from Colombia, Tanzania, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Rwanda, with an accompanying users manual; $25
Details: Depicts women in decision-making roles in the human settlements field.
Can be shown in its entirety, or the component short films can be used separately for training or discussion. Available in PAL and NTSC.



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MUNICIPAL FINANCE MANUALS:

Title: Training Manual on Urban Local Government Finance for English-Speaking East and Southern African countries
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 157-8; HS/234/91E.
Details: 1992; 171pp; E; $12.
Summary: This manual describes the components of sound financial management, revenue generation, budget formulation and execution, financial information and control. It prescribes and illustrates a strategy for reform: a process by which central and local governments understand and commit themselves to a series of comprehensive measures to provide a sound financial base for municipal government over time by planned and feasible stages

Title: Training Manual on Urban Local Government Finance for South Asian Countries
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 155-9; HS/233/91E.
Details: 1992; 174pp; E; $12
Summary: This manual describes the components of sound financial management, revenue generation, budget formulation and execution, financial information and control. It prescribes and illustrates a strategy for reform: a process by which central and local governments understand and commit themselves to a series of comprehensive measures to provide a sound financial base for municipal government over time by planned and feasible stages

Title: Housing-Finance Manual for Developing Countries: a Methodology for Designing Housing-Finance Institutions
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 186-1; HS/258/91E.
Details: 1992; 134pp; E; $12.
Summary: Provides the necessary instruction for devising housing-finance strategies appropriate to the needs of developing countries. Can also be used to provide the basis for a course of training in housing finance, for the evaluation of housing-finance policies and proposals, and for the preparation of briefs or terms of reference for such evaluation.

Title: The Management of Revolving Funds for House Improvement Loans
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 143-8; HS/221/91E.
Details: 1992; 135pp; E; $12.
Summary: Based on the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)/National Housing Institute (INVI) Experimental Housing Improvement and Community Mobilization Project, Santiago, Dominican Republic. Can be used independently or with the 31-minute GTZ video, Housing Improvement Loans.



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HOUSING MANUALS AND CASE STUDIES:

Title: The Incremental-Development Scheme: A Case Study of Khuda-Ki-Basti in Hyderabad, Pakistan
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 154-3
Details: 1992; 43pp; E; $8.
Summary: This is a case study of a scheme intended to reach the lowest income group of that community, the scheme is based on the idea that people should settle before houses and infrastructure are constructed and that, once settled, they can develop their housing and infrastructure incrementally, as and when they have the resources.

Title: Hai el Salam Project: an Upgrading and Sites-and-Services Project, Ismailia, Egypt
Doc. No.: HS/317/94E, ISBN: 92-131261-2; HS/232/91E.
Details: 1995; 81pp. E; $10.
Summary: This document evaluates the project 15 years after its inception. The project has applied innovative concepts in the fields of upgrading, community improvement and the provision of land for lower income groups. Lessons learned from this case study cover internal cross-subsidy, sites-and-services, upgrading, community involvement and participation, and the creation of a project implementation agency.



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GENERAL REFERENCED, DIRECTORIES AND DATABASES:

Title: Directory of Human Settlements Management and Development Training Institutions in Developing Countries
Doc. No.: ISBN: 92-1-131 140-3; HS/219/91E.
Details: 1992; 172pp; E; F; S; $12.
Summary: Contains information on 134 institutions: research fields, consultancy subjects, short-term courses and workshops, long-term courses, seminars, master's and other programmes as well as training materials and publications developed by staff. Information is given in either English, French or Spanish, according to the language of reply from the institution.



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For further information and inquiries, please contact:

Tomasz Sudra, Chief, Training and Capacity-Building Section
Research and Development Division
UNCHS (Habitat)
P.O. Box 30030
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (+254 2) 623034
Fax: (+254 2) 624265

Alternatively, send e-mail to Tomasz Sudra (Tomasz.Sudra@unchs.org); Catalina Trujillo (Catalina.Trujillo@unchs.org) or Raf Tuts (Raf.Tuts@unchs.org).

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