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| "The relationship between underemployment and unemployment and shelter provision" Report of the Executive Director to the fourteenth session of the Commission on Human Settlements (HS/C/14/2/Add.2) |
| Abstract: An analysis and appraisal of the employment-generation potential for the unemployed and underemployed in shelter, infrastructure and services programmes. Outlines the scope for labour-intensive human settlement programmes, and calls for more deliberate and systematic linkages between efforts to promote shelter for the poor and employment for the poor through a common strategy. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 26 April-5 May 1993. |
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| "Supporting the informal sector in low-income settlements" (HS/142/88 E) |
| Abstract: Suggests some principles that apply to the promotion of informal-sector activities in connection with low-income housing programmes. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1988. |
| ISBN 92-1-131070-9 (printed) [44 pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131529-8 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Improving income and housing: employment generation in low-income settlements" (HS/189/89 E) |
| Abstract: Examines the relationship between income generation and human settlements by focusing on areas where intervention might benefit the development of both improved shelter and income-generating activities. The potential is examined through the construction and building-materials sector, and in the provision of basic urban services. Strategies for implementation are proposed and institutional support mechanisms examined. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1989. |
| ISBN 92-1-131110-0 (printed) [72+iv pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131504-2 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Building-related income generation for women: Lessons from experience" (HS/197/90 E) |
| Abstract: This report is intended to highlight women's needs in training and job placement in the construction industry and to suggest ways in which affirmative action can be taken to overcome the barriers traditionally faced by women in obtaining construction industry employment. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1989. |
| ISBN 92-1-1311125-2 (printed) [40 pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131536-0 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Developing a strategy for incorporating activities for the generation of income and employment within human settlements programmes" Report of an Expert Group Meeting, Nairobi, 13-17 November 1989 (HS/203/90 E) |
| Abstract: Report of a meeting intended to provide a framework to enable policy-makers, professionals and practitioners to analyze specific employment and human settlements situations, and to develop national and sub-national strategies with the overall objective of promoting employment-creation and income-generation. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), 1990. |
| ISBN 92-1-131110-0 (printed) [72+iv pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131504-2 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Shelter provision and employment generation" (HS/339/94 E) |
| Abstract: This comprehensive report on the links between shelter and employment was submitted by the two agencies to the Social Summit in 1995. It argues that governments should focus on development strategies based on labour-intensive shelter delivery, using local resources, thus linking the goal of shelter for all with that of full employment, in a common strategy for poverty reduction. |
| UNCHS (Habitat) and ILO, Nairobi and Geneva, 1995. |
| ISBN 92-2-108523-6 (printed) [250+xxii pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131488-7 (electronic CHM). |
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