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| "Shelter, infrastructure and services for the poor in developing countries: Some policy options " (CHS-OP-87-22) |
| Abstract: Based on a report submitted to the 10th session of the Commission on Human Settlements, this report examines the policy options through which governments can extend -- or provide conditions that facilitate access to -- shelter and basic services for a large number of the urban poor. The options suggested are drawn from actual experiences of national and local governments. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), 1987. |
| ISBN 92-1-131037-7 (printed) [32 pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131527-1 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Developing a national shelter strategy: Lessons from four countries" (HS/206/1990 E) |
| Abstract: This report summarizes the experience carried out on national housing strategies in four developing countries, that is Barbados, Jamaica, Kenya and Zimbabwe. This material is offered as an example to other countries (and the donor community) with the intention that they should improve their own natural shelter strategies. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), 1990. |
| ISBN 92-1-131125-0 (printed) [26 pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131537-9 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Evaluation of experience with initiating enabling shelter strategies" (HS/238/91 E) |
| Abstract: A systematic attempt to evaluate initial effort at implementing the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 (GSS), based on case studies in Colombia, India, Nigeria and Thailand, plus less detailed evidence from other countries. Particular attention is given to bottlenecks in implementing enabling strategies, replicable experiences and experiments, innovative organization, appropriate indicators for measuring progress, and priorities for further research, experience-sharing and action. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1991. |
| ISBN 92-1-131161-6 (printed) [64+iv pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131505-0 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Assessment of experience with the project approach to shelter delivery for the poor" (HS/241/91 E) |
| Abstract: An analytical discussion, based on examples from Colombia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Zimbabwe, on the need to move away from the project-by-project approach towards enabling shelter strategies. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1991. |
| ISBN 92-1-131165-9 (printed) [42+iii pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131499-2 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Public/private partnerships in enabling shelter strategies" (HS/282/93 E) |
| Abstract: Evaluates the role and contribution of operational partnership arrangements among the various actors in the shelter-provision and -improvement process in the entire shelter sector. Presents common factors underlying success and failure in public/private partnerships drawn from case studies. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1993. |
| ISBN 92-1-131207-8 (printed) [191+xiv pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131506-9 (electronic CHM). |
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| "The human settlements conditions of the world's urban poor" (HS/391/96 E) |
| Abstract: A comprehensive discussion of the concept and scale of urban poverty in developing countries. It also discusses how to reach the urban poor and how to address their problems. The report was submitted as an input to the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in 1996.. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1996. |
| ISBN 92-1-131300-7 (printed) [215+xvi pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131487-9 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Shelter for all: The potential of housing policy in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda" (HS/488/97 E) |
| Abstract: Provides a set of 'minimum standards' in housing policy development, a small core set of policy guidelines that leaves maximum room for manoeuvre at the level of detail, while addressing the main bottlenecks and addressing basic needs. It is a guide for housing policy makers, particularly with regard to the relationship with other economic and social policies. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1997. |
| ISBN 92-1-131344-9 (printed) [78+viii pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131485-2 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Basic facts on urbanization" (HS/568/99 E) |
| Abstract: Brief and current data on various issues related to urbanization, including: basic demo-graphic figures, growth of large cities, economics of cities, urbanization and feminization of poverty, housing supply, and access to services and infrastructure. |
| UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1999. |
| ISBN 92-1-131428-3 (printed) [24 pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131484-4 (electronic CHM). |
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| "Enabling shelter strategies: Review of experience from two decades of implementation" (HS/785/05 E) |
| Abstract: Reviews the implementation of enabling shelter strategies since the adoption of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000, and of the effects of the enablement paradigm on the national policies and programmes. Also examines how the roles of the various actors in the shelter process have changed with the adoption of the enabling strategies and provides an in-depth assessment of particularly successful experiences. |
| UN-HABITAT, Nairobi, 2006. |
| ISBN 92-1-131767-3 (printed) [265+xvii pp.]; ISBNE 92-1-131543-3 (electronic CHM). |
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