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The UN-HABITAT assistance to displaced population is part of the joint inter agency efforts ongoing in several cities in the Somali region. The upgrading of the existing settlements'...
This report deals with the problems encountered by the poor in their struggle to find shelter, specifically addressing how current shelter policies are leaving the poor out of the shelter-delivery...
This one-page guidance and training note displays the essentials of building, mainly dwellings, with rammed earth. Soil suitability, construction form, and specifications are provided including...
This report addresses the need to disaggregate housing rights data, so as to pay particular attention to the housing conditions of particularly marginalised groups, including women, children, the...
The speaker spoke about housing, land and property activities in the IASC Protection Cluster Working Group. He noted that the cluster system has existed for two years, with the nine clusters set...
This publication aims at developing conceptual framework for rural shelter policy which takes into account several issues which are currently important in development, namely, poverty reduction,...
Mariko Sato, of UN-Habitat, outlined UN-Habitat's
experiences in responding to the 2007 Mozambique floods. Though their
mandate does not include humanitarian relief, they felt it is...
This guide is part of a series that draws upon UNCHS (Habitat's) experience in the field of post disaster management and local governance. It provides a resource tool for local authorities to...
This case study in Shelter Projects 2008 summarises an assessment by a major donor of the transitional shelter and recovery programming that it funded in Goma following the volcanic eruption in...
This case study in Shelter Projects 2011-2012 summarises the distribution of transitional shelter and the recovery programming found in Goma following the volcanic eruption in 2002. It focuses on...