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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...
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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 cash for shelter project in Kalobeyei highlights how UNHCR uses cash assistance to help refugees to transition to more durable solutions, in this case, integration with the host community. The...
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 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 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...
Exactly 30 years ago, the United Nations convened the Habitat I conference in Vancouver in 1976. However, it would be true to say that in 1976, rapid urbanization and its impacts were barely on...
The speaker described UN-Habitat's programme for reconstruction in Darfur in preparation for the return of the displaced population. The speaker highlighted the threat of regional environmental...