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Housing and Urban Development





Adequate housing is central to a decent life, and is recognized as such in several international human rights instruments. Without proper housing, access to other...

Community Development Approach as a Tool for Formulating Social Policy at the Local level

E/ESCWA/SDD/2006/Technical Paper.3

This paper seeks to emphasize that community development is a participatory process whereby consensus-building, open dialogue and the promotion of an active civil society are all key ingredients...

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Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy in the ESCWA Region



The Expert Group Meeting on the Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy in the ESCWA Region (Beirut, 1-2 December 2009) was organized by the Economic and...

The Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy

E/ESCWA/SDD/2009/WG.3/WP.1

 

 



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Launch of the Project on the “Inter-Regional Cooperation on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda” in Amman, Jordan





The implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires a concerted effort to rethink urban development and...
Impact of ICT on Community Development in ESCWA Member Countries

E/ESCWA/ICTD/2009/15

Measuring the multifaceted information society is a very complex task. In the past, measurement approaches were confined to simply aggregating a variety of data on selected information and...

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United Nations stakeholders' meeting in preparation for Habitat-III

Report of the Export group Meeting Towards Equity in Urban Social Policies: Social Guide for Urban Observatories

E/ESCWA/ICTD/2009/1

 

 



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National Urban Policies: Training of Trainers



In the context of the implementation of the DA project entitled “Sustainable, Inclusive and Evidence-based National Urban Policies in selected Arab States”, ESCWA and the UN-Habitat Regional...

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