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  1. Library Resource
    Ministerial Policy Statement for LANDS, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
    Legislation & Policies
    June, 2014
    Uganda

    Madam Speaker and Honorable Members, the vision of my Ministry is “Sustainable Land Use, Land Tenure Security, Affordable, Decent Housing and Organized Urban Development”. The Mission is “To ensure sustainable land management, planned urban and rural development and decent housing for all”. The Mandate is “To ensure rational and sustainable use, effective management of land and orderly development of urban and rural areas as well as safe, planned and adequate housing for socio-economic development”.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    April, 2014
    South Africa

    This was a presentation at a Workshop on Development of an Interim Framework for the National Land Use Classification Standard, Methodology and Symbology for South Africa.  It shows why land use and land cover are not the same, why land use often cannot be determined from imagery alone, and why land use, zoning and planning are not the same.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014

    The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and enables children to do homework. It frees up women's time and enables them to participate in the labor market. More subtly, a home and its environs affect identity and self-respect.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014

    In many cities worldwide, urbanization is leading to the rapid and extensive fragmentation of native vegetation into small and scattered urban remnants. We investigated the effects of fragmentation on plant species richness and abundance in 30 remnant Banksia woodlands in the rapidly expanding city of Perth, located in the southwestern Australian global biodiversity hotspot.

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Egypt, Global

    The increased density and sprawl of
    Cairo's urban areas are the consequence of a number of
    factors, of which the major ones are the physical and
    geographic features, transport supply, urban policy and the
    control of urban development, market laws, government aid,
    property developers, consumer sensitivity to building
    quality and costs, travelling distances, tariffs, the
    immediate surrounding area, etc. The purpose of this study

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The objective of this paper is to
    present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector
    in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new
    insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes
    of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and
    the policy implications at various levels of government.
    Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in
    Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The objective of this paper is to
    present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector
    in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new
    insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes
    of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and
    the policy implications at various levels of government.
    Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in
    Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well

  8. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Indonesia

    Indonesia's Program Nasional
    Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PNPM) is the largest Community
    Driven Development (CDD) program in the world covering all
    urban wards (PNPM-Urban) and rural villages (PNPM-Rural) in
    Indonesia. This policy note summarizes a comprehensive
    process evaluation of the PNPM-Urban program which has been
    carried by the Research and Development (RAND) corporation
    in collaboration with survey meter, as well as a rapid

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Georgia

    This review analyzes the profile, trends
    and challenges of Georgia's changing urban landscape
    since independence in 1991 and provides policy suggestions
    to facilitate the economic transition of the country through
    its cities. In its analysis and subsequent recommendations
    on policy interventions, this report draws on a program of
    diagnostics called the 'Urbanization Review' (UR).
    The UR diagnostic is based on three main pillars of urban

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Somalia

    Development and humanitarian actors
    currently engaged in Somalia face the challenge of
    delivering assistance in such a way that it is supportive of
    peace and state building, addresses the acute vulnerability,
    and dependence of large shares of the population while
    operating in a still insecure and changing environment.
    Forced displacement is a key feature of the current
    political economy context of Somalia. The necessity of

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