Topics: Solid waste management Urban sustainability Location: Low-income, peri-urban neighborhoods of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Organizers: Enda Ocean Indian Community partners The European Union Ensemble Foundation French government Swiss government Background: Before the project, Antananarivo communities had one or two dumpsters on their fringes that were periodically emptied by the City. The...
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Category Archives: Good Practices Review
As a founding member of the UN-Habitat Best Practices and Local Leadership program, the I2UD is part of an extensive network of regional experts and colleagues with whom we consult regularly to update and expand our library of successful practices in urban planning and management.
The following postings draw on this library to highlight special cases in urban development.
City Improvement Districts, South Africa
Topics: Urban finance Location: South Africa Organizers: Local businesses and property owners Background: In Africa, the use of business improvement districts is the strongest in South Africa, which enacted legislation on “City Improvement Districts” (CID) in order to upgrade badly neglected inner cities that had suffered under Apartheid. The strategy...
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Solid Waste Management in Kitgum, Uganda
Topics: Sanitation Composting Urban Sustainability Location: Kitgum, Uganda Organizers: Europe: European Union (Donor) BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria (Co-ordinator) Hamburg University of Technology, Germany EcoSan-Club, Austria WASTE, the Netherlands London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Uganda: Kitgum Town Council Makerere University Background: With...
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Twize Program, Mauritania
Topics: Upgrading of informal settlements Land tenure Urban planning Location:Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, Mauritania Organizers: Groupe de Recherches et d’Échanges Technologiques (GRET) World Bank Commissariat aux Droits de l’Homme, à la Lutte Contre la Pauvreté, et à l’Insertion Background: In the 1970s and 1980s, severe droughts and desertification in the Sahel...
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Ecotourism in Kenya
Topic: Ecotourism Location: Mara region, Kenya Organizers: Maasai communities, Government of Norway Project: An ecotourism foundation, with the financial support of the Norwegian government, partnered with local Maasai communities in the Mara region of Kenya to establish a wildlife conservancy area within Maasai land. 500 Maasai landowners agreed to set...
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Community Centers for Child Services
Topic: Community Space Location: Various locations, including Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines, Zambia Organizers: Children International The Project: The charitable organization Children International implements its Brick by Brick Program, which builds multi-purpose community centers in various developing countries. These centers are effective because they allow for the provision of...
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Boosting Municipal Revenue
Topic: Improved Tax Collection Location: Hargeisa, Somaliland Participants: Municipality of Hargeisa; UN-Habitat Project: With UN-Habitat support, the city of Hargeisa established a new property tax billing system. The project involved: Developing a GIS-based property tax system; Creating a record of all the buildings on the base map; Conducting a household...
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Kuyasa Clean Development Project, South Africa
Topic: Urban Sustainability Location: Kuyasa, Khayelitsha township, near Cape Town, South Africa Organizers: SouthSouthNorth Environmental Resource Management Dept., City of Cape Town Cape Town Urban Renewal Program Sponsors: The Clean Development Mechanism National Dept. of Environment and Tourism South African Export Development Fund Background: Khayelishta township was settled in the...
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Kalembo, Malawi Groundwater Project
Topics: Urban SustainabilityLocation:Kalembo and Liwonde regions, MalawiOrganizers: KfWBackground: In developing countries, cities with high urbanization rates, peri-urban demand for water grows quickly and is many times satisfied through legal and illegal drilling of boreholes, such as in Sana’a, Yemen. Without proper management, uncontrolled borehole water withdrawal can increase public health...
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Water Master Meters
Topics: Urban Water Management Location: Manila, Philippines Participants: Water utilities, community organizations, and local governments Project: In a model first applied in the Philippines and later successfully adapted to Indonesia’s slums, Community Master Meters have increased access to water by the urban poor at an affordable price. Due in part...
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