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Water per head in Vietnamese is 9,650 m3 / person / year, while the world average is only 7,400 m3. However, it is important to remember that 63% of Vietnam's total surface wate...

A vision for cities has never been more important than it is today. More than half of the world’s inhabitants live in cities and this migration trend is expected to continue. By...

UN Millennium Development Goals (Goal 7) Fact Sheet

The pace of urban growth has been unprecedented. Around the turn of the century, for the first time in history, urban dwellers outnumbered their rural counterparts, and by 2015,...

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2016 71/256. New Urban Agenda

UN-Habitat and partners have prepared this “Monitoring Framework” as a guide to assist national and local governments in their efforts to collect, analyze, validate data and inf...

People across the Asia-Pacific region live with diverse and interlinked risks. These risks are related to increasingly severe and complex shocks to the political, social, econom...

Asia-Pacific countries need to accelerate progress against SDG 11 by empowering local governments and community groups to deliver against this goal in an integrated fashion acro...

UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) is a global initiative that enables city authorities, as well as local and national stakeholders, to identify opportunities and pot...

The 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns (10YFP) is a global framework of action to enhance international cooperation to accelerate...

The Basin Development Plan Phase 2 (BDP2) is designed to provide an integrated basin perspective through the participatory development of a rolling Integrated Water Resources Ma...

The objectives of this study were to 1) analyse the contents and extent of forest-related rights that can be devolved to the local level according to the prevailing legal fram...

In May 2007 Laos’ Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh announced a moratorium on the granting of new land concessions in order to give government time to rev...

The Grower Group subcomponent of this project (Objective 1.3A) aims to: Identify and test what forms of grower organisation are feasible and sustainable, and will improve ret...

Following on the outcome of the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Secretary-General established the...

This Law provides for complaints and settlement of complaints about administrative decisions or acts of administrative agencies or competent persons in state administrative agen...

Here the ratio for consumption and investment was almost exactly reversed, with 20.0% planned for consumption against 55.7% for investment. Hous...

The development objective is to increase access to land information services by all stakeholders through the development of an improved land administration system in selected pr...

Since the best coffee land is already being farmed by the smallholders, some of the land allocated to the companies by the government is invariably already under cultivat...

The cease-fire in Laos agreed to on February 21, 1973, has brought a welcome interruption to the large-scale violence.