Examples of using The human settlements in English and their translations into Arabic
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As its contribution to achieving this goal, UN-Habitat will concentrate on six areas to support and add value to international and national efforts to attain the human settlements related targets of the Millennium Declaration, and more specifically to improving the living conditions of the urban poor.
The Human Settlements Officer assists the Chief, Shelter Branch in identifying countries and cities where slum upgrading activities can be undertaken on the basis of objective criteria such as ratio of slum population in the cities, quality of the living environment, availability of infrastructure, etc.
Governments in a position to do so and other public and private entities are encouraged to contribute to the capitalization of UN-Habitat and the Human Settlements Foundation as an effective means of providing financial and seed capital support to slum upgrading, slum prevention and pro-poor water and sanitation in urban areas.
Institutionally, the implementation of resolution 21/10 was anchored within the Urban Finance Branch of the Human Settlements Financing Division of UN-Habitat and implemented in the context of focus area 5 of the medium-term strategic and institutional plan, on strengthened human settlements finance systems, complementing the Slum Upgrading Facility Programme.
Noting with appreciation the establishment by the Executive Director of the special fund with the Human Settlements Foundation, known as the" Opportunities Fund for Urban Youth-Led Development", which supports youth-led initiatives, targeting support to those young people who are most in need of assistance, in particular young girls.
In accordance with the conclusions of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements( Habitat II), UNDP also provides support to the strengthening of the capacity of CARICOM countries in the field of human settlements development and management, in the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the Action Plan for the Human Settlements Sector in the Caribbean.
Reaffirms those calls for action already outlined in the relevant provisions of the Habitat Agenda, the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 and Agenda 21 that encourage the full participation of all actors in the human settlements development and management process in providing shelter for all within operational enabling environments;
The human settlements section of the United Nations ' s revised medium-term plan for 2002-2005 that was approved by the General Assembly in December 2002, following review by the Committee of Permanent Representatives in Nairobi and by the Committee for Programme and Coordination in New York, includes a new subprogramme on human settlements financing.
UN-Habitat enhanced policy coherence in the management of the human settlements activities of the United Nations system through the issuance, by December 2011, of 46 policy documents and reports incorporating human settlements issues, up from 35 at the end of the 2008-2009 biennium.
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements( Habitat) and noted that the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development had recognized the role of the Commission on Human Settlements and the Centre as the most effective in the implementation of the human settlements aspects of Agenda 21.
relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes related to small island developing States to ensure the effective implementation of the human settlements elements contained in the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.
Building on the above analysis, in response to General Assembly resolution 56/206, and in order to give appropriate priority and significance to the fundamental issue of human settlements financing, UNHABITAT proposed revisions to the human settlements section of the United Nations medium-term plan for 2002-2005.
Requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of UN-Habitat under review so as to enhance its effectiveness in supporting national policies, strategies and plans in attaining the human settlements related goals and targets of the Millennium Declaration, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the 2005 World Summit Outcome;
Differentiated country strategy UN-Habitat will develop, in collaboration with Governments, its partners and United Nations country teams, a differentiated country strategy to enhance the international community ' s ability to respond to countries in different development contexts and at different points along their paths to achieving the human settlements related Millennium Development Goals.
Addendum During the nineteenth session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme(UN-Habitat), due to timetabling exigencies constraints, the Executive Director of UN-Habitat requested the Governing Council to delegate responsibility for providing inputs into the human settlements segment of the United Nations medium-term plan for 2006- 2009 to the Committee of Permanent Representatives due to timetabling exigencies.
Requests the Executive Director to continue and enhance the support given to the efforts of the member countries by collecting and disseminating information on successful country experiences in various aspects of the human settlements sector and providing technical assistance and training on economically, socially and environmentally sustainable enabling policies and strategies and on practical ways and means of formulating, adopting and implementing them;
(a) Endorsed the human settlements statistics programme as presented in the report by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements(Habitat), including the quinquennial cycle for data collection and dissemination, and encouraged Habitat to convene, in consultation with the United Nations Statistics Division, an expert group meeting to evaluate existing methodologies and data-collection and dissemination instruments, as well as concepts and sources of city statistics;
In the implementation of the medium-term strategic and institutional plan, the Human Settlements Financing Division takes the lead in focus area 4, environmentally sound basic urban infrastructure and services, and on focus area 5, strengthening human settlements finance systems, as the principal areas of work while collaborating with and contributing to all other focus areas of the plan.
As for the Habitat II Conference, the President expressed the view that the Conference would be central to the human settlements activities of the United Nations as well as an opportunity both to assess the work of the Commission and the Centre since 1976 and to focus on future human settlements challenges as spelled out in Agenda 21.