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UNHSP - United Nations Human Settlements Programme(UN-Habitat)
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT was established in 1978. Its task is to develop goals, priorities and guidelines for a human settlement policy of the United Nations. It is the leading agency within the UN system for the co-ordination of UN activities within the field of human settlements.
It is also responsible for facilitating the global exchange of information on shelter and sustainable human settlement development, for organizing expert meetings and seminars and for assisting countries with policy and technical advice.
The UNHSP is headquartered in Nairobi.
Documentation
The UNHSP is a focal point for the implementation of the outcome of the UN Conferences on Human Settlements (Habitat). Reports from these conferences are contained in the following documents:
Report of Habitat. United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver 31 May-11 June 1976.
Sales no. 87.IV.6.
Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul 3-14 June 1996.
Sales no. 97:IV.6
These reports can be accessed from the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the UN Libraries.
The General Assembly devoted a Special Session on June 6-8, 2001, to the Implementation of the Outcome of HABITAT II. Full text documents from the Special Session are posted at the official web site of the General Assembly, Past Conferences and General Assembly Special Sessions.
The UNHSP official web site provides background information, news, full text documents and reports.
Global Report on Human Settlements is issued regularly, providing an international overview of shelter and urban development challenges.
The UNHSP journal Habitat Debate contains analysis and debate articles on shelter from a global perspective. It is posted online at the UNHSP official web site.
A short summary of the work of the United Nations Environment Programme for a given year with references to essential documents can be accessed through the Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Three, Economic and Social Questions, Environment and Human Settlements. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and by the UN Libraries. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
References to UNHCR documents and reports from 1979 onwards with links to full texts for recent years can be accessed through the United Nations online catalogue - UNBISnet.