Documents et rapports
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Insights from practitioners' conference on urban infrastructure finance in a responsible fiscal framework: lessons from Brazil, China, India, Poland, and South Africa (anglais)
Investment in urban infrastructure in developing countries is central to maintaining growth momentum and to ensuring the improvements in the quality of life that citizens expect as part of the development...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 35577 Date du document: 1 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Annez,Patricia Clarke,Buckley,Robert M.,Liu,Lili,Peterson,George E.
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Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into urban/local government projects : a guidance note (anglais)
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the urban lending portfolio is essential if we accept HIV/AIDS as a development-rather than purely a health-issue. This is a new subject area for many Task Team Leaders (TTLS)...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33807 Date du document: 1 septembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuper, Kate,Schuler, Nina [editor],Debomy,Sylvie Claudine
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Reaching the poor through sustainable partnerships : the Slum Sanitation Program in Mumbai, India (anglais)
Despite all their efforts, the majority of cities in India have been unsuccessful in meeting the sanitation needs of the poor. Today, one of the main challenges they face in this sector is to develop innovative...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44046 Date du document: 1 janvier 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nitti,Rosanna,Sarkar,Shyamal
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Barrionet : an urban development Alternative (anglais)
BarrioNet’s main objective is to interconnect electronically marginal communities that share common problems such as, lack of services, environmental degradation and violence by using information technology...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 95871 Date du document: 1 décembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Ayuda Urbana : creating communities on urban issues (anglais)
Urban development policies in Central America and the Caribbean are critical for millions of people who live in hundreds of crowded cities. The quality of transportation, water and sanitation, social services...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 95869 Date du document: 1 novembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chavez,Roberto,Kim,Ronald,Puspa,Erika,Ramirez-Corzo,Mariana
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Barrios El Cafe, La Mina and Hermanas Mirabal, in Santo Domingo : a best practice in urban environmental rehabilitation (anglais)
The contiguous barrios of El Cafe (formerly a coffee plantation) La Mina (formerly a quarry) and Hermanas Mirabal (the Mirabal sisters were anti-Trujillo fighters in the ‘50s) are on the periphery of the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 95870 Date du document: 1 novembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chavez,Roberto
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Towards a national slum upgrading program for Ghana - building on 15 years of efforts to improve the living conditions of the poor in Ghana's cities (anglais)
The note provides an outline of slum upgrading projects in Ghana, designed within low cost standards, funded by the central government with assistance from respective local governments. During 1985-1995...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21102 Date du document: 30 avril 2000 Auteur: Banes, Chris,Huque, Rumana,Zipperer, Melanie
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Towards a national community infrastructure upgrading program for Ghana : building on 15 years of efforts to improve the living conditions of the poor in Ghana's cities (anglais)
The note explores infrastructure upgrading in Ghana, which over the last fifteen years, has improved the living conditions of a number of poor people in the country. This upgrading featured planning, and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 22023 Date du document: 30 avril 2000 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Banes,Christopher J.,Huque,Rumana,Zipperer, Melanie