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Connectivity for Human Capital: Realizing the Right to Education and Healthcare through Improved Public Transport in African Cities

The analytical outputs aim to ultimately inform the design of urban transport operations that are sufficiently tailored to realize the rights to education and healthcare by marginalized groups, with the intended long-term outcomes of improved development effectiveness and overall more streamlined reflection of the equal rights to education and healthcare in the international development organizations’ […]

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Compendium of Inspiring Practices: Health Edition

This paper brings together over 20 case studies that highlight practical information city planning and how to address issues that develop when prioritizing health as part of urban design. Although the primary goal of the paper is to present the key principles of the International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning and its beneifts, the case

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Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment

The Compendium is a comprehensive collection of available WHO and other United Nations (UN) guidance for improving health by creating healthier environments. It provides an overview and easy access of 500 actions, and a framework for thinking about health and environment interventions. It covers a broad range of areas such as air pollution, water, sanitation

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Global Designing Cities Initiative. Guides and publications

This initiative closely examines street design impacts and how it intersects with urban global issues. The initiative focuses on how street design can impact sustainibility and accessibility, but also the public health and safety of communities as well. Herein, we see that the guide published by this initiative takes into account health as a critical

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Urban Resilience Hub

Urban Resilience Hub is a UN-Habitat’s technical partners for urban resilience. They help cities increase their resilience by diagnosing the state of their urban system, driving actions, sharing and building knowledge for policy making.

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