Urban Planners – Page 4 – UN Habitat

Frontline: Preparing Healthcare Systems for Shocks from Disasters to Pandemics

To strengthen the resilience of health care services to shocks and pressures, this report highlights lessons from the disaster risk and emergency management practice. It outlines five principles that are crucial to enable health systems to offer more reliable and shock-resistant services. The principles presented in this note can help to better prepare health systems […]

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From Plan to Action: Assessing Integration and Evolution of Solid Waste Management Policies in Kenya

This briefing includes an overview of a study which examined current solid waste management policies in Kenya and the extent to they integrated health as well as how the policies were addressing health outcomes. Policies priorities and strategies on solid waste management since Kenya’s indepence were examined. The authors also studied how health was integrated

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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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Co-design Excersises Tool Box

“This webpage provides a list of resources that introduces and assists readers in understanding the current state of their community and provides tools with which they can not only assess the status of the neighbourhood through health indicators but also advocate for the inclusion of health in territorial planning. advocacy approaches and supporting information for

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