Subject: BLP/GUO Home Page
nicholas.you@unchs.org
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:25:28 -0800
Message-Id: <199812231524.SAA29611@ungigiri.unep.org> From: nicholas.you@unchs.org To: gils@cni.org Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:25:28 -0800 Subject: BLP/GUO Home Page
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS
Dear Friends,
Please find below an updated version of what has been posted on the Best
Practices Intranet web-site. (*) denotes new items posted.
WHAT'S NEW
* Turin Declaration: New Partnership for Action
* Turin Conference Report & Papers
Monitoring Progress in Implementing the Habitat Agenda - Guide to
using Best Practices
Press release on the establishment of a social venture network in Asia,
29 Oct 98
Report of the Florianopolis Seminar (Spanish and Portuguese),
Conclusions of the Dubai Seminar on Learning from Best Practices, 4 Oct 98
The Ten Award-winning Best Practices for 1998
List of 124 Best Practices 1998
List of Good Practices 1998
Report of the 1998 Jury
Report of the 1998 TAC
CALENDAR/SCHEDULE
* Int'l Workshop on Urban Management in Developing Countries, Venice,
11-12 March 1999
* Youth for Habitat Summer Camp 1999
* IULA Virtual Congress, October 98-March 99
* International Caring Communities Conference Agenda, New York,
1-11 February 99
Dakar Seminar Agenda, Urban Information Systems, 15-16 December 1998
Turin Conference Agenda, New Partnership for Action, 1-5 Dec 98
LEARNING TOOLS
* Best Practice mini case study series
* List of Case Studies on Urban Infrastructure Development in Asia
* Guide for the Transfer of Effective Practices
REFERENCE
* The Urban Thesaurus: a cross-tabulation of BP themes and the
Habitat Agenda
* Table of Contents of the HIC book on "Building the City with the
People"
* Monitoring Progress in Implementing the Habitat Agenda - an overview
Using BPs for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Habitat Agenda
(downloadable winword file)
FILE LIBRARY/Meeting Reports
Open Cities, Competitive Cities, summary of the 6th Meeting of Habitat
Colombia (English and Spanish)
FILE LIBRARY/Articles by Partners
Municipal Finance management in LAC, Allan Rosenbaum, Florida
International University
Role of Cities in Sustainable Development, Ed Frank and W.J. Kakebeeke
FILE LIBRARY/GUO Newsletter
Issues 1,2 & 3 of the Urban Observer
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
* Description of UNCHS (Habitat) Programmes
The entire BLP team sends you season's greetings and wishes you all the
best for a Happy 1999.
Nicholas You, Coordinator
Best Practices & Local Leadership Programme
UNCHS (Habitat), P.O. Box 30030 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254-2) 623029, Fax: (254-2) 623080
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