Improving social planning for human settlements

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends promoting human resource development and capacity-building for human settlements development.

1. Reforming policy
2. Improving human settlements
3. Improving
4. Developing policy

1. Setting long-range settlement plans

1. Combining formal and non-formal training using modern materials

1. Strengthening training institutions
2. Strengthening local governments
3. Including environmental management in activities of local authorities
4. Improving participation and empowerment of the poor
5. Creating supportive policy environment for partnership creation
6. Assessing progress on participation of women in settlements development
7. Assessing costs to improve human settlements planning

1. Spatial imbalance of human settlements
2. Obsolescence of suburban mode of human settlement
3. Hazardous siting of dwellings

1. Unsociable
2. Rights
3. Inhumanity

1. Agenda 21