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The Future of Cities: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward

This report identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these issues. The main aim is to raise open questions and steer discussions on what the future of cities can, and should be, both within the scientific and policymaker communities.  It…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

The Global Compact on Migration aims to foster international cooperation by setting out guiding principles and providing examples of multilateral political framework. It deals with the complex nature of international migration by addressing a wide range of migration-related aspects, such as border management, smuggling and trafficking in human beings, migrant documentation and return and readmission,…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

The Implementation of UNHCR’S Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

Since the publication of its 2009 policy on urban refugees, UNHCR policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas, the topic of urban refugees has become increasingly prominent amongst humanitarian actors. It is widely acknowledged that refugees are more often fleeing to cities instead of camps. The body of literature on urban refugees is…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Report

The Influence of the Neighborhood Physical Environment on Early Child Health and Development: A Review and Call for Research

This review examines evidence of the association between the neighbourhood built environment, green spaces and outdoor home area, and early (0-7 years) child health and development. There was evidence that the presence of child relevant neighbourhood destinations and services were positively associated with early child development domains of physical health and wellbeing and social competence.…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The Integration of Refugees through Participatory Planning in Transitory Spaces: Policy Implications from Conflict Transformation and Urban Planning

The numbers are staggering: according to a recent report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are currently an estimated 65.3 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide (UNHCR 2016). Developing countries are on the receiving end of 86% of them, with an estimated 19.5 million refugees worldwide that are housed in UNHCR refugee…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Different Perspectives on Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Adolescents

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems in unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents living in Belgium. A total of 166 unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents, living in different large- and small-scale centres, in foster care or alone, participated in the study. Between 37 and 47% of the unaccompanied refugee youths…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Development of Methods and Practices of Virtual Reality as a Tool for Participatory Urban Planning: A Case Study of Vilnius City as an Example for Improving Environmental, Social and Energy Sustainability

Multiple channels of sustainable urban development could be managed in the process of an inter-disciplinary cooperation and creative involvement of all stakeholders. The paper aims to verify how the specific methods of virtual reality simulation could be used as an effective tool for setting an efficient participation platform between the stakeholders to improve environmental, social…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The Nightmare of Participation. (Crossbench Praxis as A Mode of Criticality)

In this book, the author argues for an urgent inversion of participation, a model beyond modes of consensus. Instead of reading participation as the charitable saviour of political struggle, Miessen candidly reflects on the limits and traps of its real motivations. Rather than breading the next generation of consensual facilitators and mediators, he argues for…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Book

The Potential of Participatory Design to Improve Urban Spaces in the Slums of Caracas, Venezuela

It may be said that slums have become one with Caracas, and so to eradicate them completely would be almost impossible task. A more suitable solution therefore is to rehabilitate these areas, and improve the current living environment. Taking into account the meagre access to construction materials, the prevailing social conditions, and the absence of…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The State of the World’s Children 2003

The State of the World’s Children 2003 reports on child participation – the ‘right’ of every child at every age, the responsibility of governments, organizations and families, and a way to promote tolerance, respect for human rights, an appreciation of diversity and peace. The report showcases examples from every region of the world of how…
  • Publication year: 2003
  • Content Type: Report

The State of the World’s Children 2012

The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World examines the situation of children growing up in urban settings and finds that denials of children’s rights to survival, health, nutrition, education and protection are widespread. It sheds light on the scale of these urban inequities and suggests ways to ensure that urban…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Report

The Techniques of Participatory Design for Inclusive Public Space Provision in Kampung Kota of Surakarta

The technique of participatory design is essential for the future development knowledge of architecture to inform the improvement of architectural education and practice in Asia. Therefore to provide of inclusive public spaces for the community, this research article presents a field study of the usage of community participation design method in design and planning to…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Time to Let Go: Remaking Humanitarian Action for the Modern Era

It is time for the humanitarian sector to let go of some of the fundamental- but outdated- assumptions, structures and behaviours that prevent it from adapting to meet the needs of people in crises. This is a proposal for radical change to create a humanitarian system that is fit to respond to the challenges of…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Report

Tools to Act- Year 2 Report for the Every One Every Day Initiative in Barking and Dagenham

The Every One Every Day initiative is grounded in Participatory City’s nine years of deep engagement with those at the forefront of developing ‘participation culture’ around the world. The genesis of the idea has been built on research aimed at developing an approach to fostering more of these new types of inclusive participation projects, seeing…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Topic Guide: Planning for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities in the Global South

This guide explores the poverty and environmental challenges facing cities of the global South, and current thinking on how urban planning and management of the built and natural environment can be harnessed to address these challenges. The Topic Guide is written for DFID staff, but is relevant to all development professionals. It is suitable for…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report

Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

This document lays out the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to mobilize global efforts to end poverty, foster peace, safeguard the rights and dignity of all people, and protect the planet. This agenda recognises the central role that cities play in building safe, inclusive, and resilient societies and in managing displacement.
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces develops, implements, and evaluates tools, policies and comprehensive approaches on the prevention of and response to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls across different settings.
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Other document

Understanding Research with Children and Young People

The book aims to enable researchers to be reflective and mindful of their own assumptions, and think critically about the implications of decisions made at various stages of the research process. This is achieved by encouraging readers to contemplate why research with children is valuable, what can be gained from it and what considerations need…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Book

Designed to Scale Mass Participation to Build Resilient Neighbourhoods

Small, fragmented, low frequency participation will not transform neighbourhoods. Is local participation at scale possible and does it hold the potential to improve people’s lives and make lasting positive change? The Open Works research project aimed to test if a platform approach could scale up the new type of ‘participation culture’ that has emerged over…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Understanding the Root Causes of Displacement: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Prevention and Solutions

The UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) eighth annual High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges – on the theme Understanding and addressing the root causes of displacement – will take place on 16 and 17 December 2015 in Geneva. The dialogue seeks to foster a more nuanced understanding of the drivers of displacement and to identify opportunities…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report

UNHCR Policy on Cash-Based Interventions

UNHCR’s Policy on Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) is introduced herewith to expand and systematise the use of CBIs as a modality of assistance and service delivery across the organization and its operations worldwide. The Policy reconfirms UNHCR’s commitment to the increased use of CBIs and sets out the corporate vision and objectives to be achieved by…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Report

UNHCR Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

This report details UNHCR’s policy and approach to securing the rights of urban refugees, providing them with protection, and implementing protection strategies in urban settings, and updating the earlier policy on refugees in urban areas from 1997.
  • Publication year: 2009
  • Content Type: Report

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