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This document contains information on the purpose and role of UNECE Country Profiles in facilitating legal, political and infrastructural reforms in UNECE countries; the rationale behind the country profiles structure; and the guidelines for the preparation of country profiles. The current revised guidelines reflect findings and recommendations of the independent evaluation of UNECE country
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Ministers and Heads of Delegation from the member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) met at the seventy-eighth session of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management to discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainable housing in liveable cities and sustainable human settlements, and to mark the
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This publication has been developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative. It provides a study of the advantages of using ICTs to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 11, by facilitating the missing linkages that exist between sustainability policies and urban-planning practices through digitally-enabled
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This publication has been developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative. It provides an overview of how cities can use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also maps the case studies to the various international agreements as well as the SDGs.
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This publication has been developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative. It provides a series of case studies on smart governance, smart people and smart economy, which will catapult successful smart city practices into the global spotlight.ENG
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This publication has been developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative. It provides cities with a methodology on how to collect data or information from key performance indicators (KPIs) for smart sustainable cities (SSC). This set of KPIs for SSC were developed to establish the criteria to evaluate ICT's contributions in making cities smarter
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This Country Profile (CP) of the Republic of Armenia is the nineteenth in the series and the second review done for the country. The first was prepared in 2004 and the analyses covered only the housing sector. This CP is an in-depth analyses of the housing, urban development and land management sectors of the Republic of Armenia. It provides policy recommendations on these sectors, while
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This document serves as a guide for the implementation of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing. This guidance document was approved by the Committee on Housing and Land Management at its seventy-seventh session in 2016.English
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This is the regional report of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development - Habitat III. The report is based upon national human settlements reports provided by CIS member States, conclusions and assessments provided by national focal points and experts, and other open analytic and information services.
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This Country Profile on Uzbekistan is the eighteenth in the series. The country profile programme continues to focus on specific challenges or achievements in the housing and land management sectors that are particularly relevant to the country under review. In the case of Uzbekistan, these issues include housing policies and government support measures for the construction of housing in rural
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This Country Profile on the Republic of Moldova is the seventeenth in the series and the second for the country. The country profile programme continues to emphasize in-depth analysis and policy recommendations, while also focusing on specific challenges or achievements in the housing, urban development and land management sectors that are particularly relevant to the country under review
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Standards are an effective instrument for addressing energy efficiency in buildings and supporting the achievements of the targets set by international initiatives such as the Global Goals, the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, and the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing. All these initiatives stress the importance of energy efficiency to ensure energy security, mitigate GHGs
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The UNECE Social Housing Study examines the current trends, challenges and social housing models in the UNECE region. It provides recommendations for possible future activities based on an extensive literature review of housing issues in over 50 countries and interviews with over 30 representatives of governments, private and non- governmental organizations.
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The scope of the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing is to improve sustainability of housing in the ECE region through effective policies and actions at all levels, supported by international cooperation, in order to contribute to sustainable development in the region. English
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Данная публикация– это результат исследования, проведенного с целью сбора всесторонней информации о системах управления земельными ресурсами разных стран. Данное исследование включает в себя большое количество аспектов, некоторые из которых относятся к услугам этих стран, применению ими электронных технологий при оказании услуг, защите странами собственных данных и возможностям восстановления ими
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The study presented here is the result of a survey to gather comprehensive information on countries' land administration systems. This includes the efficiency of their services, the security of their data and their ability to recover data and services in the event of a disaster, to name only a few of the aspects covered.
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This document presents summaries of the expert presentations during the workshop. Discussion focused on the impact of the global financial crisis on housing affordability, the responses of different governments, and ways to increase social housing.English
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This report provides practical recommendations to help overcome barriers to energy efficiency in housing. The report builds on the Action Plan for Energy-Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region - a concrete and comprehensive list of actions to support housing energy efficiency.English
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This report compiles the speeches made by ministers responsible for housing, spatial planning and land administration and heads of delegations of thirty countries of the UNECE region at the Third Ministerial Meeting on Housing and Land Management held on 8 October 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. The fruitful discussion at the Ministerial Meeting, as mirrored in this report, provided a great