Shelter provision and employment generation - UNCHS (UNCHS Nairobi, 1995)
Keywords: Housing policy in Developing countries. -- Job creation in Developing countries. -- Construction industry in Government policy in Developing countries. -- Employment and Living Conditions -- Poverty -- International Policy Responds -- Women in Shelter Related activities -- human settlements development and employment generation : Impact on Housing developments , Income Multiplies, Macro level Issues in Housing, Labour, Infrastructure -- Employment Potential in the Process of Housing Provision : Informal Sector Construction, Site and Services Schemes, Upgrading Houses, Maintaining Houses , SSEs in Shelter Provision -- Empowerment Generation in Infrastructure and Services Delivery, Maintenance and Improvement : Roads, Water Supply and Drains and Sewerage, Low-cost Sanitation, Waste management, Transport, Use of Local Labour in Infrastructural work -- appraisal of Employment-Generation Potential and Constraints Through Background Linkage : Building material Industry, Labour Incentive Infrastructure Work, Using Alternative Building Materials, Building Technologies -- The Potential of Various Actors in Building work -- Forward Linkages : shelter as a Workplace : Types of Income-Generating Activities founded in Houses , Characteristic of HBEs, Infrastructure Investment and Future Investments, -- Experiencing With Employment Generation and Poverty Alleviation in Poor Communities : ILO Projects, UNDP/ILO , Employment Generation, UNCHS , DANIDA, Training Programmes to Improve Human Settlements, World Bank Urban Management Program , Urban Poverty , ILO, UNV, UNDP and its Micro Capital Grants, NGOs -- Scope for Support to Employment Generation in Shelter, Infra-structure and Service Provision : -- Conclusions and Proposals for Assisting Employment Generation in Shelter, Infrastructure and Service Provision