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Welcome to the Urban Management
Programme Homepage
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have just entered UMP through the Global Website, which serves as a gateway
into the website of each of our regional offices in Africa, the Arab States,
Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. This website also serves as our
global site and provides information and links to all UMP and relevant
partner work, and especially to UN-HABITAT resources and information.
We are undergoing a process of updating this site.
Please check back in the coming months for new information and materials!
For up-to-date information on our global and regional activities, please
visit the UMP e-Newsletter pages of our website through the menu links
on the left of this page.
The Urban Management Programme (UMP) was launched in 1986 as an initiative
of UNDP, UN-HABITAT, the World Bank and several bilateral partners (currently
the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany). It is one of
the largest urban global technical assistance programmes of the UN system.
Phase 3 of the programme (1996 - 2001) saw concrete activities in 120
cities in 57 developing countries in Africa, the Arab States, Asia and
Latin America and the Caribbean. This was achieved through the programmes'
six regional and sub-regional offices, 19 regional anchor institutions
and over 40 national and local institutions and other networks of community-based
organizations, NGOs and municipal associations.
Now in Phase 4 (2001 - 2006), the programme is working to institutionalize
UMP participatory processes, consolidate experiences and deepen knowledge
and understanding on urban management. UMP has an explicit focus on activities
that impact the living conditions of the poor in cities and towns. The
programme continues to develop and apply urban management knowledge in
the fields of participatory urban governance, alleviation of urban poverty,
urban environmental management and HIV/AIDS. Gender is a cross-cutting
theme throughout.
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