Today's youth faces an increasingly uncertain world where climate change, rapid urbanization,the economic recession and rising unemployment pose unprecedented challenges. There are 1.2 billion adoles

More than half the world’s 7 billion people now live in urban areas. What does this mean for children? The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World examines the situation of chi

The report examines the food geography of Cape Town and the food sourcing strategies of poor urban households. Finally, it explores the relationship between food insecurity and health.

The State of World Population 2010 is an annual report of the UNFPA showing what has been accomplished in places affected by ongoing conflicts or by military occupation.And the special challenges of

This paper identifies twelve myths about urban areasor to be more precise,ten and a half myths,since three of them are partially true statements in need of qualification to make them useful.These myt

Paper presented by Ambassador, Dr. Juma V. Mwapachu, Secretary General, East African community, at the Tanzania higher education forum on "Universities for Sustainable Development: Trends, Prospects

In many neighbourhoods in South Africa,especially Johannesburg, residents have acted in an apparent attempt to prevent crime in their areas.In several instances this results in enclosed neighbourhood

The main policy challenge addressed by the paper is how best to support and regulate the urban informal sector and irregular settlement in a way that promotes employment, income and shelter for the p

This desk review asks how the ongoing processes of urban and local government developmentin Sub-Saharan Africa can and should benefit the countries,and what conditions are needed to achieve this outc

The main purpose of this study was to examine the use of mobile phones by Generation Y students in the city of Johannesburg in order to increase understanding of this segment’s consumer behaviour. Ge