Role of Urban Centres in Regional Development

Malawi continues to establish youth centres in urban and rural areas.

UNHCR supports local settlement projects in rural areas and urban centres.

In the urban centres almost everything was destroyed by the cyclone.

The large majority of their populations already lives in urban centres.

The issue is much more evident in small and medium sized urban centres

New growth centres are being created to reduce pressure on existing urban areas.

Day care centres were a new and expensive phenomenon in the urban areas.

Second, by the creation of economic opportunities in urban centres and areas outside drylands.

Most coastal urban centres do not have a municipal policy for solid waste management

Many refugees and asylum seekers were detained for being in urban centres without authorization.

Coastal urban centres are generating annually 30 to 40 million tonnes of municipal solid waste.

Preschool education is not regulated by organic law and exists only in certain urban centres.

Structure plans have been prepared for four urban centres with a view to strengthening national institutions for the management of the urbanization process and to promoting the role of urban centres in economic development, among other activities.

In the urban centres life expectancy for women is 74 years compared to 67 years for men.

Sea disposal of solid wastes is still a common practice for small and medium sized urban centres

The perceived employment opportunities in urban centres induces many of the rural underemployed and unemployed to migrate.

With the rapidly changing social environment, even this safety net is fraying, most notably in the urban centres.

The project is expected to provide recommendations and demonstrate practical strategies in this field for other urban centres.

Agricultural land surrounding urban centres is often converted into squatter settlements, housing thousands of migrants from the countryside.

In the urban centres, virtually all commercial, private and public installations had either been destroyed or seriously damaged.

The development of municipal governance in particular has become important in view of the continued growth of urban centres.

359. Less than one third of the populations of Africa and Asia lives in urban centres, while three quarters of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean is urban.

In the 21st century, modern pharmaceuticals and medical procedures remain inaccessible to large numbers of African people due to their relatively high cost and concentration of health centres in urban centres.

Living conditions in the urban centres of some of those countries have become so difficult that urban out migration is being experienced for the first time since the Second World War.

Habitat II would have to address the problems of overcrowded urban centres, slums and shanty towns phenomena resulting from urban migration which was a problem that urgently needed to be addressed.

Also notable are the high economic growth rates in Afghanistan's urban centres over the past three and a half years.

One company is responsible for producing and distributing electricity in the Niger and it covers only the main urban centres.

Urban cultures Urban realities Urban governance Urban renaissance.

Within the urban centres the Municipal Councils of Port Vila and Luganville have both been supporting women's participation in economic development.

This is the case in Vanuatu where few births, deaths and marriages are registered, either in urban centres or rural areas.

Tens of thousands more have become night commuters , travelling nightly by foot from IDP camps to urban centres to avoid abduction.

(c) The population density rate, which averages 3.1 persons per square kilometre, is 615.9 persons per square kilometre in urban centres.

This means that 97 per cent of the population in rural areas and urban centres did have access to safe water.

The result was an expanding stream of displaced persons and rural migrants who were putting increasing pressure on the urban centres.

Urban poor Urban resources Urban sustainability Urban services Urban disasters and reconstruction.

Use of electricity is limited to the urban centres and towns where 72 per cent of dwellers use this medium for light.

Thus far, 450 e learning centres had been opened throughout the country, providing training opportunities to students in rural and urban areas.

Redirecting migration from large to small or medium sized urban centres as a means of achieving a balanced population distribution was endorsed.

6. In the urban centres, nearly all buildings, including private, commercial and public installations, have also been either destroyed or severely damaged.

An increasing trend of rural to urban migration has been observed at the same time, which is typically labour dominant and has produced an outflow of young, mostly male, workers to the urban centres.

The conference report stresses the strategic importance of investing in physical infrastructure (telecommunications, electricity and roads) that link rural areas to urban centres.

With the increase in population, a shift away from the rural communities toward urban centres, this important cultural safety net is slowly diminishing.

Palestinian militants staged a number of attacks with mortar and Qassam rocket fire against Israeli settlements, as well as urban centres inside Israel.

75. Promotion of strategies that simultaneously encourage the growth of small or medium sized urban centres and the sustainable development of rural areas.