Urban slums and their youth are the front line for any such efforts.

The slum estimations forecast that there will be 1.4 billion slum dwellers by 2020, if it is assumed that current proportions of slums to urban populations remain valid during the forthcoming five year periods, until 2020.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum, so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers as proposed in the Cities Without Slums initiative.

The problem of slums could not be eliminated overnight and long term plans were necessary, but poverty was the root cause of slums.

There are things they care about.

UN Habitat research priorities address the following issues slums and urban poverty, secure tenure, market eviction and gentrification, rental housing within slums and the implications for slum upgrading, housing rights, and natural disasters or conflict, as well as gender equality in housing access.

The UN Habitat Government of Kenya slum upgrading programme is located at the Athi River and at Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa.

C. Slum Upgrading Facility

When I was a kid growing up in the South Bronx, inner city ghetto in New York, I was surrounded by evil, as all kids are who grew up in an inner city.

Yeah, I'm a poor black child from the ghetto.

So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi.

And right next to where I used to work, there was a slum.

Let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world.

(m) To achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading, and to encourage support for the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility

Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2015, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading as well as increased contributions to the United Nations Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility

Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2015, recognizing the urgent need for the provision of increased resources for affordable housing and housing related infrastructure, prioritizing slum prevention and slum upgrading and increasing contributions to the United Nations Human Settlements Foundation and its Slum Upgrading Facility

Based on the definition and selected indicators, it had been concluded that 72 per cent of the urban population in Africa, 48 per cent in Asia and 26 per cent in Latin America were slum dwellers.

The slum upgrading programme continues to constitute a path breaking process, in which each stage contributes significantly towards achieving the Millennium Declaration target on slums.

For the developed countries, the figure was 6 per cent.

In the urban slums, the girls tend to stay away.

These people are valuable as a group.

This is Kibera, Kenya, one of the largest slums of Africa.

Social capital in the slums is at its most urban and dense.

So one thing slammed up against another, such as in Sao Paulo here.

Monitoring target 11, on improving the lives of slum dwellers

At the same time, urban poverty, especially in developing countries, resulted in the expansion of slums.

Recalling the goal contained in the United Nations Millennium DeclarationSee resolution 55 2. of achieving a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2020, as proposed in the Cities without Slums initiative,

Replace expected accomplishment (i) with the following (i) Increased awareness of and sensitivity to the plight of the urban poor, and enhanced cooperation and partnership in slum upgrading initiatives in line with the Millennium Development Goal 'cities without slums' .

The picture on India is the Dharavi slum of Mumbai in India.

A full implementation of these recommendations would certainly contribute to improving the lives of slum dwellers.

In monitoring the progress made towards achieving target 11, the Monitoring Systems Branch facilitated a definition of the slum household used for preparing the slum estimates published in the 2003 edition of the Global Report on Human Settlements.

In addressing directly the problems of the world's slums, an enabling strategy is integral to the approach of UN Habitat and is a substantial part of the value added by UN Habitat in the slum upgrading process.

In this photograph a hostile crowd in a slum surrounds him.

Target 11 By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Emphasis has been placed on national polices for urban development, shelter and slum upgrading.

I basically embedded a computer into a wall of a slum in New Delhi.

Even in the slums of India more than 50 percent of urban kids are going into private schools.

Although not all slum dwellers are poor, those having the greatest needs are among the poor and underserved populations focused on by the Programme of Action when it stresses the importance of providing underserved groups with information, education, jobs, skill development and reproductive health services (para.

Slum upgrading provides a unique opportunity for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

Consequently slum areas and communities multiplied rapidly, which exacerbated a number of social problems.

45 percent of the 14 million people who live in Delhi live in unauthorized slums, which are chronically overcrowded.

Roma lived in segregated ghettos. We were second class citizens.