There were three plenary meetings, partners' dialogues on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic dialogues on urban poor, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

Seminal research was undertaken in analysing urban economic conditions, rural urban linkages and effective strategies for improving urban self employment and livelihood for the urban poor.

The rural poor had become the urban poor, and in the process, they'd become invisible.

Providing improved housing and associated services to the urban poor

And we do not want to relegate the urban poor to starvation.

Only 20 per cent of the poor live in an urban environment.

Neither WASH target will be achieved if poor urban areas are ignored.

Indeed it is the emerging world's first HMO for the urban working poor.

They are poor, but they are intensely urban. And they are intensely creative.

More than 70 percent of the urban poor live in Java and Bali.

Progress was made towards monitoring and promoting understanding of urban economic conditions and rural urban linkages, as well as monitoring and developing strategies and frameworks for improving urban self employment and livelihood for the urban poor.

Developing finance institutions and financial products suitable to the needs of the urban poor

Working class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system.

Cheap imports from China and India may increase the real income of the urban poor.

The principles of rights based programming and pro poor approaches dictate that the urban poor should not be left out of national WASH programmes.

(a) Can South South cooperation generate income and employment opportunities for the rural and urban poor?

The themes of the discussion on human settlements focused on providing improved housing and associated services to the urban poor creating jobs and promoting local entrepreneurship and developing finance institutions and financial products suitable to the financial needs of the urban poor.

The themes of the discussion on human settlements focused on providing improved housing and associated services to the urban poor creating jobs and promoting local entrepreneurship and developing finance institutions and financial products suitable to the financial needs of the urban poor.

Micro trafficking in drugs also constitutes a major source of income for poor people in urban areas.

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

Rather than consult with slum dwellers and engage in a process of shared responsibility for relocation and resettlement and rather than recognize the urban poor as a feature of the new urban economy with a need to be empowered, there remains an unrealistic hope for the urban poor that they will simply return to their rural areas.

To this end, local authorities need to be strengthened and work closely with organizations of the urban poor.

Around 70 percent of the poor live in rural areas, while the rest live in the urban areas.

In improving housing for the urban poor, Governments can assume two functions facilitating housing provision and improvement by individuals and private entrepreneurs and directly providing affordable housing to the poor.

The consequences of rapid urbanization, combined with poor urban governance, weak economic growth and HIV AIDS, have reached crisis proportions in cities and urban areas of much of the developing world, especially in Africa.

To finance NGO developed projects aimed at poverty alleviation and improvement in the living conditions of poor rural and urban dwellers

For example, rising food prices tend to hurt the poor, especially the urban poor, who spend a large share of their income on food unlike agricultural workers, they receive none of the benefits of higher food prices. With swelling urban populations, it will become increasingly difficult to keep a lid on these pressures.

(a) Cities Alliance is a global alliance of cities and their development partners committed to improving the living conditions of the urban poor.

Urban safety for the poor through local government capacity building, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups in Asia and the Pacific

The Forum consisted of dialogues among partners on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic discussions on urban poverty, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services, and urban disasters and reconstruction.

The young people at Shahbag are mainly urban, educated, and middle class Hifazat derives its support mainly from the rural poor. Traditional versus modern, urban versus rural, intellectuals versus the peasantry these divisions are the stuff of political cliché.

The urban sprawl of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bangalore has continued unchecked, unplanned, and with under investment in infrastructure for far too long. Urban pollution contributed to 620,000 needless deaths in India last year, mainly among the very poor.

The World Bank group is one of the main partners of UN Habitat in improving the living and working conditions of the urban poor.

Public private partnerships could be a useful tool for meeting the needs of the urban and rural poor for housing, education, transportation and services.

For the large and growing number of urban poor, core infrastructure services, such as energy, transport, pollution control and waste disposal, are needed alongside improved security of tenure and community led efforts to build decent housing and support urban planning.

UN Habitat also signed agreements with the Asian Development Bank, the Inter American Development Bank, and the African Development Bank for joint projects and programmes for water, sanitation, housing and urban development, focusing on improving the living conditions of the urban poor.

The urban poor usually have very low access to water and sanitation services, and pockets of people such as indigenous groups often have even lower access.

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question. One solution is to enforce secular modernization by oppressing the poor and their religious organizations.

(a) Convening of two expert group meetings to review and analyse the links between poverty and urban safety and security in Asia and the Pacific and place urban safety within the broader context of human security analyse the role of local governments in urban safety in Asia and the Pacific and identify and document at least 10 effective and innovative practices in urban safety for the poor in the region

Admittedly, the global commodity price boom has had profound, albeit enormously complex and uncertain, effects on poverty. While surging commodity prices are helping poor farmers and poor resource rich countries, they are a catastrophe for the urban poor, some of whom spend 50 or more of their income on food.

No large scale forced relocations were noted during the reporting period, although there were reports of harassment (police raids, confiscations) in camps and other poor urban areas.

In slum areas like Cité Soleil and very poor urban areas for example, around Gonaïves children are held hostage under the brutal and criminal rule of local gangs.

The Fund seeks to alleviate poverty and empower the rural and urban poor, by providing them with access to resources and services and helping build community level infrastructure.

This programme provides effective social safety net to 1.25 million poorest of the poor households, designed to meet basic nutritional requirements of the poor, covers urban as well as rural areas, recognises women as far as possible as the beneficiary in the household.

Enabling local governments to understand the concept of community based urban safety for the poor, and providing them access to practices and tools, will lead to development policies and programmes that can improve the safety and security of the most vulnerable and the poorest in urban areas.