BUILDING PLACES THAT WE ALL
CALL HOMEFirst published 2022 by United Nations HumanSettlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
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Page 1: Yoma housing for the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Yangon's InformalSettlements
Page 3 (Up-Left): Maimumah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat and UnderSecretary-General of the United Nations
Page 3 (Down-Left 1): Providing Community Hand Washing Station in Dagon Seikkan
Township, Yangon (credit: Win Hlaing Tun)
Page 3 (Down-Left 2): Balloting Process of The Beneficiary
Page 3 (Down-Left 3): Plastic to Profit. 3Ws (Women Waste Warriors), a community-basedorganization in Manila, recycles PET bottles into urban gardening pots as part of their livelihood
initiative supporting their families while promoting proper waste management.
Page 3 (Down-Left 4): Elderly citizen keenly observing the Heritage Recovery Plan throughcommunity participatory process in Siddhipur, Mahalaxmi, Nepal. Similar plans are prepared for12 heritage settlements in Kathmandu Valley. (Photo credit: Newton Maharjan, Lumanti)
Page 4 (Up-Left): The family engages in masonry work on their house in Shawlands estate
following on-site training for local builders and beneficiaries by UN-Habitat's technical team(credit: A.Anas)
Page 4 (Up-Right): A housing beneficiary, Mr. Kalimuththu engages in small-scale organic
vegetable cultivation on his own plot of land. During a competition conducted by the Departmentof Agriculture in Nuwara Eliya in 2019, he was named the best farmer in the Diyagama Westregion (credit: M. Kajenthiran)Page 4 (Down-Right): Illustration of Hanoi Creative City (credit: UN-Habitat Viet Nam / Tu Na)
Page 5 (Up-Right): 2019-01-03_workshop
Page 5 (Down-Right): Director General, of General Department of Housing, monitored the house
construction and provided a guidance to the community
Page 7 (Up): Timor-Leste, Dili, municipal waste dump on fire - Sep 2019
Page 7 (Middle-Left): Professor Matsufuji (Fukuoka, Japan)
Page 7 (Middle-Right): Installation of a vertical gas pipe at the Htein Bin final disposal site
Page 8 (Up-Right): CGC Female workers
Page 8 (Down-Left): Mangrove situation in Kep Province (credit: UN-Habitat CMB)
Page 8 (Down-Right): Director General, of General Department of Housing, monitored the house
construction and provided a guidance to the community
Page 9 (Up-Right): A planner led the group discussion for the primary school students to design
their own community (credit: Wuhan Land Use and Urban Spatial Planning Research Center(WLSP)). People on the picture: planner of WLSP, primary students of Wansongquan Primary
School. Caption 2: On 5th Nov, 2021, the Children Participation in Community Renewal
Workshop was organized in Wuhan, China. The workshop was organized by the UN-Habitat andWLSP. More than 20 primary school students actively engaged in the workshop. They were ledto ‘re-build’ their ideal community.
Page 9 (Down-Left): 24/7 community-based small-scale water supply system in Attapeu
province, southern Lao PDR
Page 9 (Down-Right): Resident of newly constructed houses drive tractor to his farm
Page 10 (Up-Left): Community engagement in climate change vulnerability assessment
Page 10 (Up-Middle): Horizontal leachate collection pipe installation
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Page 10 (Down-Left): Nowshera Pakistan: Recurring floods damage the lives of individuals,
destroy infrastructure and render much drinking water infrastructure unusable in affected areas
Page 10 (Down-Right): Capacity built and awareness raised among school children and teachers
for better preparedness to respond effectively during disasters.
Page 11 (Up-Left): Strengthening ownership. As part of the people’s process in the Rebuilding
Marawi project, homepartners take part in various phases of building permanent shelters – house
design, construction, and monitoring among others
Page 11 (Up-Right): Marawi - family - Hadiya Village
Page 12 (Down-Left): Coastal erosion in Tra Vinh province, Vietnam
Page 11 (Down-Right): Ha Noi urban development (credit: Nguyen Lam Phuc)Page 12 (Up): Kukum Fishing Village, Honiara
Page 12 (Down): Vuniivi mural (credit: Katherine Drakeford)
Page 13 (Up-Left): Before, Kabul, District 2 (CGC)
Page 13 (Up-Right): Empowering women. Playing active roles in rebuilding their communities,
women served as leaders in the homeowners’ associations organized through the capacity
building initiatives of the Rebuilding Marawi Shelter and Livelihood project
Page 13 (Down-Left): After, Kabul, District 2 (CGC)
Page 13 (Down-Right): Eng. Maryam Azizi the team leader of CFA is inauguration the projectwork in district 10 of Kabul city
Page 14 (Up-Left): Ingrid Macabare, Solid Waste Management Head of the Environment andNatural Resources Office in Ormoc City
Page 14 (Down-Left): Gathering of the elderly citizens in the reconstructed Dhokapine Falcha(community rest house) is a regular sight in Bungamati, Lalitpur, Nepal
Page 15 (Up): Surveying the socioeconomic situation and housing conditions in Yangon's
informal settlements
Page 15 (Down-Right): Naz Gull, civil society activist
Page 16 (Up): ACROS Fukuoka (credit: ACROS Fukuoka)