Habitat Commitment Project Booklet

As UN member states prepare to meet in Quito this fall to agree on a New Urban Agenda (NUA) at Habitat III, it is important to scrutinize the previous urban agenda and assess how effective it has been. Unfortunately, there has been little effort so far to thoroughly gauge the progress made toward meeting the objectives agreed upon in the previous agenda from the 1996 Habitat II conference in Istanbul. Given the economic growth of the past two decades, how well have countries used their resources to meet the commitments of theHabitat II agenda?