Research Overview

ComHabitat's research strategy aims to contribute towards the CCGHS's commitment to providing practical assistance to Commonwealth countries in implementing the Habitat Agenda.  ComHabitat will build on existing research programmes, complement their approaches and provide a Commonwealth perspective.  ComHabitat’s research work plans to facilitate linkages and dialogue between agencies concerned with human settlements and ensure research outputs are accessible.  The research strategy can be downloaded opposite.

ComHabitat has initiated two research projects to help assess:

• progress on internationally agreed goals on human settlements; and
• the availability of, and options for, urban development finance.

The diversity of Commonwealth membership in terms of country size, geographical location, income and type of economy, combined with a largely common heritage in terms of legislation relating to human settlements, makes the Commonwealth a particularly useful arena in which to carry out research.  Commonwealth countries offer a broad and rich spectrum of experience in human settlements issues.