Some are benthic, but most are pelagic.

These services include food production and provision of habitats for aquatic invertebrates, fish, benthic infauna and plants.

The Habitat Agenda and the UN Habitat Strategic Vision

The benthic zone is the ecological region on, in and immediately above the seabed, including the sediment surface and some sub surface layers.

Effects on habitat Some fishing techniques also may cause habitat destruction.

Most live pelagically in open water, although some live as surface films at the water sediment interface (benthic), or even under damp atmospheric conditions.

Based on the results of this survey, Saudi Arabia states that impacts of the 1991 oil spills persist in near shore subtidal benthic environments.

UN Habitat initiated the strategy of Habitat programme managers, in collaboration with UNDP.

Housing versus Habitat

1 Habitat Agenda, para.

Monitoring the Habitat Agenda

Cooperation with UN Habitat

(a) Habitat Agenda partners that were accredited to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)

Through a set of structured dialogues among various Habitat Agenda partners, priority Habitat Agenda issues were discussed.

Its natural habitat is swamps.

Its natural habitat is swamps.

Programme (UN Habitat) progress report

Voluntary contributions to UN Habitat

B. UN Habitat global campaigns

The Habitat Agenda and youth

Lack of donor financial support for the Habitat programme managers is one of the challenges facing UN Habitat.

Role of UN Habitat programme managers

Source UN Habitat Management Support Unit.

Nairobi UN Habitat and Earthscan Publications.

Coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda

In 2003, the Governing Council of UN Habitat recommended the strengthening of the regional presence and cooperation of UN Habitat.

The Executive Director reported on the implementation of the wWork pProgramme of UN Habitat UN HABITAT for the biennium 2002 2003 and briefed the CPR Committee on the financial status of UN HabitatUN HABITAT

11. Encourages Governments and their Habitat Agenda partners to evaluate and report to UN Habitat on their implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium

UN Habitat is supporting the implementation of the Habitat Agenda at local, national and regional levels through participatory, city based programmes.

Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and

United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation

E. UN Habitat projects successfully scaled up

Table 2 UN Habitat expenditure, 1998 2007

Youth Association for Habitat and Agenda 21

In 2003, an evaluation of gender mainstreaming at UN Habitat was conducted by a consultant commissioned by the UN Habitat Evaluation Unit.

3. Also emphasizes the existing role of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) in supporting the implementation of the Habitat Agenda

Early in 2004, the UN Habitat Intranet became accessible at all UN Habitat locations, including regional offices, providing a central, searchable knowledge base.

In South Africa, the Southern African Scoring System (SASS) method was developed as a rapid bioassessment technique, based on benthic macroinvertebrates, and is used for the assessment of water quality in Southern African rivers.

Ecology Botswana has diverse areas of wildlife habitat.

Recommendation 1 Sharpening the focus of UN Habitat

Contributions to UN Habitat were well below target.

J. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat)

(UN Habitat) progress report of the Executive Director

UN Habitat and youth strategy for enhanced engagement

The response of the UN Habitat Governing Council