The database of the Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme, a unit of the United Nations Center for Human Settlement (Habitat) was a source for some of the material in these reports.

CNN: New toilets, new lives

But the Social Research Unit charity said the programme was not a "panacea".

BBC: Problem families: Case worker intervention 'works'

The United Nations Environment Programme's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit has published a report on DU contamination found in Bosnia-Herzegovina up to seven years after the conflict there.

BBC: UK to aid Iraq DU removal

Oversee and coordinate the programme and staff of the Special Projects Unit to ensure proper management of all ongoing programmes and projects, the development of a portfolio of new initiatives, maintenance of relations with existing donors, and expansion of the donor support base.

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The housing minister's 30-year housing transformation programme also included setting up a strategic housing unit, creating an independent regulator and establishing a States-owned housing company.

BBC: Panel agrees to Jersey States housing rents rise

For patients living in rural north Wales he has led the establishment of a satellite renal unit and has been the driving force in promoting an extensive home dialysis programme.

BBC: Dr Mahdi Mabruk Jibani

Bellshill-based Lamellar said it was working with the Vision Sciences Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in its development programme.

BBC: Lamellar Biomedical website

Supt Ian Smith, from Avon and Somerset's road policing unit, said the force had found a new education provider and re-established the speed reinforcement programme.

BBC: Speeding fines in Avon and Somerset fell by 70% last year