The objectives of the UN-HABITAT initiative in Angola are to review and propose measures to strengthen the role of local authorities in the management of the land and housing sector; and to propose measures to create conditions to improve the land and housing delivery in order to respond adequately to land and housing rights for the poor, enhancing gender equality and the removal of all discrimination in housing rights.

To achieve these objectives, the project has carried out case studies analyzing the privatization of the public housing stock and studying the secure tenure conditions of IDPs living in peri-urban areas. These will contribute to a greater normative understanding of IDP and shelter issues in post conflict situations, and will promote a longer term approach to post conflict issues of displacement and housing rights.