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Profil du Secteur du Logement Urban au Senegal (Senegal Urban Housing Sector Profile)  
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Le profil du secteur du logement au Sénégal est une analyse complète du secteur du logement urbain, avec un regard concentre sur l'identification de ses points forts et faiblesses. Le profil contribue à la création d'un cadre devant permettre la p...

Year: 2013, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Monitoring Security of Tenure in cities  
View Details This publication, presents and innovatiove method to ascertain the extent to which security of tenure can be measeured at three main levels. Targeting cities in developing countries the methodological framework presented in this publication is entrus...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 94, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Handling land  
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Everyone has a relationship to land. It is an asset that, with its associated resources, allows its owner access to loans, to build their houses and to set up small businesses in cities. In rural areas, land is essential for livelihoods, subsisten...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 152, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land records for the poor  
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Conventional land administration systems rarely improve tenure security for the poor. Many people, especially poor and disadvantaged people, do not have their tenure relations to land included in a formal administration system with women, in parti...

Year: 2012, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Tapping the potential  
View Details This report illustrates four examples of strengthening grassroots organizations engagement with formal land policy implementation processes. The premise is that land policy implementation and any land interventions whether in India, Tanzania, Peru or...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Innovative Urban Tenure in the Philippines (Summary Report)  
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This publication documents and draws lessons from the Philippines' experience in implementing alternative approaches in securing tenure for the urban poor. It also explores how these approaches can be institutionalized and ensure sustainability. T...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 55, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Managing Urban Land Information  
View Details The document presents literature and project document reviews, informal interviews, contributions and discussions with key stakeholders and informants. The work was conducted between 2009-10 over a period of several months. This document also contain...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 120, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Atelier régional d’apprentissage sur la sécurité d’occupation des terres et desressources naturelles  
View Details Pendant l’atelier, les participants ont partagé leurs propres défis et expériences d’amélioration de l’accès des pauvres et autres population vulnérables à la sécurité de la tenure et aux ressources naturelles. La rencontre a aussi permis de discu...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Sustaining Urban Land Information  
View Details This document is intended to support the development of information about land (use, access, ownership, taxation, value, transfer and development potential) in a sustainable and effective way to facilitate urban land management. This framework draws ...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Improving Gender Equality and Grassroots Participation through Good Land Governance  
View Details This training package provides an introduction to the important, complex, and sometimes daunting theme of improving land governance as a means to enhance gender equality and grassroots participation in land matters. This training package is designed ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 146, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Designing and Evaluating Land Tools with a Gender Perspective  
View Details It cannot be assumed that women and men benefit in the same way from initiatives in the land sector. Depending on the political, economic and cultural context, it is often women, and particularly poor women, who face significant barriers in obtaining...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Islamic Principles and Land  
View Details This booklet arises from GLTN's work on Islamic dimensions of land which began in 2004 with the commissioning of research leading to Sait and Lim's "Land, Law and Islam: Property and Human Rights in the Muslim World" (London: Zed Press/UN-H...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
The Global Land Tool Network Brochure  
View Details The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) aims to establish a continuum of land rights, rather than just focus on individual land titling; improve and develop pro poor land management, as well as land tenure tools; unblock existing initiatives; assist in s...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Innovative Urban Tenure in the Philippines  
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This technical publication documents and draws lessons from the Philippine's experience in implementing alternative approaches in securing tenure for the urban poor. It also explores how these approaches can be institutionalized to achieve a large...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
A Practical Guide for Conducting Housing Profiles - Revised Version  
View Details A practical guide to conducting comprehensive national housing profiles with a direct objective of understanding the housing sector, while offering evidence-based data to inform policy reform. The housing profile process also aims to be highly partic...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
TOWARDS IMPROVED LAND GOVERNANCE  
View Details Land is increasingly recognised as an important governance issue.  This paper starts from the assumption that the process of reform is as important as the content of the reform.  The paper argues that an understanding of land issues and the reform pr...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 61, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Innovative Land and Property Taxation  
View Details This publication, Innovative Land and Property Taxation, is derived from a 2009 conference in Warsaw, Poland. It presents the ways in which land and property taxation policies, legal frameworks, tools and approaches to sustainable urban development h...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 114, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Count me in  
View Details This book is about involving and engaging urban poor communities in one of the first steps of any participatory planning or upgrading initiative. It describes how we can use “participatory enumerations” a surveying method used to gain better knowledg...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 174, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land Inventory in Botswana  
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Successful land policy formulation and implementation depend on a complete and up-to-date inventory of la...

Year: 2010, Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Land Markets  
View Details This Handbook introduces key economic and related concepts explaining the functioning of urban land markets. You will find in this Handbook tools for engaging in a critical analysis of conventional economics, particularly in the understanding of ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 106, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Citywide Strategic Planning  
View Details Citywide Strategic Planning articulates the necessary ingredients for initiating and implementing a planning process that focuses on a set of strategic issues of principal importance for sustainable urban development. The guide presents the citywide ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 18, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Strategic citywide spatial planning  
View Details Haiti is situated in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic to the east. The two countries have formally been separate entities since 1697, when Hispaniola was divided between France and Spain, and ha...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 38, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land, Environment and Climate Change  
View Details This publication provides an overview of some the most important land-related environmental and climate change problems that the world is facing. Land, Environment and Climate Change offers an overview of the relationship between land tenur...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 84, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
A Training Course on Land, Property and Housing Rights in the Muslim World  
View Details This training course from the Global Land Tool Network is part of the Network’s activities on Islamic dimensions of land. In most Muslim countries Islamic law, principles and practices make an important contribution to shaping access to land. GLTN ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 250, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Secure Land Rights for All  
View Details This publication on Secure Land Rights for All demonstrates how secure land rights are particularly important in helping to reverse three types of phenomena: gender discrimination; social exclusion of vulnerable groups; and wider social and economic ...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 47, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Institutional Harmonisation Processes in the Kenyan Land Sector:A Case Study of the Time Period 2003–2007  
View Details Since the early 1990’s aid modalities and their effectiveness have been repeatedly scrutinised with the aim to promote aid and thus development effectiveness through institutional harmonisation, often referred to as Harmonisation, Alignment and Coo...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 46, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
How to Establish an Effective Land Sector  
View Details This guide presents a general overview on institutional harmonisation processes, i.e. the various factors and tools included in fostering institutional harmonisation in a sector. The experiences informing this document mainly result from the tacit ...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 25, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law.  
View Details Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice. This document is a reference guide to international human rights standards identifying both the su...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Droits des femmes au sol,à la propriété et au logement: guide global pour les politiques publiques  
View Details L’octroi effectif aux femmes des droits au sol, à la propriété et au logement est l’un des défis les plus difficiles auxquels ait à faire face le monde contemporain. L’une des difficultés que soulève la mise au point de législations et de politique...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 46, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Manuel des bonnes pratiques – sécurité foncière et accès au sol - COMMENT METTRE EN OEUVRE LE PROGRAMME POUR L’HABITAT  
View Details La misère est le lot d’une grande partie de l’humanité. Un sur cinq d’entre nous tous vit dans un taudis. La moitié d’entre nous manquent de sanitaires de base. Les États du monde entier ont consacré les droits universels à un logement et à des condi...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 111, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
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