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Monitoring Security of Tenure in cities |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 94, Type of publication: Book
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Tapping the potential |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book
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Managing Urban Land Information |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 120, Type of publication: Book
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Sustaining Urban Land Information |
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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 ...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book
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Designing and Evaluating Land Tools with a Gender Perspective |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book
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Islamic Principles and Land |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book
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The Global Land Tool Network Brochure |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
, Type of publication: Promotional Material
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A Practical Guide for Conducting Housing Profiles - Revised Version |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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TOWARDS IMPROVED LAND GOVERNANCE |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 61, Type of publication: Book
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Innovative Land and Property Taxation |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 114, Type of publication: Book
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Count me in |
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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...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 174, Type of publication: Book
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Urban Land Markets |
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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 ...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 106, Type of publication: Book
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Citywide Strategic Planning |
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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 ...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 18, Type of publication: Book
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Strategic citywide spatial planning |
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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...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 38, Type of publication: Book
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Land, Environment and Climate Change |
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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...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 84, Type of publication: Book
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A Training Course on Land, Property and Housing Rights in the Muslim World |
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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 ...
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Year: 2010,
Number of pages: 250, Type of publication: Book
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Secure Land Rights for All |
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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 ...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 47, Type of publication: Book
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How to Establish an Effective Land Sector |
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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 ...
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Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 25, Type of publication: Book
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Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law. |
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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...
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Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Southern Africa (Namibia) |
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This report was commissioned by UN-Habitat to review the laws and land tenure of a selected number of southern African countries. It involved the appointment of country specialists who researched and produced country chapters for their respective cou...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 96, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America (Brazil) |
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This report on Brazil forms part of a study of law and land tenure in four Latin American countries. The study also includes a much broader regional overview covering land tenure throughout Latin America. A number of common and broad themes emerge fr...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 108, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America (Colombia) |
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This report on Colombia forms part of a study of law and land tenure in four Latin American countries. The study also includes a much broader regional overview covering land tenure throughout Latin America. A number of common and broad themes emerge ...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 229, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Southern Africa (Lesotho) |
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This report was commissioned by UN-Habitat to review the laws and land tenure of a selected number of southern African countries. It involved the appointment of country specialists who researched and produced country chapters for their respective cou...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 89, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America (Mexico) |
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This report on Mexico forms part of a study of law and land tenure in four Latin American countries. The study also includes a much broader regional overview covering land tenure throughout Latin America. A number of common and broad themes emerge fr...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 239, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Southern Africa (Mozambique) |
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This report was commissioned by UN-Habitat to review the laws and land tenure of a selected number of southern African countries. It involved the appointment of country specialists who researched and produced country chapters for their respective cou...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 91, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America(Nicaragua) |
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This report on Nicaragua forms part of a study of law and land tenure in four Latin American countries. The study also includes a much broader regional overview covering land tenure throughout Latin America. A number of common and broad themes emerge...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Southern Africa (Zambia) |
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This report was commissioned by UN-Habitat to review the laws and land tenure of a selected number of southern African countries. It involved the appointment of country specialists who researched and produced country chapters for their respective cou...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 106, Type of publication: Book
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Analytical Perspective of Pro-poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks |
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The close of the last millennium saw the development of cities in the developing world being radically shaped by the intrinsically related processes of urbanization and globalization. Neither of these phenomena is new — what is un...
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Year: 2006,
Number of pages: 79, Type of publication: Book
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Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Southern Africa |
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This set of four reviews provides a broad overview of the national and local legal framework related to land, housing, inheritance and marital property rights in Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia. This includes a description of relevant policie...
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Year: 2005,
Number of pages: 336, Type of publication: Book
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Urban Land for all |
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UN-HABITAT has been working with slums since its inception. We too, don’t claim to have a magic formula. We are learning every day. We are learning with every project. We have made errors and we have had great successes. We have built up a body of kn...
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Year: 2004,
Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book
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Pro Poor Land Management: Integrating Slums into City Planning Approaches |
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This publication on Pro Poor Land Management is based on the Handbook on Best Practices, Security of Tenure and Access to Land. It briefly describes recent innovations at the global level in the field of pro poor land management. It shows how governm...
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Year: 2004,
Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book
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Guidelines on how to undertake a National Campaign for Secure Tenure |
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This document presents a framework for undertaking the Global Campaign for Secure tenure at the national level, It contains and explanation on how the national campaign is situated withi the overall objectives and goals of the GCST. It also present...
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Year: 2003,
Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book
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Seminar for Securing Land for the Urban Poor |
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This a report of the seminar held in Fukuoka, Japan in October 2001. The UN-HABITAT Fukuoka office in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) organized the seminar which looked into vari...
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Year: 2002,
Number of pages: 108, Type of publication: Book
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Land survey and Large-Scale Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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This publication promotes the facilitation of property rights and tenure security to all segments of the population through effective and efficient planning and management of land.
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Year: 2001,
Number of pages: 134, Type of publication: Book
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Seeing is Believing |
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Seeing is Believing introduces Visual Settlement Planning (VISP), a new computerized approach to land-use planning.
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Year: 1993,
Video format:, Type of publication: Video
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