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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)
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)
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)
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