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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)
Guide pratique 1: L’Afrique urbaine  
View Details Ce Guide pratique n° 1 analyse le manque d’imagination dont ont fait preuve tous ceux impliqués dans le développement et la gestion des zones urbaines, qui n’ont pas su apprécier toutes les possibilités offertes par l’urbanisation pour résoudre la cr...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide pratique 2: Le logement pour les faibles revenus  
View Details Le présent Guide pratique n° 2 décrit plusieurs moyens de traiter le problème du logement pour les faibles revenus dans les villes africaines dans le cadre de programmes et de projets. Il est axé sur des méthodes ayant fait leurs preuves pour amélior...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide pratique 3: le foncier  
View Details Le présent guide pratique n°3 examine les différentes formes de régime foncier en pratique dans les villes africaines et certains des problèmes qu’elles posent et des avantages qu’elles présentent. Il aborde les questions de l’offre, de l’évaluation,...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide pratique 4: Les expulsions  
View Details Le présent Guide pratique n° 4 étudie comment les communautés confrontées à l’expulsion se sont organisées et ont fait appel au soutien des réseaux et des institutions communautaires d’Afrique et du monde pour trouver des solutions alternatives à la ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide pratique 6 : Organisations communautaires  
View Details Le présent Guide pratique n°6 se penche sur la question de savoir comment les gouvernements et les décideurs politiques peuvent collaborer avec les organisations communautaires pour aborder les problèmes que connaissent les pauvres dans lese tablisse...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide pratique 7: Le logement locatif  
View Details Dans les villes africaines, des millions de gens sont locataires. Le logement locatif ne constitue peut-être qu’une solution partielle aux problèmes du logement en milieu urbain, mais c’est malgré tout une option importante – en particulier pour les ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 34, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide pratique 8: Les autorités locales  
View Details Le présent Guide pratique n° 8 donne un bref aperçu des autorités locales en Afrique et des défis (et opportunités) urbains auxquels ils doivent faire face. Le présent guide montre comment l’évolution physique, le développement économique et le dével...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 40, 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)
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)
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)
Quick Guide 1: Urban Africa - Building with untapped potential  
View Details This Quick Guide proposes a range of policy and action frameworks that can steer urban development in positive directions, using the resources of knowledge and experience that exist within urban communities across Africa.

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Year: 2011, Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 2: Low-income Housing  
View Details This Quick Guide 2 describes several ways of addressing low-income housing in African cities at the programme and project level. It focuses on well tried methods of improving the housing and living environments of people living in slums and informal ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 3: Land  
View Details This Quick Guide 3 looks at the different forms of land tenure which operate in African cities and examines some of the problems and benefits of these different land tenure systems. It discusses how land is supplied, valued, financed and sold in the ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 4: Eviction  
View Details This Quick Guide 4 explores how communities facing eviction have organized themselves, and drawn on the support of community-based networks and institutions in Africa and globally to find alternatives to the destruction of their settlements. The guid...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 5: Housing Finance  
View Details The objective of this Quick Guide is to introduce some of the key concepts of housing finance and to provide a quick overview of how a housing finance system works. The guide presents information about both the formal and informal systems of housing ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 6: Community-based organizations  
View Details This Quick Guide 6 considers how governments and policy makers can work together with community-based organizations to address the problems that poor people experience in urban settlements, and find viable long-term solutions to their housing needs. ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 28, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 7: Rental Housing  
View Details This Quick Guide 7 considers the characteristics of good quality rental housing and sound landlord-tenant rental arrangements, and presents policy options to promote and regulate the expansion of rental housing � especially for the urban poor.

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Year: 2011, Number of pages: 34, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guide 8: Local government  
View Details This Quick Guide 8 provides a brief overview of local government in Africa, and the urban challenges (and opportunities) that local government bodies need to respond to. The guide shows how physical development, economic development and social develo...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Quick Guides for Policy Makers 1; URBANIZATION: The Role the poor play in urban development  
View Details This Quick Guide 1 looks at some of the current trends in urbanization in Asia, including urban-rural migration, the links between Qurbanization and poverty and the state of formal and informal housing in the context of urbanization. The guide examin...
Year: 2008, Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
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