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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)
Economic Benefits of Stabilized Soil Block Technology in Sudan  
View Details Construction of housing and public infrastructure needs to be of greater quality than what was previously used. Past practices of large-scale use of firewood to make burned bricks for construction of housing have resulted in massive deforestation of ...
Year: 2013, Number of pages: 46, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Going Green  
View Details The housing sector is in a prime position to mitigate climate change and make environmentally-friendly cities. Going Green provides an overview of sustainable housing practices with a focus on "green" building materials and construction tec...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Cities  
View Details The concept of housing requires a new understanding to effectively address the pressing issues of slums, the urban divide, economic and human development, and climate change. No longer regarded as simply a roof over one's head, housing today plays a ...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Korogocho Streetscapes  
View Details Successful urban places are based predominately on streets and the connected street life. Streets serve as democratic, open public space and as platforms for economic and social development. Therefore, streets play a fundamental role for the public l...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 120, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable Land and Housing in Africa  
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In the vast majority of countries land and housing affordability is a critical contemporary challenge. While in different countries and regions the specificities of the challenge vary, the universal truism is that it is becoming increasing difficu...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Regional Learning Workshop on Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security  
View Details This publication is the summary of the proceedings of the Regional Learning Workshop on "Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security" held in Nairobi, Kenya from 29-31 May 2012 as jointly organized by UN-Habitat/Global Land Tool Network and ...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Les Registres Fonciers Urbains  
View Details Cette publication, Guide du maître d’ouvrage les registres fonciers urbains (RFU) propose des suggestions concrètes pour développer et mettre en oeuvre un système d’information foncière urbaine. Basées sur des leçons apprises dans le contexte des com...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 68, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Mobilisation des ressources financières locales  
View Details Cette publication, Mobilisation des ressources financières locales: documentation des registres fonciers urbains des communes du Benin, retrace le parcours des Registres Fonciers Urbains (RFU) tels qu’expérimentés dans les communes béninoises depuis ...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 132, 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)
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)
Les Formules de Tenure Partagee pour les Femmes  
View Details Cette publication fournit un tour d’horizon mondial des droits sur les biens matrimoniaux et de co-propriété, tant dans la législation qu’en pratique, et cherche à cerner des formes de tenure plus innovantes et susceptibles de bénéicier aux femmes.
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 100, 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)
Designing a Land Records System for the poor  
View Details Designing a Pro-poor Land Recordation System is the first attempt to fill the gaps in the development of new forms of land recordation to assist the implementation of a continuum of land rights approach at scale. It is about the development of the in...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 35, 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)
Zambia Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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A national Housing Profile can be the first step to inform and engage policy and decision-makers, and provide them with the evidence needed to design their choices and support critical decisions.

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Year: 2012, Number of pages: 202, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Uganda Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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This profile is a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the structure and functioning of Uganda's urban housing sector.It disclosws its strenghts and weakneses and at the same time makes suggestions on directions for policy intervention.

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Year: 2012, Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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