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| Economic Benefits of Stabilized Soil Block Technology in Sudan |
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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 ...
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Year: 2013,
Number of pages: 46, Type of publication: Book
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| Going Green |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book
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| Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Cities |
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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 ...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book
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| Korogocho Streetscapes |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 120, Type of publication: Book
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| Regional Learning Workshop on Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security |
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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 ...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 42, Type of publication: Book
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| Les Registres Fonciers Urbains |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 68, Type of publication: Book
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| Mobilisation des ressources financières locales |
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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 ...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 132, 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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| 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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| Les Formules de Tenure Partagee pour les Femmes |
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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.
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
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| Designing a Land Records System for the poor |
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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...
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Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 35, 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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| Mid-term Evaluation Global Land Tool Network |
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A mid-term evaluation of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) was carried out to inform the planning and decision-making of the second phase of GLTN. The GLTN was launched in June 2006 with the goal of contributing to poverty alleviation and the Mille...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book
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| Condominium Housing in Ethiopia |
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Housing Practices is an ongoing series that documents the experiences of countries who are implementing large-scale affordable housing programmes. It is a flagship series developed and produced by the Housing Policy Section of UNHABITAT, which provid...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 65, Type of publication: Book
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| Quick Guide 2: Low-income Housing |
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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 ...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book
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| Quick Guide 3: Land |
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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 ...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book
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| Quick Guide 4: Eviction |
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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...
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Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book
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