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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.

Other titles in the Housing Sector Profil...

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)
Evictions and the rights-based approach to urban development, September 2011  
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The increase in the intensity and scale of forced evictions across the world is a trend that has to be reversed and a human rights based approach (HRBA) is key.

This book is the report of the Expert Group Meeting held from 20 to 23 Septembe...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 176, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Mid-term Evaluation Global Land Tool Network  
View Details 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...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Investigating Grey Areas: Access to Basic Urban Services in the Adjacent Areas of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon  
View Details This publication is a joint UN-HABITAT and UNDP effort to investigate access to basic urban services in the Adjacent Areas (AAs) of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. AAs are informal Palestinian gatherings that are located along the boundaries ...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Enabling Shelter Strategies  
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Enabling shelter strategies call for a fundamental shift in the role of government, from provider to enabler of affordable housing. While such strategies have been utilised over the last two decades to improve affordable shelter delivery, there re...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 68, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Condominium Housing in Ethiopia  
View Details 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...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 65, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Securing Land Rights for Indigenous Peoples in Cities  
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This Policy Guide provides policy-makers with the necessary knowledge about the challenges and rights of Indigenous peoples in relation to land and property in the urban context. The Guide sets out how to secure land rights of Indigenous peoples i...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 102, 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.

The other Quick Guides in...

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)
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 5: Le financement du logement  
View Details L’objectif du présent Guide est de présenter certains des principaux concepts du financement du logement et de donner un bref aperçu de la façon dont un système de financement du logement fonctionne. Il présente des informations sur les systèmes form...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 48, 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)
 
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