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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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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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...

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...

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...

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This report reviews the status of forced evictions globally through the work of UN-HABITAT, the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, and other international actors. It describes and evaluates the important su...

The practice of forcibly evicting people from their homes and settlements is a growing global phenomenon and represents a crude violation of one of the most elementary principles of the right to adequate housing as defined in the Habitat Agenda an...