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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)
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)
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)
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)
The Global Land Tool Network Brochure  
View Details The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) aims to establish a continuum of land rights, rather than just focus on individual land titling; improve and develop pro poor land management, as well as land tenure tools; unblock existing initiatives; assist in s...
Year: 2011, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
A Practical Guide for Conducting Housing Profiles - Revised Version  
View Details A practical guide to conducting comprehensive national housing profiles with a direct objective of understanding the housing sector, while offering evidence-based data to inform policy reform. The housing profile process also aims to be highly partic...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land and Property Tax  
View Details Land and Property Tax: a Policy Guide is a companion for government officials and land and property professionals seeking to understand how to establish a viable and vibrant land-based taxation system. Using various examples, alternatives and illustr...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 136, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Forced Evictions  
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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...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 140, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Losing your Home  
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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...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
TOWARDS IMPROVED LAND GOVERNANCE  
View Details Land is increasingly recognised as an important governance issue.  This paper starts from the assumption that the process of reform is as important as the content of the reform.  The paper argues that an understanding of land issues and the reform pr...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 61, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable Land and Housing in Europe and North America  
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This volume investigates the state of affordable land and housing in Europe and North America (countries that comprise the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)). It explores the major trends in housing provision, conditions, avail...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable land and housing in Latin America and the Caribbean  
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Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanisation. Today, the region is the second most urbanised region in the world.
This urbanisation process has been accompanied b...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Building Urban Safety through Slum Upgrading  
View Details Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant i...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 109, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Innovative Land and Property Taxation  
View Details This publication, Innovative Land and Property Taxation, is derived from a 2009 conference in Warsaw, Poland. It presents the ways in which land and property taxation policies, legal frameworks, tools and approaches to sustainable urban development h...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 114, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable Land and Housing in Asia  
View Details 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 difficult ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Nepal Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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Today, the housing situation in Nepal, especially for the urban poor, remains far from adequate. Indeed, urban dwellers in Nepal have been finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing due to rapid price rises in land. Such is the challenge ...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 141, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Ghana Housing Profile  
View Details The Ghana Urban Housing Sector Profile is a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the urban housing sector, focusing on its strengths and weaknesses. The Profile contributes to the creation of a framework that enables provision of adequate housing for a...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Tunisia Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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The Tunisia Urban Housing Sector Profile is a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the urban housing sector, focussing on its strengths and weaknesses. The Profile contributes to the creation of a framework that enables provision of adequate housing...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land, Tenure and Housing Issues for Conflict-Displaced Populations in Georgia  
View Details Housing and property rights in the context of post-conflict rehabilitation are amongst the
most complex and sensitive issues affecting displaced populations in Georgia today. This
problem stems primarily from a persistent lack of permanen...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 84, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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