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Housing Finance Mechanisms in Brazil  
View Details The real estate credit system used in Brazil for residential housing (known as the Housing Finance System-SFH), was created in 1964. Previously, there was no organized system for housing financing in Brazil. Its structure has changed since then (19...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction in Ghana  
View Details The need to provide adequate, suitable and equitable housing has remained a major priority of every government. Even though housing is a basic necessity of life, more than half of the population in Ghana live in poor houses where they have no acces...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Sao Paulo; A tale of two cities  
View Details UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground interviews, insights and images. São Paul...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 179, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land and Natural Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners  
View Details The Guidelines provide a holistic approach to addressing land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It is targeted at humanitarians and land professionals, as well as government ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 140, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
GLTN Newsletter August 2010  
View Details The Newsletter highlights the recent news, events and publications of the Global Land Tools Network.
Year: 2010, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Land Markets  
View Details This Handbook introduces key economic and related concepts explaining the functioning of urban land markets. You will find in this Handbook tools for engaging in a critical analysis of conventional economics, particularly in the understanding of ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 106, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Citywide Strategic Planning  
View Details Citywide Strategic Planning articulates the necessary ingredients for initiating and implementing a planning process that focuses on a set of strategic issues of principal importance for sustainable urban development. The guide presents the citywide ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 18, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Strategic citywide spatial planning  
View Details Haiti is situated in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic to the east. The two countries have formally been separate entities since 1697, when Hispaniola was divided between France and Spain, and ha...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 38, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Land, Environment and Climate Change  
View Details This publication provides an overview of some the most important land-related environmental and climate change problems that the world is facing. Land, Environment and Climate Change offers an overview of the relationship between land tenur...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 84, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Local Finance Facilities  
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To enhance credit and support housing and infrastructure improvement for low income end users, UN-HABITAT through the Urban Finance section, has set up finance facilities in Ghana, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. At the sam...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Homes, Neighbourhoods, Happiness  
View Details This leaflet addresses UN-HABITAT’s Urban Finance strategy. It describes the different types of financing approaches used by UN-HABITAT and its partners in enhancing sustainable credit and investment for affordable and social housing. It also iden...
Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Revolving Fund Loan Programme in Africa and the Middle East  
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UN-HABITAT is providing loans to affordable, social housing and infrastructure projects through a Revolving Housing Finance Loan Fund Programme called ERSO (Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations).

This leaflet provides informa...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Revolving Fund Programme in Asia  
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UN-HABITAT is providing loans to affordable, social housing and infrastructure projects through a Revolving Housing Finance Loan Fund Programme called ERSO (Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations).

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Finance Information Kit: Revolving Loan Fund Programme in Latin America  
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UN-HABITAT is providing loans to affordable, social housing and infrastructure projects through a Revolving Housing Finance Loan Fund Programme called ERSO (Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations).

This leaflet provides informati...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
A Training Course on Land, Property and Housing Rights in the Muslim World  
View Details This training course from the Global Land Tool Network is part of the Network’s activities on Islamic dimensions of land. In most Muslim countries Islamic law, principles and practices make an important contribution to shaping access to land. GLTN ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 250, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Shelter Projects 2009  
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By the end of 2009, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2009, 335 reported natural disasters killed over 10,000 people and affected more than 119 million people. The cor...

Year: 2010, Number of pages: 150, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Social Tenure Domain Model flyer  
View Details The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a multi-partner software development initiative to support pro-poor land administration. The initiative is based on open source software development principles.

The STDM, as it stands, has the capacity to br...

Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Darfur Early Recovery  
View Details If all estimated 400,000 families currently displaced in Darfur return to their places of origin and reconstruct their destroyed homes utilizing the traditional building practices, with wood as the main structural element, they will need to find and ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 30, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Les critères d’évaluation du genre pour les outils fonciers à grande échelle  
View Details Comment décider si un outil foncier correspond bien aux besoins des femmes comme à ceux des hommes? En dépit des avancées dans le domaine des droits des femmes, ceux qui concernent la terre et la sécurité du régime foncier ne sont pas également répar...
Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Grassroots and Land Tool Development Brief  
View Details As part of the Grassroots Mechanism, GLTN is providing support to four grassroots-led projects in India, Peru, Tanzania and the Philippines. The aim of the projects is to enable a process of learning and communication to take place, to help grassroot...
Year: 2010, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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