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Romper con los prejuicios: ciudadanía, innovación e informalidad en el África urbana

19 Abril 2022
Anne Hennings

Este boletín Qué leer introduce tres artículos recientes que adoptan una visión diferente sobre el África urbana. La publicación hace referencia a formas innovadoras de asegurar la tenencia en las ciudades, los obstáculos de la agricultura urbana y las perspectivas sobre la agencia, y las oportunidades de los refugiados urbanos. 

 

Land Formalization Goes Live

07 Mayo 2021
Nicholas Parkinson

A Colombian Mayor surprises her constituents with land titles and uses live video and social media to spread civic messages about formalizing land tenure

 

Fuentedeoro’s Mayor, Patricia Mancera, took the world on a digital tour of her town. On Monday last week, Mancera’s team went live on Facebook, while walking door-to-door to deliver registered property titles to dozens of neighbors living in Fuentedeoro’s urban center.

Helping indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal

18 Diciembre 2020

Written by Jagat Deuja and Rachel Knight for IIED and CSRC. Originally posted at: https://www.iied.org/helping-indigenous-communities-secure-land-rights-nepal


Main photo: Young 'social mobilisers' interviewed more than 2,700 landless or untenanted families and gathered the data that was needed for the government to register their tenure (Photo: copyright Kumar Thapa, CSRC)


¿Cómo mitigar la propagación del coronavirus en los asentamientos informales durante la emergencia y recuperación ante la pandemia?

04 Abril 2020

l 11 de marzo de 2020, la Organización Mundial de la Salud clasificó a la enfermedad por coronavirus COVID-19 como una pandemia. En América Latina y el Caribe se han reportado ya miles de casos confirmados, en casi todos los países de la región, y un número creciente de fallecidos. Se espera que el número de casos, el número de muertes y el número de países afectados siga aumentando.

“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda

06 Noviembre 2019
Teddy Kisembo

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

Titling Priorities

16 Abril 2019
Nicholas Parkinson

Maritza Losada moved to Puerto Guadalupe five years ago when her husband found a job with a large biomass energy company that grows sugar cane. She and her husband purchased a lot in the town’s poorest neighborhood, Barrio Nuevo. The district remains today much like it was in 1995 when the government created the housing project for future agro-laborers: no roads, no sewage, no gutters.

The Information Ecosystem: The Beginning of a Partnership for Action

17 Abril 2018
stacey.zammit@landportal.info

After years of efforts, land rights are finally getting global attention. With several land-related indicators included in the Sustainable Development Goals, the land sector now has the unique opportunity to create an unprecedented momentum around land tenure issues and bring it to a higher level on the development agenda. Our goal is, of course, to contribute to the success of the SDGs, but also to be part of sustainable development in its real and practical sense!