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Realising women’s land rights in the context of inheritance in Zambia

19 March 2021

Authors:

Dimuna Phiri Simpaya

Zambia

Closing the gender gap worldwide could reduce hunger for 100 million people and yet Zambian women have unequal rights to land, a fundamental building block of food security and poverty reduction. Women face multiple challenges that limit their ability to realise secure land rights, including social, cultural, economic, and political factors. Inequality and uncertainty in accessing, controlling, and owning property for women deprives them of the opportunity to participate in national economic development, and negatively impacts our country as a whole.

Interventions to meet the 50-50 gender parity of land ownership in Zambia: Is enough being done?

22 February 2021

Authors:

Miss Olipa Katongo Kunda

Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia

When a woman has legal access to and control over land and its profits, she improves her own life and that of her family. In order for this to happen, equitable laws, policies, systems and customs that promote and support women’s land ownership must be put into effect.

The Big Read: As clamour grows for preservation in land-scarce Singapore, something’s got to give

1 February 2021

Singapore

While green groups spoken to agreed that the Government has become more receptive to their views, they believe it is now time to put conservation or preservation at the front and centre of future development projects.

By Navene Elangovan for Channels News Asia (CNA) Singapore

What a rapidly urbanising Africa can learn from China’s experience

27 November 2020

Africa

China

The parallels between Africa and China’s urbanisation trajectories could offer policymakers potential policy design lessons to learn from. For example, some of China’s recent successes in managing urbanisation, if adequately adapted to the unique and diverse African context, could potentially help the continent’s burgeoning city growth become more sustainable and equitable – but only with careful consideration of local circumstances.

A New Response to Informal Settlements

26 December 2010

Authors:

Mr. Mark Misselhorn

South Africa

Government should address informal settlement housing backlog in the country. Addressing challenges posed by informal settlements will help government to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals such as providing access to basic water and sanitation. Underlying socio-economic causes of informal settlements should be tackled. When addressing challenges posed by informal settlements, government should provide the urban poor with cost effective access to urban environments.

Housing and Land Rights in Kenya

3 July 2020

Authors:

Mr. Daniel Manyasi

Kenya

Land-use planning implementation uncertainty in Bamako District

1 July 2020

Authors:

Dr. Founémakan Sissoko

Mali

I recently published a study on urban policy implementation context in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. It was published in January 2020 by African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Science.

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia

4 April 2020

Authors:

Dr. Philip Amis

Africa

Southern Asia

The current Covid 19 pandemic is likely to spread in the next few weeks and months to the South and in particular South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. The impact may well be of a greater scale than that currently experienced in the North; India was the region with the highest loss of live in the 1918-1919 Spanish flu Pandemic. The experience and historical experience suggests that urban areas will be disproportionately affected.

Behind high-rise buildings and skyscrapers hides poverty and inequality in urban Angola

27 January 2020

Authors:

Antonio Inguane

Angola

Will skyscrapers one day represent the prosperity that every Angolan citizen has dreamed about? Perhaps.

From the Middle East to North America, high-rise buildings and skyscrapers are cropping up as a symbol of wealth and prosperity in global cities. Modern Africa has experienced unprecedented urban growth and embraced zoning regulations and reforms that incentivize high-density growth and mixed-use buildings in major metropolitan areas.

During my recent trip to Luanda, the capital of Angola, the first thing that caught my attention was the city’s skyline.

Urban land reform: rethinking informal settlements in pre-apartheid, apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

8 January 2020

Authors:

Dr. Mark Napier

Dr. Konrad Hentze

Mrs. Engela Petzer

South Africa

While urbanization and informal settlements are particularly pronounced problems in Africa, South Africa has had a long and difficult history with spatial segregation. The OHCHR reports that apartheid-era legislation in South Africa led to both insecure land rights and a lack of housing for the majority of South Africa’s population. Housing continues to be an issue in the country.

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

6 November 2019

Authors:

Miss Teddy Kisembo

Uganda

“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).

Without Property Rights, Prosperity is Built on a Shaky Foundation

3 May 2019

Authors:

Ms. Amy Coughenour Betancourt

India

Global

Like many homeowners in the US, I have a pile of mortgage papers and the deed to our house cluttering my cabinets, and I don’t give them much thought. Likewise, renters have a lease document—usually kept in a folder somewhere—that formalizes their right to use and enjoy that dwelling.

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Realising women’s land rights in the context of inheritance in Zambia

19 March 2021

Authors:

Dimuna Phiri Simpaya

Zambia

Closing the gender gap worldwide could reduce hunger for 100 million people and yet Zambian women have unequal rights to land, a fundamental building block of food security and poverty reduction. Women face multiple challenges that limit their ability to realise secure land rights, including social, cultural, economic, and political factors. Inequality and uncertainty in accessing, controlling, and owning property for women deprives them of the opportunity to participate in national economic development, and negatively impacts our country as a whole.

Interventions to meet the 50-50 gender parity of land ownership in Zambia: Is enough being done?

22 February 2021

Authors:

Miss Olipa Katongo Kunda

Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia

When a woman has legal access to and control over land and its profits, she improves her own life and that of her family. In order for this to happen, equitable laws, policies, systems and customs that promote and support women’s land ownership must be put into effect.

The Big Read: As clamour grows for preservation in land-scarce Singapore, something’s got to give

1 February 2021

Singapore

While green groups spoken to agreed that the Government has become more receptive to their views, they believe it is now time to put conservation or preservation at the front and centre of future development projects.

By Navene Elangovan for Channels News Asia (CNA) Singapore

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Sharing and Exchange: The Land Information Ecosystem in the Arab region

16 February 2021

Location

Online

XX

Western Asia

Global

Date and Time: February 16th from 2:00 - 3:30PM CET (3:00 - 4:30PM Cairo, Egypt)

Organizers:

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Global Land Tool Network

SDG 11 and Adequate housing: Shared experiences of Europe and the Global South

9 December 2020

Location

Online

United States

See map: Google Maps

US

Global

The webinar “SDG 11 and Adequate Housing: Shared experiences of Europe and the Global South” is organized within the framework of

Organizers:

Solid Ground

Habitat for Humanity Romania

Informal settlements and access to data in the time of COVID: a case for sharing data for decision making

22 October 2020

Location

Online

United States

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US

South Africa

Global

The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage.

Organizers:

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Land Portal Foundation

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Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Closed

3 June 2020 to 24 June 2020

Facilitators:

Mr. Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque

Yuliya Panfil

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Mr. Neil Sorensen

Miss Chantal Wieckardt

Partners:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UK Department for International Development

New America

Environmental Peacebuilding

LANDac

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Cadasta Foundation

Global

What can we do to achieve sustainable pro-poor land reform in South Africa?

Closed

19 November 2018 to 7 December 2018

Facilitators:

Dr. Rick de Satge

Partners:

Phuhlisani NPC

Land Portal Foundation

South Africa

In February 2018, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a resolution to establish an ad hoc Constitutional Review Committee to explore and debate the need for a constitutional amendment to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation in the public interest.

Urban Land Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean

Closed

23 January 2017 to 24 February 2017

Latin America and the Caribbean

Bolivia

Colombia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Peru

Read the Debate Report Here.

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Organizations

Afesis-corplan

Our vision is of a self-reliant society in which people have equitable access to resources and institutions are an expression of people’s needs and aspirations.

Our mission is to support civic agency through catalytic interventions aimed at achieving systemic change in good local governance and sustainable human settlement development.

Articulo – Journal of Urban Research

Articulo – Journal of Urban Research is a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the exploration of urban issues through the lens of a wide range of social science approaches. The Journal embraces a multidisciplinary perspective on the transformation of social, environmental and economic issues of cities and city regions. Publishing both theoretical and empirical articles, the Journal is an international forum that brings together academics and practitioners working on urban issues in cities around the world to present ground breaking and relevant research.

Brazil Ministry of Cities

Federal ministry of Brazil concerned with cities and urban areas.

Cadasta Foundation

Reviving Documentation of Property Rights

Cadasta Foundation is dedicated to the support, continued development and growth of the Cadasta Platform – an innovative, open source suite of tools for the collection and management of ownership, occupancy, and spatial data that meets the unique challenges of this process in much of the world.

Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore (CLC)

The Centre distills key learning points from Singapore’s urban development journey since its independence in 1965, while creating knowledge to address emerging urban challenges. It shares this knowledge with local and international urban leaders, with the aim of positioning Singapore as a global hub for urban solutions. The Centre’s work spans four main areas:

Research

The Centre focuses on two key research questions:

Centro de Cultura Luiz Freire

O Centro de Cultura Luiz Freire (CCLF) é uma organização não governamental de direitos humanos, que surge em 1972, a partir de um grupo que buscava a restauração da democracia, através de atividades culturais e projetos de desenvolvimento comunitário, durante o período autoritário da Ditadura Militar brasileira.

Centro de Direitos Econômicos e Sociais (CDES)

O Centro de Direitos Econômicos e Sociais (CDES) é uma organização não governamental de direitos humanos. Criada no ano de 2000, em Porto Alegre, dentro do contexto social e político de realização do I Fórum Social Mundial que acontecia na cidade naquele ano.

Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa de Comunicação (SEKELEKANI)

SEKELEKANI é uma instituição moçambicana independente, sem fins lucrativos, de promoção de comunicação para o desenvolvimento, conceito que se refere a sistemas de comunicação em dois sentidos, orientados para enaltecer o diálogo entre os decisores de políticas públicas e as partes interessadas, nomeadamente as comunidades destinatárias do desenvolvimento, permitindo-lhes exprimir os seus pontos de vista, as suas aspirações e preocupações, participando, desse modo, na formulação da agenda do seu desenvolvimento.

Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos (CPDH)

O Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos se constitui em um coletivo de Advogados Militantes Populares que tem como objetivo atuar na assessoria jurídica popular junto a movimentos sociais, comunidades e segmentos que sofram violações de direitos.

Cities Alliance

What is the Cities Alliance?

The Cities Alliance is a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development.

Cities Alliance Members

The Cities Alliance partnership features a broad range of members, including: local authorities, national governments, non-governmental organisations, multi-lateral organisations, and Associate Members. For our current membership, please see Our Members.

What does the Cities Alliance do?

Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT)

A Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) quer ser uma presença solidária, profética, ecumênica, fraterna e afetiva, que presta um serviço educativo e transformador junto aos povos da terra e das águas, para estimular e reforçar seu protagonismo.

Confederação Nacional das Associações de Moradores (CONAM)

A Confederação Nacional das Associações de Moradores, fundada no dia 17 de janeiro de 1982, presente no movimento nacional popular e comunitário, tem como seu papel organizar as federações estaduais, uniões municipais e associações comunitárias, entidades de bairro e similares.

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