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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Oceania

    Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas. This publication updates and revises UN-HABITAT’s 2004 publication ‘Urban Land for All’, and stresses the need for policies that facilitate access to land for all sections of their existing and future populations – particularly those on low or irregular incomes.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2005
    Brazil

    This report on Brazil forms part of a study of law and land tenure in four Latin American countries. The study also includes a much broader regional overview covering land tenure throughout Latin America. A number of common and broad themes emerge from these studies, applicable in different degrees within the specific country contexts. A great deal of legislative reform has taken place in the region, and laws and policies are generally regarded as progressive.

  3. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    September, 2017
    Chile, Latin America and the Caribbean

    Este Plan de Acción Regional (PAR) es una propuesta regional basada en el marco global para la implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana, resultado principal de la Tercera Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible, Habitat III, realizado en Quito, Ecuador en octubre 2016. La implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe es fundamental para el desarrollo de los países y para el futuro sostenible de la región.

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    GLTN workshop cover image
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2013
    Kenya, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Nepal, Yemen, Global

    The land challenge is central to the broader youth dynamics of migration, employment, livelihoods and belonging. The more than 1.8 billion youth living worldwide represent not only a land challenge, but an untapped potential in moving the tenure security agenda forward. Recognizing this, the Global Land Tool Network has partnered with UN-Habitat to develop youth responsive land tools through the Youth-led Action Research on Land program. Five action research projects will be undertaken by youth organizations in Brazil, Kenya, Nepal, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

  5. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    August, 2016
    Global, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa

    This case study analysis forms part of the publication series “Unpacking metropolitan governance” that documents experiences and gives hands-on approaches for stakeholders in the field of sustainable development of metropolitan regions. 

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2011
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanization. Today, the region is the second most urbanized region in the world. This urbanization process has been accompanied by sharp social contrasts and economic disparities, a buoyant informal housing and land development process and increased local democracy and municipal autonomy, coupled with active social urban movements. This makes the Latin America and Caribbean region a unique landscape in the study of land and housing for the poor. 

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Global, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia

    In this publication, the issue of tenure security is addressed and assessed in several countries where government, civil society, the private sector and development cooperation initiatives have been implemented for decades. The selected case studies from fifteen countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America ensure not only a eographic balance but they also represent countries with different socio-economic and land-related histories and that have followed different pathways. The studies’ key findings underline the still precarious state of tenure security in many countries.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2016
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    Land administration is defined as the acquisition, maintenance and dissemination of information on the ownership, value and use of land. This information is necessary to support land policy implementation. Besides being complete and current, land administration systems – including the information contained within the systems and the processes used for their establishment and maintenance - should ideally be transparent, accessible, simple and low-cost to efficiently and effectively allocate land fairly to citizens.

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    Participatory and Inclusive Land Readjustment

    Manuals & Guidelines
    October, 2016
    Colombia, Global

    Participatory and inclusive land readjustment, or PILaR for short, is a way of reorganizing the ownership of land in and around cities in a pro-poor way. It brings together land parcels belonging to different owners and treats them as a single unit for planning and infrastructure provision. The municipality reserves a portion of the land for roads and other public infrastructure, and returns the rest to the original owners. Each owner gets back a smaller parcel, but it is worth more because it now has road access and other services.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru

    Minutes of the Experts Group Meeting about Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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