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Geoffrey Payne and Associates (GPA) was established in 1995 and has since undertaken consultancy, training and research assignments throughout the world. Clients include national governments, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), UN-HABITAT, SIDA, the World Bank, Cities Alliance and various NGOs and universities. A range of materials, from books, articles, media packs and documentary films have been produced and can be found under the publications link.
The main focus of GPA activities is to improve options for the urban poor in developing countries to obtain access to land, housing, services and credit on terms appropriate and affordable to the poor. Climate change and non-renewable resources are presenting even affluent societies with major challenges. For the 1 billion people presently living in slums and informal settlements around the world, and UN projections that this will double to 2 billion by 2030 unless radical action is taken, the challenge is even greater. The aim of GPA is to contribute to addressing this challenge.
Recent and current activities include:
- Evaluations of land titling programmes.
- Innovative approaches to improving tenure security for the urban poor.
- Reviews of regulatory guidelines for affordable legal shelter.
- Public-private partnerships in land for housing and innovative approaches to the provision of secure tenure for the urban poor.
- Participatory urban development projects in Lesotho, Cuba and elsewhere.
- Contributing to the Development From Disasters Network (DFDN).
- Contributing to the work of the Building and Social Housing Foundation.
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Displaying 1 - 2 of 2Holding on: Security of tenure, types, policies, practices and challenges
This review, prepared for the Special Rapporteur to Brazil, Raquel Rolnik, seeks to present a summary of the issues involved in addressing tenure security and insecurity. The report discuses adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination. In doing so, it reports on many studies and published sources, but also draws on personal experience. Prepared for an expert group meeting on Security of Tenure convened by the Special Rapporteur on 22-23 October 2012.
Evaluating Impacts of Urban Land Titling: Results and Implications: Preliminary Findings
This paper contains a preliminary summary of key issues and findings from a desk review of
the literature on land titling projects and programmes in urban and peri-urban areas of
developing countries. It draws on a large number of documents, not all of which have been
incorporated into the review at the time of writing. The present bibliography will be
expanded in the final text of the review which is to be completed by early December 2006.