The potential contribution of land based financing to the development of sustainable and equitable cities and properly serviced communities is often underestimated. Land based financing is a collective name given to a range of instruments by which local governments could expand their revenue base and generate funds that will help them to deliver services and infrastructure development and achieve their maintenance goals.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2016Global
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2017Syrian Arab Republic
NRC interviewed 580 Syrian refugee households in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq to assess their potential Housing, Land and Property (HLP) claims inside Syria if they were to return home.
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Towards UN System-Wide Engagement at Scale
Reports & ResearchMay, 2016GlobalThis publication presents a functional analysis of how the United Nations System deals with land and conflict across the UN pillars of peace, security, development and human rights. It reviews areas of engagement of eighteen UN Agencies across the full conflict cycle - from preparedness and prevention to humanitarian response, conflict mediation, peacemaking, peace consolidation and peace-building, recovery and development.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Uganda
The Learning Route (LR) is capacity development deliverable of the TSLI-ESA project implemented by UN-Habitat through GLTN, funded by IFAD. It aims at enhancing awareness, knowledgeand skills of staff from IFAD supported projects, programs and partners in application of geo-spatial technologies in securing land and natural resource tenure and on innovation on inclusive business models (IBMs).
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2016Saint 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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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2016Global
A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) outlines eight reasons why it is important to address HLP issues from the outset of a humanitarian response, including:
Saving lives, preventing further displacement and human rights violations
Adapting humanitarian response to complex urban environments
Ensuring equal access to humanitarian assistance
Promoting access to justice in crises contexts and contributing towards durable solutions -
Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsMay, 2016Global
Program of side events at the FIG Working Week 2016 in Christchurch- New Zealand
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsInstitutional & promotional materialsApril, 2016Global
This paper addresses land and ways to handle it in all human settlements – urban as well as rural for several reasons: a) challenges around land and the way to handle them are not so different, b) the development of rural settlements is key to solve the problems of ever-growing urban settlements, c) rural settlements automatically increases the pressure on the cities as it leads to further rural-urban migration and d) growing and sprawling cities easily result in negative effects for the surrounding hinterland, which further stipulate rural-urban migration and the growth and sprawl of (mega
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsInstitutional & promotional materialsApril, 2016Global
This paper addresses land and ways to handle it in all human settlements – urban as well as rural for several reasons: a) challenges around land and the way to handle them are not so different, b) the development of rural settlements is key to solve the problems of ever-growing urban settlements, c) rural settlements automatically increases the pressure on the cities as it leads to further rural-urban migration and d) growing and sprawling cities easily result in negative effects for the surrounding hinterland, which further stipulate rural-urban migration and the growth and sprawl of (mega
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsOctober, 2016Global
This annual report presents main achievements of 2015.
GLTN aims to contribute to poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure. The network has developed a global land partnership. Its members include international civil society organizations, international finance institutions, international research and training institutions, donors and professional bodies. It aims to take a more holistic approach to land issues and improve global land coordination in various ways.
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