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  1. Library Resource
    Leveraging Land: Land-based Finance for Local Governments - A Reader cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    December, 2016
    Global

    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.

  2. Library Resource

    Towards UN System-Wide Engagement at Scale

    Reports & Research
    May, 2016
    Global

    This 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.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Uganda

    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).

  4. 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.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2016
    Global

    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

  6. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    May, 2016
    Global

    Program of side events at the FIG Working Week 2016 in Christchurch- New Zealand

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2016
    Global

    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

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2016
    Global

    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

  9. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    October, 2016
    Global

    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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