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Under the new Constitution of Kenya, 2010, the County Government is now vested with the authority to ensure that land owned by county residents is used for the purposes it has been intended for by the Director of Physical Planning established under the Physical Planning Act.
Land administration arrangements and practices in any country influence the pace and outcomes of social and economic developments. Since the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), nations have been encouraged to take initiatives to attain the SDG targets.
Cette note restitue les discussions et conclusions d’un atelier, qui a été organisé les 2 et 3 mai 2017 à l’initiative du Comité technique « Foncier & développement » (CTFD), du Comité scientifique et technique sur l’eau agricole (Costea) et du Pôle foncier de Montpellier.
Cette journée de réflexion a été consacrée à la sécurisation de l’accès au sol et à l’habitat dans les villes du Sud, et notamment aux marges de celles-ci, dans les quartiers dits précaires ou informels.
Cette réunion du CTFD consacrée à la situation foncière haïtienne, s’inscrit dans la continuité du programme “Cadastre et sécurisation foncière” qui a été mis en oeuvre de 2010 à 2016 avec l’appui technique et financier de la France (MEAE et AFD), et du « Programme de sécurité foncière en m
Women face many problems with regard to land inheritance and land rights in Kenya. Individual and community land ownership do not favour women. The reason for this is that ownership of land is patrilineal, which means that fathers share land amongst sons, while excluding daughters.
While women’s rights to land and property are protected under the Kenyan Constitution of 2010 and in various national statutes, in practice, women remain disadvantaged and discriminated.
Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country
and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing
Globalisation and urbanisation trends in developing countries present both opportunities for growth and development on one hand while contributing to the complex myriad challenges of managing urbanisation on the other hand. Cities and urban areas play a critical in the development of a country.