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  Incrementally securing tenure in Cape Town: informal settlement transformation programme pilot project in Monwabisi Park

  Urban LandMark, 2013

  Monwabisi Park is an informal settlement situated in Khayelitsha in the Cape Town metropolitan area. A joint programme working in the region is helping to improve low income neighbourhoods by focusing on violence protection in Safe Node Areas (SNA); Monwabisi Park is one such SNA.
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  Proceedings of a roundtable discussion on planning new Afghan cities: can urban planning promote equitable growth and democratic governance?

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2011

  The scoping and preliminary phase of an AREU urban governance research project was conducted in the cities of Herat, Charikar and Jalalabad between September 2010 and April 2011. This roundtable presented findings and discussed key issues in urban governance that arose from the study.
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  Incrementally securing tenure in Johannesburg: assessment and impact of the city of Johannesburg’s regularisation programme

  Urban LandMark, 2013

  Urban Landmark, an NGO based in South Africa, developed an approach to incrementally securing tenure in informal settlements. The approach advocates working with existing, practical mechanisms that allow land tenure to be secured and upgraded over time through a concept of “recognition”.
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  Incrementally securing tenure in slum upgrading: reflections on promising practices in southern Africa: adapting and strengthening local land management practices: the case of Springvalley in eMalahleni (Mpumalanga), South Africa

  Urban LandMark, 2013

  Many poor communities in South Africa today face threats to tenure security. The community of Springvalley, which is located in eMalahleni city, has recently experienced considerable growth on the back of coal mining and power generation.
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  Incrementally securing tenure in slum upgrading: reflections on promising practices in southern Africa: gaining administrative recognition for local land management practices: the case of Huambo, Angola

  Urban LandMark, 2013

  There is a growing market in land and urban plots of land in Huambo city in Angola, but many of the transactions in informal housing areas go unrecorded, and few transfers can be backed up by legally-defensible documents. In responding to these developments, the municipal administration in Huambo demonstrated a willingness to innovate in its land management practice.
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  Incrementally securing tenure in urban and peri-­‐urban Mozambique: an exploration of the evidence base and strategy proposals

  Urban LandMark, 2013

  The increase in the population of Mozambican cities is determined essentially by natural growth and by migration from the countryside into the cities; this has resulted in a proliferation of informal settlements. The current report explores the implications for an incremental approach to securing tenure in urban and peri‐urban Mozambique.
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  Urban LandMark review 2007/2008

  Urban LandMark, 2008

  The goal of “Urban Landmark” programme, which was set up in 2006, is to shift policies and practice in South Africa towards improving poorer people’s access to well-located urban land, by making markets and land governance work better. The current report reflects Urban Landmark achievements in its first year.
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  2008-2010 Urban Landmark annual report

  Urban LandMark, 2010

  Urban Landmark initiative is based in South Africa and works to find remedies to the problems that have made urban land markets dysfunctional, and hence land unaffordable. This report reviews Urban Landmark’s activities for the period 2008 to 2010.
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  Managing urban land: a guide for municipal practitioners

  Urban LandMark, 2011

  In South African cities and towns, formal access to urban land is severely skewed towards a privileged minority, and local government as a sphere of government is duty-bound to reverse inequality and poverty. In this sense, the current guide identifies specific ways in which officials can approach their day-to-day urban land management business differently.
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  Incrementally securing tenure: promising practices in informal settlement upgrading in southern Africa

  Urban LandMark, 2013

  Known as the “urbanisation of poverty”, about 62% of people today in towns and cities in sub-Saharan Africa live in informal settlements. The current paper reveals that land management in these conditions is under extreme pressure, and efforts to secure tenure among the urban poor are dominated by the paradigm of individual title implemented through large-scale titling schemes.

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