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Global health in foreign policy - and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS
Health Policy and Planning, 2014Amidst the growing literature on global health, much has been written recently about the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) countries and their involvement and potential impact in global health, particularly in relation to development assistance.DocumentIncrementally securing tenure in slum upgrading: reflections on promising practices in southern Africa: introduction to the practice notes
Urban LandMark, 2013Urbanisation in African countries is increasing rapidly, driven primarily by massive rural-urban migration. The current brief indicates that efforts to secure tenure among the urban poor in Africa are dominated by the paradigm of individual title implemented through large-scale titling schemes.DocumentIncrementally securing tenure in Cape Town: informal settlement transformation programme pilot project in Monwabisi Park
Urban LandMark, 2013Monwabisi 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.DocumentIncrementally securing tenure in Johannesburg: assessment and impact of the city of Johannesburg’s regularisation programme
Urban LandMark, 2013Urban 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”.DocumentIncrementally 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, 2013Many 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.DocumentIncrementally 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, 2013There 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.DocumentUrban LandMark review 2007/2008
Urban LandMark, 2008The 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.Document2008-2010 Urban Landmark annual report
Urban LandMark, 2010Urban 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.DocumentManaging urban land: a guide for municipal practitioners
Urban LandMark, 2011In 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.DocumentIncrementally securing tenure: promising practices in informal settlement upgrading in southern Africa
Urban LandMark, 2013Known 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.Pages