Global and Inter-Regional
GLTN grassroots mechanism to scale-up successful grassroots practices to operate at citywide and national levels has been developed, including recommendations for capacitybuilding; Gender Evaluation Criteria have been developed to facilitate the evaluation of land tools from a gender perspective; Policy Guidelines and Support Supported the African land policy framework and the development of land indicators for security of tenure; Secure Land Rights for All – an overview of land policy issues (English, French and Spanish) Policy Makers Guide to Women’s Land, Property and Housing Rights (English, French and Spanish) Shared Tenure Options for Women (English and French) How to develop a Pro-poor Land Policy (English, Spanish and French) How to Establish an Effective Land Sector (English) Guidelines for Addressing Land Issues after Natural Disasters (English) Training Transparency in Land Administration: regional trainings have been held in Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia and Senegal targeting stakeholders in Eastern, Southern and Francophone West Africa regions respectively together with local training institutions and universities and the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Training in land issues has been organised for UN-HABITAT headquarters and regional office staff in Nairobi and China; Training in Urban Land Markets was held in Nairobi in 2008. Documentation and Research Global inventory of land related initiatives has been expanded to include 159 initiatives from Africa. In total there are 827 initiatives listed in the GLTN database. This is currently being expanded to include initiatives from the Arab States. Land Law and Islam an overview of concepts and issues in English and Arabic;
Country-level support In line with UN-HABITAT’S Medium Term Strategic and Institutional Plan, and its Enhanced Normative and Operational Framework, Shelter Branch is undertaking activities which link normative and operations together at country level, in collaboration with RTCD, Disaster Management Programme and Training and Capacity Building Branch in the following initiatives. Gender implications of the rural land certification process in Ethiopia; Rural land inventory in Botswana and its performance in peri-urban areas as well as the links between customary and statutory systems; City-wide planning in Haiti, situation analysis to be developed into a guideline for local and central governments;
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