Emplacement
The Urban Training and Studies Institute- UTI was established via cooperation between the Housing and Building National Research Centre - HBRC in Cairo and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies- IHS in Rotterdam within the framework of the development cooperation between the Governments of the Netherlands and Egypt.
UTI was officially founded as a result of a second phase of the Egyptian-Dutch cooperation which started in December 1997. Through this cooperation technical and managerial assistance were provided by the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) from Rotterdam and the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).
The assistance provided focused first on capacity and institution building and human resources development which were required for UTI establishment.
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is an alliance of global regional and national partners contributing to poverty alleviation through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure particularly through the development and dissemination of pro-poor and gender-sensitive land tools.
Secure land tenure and property rights are fundamental to shelter and livelihoods as well as the realisation of human rights, poverty reduction,economic prosperity and sustainable development.
