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Cadasta Foundation Launches New Global Land Rights Challenge Fund to Secure Land and Resource Rights

5 November 2019

Global

Cadasta Foundation has launched its new Global Land Rights Challenge Fund to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative tools and services to document land and resource rights worldwide.

India: Odisha to grant land rights to urban slum dwellers

8 August 2017

India

Odisha Government on Tuesday took a decision to grant land rights to the slum dwellers living in Municipal Councils and Notified Area Councils of the State and property rights to those living in Municipal Corporation areas.

Accordingly, the State Cabinet approved promulgation of two ordinances for assigning land rights or property rights to the identified slum dwellers for redevelopment, rehabilitation and upgradation of slums.

'Help us upgrade, don't evict us': Sierra Leone's slum dwellers battle for their homes

Sierra Leone

By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Blogs

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia

4 April 2020

Authors:

Dr. Philip Amis

Africa

Southern Asia

The current Covid 19 pandemic is likely to spread in the next few weeks and months to the South and in particular South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. The impact may well be of a greater scale than that currently experienced in the North; India was the region with the highest loss of live in the 1918-1919 Spanish flu Pandemic. The experience and historical experience suggests that urban areas will be disproportionately affected.

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Discussions

Online Discussion: Land Rights Implications of COVID-19

Closed

3 June 2020 to 24 June 2020

Facilitators:

Mr. Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque

Yuliya Panfil

Ms. Karol Boudreaux

Mr. Neil Sorensen

Miss Chantal Wieckardt

Partners:

Landesa - Rural Development Institute

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

New America

Environmental Peacebuilding

LANDac

Global Protection Cluster Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility

Cadasta Foundation

Global

Land, Housing, and COVID-19

Land and Corruption in Africa in 3 Topics

Closed

17 July 2019 to 7 August 2019

Facilitators:

Jean Brice Tetka

Mary Maneno

Michael Okai

Dr. Simon Manda

Mr. Gerald Padde Auku

Partners:

Land Portal Foundation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Transparency International

African Land Policy Centre

Africa

Kenya

Uganda

Zambia

Ghana

Land corruption in Africa Download the Report of the discussion.

Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor

Closed

20 March 2019

Facilitators:

Narayana Gatty

India

Welcome and introduction from Narayana Gatty, Professor, Azim Premji University
Narayana:

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Events

SDG 11 and Adequate housing: Shared experiences of Europe and the Global South

9 December 2020

Location

Online

United States

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US

Global

The webinar “SDG 11 and Adequate Housing: Shared experiences of Europe and the Global South” is organized within the framework of

Organizers:

Solid Ground

Habitat for Humanity Romania

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Library

Informal settlements and access to data in the time of COVID: a case for sharing data for decision making

Reports & Research

November 2020

Southern Africa

The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage.

Urban Land Conflicts and Evictions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Reports & Research

September 2017

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Latin American and Caribbean Urban CSO Cluster, part of the Global Land Tools Network (GTLN), together with Habitat for Humanity’s Solid Ground Campaign and the Land Portal Foundation, launched an online debate on Urban Land Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean in January 2017.

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Organizations

Centro de Cultura Luiz Freire

O Centro de Cultura Luiz Freire (CCLF) é uma organização não governamental de direitos humanos, que surge em 1972, a partir de um grupo que buscava a restauração da democracia, através de atividades culturais e projetos de desenvolvimento comunitário, durante o período autoritário da Ditadura Militar brasileira.

Cities Alliance

What is the Cities Alliance?

The Cities Alliance is a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development.

Cities Alliance Members

The Cities Alliance partnership features a broad range of members, including: local authorities, national governments, non-governmental organisations, multi-lateral organisations, and Associate Members. For our current membership, please see Our Members.

What does the Cities Alliance do?

Development Workshop (DW)

Development Workshop was founded in 1973 and has been a promoter of urban and civic rights for more than four decades. DW is an active member of the African platform of the GPR2C. We have worked with international and African partners during the last 4 or 5 years as advocates for the right to the city in many local, national and international forums. We were instrumental in getting the Angolan Government to support the inclusion of the right to the city in the New Urban Agenda.

Mission

Environment and Urbanization

Environment and Urbanization (E&U) seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world through the provision of knowledge. Our focus is the global South, where an estimated one in three of the urban population live in informal settlements and where more than half work within the informal economy. UN projections suggest that almost all the world’s growth in population in the next few decades will be in urban centres in the Global South.