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Surveying for tenure security and urban land management

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). 2010.

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This book is about involving and engaging urban poor communities in one of the first steps of any participatory planning or upgrading initiative. It describes how we can use “participatory enumerations” a surveying method used to gain better knowledge of the needs and priorities of the community. It presents and analyses existing and novel applications of participatory enumerations to enhance tenure security and improve urban land management.

Contents

Part 1 Background to participatory enumerations

1 Introduction

2 History and methods

Part 2 Existing uses of participatory enumerations

3 Enumerations for community empowerment

  • Enumerations for community empowerment in Abuja, Nigeria
  • The Bulacan campaign for land sharing, Philippines
  • Community watchdog groups protecting land tenure rights of women and orphans in Kenya
  • Enumeration and alternatives to evictions
  • A community unites to prevent eviction in Kibera, Kenya

5 Enumerations in cases of relocation and resettlement

  • Campaigning for just resettlement in Magallanes, Philippines
  • Resettling internally displaced persons and upgrading settlements in Bossaso, Somalia

6 Recognition of informal rights and claims

  • Enumeration for rights recognition in Kibera, Kenya

7 Enumeration to support savings and credit

  • Financing shelter security: The Community Mortgage Program in the Philippines
  • Improving tenure and access to credit: Twahangana Fund in Namibia
  • Titling does not always smooth the way to credit: A programme in Peru
  • Organizing community savings groups and leveraging financial support: Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia
  • Homeless Peoples Federation of the Philippines
  • Savings groups in Thailand

Part 3 Novel uses of participatory enumerations

8 Enumerations and land administration

  • The Land Administration and
  • Management Program in Payatas, Philippines
  • The Social Tenure Domain Model in Ethiopia

9 Enumeration for land adjudication

  • Adjudication after the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia

10 Enumerations after conflicts

  • Increasing tenure security after conflict in East Timor

11 Enumeration for local planning and development

  • The Community Land Information Program in Namibia

12 Enumerations and taxation

  • The Hargeisa GIS-based property survey and taxation system, Somalia

13 Enumerations for city-wide slum upgrading

  • Household enumeration in Las Piñas, Philippines
  • Advocacy for slum upgrading in Quezon City, Philippines
  • The “Baan Mankong” slum upgrading programme in Thailand
  • A positive impact of an enumeration in Camaquã, Brazil

Part 4 Analysis and conclusions

14 Analysis

  • Enumerations and empowerment
  • The impact of context
  • Enumerations and gender
  • The value of partnerships and co-management
  • Power relations, conflicts and disputes
  • Potential for scaling up

15 Conclusions

  • Why participatory enumerations?
  • Roles of key actors
  • Different ways of doing participatory enumerations
  • Potential for land management and administration

Part 5 Resources

  • Glossary
  • References and further reading
  • Contributors’ contact details

Role of Paul Mundy: Writeshop management, editor, desktop publishing

 

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Revised: 01 September 2012

Paul Mundy PhD, development communication specialist
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