Working Group 8.2 - Informal Settlements Issues in Spatial
Development, Planning and Governance
Policy Issues
- Commission’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals
- to investigate initiatives that deliver land for housing and associated
financial mechanisms that enable upgrading through participatory approaches
to planning and development.
Provisional Terms of Reference
- Build negotiation mechanisms with Traditional Leaders to enable the
expansion of urban areas onto customary owned land by identify ways in which
Customary ownership could be modernized to release land for formalised
housing, (In collaboration with Commission 7).
- Explore rapid, new approaches to forward plan and upgrading initiatives
that provide places for the poor by partnering with Sister organisations.
- Deliver environmental sustainable house plots by working with
partnership forums to find ways to upgrade infrastructure achieving this by
addressing both physical and financial mechanisms.
Chair
Specific Projects
- To investigate sustainable places within informal settlement in Africa;
- To contribute to building the knowledge which the surveyors can provide
expert advice for Built Environment;
- To develop FIG-UN recommendation for best practices in Governance issues
for Informal Settlements.
Workshops
- To participate in special workshop in Africa
- To provide leadership at the FIG Working Week 2008 in this key issue.
Publications
- To produce a working discussion paper “White Paper” on a key element
effective governance issue.
Timetable
- 2008: To organise a round table session at FIG Working Week 2008
- 2010: Final report and recommendation for Significant Better
Practice.
Beneficiaries
- United Nations, the World Bank, governments, humanity and FIG member
organisations.
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