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This publication is primarily designed to allow a range of
stakeholders in developing countries to understand the overall
Fit-For-Purpose approach and to recognize the benefits of
adopting this approach. The Fit-for-Purpose solutions provide
opportunities for land administration systems to deliver
benefits, including secure tenure rights, to a wide range of
stakeholders within a relatively short time and for relatively
affordable costs in a flexible manner. It provides structured
guidance on building the spatial, legal and institutional
frameworks in support of designing country-specific strategies
for implementing FFP land administration. It contains the
analysis and operational advisory guidelines to implement the
approach. Authors of the Guide are Stig Enemark, Robin
McLaren and Christiaan Lemmen and it is published by
UN-Habitat/GLTN and Dutch Kadaster.
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The publication examines the causes of informal housing
development in South-East Europe and assesses the Government’s
policies to address this issue.
Over the last 25 years, informal settlements have become an
increasingly important and urgent matter in the region. At an
international conference in 2007, it was estimated that more
than 50 million people lived in informal settlements in 20
member States of the UNECE. In 2009, the ECE Committee on
Housing and Land Management published a first study on informal
settlements: Self-Made Cities: In Search of Sustainable
Solutions for Informal Settlements. This publication continues
the discussion opened by the previous study. This report,
Formalizing the Informal: Challenges and Opportunities of
Informal Settlements in South-East Europe examines the causes of
informal housing development in five countries of South-Eastern
Europe – Albania, the Republic of Cyprus, Greece, Montenegro and
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and assesses the
governments’ policies to address this challenge. Based on this
assessment, the study makes policy recommendations to these five
countries’ governments. It also contains lessons learned and
best practices that can be applied throughout the UNECE region. |