Tenure is important for WatSan because, once the poor have legal title to the land they occupy, they start to invest.
Global Campaign for Secure Tenure (UN-Habitat webpage)
How to Develop a Pro-poor Land Policy − Process, Guide and
Lessons (UN-Habitat, 2007)
Ensuring the right to the city: pro-poor housing, urban
development and tenure legalization in São
Paulo, Brazil
(
E&U, 2005)
The programme for land tenure legalization on public land in
São Paulo, Brazil (
E&U, 2003)
►The first author is Lula, President of Brazil − “no
solutions without political
solutions”.
Empowering the poor
through property rights: Lessons from ‘Right to Land’ in Rio de Janeiro (Chapter
2 of Making the Law Work for Everyone, volume
2 (Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, UNDP, 2008)
Integrating the
Poor: Urban Upgrading and Land Tenure Regularisation in the City of São Paulo (World Bank, 2005)
Land and Housing Rights: An Experience in Rio de Janeiro (BSHF) Volume 1
Volume 2 (BSHF, 2006 & 2007)
Community involvement in land regularization for informal settlements
in Tanzania:
A strategy for enhancing security of tenure in residential neighborhoods (
Habitat
International, 2006)
Land Tenure and Property Rights (whole issue of Habitat
International, June 2004)
Tenure, Diversity, and Commitment: Community Participation for
Urban Service Provision (Policy Research Working Paper, The World Bank, 2002)
Secure tenure for the urban poor (Civis, 2002)
Book:
Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing
Countries (Earthscan, 2002)
See also: Slum upgrading
