Secure land and resource tenure and a stable political environment are important.

Proportion of households with access to secure tenure

There are handbooks on how to increase participation and transparency in urban decision making, participatory budgeting, security of tenure and access to land, pro poor land management, and guidelines on how to undertake a national campaign for secure tenure.

Global programmes and urban governance issues were well covered, while secure tenure activities were not.

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b. Parliamentary documentation two reports to the Arab Regional Conference in preparation for the review on regional campaign on secure housing and land tenure and good urban governance and local urban observatories

Topics for recent exploration have included land law, land tenure, women's security of tenure, local government training needs, city environmental profiles, best practices and safer cities, as well as information management.

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Guaranteeing the right of women to property and inheritance laws and ensuring secure tenure of property to women

UN Habitat has launched two major global campaigns, one for secure tenure and the other on urban governance.

Increasing primary school completion and secondary school access for girls and ensuring secure tenure of property to women

The effects of this disparity are mitigated by education, medicine, and land tenure.

The main conditions for success of decentralization include secure tenure and secure fiscal, revenue and taxation power, as well as control over decision making, resources, products and markets.

Promoting equal rights of women to secure tenure, including the right to hold legal contracts of tenure, inheritance and other acquisition of real estate, would contribute to improving the lives of women.

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Women should enjoy equal access to economic activities, market opportunities, land tenure and natural resources.

Residential licensing and land titling offer tenure arrangement that could be helpful in accessing credit.

UN Habitat is engaged in two global campaigns the Global Campaign on Urban Governance and the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure.

Topics of recent city to city cooperation sponsored by UN Habitat include land law, land tenure, women's security of tenure, local government training, city environmental profiles, best practices, safety and justice and the use of information and communication technology.

(b) Guaranteeing the free and equal right of women to own and inherit property and ensuring secure tenure of property and housing by women

The parties also agreed to work together on modifying national identity, eligibility for citizenship, and land tenure laws.

The issue of land tenure rights should be addressed at an early stage in the programme design process.

A clearly defined land tenure policy is an important prerequisite for a successful cooperative management programme (Ngaido Kirk, 2001).

During the period under review, the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure was successfully launched in five countries in West Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The norms of good urban governance and secure tenure have also been disseminated through various publications and documents produced in collaboration with other UN Habitat units.

Governance and land tenure systems must be improved in many countries, and the risk of corruption must be addressed rigorously.

In sub Saharan Africa, reform has often sought to transform customary tenure land into state property or individualized private property.

They are, in addition, helping poor communities directly, especially in acquiring land, securing tenure and providing infrastructure and basic services.

Ordinance 83.127, enacted 5 June 1983, started the process of nationalization of all land not clearly the property of a documented owner, thus abolishing the traditional system of land tenure.

12. Encourages Governments to support the UN Habitat Global Campaign for Secure Tenure and the Global Campaign on Urban Governance as important tools for, inter alia, promoting administration of land and property rights, in accordance with national circumstances, and enhancing access to affordable credit by the urban poor

Security of tenure

Secure tenure has been considered an important precondition for residents of slums and informal settlements to have safe shelter and a safe living and working environment without fear of forced eviction.

In addition, government has an important role to play in providing, where necessary, sustainable price support mechanisms and in reforming land tenure systems in order to improve security of title and access to land.

(j) Noting the role of good governance, clear land tenure arrangements and cross sectoral coordination in achieving sustainable forest management and legally sourced timber exports

The in depth evaluation by the Office of Internal Oversight Services embraced the findings of a separate external evaluation on the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure and the Global Campaign on Urban Governance.

An overlord was a person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or vassal under various forms of feudal land tenure.

However, these proven agroforestry techniques must be adopted more widely, despite serious barriers, such as insecurity of land and tree tenure, lack of knowledge and lack of capital.

To persuade Governments to adopt policies that are consistent with the norms of good urban governance and secure tenure, the UN Habitat leadership has focused primarily on influencing the debate in regional ministerial councils and organizations.

In Asia, many countries report that they have vast stretches of rangeland where the communities practise traditional stock rearing, relying more on land tenure customs than on modern law.

The Government attached great importance to private sector development of agricultural markets, rural microfinance institutions and domestic credit markets, improvement of land tenure security and expansion of transport links.

In a recent review of rangeland management efforts in Jordan, IFAD indicated there is still a need to clarify the land tenure system and rights to resources (IFAD, 2003b).

It is estimated that most of these people will live in overcrowded urban slums where the main challenges are inadequate housing, lack of secure tenure, uncertain employment and lack of basic services, especially safe water and sanitation.

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And when Abraham said , ' My Lord , make this land secure , and turn me and my sons away from serving idols