'Improving the lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020'
May 23, 2002, Washington DC
As part of ongoing international efforts to meet the
'Cities Without Slums'
Millennium Development Target, the Cities Alliance is pleased to host a round
table on secure tenure - one of the two indicators adopted by the United Nations
to measure implementation of this target.
Convened by World Bank Managing Director Mamphela Ramphele and Executive
Director of UN-Habitat, Anna Tibaijuka, the round table will hear presentations
by four prominent members of the International Research Group on Law and Urban
Space (IRGLUS): Alain Durand-Lasserve, Edesio Fernandes, Geoffrey Payne and
Martim Smolka.
In addressing secure tenure, the panelists will highlight the importance of a
range of options that exist as alternatives to formal property rights and the
granting of title - options that provide the protection of due legal process as
well as the opportunity to build economic assets, both essential elements of
urban poverty reduction strategies. The presentations will be based on case
studies from different parts of the world, highlighting innovative tenure
options for the urban poor that have already been implemented.
The workshop will be followed by a reception and public launch of new books by
two of the round table's panelists: Holding their Ground: Security of Land
Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries, edited by Alain
Durand-Lasserve and Lauren Royston; and Land, Rights and Innovation edited by
Geoffrey Payne.
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