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.

Security of 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

It is often particularly difficult for women to obtain credit or security of tenure.

Mr. President, I am especially pleased to appear before the Security Council during your tenure.

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

In other affected developing countries, the main challenges of the predominant farming and stockbreeding systems are the need to upgrade and modernize the small scale production structures, security of land tenure, integrated management of natural resources and priority for food security activities.

(g) Enhance rural women's income generating potential, noting the importance of the agricultural sector in the poorest countries and the importance of greater security of land tenure and property ownership for resource mobilization and environmental stewardship

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

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.

Underlines the need to address the gender equality dimensions of livelihood, security, land tenure, land rights, property and housing since they pose major challenges to women, in particular widows, women heads of households, women with disabilities and women who have lost family members in natural disasters

OIOS noted the following outcomes of campaign activities (a) adoption of legal instruments and policies granting land (b) strengthening of security of tenure and regularization of informal settlements (c) integration of slum upgrading into city management and (d) actual slum upgrading through access to land and financing mechanisms.

Strategies and policies for creating and maintaining security of tenure for slum dwellers are central to improving their lives.

15.2 States should ensure that any judicial, quasi judicial, administrative or customary pronouncement regarding the rightful ownership of, or rights to, housing, land and or property is accompanied by measures to ensure registration or demarcation of that housing, land and or property as is necessary to ensure legal security of tenure.

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(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

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There's a whole variety of other reasons why property rights sometimes don't work in these cases, but they do need security of tenure.

The National Strategy for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women to 2010 set out the target as follows Proportion of female National Assembly Deputies, Tenure 11th (2002 2007) of 30 and the following tenure of 33 or higher female members of People's Councils Tenure 2004 2009 at provincial level of 28 and the next tenure of 30 district level of 23 and the next tenure of 25 communal and ward level of 18 and the next tenure of 20 .

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.

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.

States shall ensure the equal right of men and women, and the equal right of boys and girls, inter alia, to voluntary return in safety and dignity, legal security of tenure, property ownership, equal access to inheritance, as well as the use, control of and access to housing, land and property.

Regarding human settlements, the Commission called on Governments, with assistance from the international community, to design pro poor policies with a focus on tenure security and access to affordable serviced land in order to improve access of the poor, in particular slum dwellers, to decent and affordable housing and basic services.

13 Susana Lastarria Cornhiel, The impact of changing patterns of land rights on rural women , (Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin Madison) paper presented at the expert group meeting on the situation of rural women within the context of globalization, Ulaanbaatar, June 2001.

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

16. Also encourages the increased involvement of local authorities, as well as other relevant stakeholders, including civil society and the private sector, in the development and implementation of programmes, land use planning and land tenure arrangements, and activities related to sustainable development in mountains

Land use and water security are firmly linked.

In this regard, Prime Minister Diarra has sought confirmation from President Mbeki on the need to revise other key pieces of legislation, including the nationality code and the laws on identification and land tenure.

3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.

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.

However, before abandoning recruitment practices founded on the doctrine of security of tenure, it would be necessary to weigh the benefits of contractual appointments against the risks of a resurgence of politicization and patronage.

Issues discussed included actions by Governments and civil society innovative practices in housing rights equal access to housing resources access to legal and other remedies combating homelessness and security of tenure and forced evictions.

And they have increased the security with long term land leases.

In Eastern Europe, agricultural reform has mainly involved the reform of tenure rights.

During the same period, unemployment stood at an average of 85 per cent, with only 26 per cent of the population having secure access to clean water and a mere 24 per cent having access to secure land tenure.

I know some people who got tenure in that place with lies like that.

Governance and land tenure systems must be improved in many countries, and the risk of corruption must be addressed rigorously. In Hyderabad, countries and experts will consider how safeguards can ensure that both people and nature benefit from REDD activities.

Vulnerable groups such as households headed by women, nomadic peoples, internally displaced persons as well as returnees, among others, are at a distinct disadvantage in obtaining security of tenure, in addition to access to pasturelands and water.