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Urban Sector Network

Scoping study: urban land issues

Final Report

22 September 2003

Posted with permission of Department for International development (DFID) Southern Africa, Pretoria

Given the importance of land issues in Southern Africa, and SARPN's commitment to deepening debate on this issue, amongst other key poverty issues, we have decided to create a facility to allow you to comment on the three DFIDSA papers.
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This report is one of three scoping studies commissioned by the Department of International Development (DFID) to find out about land issues in South Africa. Respectively, the three scoping studies cover the communal areas, current freehold and farming communities, and peri-urban and urban areas.

Table of contents:

  1. Introduction


  2. The poor and urban land - 107Kb ~ 1 min (8 pages)
    1. Categories of the urban poor in terms of their access to land
    2. Value of urban land for the poor/ sustainable livelihoods
  3. Legal/institutional framework governing urban land - 97Kb ~ 1 min (9 pages)
    1. Formal and informal processes/organisations
    2. Delivery programmes
  4. Key issues - 239Kb ~ 1 min (21 pages)
    1. Delivery programmes for providing urban land for the poor
    2. Sustainable livelihoods and the needs of the poor
    3. Formal processes and organizations
    4. Property market issues
    5. Informal processes
  5. Conclusion - 61Kb < 1min (3 pages)


  6. References - 76Kb < 1min (6 pages)

Appendices:
  1. Urban South Africa - 41Kb < 1min (1 pages)
  2. The formal rules of the game - 114Kb ~ 1 min (11 pages)
  3. The formal rules of the game - 97Kb ~ 1 min (6 pages)
  4. Organisations - 70Kb < 1min (5 pages)
  5. The interface of HIV/AIDS and urban land issues - 230Kb ~ 1 min (15 pages)


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