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Global Campaign for Secure Tenure Activities in 2005


Thailand

For several years now the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure has been successful in supporting the efforts of many countries in assisting the urban poor to access a piece of land and decent shelter. The primary objective of the Global Campaign is to enable and empower the poor to gain recognition of their “right to the city”. Thanks to this Campaign, more and more women and disadvantaged people around the world are, for the first time, realizing their basic rights to own and inherit property and to pursue their livelihoods without discrimination. One of the core principles of the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure is to ensure that the poor are considered not as recipients of charity but as full partners in the resolution of their problems. This has become a reality in Thailand through several of their housing programmes. Particularly, the Baan Mankong Programme provides true meaning to the vision of “Cities without slums”. By upgrading slums and squatter housing in more than 300 cities and towns, over 300,000 families all over the country will gain access a decent shelter and benefit from security of tenure. By engaging the poor communities themselves, in collaboration with key actors such as academia, NGOs, and local government, in the all aspects of planning, design and decision making, this programme also complies with the guidelines of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance.

Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure in Asia & Pacific
(8-9 December 2005, Bangkok)


UN-HABITAT (Nairobi and Fukuoka) co-hosted an Expert Group Meeting with partners on innovative land tools for the Asia-Pacific as part of the Global Network of land tool developers activities. Partners included UNESCAP, the World Bank, the International Federation of Surveyors Commission 7 on Land management and the cadastre. It was co-funded by partners as well as the Austrian Development Cooperation, the Dutch cadastre and ITC (Institute for Geo-spatial information and earth sciences based in the Netherlands).

The main output was that it was understood for the first time in the region that land titling is not the only way to deliver security of tenure and that rather other pro poor approaches also need to be adopted.

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