With the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, proactive social distancing is finally kicking in. Public gatherings are being discouraged and immediate travel bans from countries with higher rates of infections are containing further spread. Meanwhile, increased hoarding of facemasks, hand-sanitizers, toilet paper, and soap are adding to and… read more
Exploring Secure Tenure in Urban Bangladesh
Adequate, affordable and accessible housing for low-income, informal and slum settlements cannot be discussed or conceptualized in isolation from secure tenure. Doing so reiterates unsustainable development practices and notions that low-income and informal settlements do not have equal rights in terms of where they live. In the absence of an… read more
Building Institutional Capacity Towards Tenure Security: Philippines
Spread across 7,500 islands, with a population of more than 100 million, the Philippines is prone to severe geological and hydrometeorological hazards. Sitting astride the typhoon belt, between 1990 and 2008, a total of 158 destructive typhoons resulted in 13,491 deaths across the Philippines. It has the 5th largest coastline… read more
Increasing Urban Resilience through Secure Tenure
By 2030, urbanization and economic growth project that nearly 61% of the world’s population will live in cities, the Asia Pacific Region alone housing approximately 2.7 billion urban residents. This will be juxtaposed alongside increasing inequality, environmental concerns, and growing infrastructure deficits, resulting in inadequate standards of living. Eight hundred… read more