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Land Rights in the Slums


1. BIBLICAL REFLECTION ON LAND AND LAND RIGHTS
2. THE KINGDOM OF GOD, LAND AND LAND RIGHTS (power point)
3. LAND RIGHTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
4. DISCUSSION ON LAND RIGHTS - BANGKOK ENCARNACAO GATHERING
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Contextual Issues: Trainees will understand the implications of national urban land law, land reforms and land rights issues.

2. Praxis: Trainees will be familiar with a process of obtaining different types of land rights documents and titles that may be needed to resolve land rights issues, having walked through these steps with a community. This will be done as a group exercise.

3. Theology: Trainees can identify the Biblical basis for defending the dispossessed, the Biblical bases for determining just land rights and describe initial steps in working with a community to obtain rights to land.

 

Resources
NEGOTIATING EVICTION IN PHNOM PHEN
SERVANTS LAND RIGHTS STORIES
ASHA in New Delhi have worked to secure land rights in a number of slums, and have been influential in shaping national policy.  The National policy for slum dwellers can be viewed at:  www.asha-india.org/otherresources.asp
Readings
Congress of the Philippines, 1992, Republic Act No 7279,

SLU-SVP HOUSING PROJECT
HANDBOOK ON BEST PRACTICES OF LAND TENURE
GLOBAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS
HOUSING ISSUES IN KAMPALA

IBP Journal, 2004 EJECTMENT: BEYOND POSSESSION THE SOCIAL IMPERATIVE  Vol 30, No 1, pp 92-110.

For the technical issues from a global perspective see http://www.cohre.org/mpframe.htm

Training Outline for 40 hr Course or Seminar