Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia

Community Members identifying new relocation sites   Freedom Square informal settlement residents are preparing to register their land rights as part of the Flexible Land Tenure system using the  Social Tenure Domain Model . The different components of the act was explained to the community by Mr Peter Rutsch (download copy  Flexible Land Tenure Act, Act 4 of 2012 ) , explaining the differences between starter tile and Land-hold Title .  Freedom square residents have been residing in the settlement for more than 15 years without any security of tenure, facing possible evictions from the municipality. Through partnership and community enumerations, the Gobabis municipality reconsidered the planning decisions on relocation's . The planning for the area was done through the Association of African Planning( AAPS ) studio's with Town and Regional Planning Students from the polytechnic of Namibia and the community on the design of the settlement which was ...

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The exchange was initiated by Namibia Housing Action Group (NHAG) supporting NGO for the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN), in order to expose municipal officials, the federation members and the NGO itself to upgrading that comes as a result of the enumerations. The municipal officials and community members on the exchange are directly or indirectly exposed to the Community Land Information Program (CLIP) Namibia’s version of the enumeration in their towns. Upgrading as a result of the enumeration has not yet taken place. Cape Town and Stellenbosch was going to provide a great platform for the exchange delegates to learn and influence a change in mind-set and promoting a bottom up approach to planning procedures in their local authorities and influence national government policy in the future. Read more on the SDI BLOG http://www.sdinet.org/blog/2013/04/25/using-enumerations-upgrading-namibia-cape-town-lea/