COMMUNITY-BASED TENURE REFORM IN URBAN AFRICA - THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST EXPERIMENT IN VOI, KENYA

The continued growth of informal settlements constitutes one of the gr eatest urban development problems affecting African Projects intended cities, upgrade these settlements have been highly successful. In proj ect beneficiaries receiving under individual titles sell or lose their land rights. This transfer of property is seen as stimulating informa l settlement construction and growth. This paper reviews the use of a community-based land tenure form in an upgrading project in Voi, Kenya . The paper presents the rationale for using community tenure and disc usses whether the upgrading approach/tenure form provides a replicable model for informal settlement upgrading. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Lt d.