• Social meaning and material constraints of land scarcity in Northern Namibia (ILMI Working Paper No. 13) 

  Bloemertz, Lena; Nghitevelekwa, Romie; Prudat, Brice; Weidmann, Laura; Dobler, Gregor; Graefe, Olivier; Kuhn, Nikolaus J. (Integrated Land Management Institute, Namibia University of Science and Technology, 2021-03)

  The paper scrutinizes perceptions of and discourses about scarcity of land in northern Namibia in order to show the multiple meanings that land has for the population. It is based on two years of fieldwork, and brings ...
• Ruptures and continuities of struggle: Social movements and popular struggles in urban Namibia, 1980s (ILMI Working Paper No. 11) 

  Becker, Heike (Integrated Land Management Institute, 2020-11)
• Livelihood needs for Namibia’s urban future’: A seminar series with John Mendelsohn 

  Mendelsohn, John (Integrated Land Management Institute, 2019-11)

  This Document Note presents the discussions that took place during three seminars with John Mendelsohn on the issue of livelihood needs for Namibia’s urban future. The first seminar focused on the topic of “‘Traditional’ ...
• New Livelihoods for Namibia’s Urban Future: Workshop with Prof James Ferguson 

  ILMI (Integrated Land Management Institute, 2019-10)

  This Document Note documents the activities during the workshop held with Prof. James Ferguson in August 12-15, 2019 at NUST. The workshop took place in the context of the Urban Forum programme 2019-2020. The Urban Forum ...
• Seven Ideas for Informal Settlement Upgrading in Namibia: Practical and implementable insights based on the SDI-UPFI High Level Roundtable, February 2019 

  ILMI, ONE Economy Foundation (Integrated Land Management Institute and ONE Economy Foundation, 2019-07)

  The following points are a synthesis of the ideas that transpired from the Shack/Slum Dwellers International and Urban Poor Fund International (SDI-UPFI) High Level Roundtable that took place at State House on February ...
• Planned layouts v. ‘Planning for slums’: The case of Rehoboth Ext. 5 & 6 

  Esterhuizen, Louis (Integrated Land Management Institute, 2016-10)

  The project in question refers to the case of 'Ext.5 & 6' in Rehoboth, in which the speaker took part as employee of the town and regional planning consultancy office that undertook the assignment. The aim was to provide ...
• Ecosystem services and small-holder farming practices -between payments, development support and right- an integrated approach (ILMI Working paper 10) 

  Bloemertz, Lena; Naanda, Martha; Wingate, Vladimir; Angombe, Simon; Kuhn, Nikolaus (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018-08)

  Small-scale farmers in north-central Namibia face numerous challenges, ranging from low crop yields, high rainfall variability and land degradation which is threatening the long-term productivity of the land, to social c ...
• Informal settlements 

  Muller, Anna (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018)

  Namibia is moving towards an urbanised country. This is illustrated by the fact that at independence Namibia was only 28% urbanized by 2011 urbanization has already grown to 42% and current projections are that by 2020 ...
• Communal land 

  Nghitevelekwa, Romie (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018)

  Communal land is one of the land tenure systems in Namibia, the other being freehold land tenure system. At independence in 1990,Namibia resolved to retain communal land on the basis that majority of the population derived ...
• Urban land delivery 

  Mendelsohn, Martin (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018)

  There has been rapid growth in urban populations in Namibia (Pendleton et al, 2014). This growth is amongst predominantly amongst less educated, poorer migrants from rural areas in search of opportunities in urban areas. ...
• Housing in Namibia: The challenges and prospects for adequate future provision 

  Chiripanhura, Blessing M. (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018-05)

  The current paper derives from work conducted in the context of the Revision of the Mass Housing Development Programme (MHDP) that the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) commissioned to the Integrated Land ...
• The role of universities in participatory informal settlement upgrading: experiences from Kenya, Namibia, Uganda, and Zambia. 

  Guillermo, Delgado (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2017-07)

  This document is a report on the session that focused on the role of universities in participatory informal settlement upgrading at the workshop titled "Bottom-up city Wide planning in Gobabis", which took place on 11-13 ...
• Leasehold as a Vehicle for Economic Development 

  Werner, Wolfgang; Bayer, Charl-Thom H. (2017-03)

  Secure tenure and registered land rights are widely believed to be necessary for access to credit, well functioning land markets and economic development. As a result Namibia introduced long term leasehold rights over ...
• The new Flexible Land Tenure Act: an update. 

  Christensen, Åse (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2015-10)

  The Flexible Land Tenure (FLT) system was developed by the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement and the discussions started in the period of 1992-1998. It was conceived as an alternative for the land tenure catering for low ...
• The Flexible Land Tenure System in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals 

  Christensen, Åse (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2017-04)

  The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the Flexible Land Tenure System (FLTS) in Namibia is in line with the Fit-For-Purpose (FFP) land administration approach which is developed in order to implement the ...
• Land Delivery to the Urban Poor. Case study of Lux Development Project Nam/343: Realities, opportunities, possibilities, synergies 

  Lewis, Joe (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2016-07)

  The project took place in Katima Mulilo and Rundu during 2007-11. The project consisted of 66 township extensions, and resulted in 18,500 plots developed in a period of 5 years. The project was funded by LUX Development, ...
• The proposed new Urban and Regional Planning Bill: an appraisal. 

  Genis, Pieter (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2015-10)

  The Bill aimed at overriding old ordinances that dated back to the 1950s and 60s. The main objective of the Bill is that of decentralisation, and has three main points: the establishment of "authorized planning authorities" ...
• The Case for Adequate Housing for Teachers in Windhoek 

  Guillermo, Delgado; Lühl, Phillip (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2016-07)

  The initiative to investigate the housing situation of teachers in Namibia was triggered by teacher Gertrude Mujoro, who discussed the matter with her fellow colleagues who brought the matter to the attention of the ...
• Participatory land delivery processes in Gobabis: the case of Freedom Square. 

  Harris, Braam (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2016-08)

  The project in question refers to the case of 'Freedom Square' in Gobabis, which is a cooperation between the Municipality of Gobabis and the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN), the Namibia Housing Action Group ...
• Applying a Problem Based Learning Approach to Land Management Education:The case of Aalborg University, Denmark 

  Enemark, Stig (2016)

  This paper is work in progress and draws from previous research. The paper supports the lecture on Problem Based Learning given at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) on 3 March 2016.

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