This Quick Guide proposes a range of policy and action frameworks that can steer urban development in positive directions, using the resources of knowledge and experience that exist within urban communities across Africa.

This Quick Guide 2 describes several ways of addressing low-income housing in African cities at the programme and project level.

This Quick Guide 3 looks at the different forms of land tenure which operate in African cities and examines some of the problems and benefits of these different land tenure systems.

This Quick Guide 4 explores how communities facing eviction have organized themselves, and drawn on the support of community-based networks and institutions in Africa and globally to find alternatives to the destruction of their settlements.

The objective of this Quick Guide is to introduce some of the key concepts of housing finance and to provide a quick overview of how a housing finance system works.

This Quick Guide 6 considers how governments and policy makers can work together with community-based organizations to address the problems that poor people experience in urban settlements, and find viable long-term solutions to their housing needs.

This Quick Guide 7 considers the characteristics of good quality rental housing and sound landlord-tenant rental arrangements, and presents policy options to promote and regulate the expansion of rental housing especially for the urban poor.

This Quick Guide 8 provides a brief overview of local government in Africa, and the urban challenges (and opportunities) that local government bodies need to respond to.

Ce Guide pratique n° 1 analyse le manque d’imagination dont ont fait preuve tous ceux impliqués dans le développement et la gestion des zones urbaines, qui n’ont pas su apprécier toutes les possibilités offertes par l’urbanisation pour résoudre la crise de développement de l’Afrique, et ont considéré en fait qu’il s’agissait plutôt d’une des causes de la crise.