Should Monrovian Communities Agree to Voluntary Slum Relocations: Land, Gender and Urban Governance

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Sait, S. 2020. Should Monrovian Communities Agree to Voluntary Slum Relocations: Land, Gender and Urban Governance. in: Home, R. (ed.) Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa Springer. pp. 339-354

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Authors	Sait, S.
Editors	Home, R.
Abstract	Slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia, facing extreme environmental hazards and flooding are being advised by the National Housing Authority (NHA) to relocate, but the process and outcome is unclear. The slum-dwellers are vulnerable owing to their location, risks and socio-economic profile given prolonged civil war, the tenuous return to democracy and an Ebola health epidemic in one of the poorest economies of Africa. This chapter analyses the multi-stakeholder endeavour to develop voluntary gender-responsive relocation guidelines, while addressing issues such as land, livelihoods, financing and urban services in a relocation package. The chapter explores how good urban governance is a requirement for a successful community-led and human rights-based sustainable slum resettlement.
Book title	Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Page range	339-354
Year	2020
Publisher	Springer
Online	12 Nov 2020
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Deposited	13 May 2021
Series	Local and Urban Governance
ISBN	978-3-030-52503-3
	978-3-030-52504-0
ISSN	2524-5449
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52504-0_21
Copyright holder	© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

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