This report is on population and demography of Kenya, prepared by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. A census is the complete count of a country’s population conducted with the objective of providing informat...
This report is based on housing micro finance lending course conducted under IFC sponsored Uganda Primary Mortgage Market Initiative. The International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Uganda Primary Mortgage Market...
Housing micro-finance is not a new trend in Africa. Historically, it has been known that shelter needs in the continent are largely met when households seek out their own savings and other informal funding sour...
The document is based on primary mortgage market development in emerging markets of Sub-Saharan Africa. The provision of more and better housing remains a long-standing policy problem in the transition from cen...
The presentation is based on growing housing micro finance in Africa with case study from South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania.
This is a study into the housing finance sector and the general availability of housing in Botswana. The study also covers overview of Botswana’s macro economy, employment & household incomes, access to fin...
The country profile of Malawi with specific stress on housing and housing supply authorities in the country. Housing finance in Malawi is highly underdeveloped especially for lower income borrowers and there ar...
The country profile of Botswana with specific stress detail of housing supply authorities in the country. Botswana is a South African country surrounded by South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and also Zambia at on...
The country profile of Zambia with specific stress detail of housing supply authorities in the country. Zambia is a south-central African country with a population of 13.2 million (UN, 2010) spreading over 752,...
The document is country profile of Kenya with specific stress detail of housing supply authorities in the country. Kenya is bordered to the north by Sudan and Ethiopia, to the east by Somalia, to the west by Ug...
The document discusses low levels of financial intermediation, a poor credit culture, multiple and potentially conflicting roles of government in the financial sector, weak regulatory framework for non-bank fin...
The document is covering political and economic of Uganda, focusing on fiscal and monitory policy, and providing various economic statistics of the country. It does not discuss housing and housing finance issu...
This document discusses the rationale, technicalities and procedure issuing municipal bonds issued by municipal authorities and local governments. The paper was prepared for Government of Uganda and Kampala Cha...
This document is giving a brief but comprehensive picture of Tanzania’s usable land and housing matters. It informs that, Tanzania has no housing policy but has a National Human Settlements Development Policy (...
The concept of paper for developing and selling environment friendly eco-houses in Uganda by partnership of two firms namely, Averts Housing Limited and Good Earth Trust by using environment friendly technolog...
The document is based on Tanzania that examines the process of acquiring building plot, title to land, building permit, housing credit facilities and the operation of the main stakeholders in housing developmen...
This document is on the improvement and development of unplanned settlements and slum areas of the city of Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. It deals with strategic elements for the upgrading of unplanned...
The document which discusses housing land supply problems associated with the transition from administrative land allocation to market-led supply system that was proclaimed in the 1995 national land policy in T...
This document is based on brick making process in the city of Mwanza, the second largest city of Tanzania. The Mwanza Rural Housing Programme (MRHP) has trained villagers in northern Tanzania to set up enterpri...
This document extensively discusses the issues related to mortgage borrowing for housing in Tanzania, particularly when land is used as collateral for loans. Mortgage lending is by itself a business in some oth...
The objective of this paper is to provide the general position on the extent to which financial services in Tanzania have been integrated into poverty reduction strategies. It examines the financial services, i...