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Land, Livelihoods and Housing
Research Programme 2014-2018

Faculty of Natural Resources and Spatial Sciences

Department of Land and Property Sciences
Intergrated Land Management Institute

Preface and Acknowledgements

This document provides the focus for an integrated
approach to research in the land, livelihoods and housing
sectors in Namibia. Its thematic approach seeks to facilitate
multi-disciplinary research projects that will reflect the wide
range of skills existing in the Faculty of Natural Resources and
Spatial Sciences (FNRSS) at the Namibia University of Science
and Technology (NUST). It is unique in that it has all land
related disciplines in one Faculty and is therefore well placed
to become a leading research centre.

The Land, Livelihoods and Housing (LLH) Research Programme
2014-2018 of the Integrated Land Management Institute (ILMI)
is a collaborative effort, benefitting from the inputs made by
several staff members in the Faculty of Natural Resources and
Spatial Sciences. These include in alphabetical order: Mr. C-T. H.
Bayer, Ms. A. Christensen, Mr. G. Delgado, Mr. S. Hayford, Dr. M.
Katjiua, Mr. P. Lühl and Dr. W. Werner and constitute the LLH
Research Programme Committee.

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Contents
1 Purpose ..................................................................................................................................................4

2 Background ...........................................................................................................................................4

2.1 ILMI Mission and Vision .........................................................................................................4

2.2 Current Research ....................................................................................................................4

2.3 Future Goals............................................................................................................................ 6

3 Context...................................................................................................................................................7

3.1 International Perspectives on Housing and

Rural Urban Processes .......................................................................................................7

3.2 Vision 2030 ...............................................................................................................................7

3.3 Fourth National Development Plan ................................................................................... 8

3.4 Ministry of Lands and Resettlement Strategic Plan ...................................................... 8

3.5 Fourth Namibia University of Science and Technology Strategic Plan ...................... 9

4 Research Aspects ................................................................................................................................ 9

4.1 Institutional Processes ........................................................................................................10

4.2 Environmental Processes ....................................................................................................11

4.3 Fiscal Processes .................................................................................................................... 12

4.4 Spatial Processes .................................................................................................................. 12

5 Strategy ............................................................................................................................................... 13

5.1 Create an Enabling Research Environment .................................................................... 13

5.2 Enhance the FNRSS Research Profile ............................................................................... 14

5.3 Engage a Wider Public Through a Public Program ........................................................ 15

5.4 Support National and Regional Research and

Development Initiatives ...................................................................................................... 15

6 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 15

References ........................................................................................................................................... 17

Appendix 1: Research Themes (2014 2018) ................................................................................. 18

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1. Purpose

The Land, Livelihoods and Housing (LLH) Research Programme presents an integrated strategy and
research agenda for the Integrated Land Management Institute (ILMI) for the next five years, and
creates a platform for informed discussion on the pressing issues that the programme addresses.

The LLH Research Programme addresses the most important issues in the land, livelihoods and
housing sector by involving relevant stakeholders in the process of developing the programme.
The intention is not to be prescriptive in what can and cannot be done. Instead, the Programme
provides a focus for researchers that is broad enough to accommodate all disciplines in the Faculty
of Natural Resources and Spatial Sciences (FNRSS) and sufficiently specific to address some of the
most pertinent issues facing Namibia.

The programme provides the basis for setting critical research priorities, mobilising funding for
research and, over time, improve the training and profile of Namibian researchers.

National issues and specific competencies within the Faculty are continuously changing. This requires
that the LLH Research Strategy 2014-2018 be subjected to regular review to ensure the continued
relevance of the programme and to track progress.

2. Background

2.1 ILMI Vision and Mission

Vision

To become an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence in the field of Integrated Land
Management.

Mission

To support sustainable development in Namibia and the SADC Region, through customised
training, research and consultancy services in the field of Integrated Land Management.

2.2 Current Research

Currently, research involvement in the Department of Land and Property Sciences (DLPS) and
Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning (DASP) is limited, and the broader departmental
planning does not reflect all the dimensions of research needs. Research still tends to depend
on individual champions rather than becoming institutionalised. Furthermore, the lack of an
entity focused on research and dissemination, prevents general awareness (amongst the different
departments at the university but also amongst the general public) of the on-going initiatives,
interests, and foci of the FNRSS and its students.

Research in the DLPS was shaped by its original purpose to support the Ministry of Lands and

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Resettlement (MLR) with well-trained and skilled technical staff in the fields of land use planning,
land surveying, land valuation, estate management and land management and registration. It
developed rapidly from offering diploma-based courses to fully accredited Bachelor degrees in
land administration. Furthermore, the DASP is expanding and soon it will start developing Masters
programmes closely related to the issues contained in the LLH Research Programme. This focus
on developing human resources for the land sector fits well with the spirit of Namibias Science
and Technology Policy document, in which the then Minister of Higher Education, Vocational
Training, Science and Technology, Nahas Angula, wrote in his foreword: Today the most searching
question facing us is, how best may we integrate science and technology into our education and
work systems, and more interestingly, how to make these interventions relevant to the needs of
industry, commerce, public service and the public at large.

Research topics identified in the DASP and DLPS were largely formulated in response to the demands
of the relevant sectors or individual specialisations, interests, and also based on socially-relevant
issues in contemporary Namibia. In the short-term, the current research strategy builds on this
history and focuses on research and the production of useful knowledge that can be applied to
inform land practice and policy. Useful knowledge starts with problems that arise and persist in
practice and policy.

A fundamental characteristic of this type of research is that it seeks answers to specific problems.
Frequently, it takes the form of commercial consultancies in which researchers are required to find
solutions to problems defined by paying clients. The research agenda in this context will not be set
by ILMI alone, but by the demand and priorities of stakeholders and clients outside the institution.
A challenge in this approach is that consultancy work is often based primarily on quantitative,
positivist data gathering to answer questions and writing reports with little time, if any, to read and
deepen an understanding of the problem.

However, drawbacks of consultancy work do not imply that it should be discouraged. Engaging in
consultancy work can help to mobilise resources that enable researchers to engage in activities that
meet their interests and commitments, link researchers to practical issues, which in turn has the
potential to fertilise research topics and inform public discourse.

2.3 Future Goals

ILMI is committed to developing a reputable and multidisciplinary research capacity in conjunction
with a public programme for dissemination, dialogue, and stakeholder engagement purposes.
The DLPS and DASP initiated this multidisciplinary research programme to provide the basis for
developing a coherent body of research that is clearly linked to the Departments operational
responsibilities in the field of land administration, property, architecture and spatial planning.

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Enhance Student Research Capacities: Through the LLH research programme ILMI aims to
contribute towards equipping students with research and public engagement skills.

Encourage Collaborative Research: ILMI undertakes to assist stakeholders that are not
able to cover all expenses of a particular research project with raising funds. A key benefit of
this approach is that researchers will have the opportunity to formulate research programmes in
collaboration with key stakeholders. This challenge will be addressed with innovative research and
collaborative methodologies for the benefit of all parties.

Engage in Fundamental Research: However, in addition to applied, policy-oriented research,
ILMI wants to create the space for basic or fundamental research. This will not necessarily have
immediate and direct application to concrete problems, but serves to advance new knowledge
about underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, and includes experimental
and theoretical work. Basic research will involve identifying and questioning assumptions that
drive the very process of knowledge production. This requires critical engagement with the larger
society in order for the formulation of research problems to arise from this engagement. Research
problems need to be situated within wider national and international debates in specific disciplines
to enable students to rethink old questions and formulate new ones. Access to relevant literature,
on-going programmes, liaisons with key institutions and associations, and the ability to engage
critically, are essential conditions for conducting research.

Basic research therefore strengthens local research and teaching capacity in the departments
involved. This not only assists in developing solid post-graduate qualifications, but encourages
undergraduate students to engage with challenging topics and to consider furthering their
education. The incorporation of global perspectives on land administration with on-going research
on the local conditions with regards to aspects of tenure, value, use and environment will also
give ILMI international reach and presence. Through this, it contributes towards establishing the
Namibia University of Science and Technology as a respected University of Science and Technology.

3. Context

3.1 International Perspectives on Housing and Rural Urban Processes
Internationally, the socio-spatial challenges that our contemporary reality present, confronts
researchers, practitioners, governments, and civil society with new challenges on ways of
engaging with that reality. After decades of testing different strategies to create more equitable
and sustainable livelihoods, it seems that many questions about international socio-spatial
issues are still unanswered, while the challenges persist and deepen. In her 2012 address to the

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UN General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing called for fundamentally re-
thinking the approaches to the housing question in the last thirty years. She emphasized that
the strategies applied in this respect until now (e.g. housing finance, slum upgrading) have not
resolved the issues, but instead aggravated the challenges. This call resonates with the many
other issues that are re-shaping our socio-spatial reality today: rising food shortages, rising debt,
increased pressure on towns and cities, rise in social unrest, which are further enhanced by a
macroeconomic climate of virtual recession.
On-going efforts to address spatial challenges, such as the World Urban Forum and the upcoming
Habitat III Agenda, are accompanied by a renewed socio-spatial interest among mainstream
organizations in Africa. These include the African Union Ministerial Committee on Decentralisation
and the African Development Bank Urban Unit, the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africas Urban Unit and Mo Ibrahim Forum on African Cities. Efforts of these institutions are
complemented by interventions of alternative organizations and movements operating through
bottom-up approaches, such as Habitat International Coalition, La Via Campesina, Shack/Slum
Dwellers International and the Right to the City movement.

3.2 Vision 2030
The overarching framework for the formulation of the LLH Research programme for ILMI is
found in Vision 2030, which envisions a Namibia in 2030 that is prosperous and industrialised
and developed by her human resources, enjoying peace, harmony and political stability. The
objectives of Vision 2030 include the development of diversified, competent and highly productive
human resources and institutions, fully utilising human potential, and achieving efficient and
effective delivery of customer-focussed services which are competitive not only nationally but
internationally. Broad strategies to get there include leveraging knowledge and technology for
the people and providing full and appropriate education at all levels.
Vision 2030 foresees a situation in 2030 where 75% of the population will be urbanised.
The main factor driving the rapid rate of urbanisation is identified as rural-to-urban
migration, primarily of young people. This process will introduce major challenges
for urban and rural planning, service delivery and appropriate tenure security.
Vision 2030 also places emphasis on the need to promote diversification away from the agricultural
sector, but expects that access to agricultural land will continue to make a major contribution
towards food security at household and national levels, and supporting the sustainable and
equitable growth of Namibias economy, whilst maintaining and improving land capability.
Creating economically and ecologically rational land-use plans and securing tenure for communities
over all natural resources have been identified as some of the strategies to ensure that Namibians
have equitable access to land and other natural resources. Complementing this strategy will be the
development of capacities among communities to administer land sustainably and equitably and
the improvement of good governance.

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3.3 Fourth National Development Plan
Namibias Fourth National Development Plan, 2012/13-2016/17 (NDP4) identifies as one of the
outcomes of the planning period that Namibia will have a robust and effective housing delivery
programme in which affordability is the key feature. This will require a review of the current policy
and legislative framework on planning, surveying and deeds registration. Land tenure should also
be improved for the purpose of securing their improvements/investments on land in communal
areas and to enable people to derive the benefit from such improvements/investments.

3.4 Ministry of Lands and Resettlement Strategic Plan
At sectoral level, the Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement for the period
2011-2016 has identified land management and administration as one of four strategic themes.
This theme not only includes securing land ownership through the land reform programme, but
also focuses on the best practices in land administration which comprises an extensive range of
systems and processes such as land use planning, regulation, demarcation and delimitation, land
valuation and taxation and allocation.

3.5 Fourth Namibia University of Science and Technology Strategic Plan
The LHH Research Programme 2014-2018 contributes towards the transformation to Namibia
University of Science and Technology (NUST) as described in the Fourth Namibia University of Science
and Technology Strategic Plan (PSP4). The Programme depends on strong collaboration with important
stakeholders such as government ministries, implementing Non-governmental Organisations
(NGOs) and partner Community-based Organisations (CBOs), as well as private sector organisations.
By providing support to the institutions and stakeholders that are directly involved in implementing
national development programmes or are relevant to the achievement of these objectives, ILMI
will make a contribution to significantly improve the quality of life of poor and marginalised
groups who depend on secure access to land for their livelihoods.
To conclude, the development of the LLH Research Programme is guided by the principles set out
in the Research Strategy, 2014-2018 of the Polytechnic of Namibia:

Solution driven: Research promotion efforts should be directed towards specific solutions that
enhance self-efficacy and community empowerment.

Integrity of practice: All research conducted will conform to established standards of
professionalism, ethics, intellectual property rights and methodological rigour and be able to stand
up to accepted peer review processes.

Participatory: Stakeholders should be engaged throughout the research process.

Multi-disciplinarity: Cooperative research across faculties and departments is encouraged.

Sustainability: Research programmes should aspire to create cost effective, sustainable social
change.

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4. Research Aspects
Land tenure, value and use are described by Dale and McLaughlin (1999) as the three key
attributes of land that every country must manage. In addition Namibia has an extraordinary
focus on the environment and its protection and conservation to the extent that it has been
included in the Namibian constitution. The land use is usually related to spatial planning in the
land administration arena, but it is also related more directly to the natural environment outside
of the land administration arena. These attributes are interrelated and impact upon each other.
Furthermore, the use of space as a keyword (Harvey, 2006) enables engagement with the
many topics and disciplines pertaining the production of space (Lefebvre, 1991), providing the
opportunity to engage with a wide variety of socio-spatial issues.

Figure 1. Land, tenure, value, and space, as interlinked processes (aspects) on which
the current programme is based. Adapted from Dale and McLaughlin (1999).

Against this background and based on expertise available in the FNRSS, the following broad
research aspects are defined:
" Institutional Processes
" Environmental Processes
" Fiscal Processes
" Spatial Processes

Institutional
(Tenure)

Environmental
(Use)

Spatial
(Planning)

Fiscal
(Value)

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These aspects furthermore articulate with the Faculty research cluster on Land, Agriculture and
Law (LAW), as identified in the Faculty and Institutional Research Plans.

4.1 Institutional Processes

Secure access to land in urban and rural settings is critical for poor and vulnerable households
to enjoy sustainable livelihoods. To be meaningful, access to land must include other land based
resources such as water, forests and natural foods. Moreover, tenure security can be provided by
customary or statutory means, implying that freehold title is not the only form of tenure security.
Moreover, tenure systems that define rights to land and resources are not simply a source of
economic production, but the basis of social relationships and cultures (FAO, 2009a). In a context
where discussions about tenure security are largely focused on providing freehold titles even to the
poorest sectors, there is a need to provide research support to explore and implement alternative
forms of tenure security that are appropriate to the marginalised and poor sectors of our society.

Security of tenure cannot be separated from good governance, i.e. the process of managing
and reconciling competing interests of different groups in land. Good governance requires the
development of institutions, both formal and informal, which allow people to participate in
decision-making and which make it possible for government to be held accountable to its citizens
(FAO, 2009b). In some contexts, interventions to improve governance can be built on existing
institutional frameworks while in others new institutions need to be developed that are supported
by the target population.

As our government is implementing new forms of tenure security (registered customary land
rights and group rights in non-freehold areas, the Flexible Land Tenure System (FLTS) in urban
areas) research is needed to support this process. New forms of tenure have been accompanied
by new recording systems for land rights, necessitating a reform in Namibias formal recording
system. Challenges in this regard which will benefit from research include the co-existence of two
systems (analogue and digital), the decentralisation of registration, the communal land recording
system and the Rehoboth system(1) being incorporated into the deeds system.

4.2 Environmental Processes

Human decisions and actions have direct impacts on the biophysical environment. Two major
global challenges emanating from human actions are degradation of ecosystems and climate
change. Degradation of ecosystems is caused by disposal of gases, liquid and solid wastes into
the environment, over-extraction or over-harvesting of physical and biological resources, and
destruction of ecosystems resulting from massive construction works or wars between nations.
Sometimes the destruction of ecosystems can be naturally induced by veld fires, floods and
hurricanes. The current human-induced climate change has the potential to change the livelihoods,

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the design of buildings and infrastructure, among others. Southern Africa will experience a rapid
increase of summer and winter temperatures in the range of 3 to 6 degree Celsius by the end of
the 21st century. Already the impacts of climate change are starting to be felt.

4.3 Fiscal Processes

Exchanges of interest in land take place in the land market in order to satisfy the real estate needs
of society. These needs can be diverse and may include the need for ownership for occupation
and/or investment. For exchanges to take place and be effected, a necessary presupposition is the
estimation and establishment of market value as a basis for the exchange. In this regard, market
values in specific real estate markets are estimated on the basis of property type, location, income
producing potential, typical buyer and tenant characteristics, or other attributes recognised by
those participating in the exchange of real property (Kahr & Thompsett, 2005).

Local authorities have service provision mandates in their areas of jurisdiction as specified in
the enabling legislation. Estimating value for taxation purposes enhances revenue generation by
local authorities and thus boost their capacity to fulfil their land delivery and service provision
mandates. In this vein, land valuation and taxation have been identified among other systems and
processes of best practices in land administration under the land management and administration
strategic theme of the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2016.
Estimating value of property provide the basis for the ministry to mobilise revenue as well as basis
for procurement of farmlands to fulfil its land resettlement mandate.

4.4 Spatial Processes

The theme on space includes not only material aspects but also the underlying processes that
produce space. These processes can be geographical, political, environmental, economic, and
of virtually any other nature. Spatial issues are most frequently addressed by disciplines that
are traditionally vested with spatial matters such as planning, architecture, land surveying and
many others. The LLH Research Programme 2014-2018 will have a comprehensive and integrated
approach to the issue of space. The aspects emphasise contemporary issues that are socially-
relevant and that are on-going and long-standing in Namibia and the Southern African region.
Lastly, the programme doesnt aim to override other themes or to avoid overlaps, but the contrary:
it aims at maximizing connections, commonalities, and synergies in order to apprehend socio-
spatial challenges with integrated understandings and strategies for transformation.

1 A land tenure system based on subdivision of an existing area to accommodate new members of the Rehoboth town in
Namibia, which characterizes for having a particular demography based on the so-called colored race.

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The research programme will therefore start with the aspects that reflect the current expertise in
the departments as well as a number of contemporary socio-spatial challenges today. These are:
informal sector and participatory approaches; urban biodiversity and climate change; urban and
rural political economy; land rights and spatial justice; land reform; planning processes; transport
and infrastructure; alternative technologies; politics of space; small towns and rural-urban
dynamics; housing and everyday life.

5. Strategy

5.1 Create an Enabling Research Environment

Encouraging Research and Consultancy Work: Encouraging and sustaining research in ILMI requires
that sufficient funding is secured. The Research Programme will assist individual researchers to
mobilise funding by enabling them to present their proposals as contributing towards a long-term,
integrated research programme of FNRSS. Longer term research programmes that are developed
in close co-operation with key stakeholders, are more likely to be able to generate the required
funds needed for conducting the research.

Encouraging consultancy work and joint projects will be an important means to enable researchers
in the Faculty to engage in research work and dissemination. Beyond that, ILMI will tap into research
funding provided by the Polytechnic of Namibia, and will support efforts at highest management
level to lobby government for more funding.

Strengthening International Collaboration and Exchange: In addition, the Departments and ILMI
will network with donor organisations and external research and funding organisations to obtain
financial support. An option that will be actively pursued is to seek close co-operation with projects
initiated and funded by international universities and other relevant organisations. International
exchange of researchers at all levels will be promoted. For this strategy to work in the interests of
developing local research capacity, ILMI and individual Departments in the Faculty will ensure that
its staff members and students are not placed in a position where they simply provide services
and data for external researchers, but are actively involved in formulating research questions and
benefit directly from research debates and mentoring.

Improving the Institutional Research Environment: For the LLH Research Programme to be
successful, a conducive research environment should be maintained. This includes institutional
incentives for staff and students to engage in research through a clear structure to encourage
them to carry out and publish research. Research work needs to be recognised and rewarded
through excellence awards. Moreover, objective and measurable means for career development
linked to research output need to be put in place. Financial rewards in the form of research grants
from the Polytechnic to the individual Departments of staff members who published research may
also be considered as a mechanism to encourage research. ILMI will contribute to strengthening

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such an incentive system in the Polytechnic of Namibia. Research will improve the quality of
teaching through the development of research skills and highlighting the value of it through the
public programme. The objective will be for it to be regarded not merely as an activity external and
in addition to regular teaching, but as an inherent component of academic life.

5.2 Enhance the FNRSS Research Profile

Enhancing Student Research: The Departments will strive to increase the number of research
students by providing support to students at various levels to improve research and communication
skills. Incentives will be developed to identify and encourage undergraduate students to pursue
full-time postgraduate research or a professional life in close proximity and/or collaboration with
academia. Fundamental to this is that support for research mentorship structures for emerging
students is provided. Students need to be supported in developing the ability to come to grips with
the literature that is relevant to their field of study. Guidance and support must be provided for
students to develop their own bibliography for specific research topics and reading key texts. This
should be followed by a critical, written review of the literature and situating their research topic
within this wider context.

Enhancing Public Dissemination: The dissemination of research results locally and internationally
will promote the research profile of the Departments, ILMI and the Polytechnic of Namibia. This will
happen at different levels. For academic staff and post-graduate students publication of research
results in peer-reviewed journals or books is desirable. However, peer-reviewed journals set very
high standards. This often discourages staff and particularly young researchers to disseminate their
sometimes preliminary research findings. Moreover, peer-reviewed journals are difficult to
access outside a university environment, thus limiting the ability of local stakeholders to obtain
access to published research results.

The LLH Research Programme will address this issue by establishing a Working Paper series under
the banner of ILMI and the Polytechnic of Namibia. The series will make work in progress and
preliminary findings of research within the broad focus areas of the program accessible to a wider
public. Being a relatively low-cost option to disseminate research results and findings, such a
series will enable members of staff and research students to present their work in progress and to
elicit critical comments from peers and interested parties. At the same time, such publications will
help interested stakeholders to access and apply insights gained. This will promote an interactive
environment between researchers, practitioners and policy makers which in turn will stimulate
further dialogue between relevant parties. For students and staff intending to embark on post-
graduate research projects, publishing in the Working Paper series will be a means to publicly
delineate and strengthen their fields of research.

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5.3 Engage a Wider Public Through a Public Programme

In order to continuously calibrate the balance between research and its social relevance, and to
embed the programme and the Institute in the local milieu, a Public Programme will run in parallel
and inter-connectedly with the Research Programme.

The implementation of this research strategy requires that fora are created for staff and students to
present on-going research in order to discuss their results with colleagues and other constituencies.
Initiating regular seminars at the different Departments through ILMI will create the necessary
conditions for the sharing of results and exchange of critical feedback from colleagues and other
relevant parties. These debates will drive future research and policy agendas, and will expose staff
and students to new ideas, knowledge, and strategies for socio-spatial transformation.

5.4 Support National and Regional Research and Development Initiatives

ILMI will network closely with local and international organisations that promote research and
development. This will enable it to identify and develop institutional research strengths that will
complement national strategies and priorities and identify opportunities for relevant applied
research, knowledge production, and strategic interventions.

6. Conclusion

The Land, Livelihoods and Housing Research Programme is the first attempt by the two
departments to consciously and deliberately work together in a structured and integrated manner
to ensure that cooperation in research is not just accidental. The departments recognise that
research is a process which is long-term and deliberate. We also recognised that this process
requires the continued involvement of other researchers and industry in order to remain relevant.

We therefore invite comments and criticism in order to refine, improve and ensure
the relevance of our research programme. We also take this opportunity to welcome
any interested researchers to join, collaborate or share their findings with the
Land, Livelihoods and Housing Research Programme.

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Appendix 1: Research Themes (2014 2018)

Research Aspects Research Themes

Institutional
Processes

1. Institutional & Legal Frameworks for Tenure Security

2. Tenure Security for Sustainable Livelihoods

3. Governance and Land Administration

4. Spatial Planning and Development Processes

5. Transport and Infrastructure Development and Management

6. Role and Function of Participatory Processes

7. Space, Architecture and Culture

8. Human - Ecosystems Interaction

9. Development and Environmental Sustainability

10. Impact of Climate Change on Land, Livelihoods and Housing

11. Land and Housing Delivery Systems

12. Affordability of Land and Housing in Namibia

13. Taxation, Service Delivery and Equity

14. Formal and Informal Poperty Markets

Environmental
Processes

Fiscal Processes

Spatial Processes

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