POLICY BRIEF POLICY AND PLANNING CONTESTATIONS IN SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS IN NEPAL Background Communities living in poor and vulnerable areas The root of these insights lies in the necessity for the should secure their interests in resilience planning and transformation of circumstances for which marginalized investments. [...] Fundamental political dialogue and The past 14 land commissions formed to manage and contestations now rotate around the issue of the multiple distribute the land for landless people signify the same identities of the settlers and their relationship with and have failed to address the social and political resources (Maharjan, 2016). [...] Failure Case Success Case The government initiated ‘Janata Awash’ program for Case of the Kirtipur Housing Project is considered a the urban poor in the Ichhangu Narayan Land Pooling successful project of re-settlements of informal dwellers site in the North-west of Kathmandu. [...] Contestations arise even within the government due to ideological differences between political parties on The social composition of the squatter settlements of the issues of landless people and squatters making Kathmandu Valley is different from the general population landless issues complex and challenging. [...] Conclusion and way forward In Nepal, the regularization of informal settlements informal settlements pose a difficult process and involve involves the legalization of tenure and upgrading of many issues.
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