POLICY BRIEFS

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The Promise of Urban Land Record Reform: Existing State Models

Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions for a Sustainable Bengaluru

Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Sheetal Patil, Narmada Khare, Soubadra Devy M, Chethana V Casiker, Nivedita Arumugasamy, Sunil G M, Pavan K Naik, Tamizhazhagan S, Prem Jose V

Integrating Food, Water and Ecology for a Sustainable Bengaluru

Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Sheetal Patil, Narmada Khare, Soubadra Devy M, Chethana V Casiker, Nivedita Arumugasamy, Sunil G M, Pavan K Naik, Tamizhazhagan S, Prem Jose V

How Zoning Regulations Can Recognize, Enable and Anticipate Home-Based Work

Centering Trust in Product Design: Pathways to Involve Community Mediators to Gain and Keep Trust of Low-resource Women Users on Digital Public Infrastructure

Aditi Surie, Achyutha Sharma, Antara Rai Chowdhury

Integrating Planned Relocation in National Climate Action: Five Key Insights for Consideration by Governments and Policymakers

David Durand-Delacre, Carolyne Cherop, Kees van der Geest, Carolien Jacobs, Frank K Nansam-Aggrey, Danang A Nizar, Melanie Pill, Himanshu Shekhar, Ryan Alaniz, Erica Bower, Robin Bronen, Claudia Fry, Giovanna Gini, Abdul A Khan, Sarah Koeltzow, Ann-Christine Link, Friedrich N Neu, Kwame Owusu-Daaku, Annah Piggot-McKeller, Chandni Singh, Oana Stefancu, Sostina Takure, Cheikh Wade, Hanne Wiegel, Olivia Yates, Merewalesi Yee, Narjes Zivdar 

Filling in the Gaps: How Delhi Organisations Provided Food Relief During COVID-19

Gautam Bhan, Rashee Mehra

How Far Can Non-State Relief Reach?

Gautam Bhan, Rashee Mehra

Urban Land and Property Record Systems in India: The Case and Agenda for Reform

Deepika Jha, Manish Dubey, Amlanjyoti Goswami

Urban Employment Programmes

Shriya Anand, Gautam Bhan, Vrashali Khandelwal, Sukrit Nagpal

Social Protection in Indian Cities: Lessons from the Pandemic

Gautam Bhan, Antara Rai Chowdhury, Rashee Mehra, Nidhi Sohane, Kinjal SampatIIHS

Monitoring of Real Estate Project Progress by RERA

Sejal Gupta, Deepika Jha

An Action Agenda for Urban Agriculture in India

Amruth Kiran, Ashwin Mahalingam, Chandni Singh, Dhananjayan Mayavel, Maitreyi Koduganti, Parama Roy, Prathijna Poonacha Kodira, Sheetal Patil, Swarnika Sharma, Teja Malladi

Efficacy of RERA Web Portals

Sejal Gupta & Deepika Jha

Governing For The Local Environment Within Corridor Projects In India

Amogh Arakali and Tanvi Bhatikar

Governance And Timeliness: Leveraging Land Value Capture In Indian Metro Rail Projects

Pooja Rao, Sudeshna Mitra, Herry Gulabani

The Need for Real Time and Granular Data to Study the Urban Economy

Shriya Anand, Viola Lewis, Herry Gulabani

Re-Examine the Model to Manage Revenue Court Cases in Uttar Pradesh

Mukesh Yadav, Deepika Jha 

Decoding the Unique Codes for Revenue Plots in Uttar Pradesh

Mukesh Yadav, Deepika Jha

The Costs of Climate Change in India: A Review of the Climate-Related Risks Facing India, and their Economic and Social Costs

Angela Picciariello, Sarah Colenbrander, Amir Bazaz, Rathin Roy

Why Representation Matters in Disaster Recovery

Roger Few, Chandni Singh, Vasudha Chhotray, Nihal Ranjit, Garima Jain, Mark Tebboth, Hazel Marsh and Mythili Madhavan

लॉकडाउन कहाँ और कब हटाना है, सामान्य स्थिति की ओर संक्रमण (ट्रांजिशन) को सक्षम करने के लिए क्या करें?

Aromar Revi

ಲಾಕ್‌ಡೌನ್ ಅನ್ನು ತೆರವುಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಜನಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ತರಲು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಾದ ನಿರ್ಣಯಗಳು

Aromar Revi

Where & When to Lift a Lockdown, What to Do to Enable a Transition to Normalcy?

Aromar Revi

ಲಾಕ್ ಡೌನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ತುರ್ತು ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಆದ್ಯತೆಗಳ ಕುರಿತು IIHSನ ಸಲಹೆ

Aromar Revi

लॉकडाउन और स्वास्थ्य आपातकाल मे बीस मुख्य बातें

Aromar Revi

IIHS Twenty Priorities to consider during a Lockdown and Health Emergency

Aromar Revi

Framing a Land Pooling Policy: Key Prerequisites

Ruby Moun

Property Record Maintenance in Delhi: Key Issues and Recommendations

Ruby Moun

Updating Land Records in Telangana Suggested Amendments to the Rythu Vari Bhu Survey

Varun Panickar

Property Mapping in Maharashtra Selecting a Suitable Survey Technology

Mukesh Yadav

Taking Property Registration Online: The iSARITA Model

Dipankar Das

Improving Ease of Registration Scores for Delhi

Varun Panickar

Real Estate Regulation: Ironing out Difficulties in Implementing the RERA Act, 2016

Varun Panickar

Climate Adaptation Policy: Key Findings and Recommendations

Amir Bashir Bazaz, Prathigna Poonacha, Maitreyi Koduganti, Suruchi Bhadwal, Ganesh Gorti, Tuhin Ghosh, Ramkumar Bendapudiz

Breaking the Taboo on Sanitation: A Behaviour Change Communication Strategy

Capacity Building for FSM in Tamil Nadu

Legal and Institutional Arrangements for Sanitation in Tamil Nadu

Rethinking Post-disaster Relocation in Urban India

Garima Jain, Chandni Singh, Teja Malladi

Land Records Modernisation: Developing Protocols

Land Record Modernisation: ‘Good Practices’ & ‘Gaps’

Land Records Modernisation: Urban and Peri-urban Areas

Land Records Modernisation: Technology Transitions

Land Records Modernisation: Institutional Interfaces