Tenure Situation in Egypt: Prindex Potentials
Ahmed Zaazaa Researcher and Urban Designer
Co-founder of 10 Tooba | Applied Research on the Built Environment Co-founder of Madd Platform
Photo by: Bas Princen
Monday, December 7, 2020 Content
- Overview on the urbanization conditions in Egypt
- Magnitude and complexities of the case
- Eviction challenges due to tenure insecurity
- Potentials for gathering and digitizing tenure information
Monday, December 7, 2020 - Overview on the urbanization conditions in Egypt
- Magnitude and complexities of the case
- Eviction challenges due to tenure insecurity
- Potentials for gathering and digitizing tenure information
Monday, December 7, 2020 Where Do Egyptians Live?
Greater Cairo Shaded Area Rest of Egypt
12%
88%
88 M ( 21 M)
12 M 100,000,000 Source: Data and Census: Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)
Monday, December 7, 2020 Public Housing 70’s Expansions Rural Outskirt
Built Environment Typologies in the Egyptian Cities
Informal Neighborhoods City Core Desert Cities
Monday, December 7, 2020 Monday, December 7, 2020 - Overview on the urbanization conditions in Egypt
- Magnitude and complexities of the case
- Eviction challenges due to tenure insecurity
- Potentials for gathering and digitizing tenure information
Monday, December 7, 2020 Tenure Security by City Legal
Source: - Maps and Analysis: Yahia Shawkat, 2017. Built Environment Deprivation Index. 10 Tooba https://10tooba.org/bedi/en/secure-tenure/ - Data and Census: Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)
Built Environment Deprivation Index (BEDI) Monday, December 7, 2020 Major Disparities in Tenure Security Between Egyptian Cities
Source: - Maps and Analysis: Yahia Shawkat, 2017. Built Environment Deprivation Index (BEDI), 10 Tooba. https://10tooba.org/bedi/en/secure-tenure/
- Data and Census: Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)
Monday, December 7, 2020 Agriculture Land Decay/ Increase in Housing
4550 Villages In addition to smaller rural settlements Complexities in tenure, due to the continuos transformation of land-use and land nature
Monday, December 7, 2020 Agriculture Land Decay/ Increase in Housing
14,000 Feddans 382,736 Encroachment Cases in 2012 85,000 Feddans 1.9 Million Encroachment Cases in 2018
Map Source: Agriculture Land Loss, in Feddans (Shawkat, 2013. Social Justice and the Built Environment) Data: Ministry of Agriculture, 2012 – 2018
Monday, December 7, 2020 Informal Areas in Egypt 65% Of the built environment Source: GIZ Egypt, 2009
29.8% Secured Tenure
Unsecured 70.2% Tenure Photo by: Fawzy el Gazaierly
Monday, December 7, 2020 1.5 Million Cemeteries Inhabitants In Cairo, only Source: Data and Census: Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), 2012
Monday, December 7, 2020 New New New MansourA West More Expansions Domiat Alex Port-said Beir New Borg Abd El Arab ق ر New Alamein Nobareya Salheya Compounds New Ismaleya El Sadat New Nobareya 10th Ramadan New Sphinx Obour Badr New Zayed Zayed New Capital New Suez ا وق October 6 New October NewSouth Cairo New Cairo October Gardens 15th of May New Fayoum New Bany Soief 50 New Cities New Fashn
West Mallawy New Menya In the last
West Assiut New Assiut New Hurgada 50 Years New Akhmim New Sohag New Naga
New Qena New Tiba First Generation 1980s (9 Cities)
New Luxor Second Generation 1990s (10 Cities)
Third Generation 2000s (7 Cities) New Aswan
Fourth Generation 2012 – 2024 (24 Cities)
East Oweinat Toshka
Monday, December 7, 2020 - Overview on the urbanization conditions in Egypt
- Magnitude and complexities of the case
- Eviction challenges due to tenure insecurity
- Potentials for gathering and digitizing tenure information
Monday, December 7, 2020 Tenure Insecurity in Egypt
No substitution in case of evictions or expropriation: Submit to housing alternatives offered by the state, even if they are not adequate.
Monday, December 7, 2020 351 Unsafe Areas
listed to be intervened by the Government.
Mostly relocations
Source: Informal Settlements Development Facility
Monday, December 7, 2020 Maspero NeighborhoodMaspero Relocations
Monday, December 7, 2020 - Overview on the urbanization conditions in Egypt
- Magnitude and complexities of the case
- Eviction challenges due to tenure insecurity
- Potentials for gathering and digitizing tenure information
Monday, December 7, 2020 Mapping Tenure
Legal Tenure + Perceived Tenure
Huge Gap Perquisite
Develop New Definition for BEDI Recommendations
Introducing laws to Introduce legal reform to Establish national council for recognize informal tenures, streamline tenure related secure tenure, to coordinate to include different legislation and prevent informal tenure recognition typologies. future cases of informal program tenure.
Monday, December 7, 2020 Thank you
Monday, December 7, 2020