Land Tenure Indicators According to Iraqi Tenure Types: A Case Study of Al-Nassiriya City, Iraq

Abstract

Land Tenure Security (LTS) is an effective way of enhancing the people rights in lands and can be safeguarded under various forms. With this in mind, Iraq is a country with especial conditions, as multi-cultural society and post war country; it currently suffers many of the abnormal situations. From that, understanding more complex dimensions of the Iraqi Tenure Indicators and local arrangements would help the local councils to illustrate deep misconceptions about the local critical factors influencing the Iraqi land tenure.Therefore, the purpose of this study is important to Iraqi land councils due to it works to describe the current extent and nature of formal/informal tenure practices in urban areas in Iraq, through undertaking a rapid assessment in Al-Nassiriya city. Thus, this paper was mainly a field study with original data collected therefore tools of data collection were mainly questionnaires, interviews, and observations (direct and indirect). The approach of this study is coming from a set of 4 indicators of Iraqi City Rapid Assessment (ICRA) through which UN-HABITAT in 2010 used to examine the extent of tenure rights and security in Iraqi cites.Therefore, from these, in the study areas, Participants were recruited based on; either their expressed dissatisfaction with tenure rights or their line-manager introduced them to improve their tenure security. In addition requested representatives of a wide range of local neighbourhoods within each of chosen areas were participated within a Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Also Participants from community members of diverse ages, genders, and professions were included.The study results are based on different measures as mixed methods which have been used to analyse the data. The research findings contribute to a better understanding of the land tenure distributions in Al-Nassiriya city to describe the extent and nature of formal/informal tenure practices in urban areas in Iraq.

Keywords: Land Tenure Distributions, Housing’s Tenure Type, Iraq,  Al- Nasiriya city, Land Tenure