The International Workshop of operational urbanism and spatial planning Atelier International en urbanisme et aménagement du territoire
THE TUNISIAN-GERMAN WINTER SCHOOL
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Plan of the presentation “ Sustainable Urbanism Law in post-revolutionary Tunisia ”
1. The legal and political framework for integrating sustainability in Tunisia… by Soumaya ELOUAER
2. The right to decent housing in Tunisia … by Nabil NAHDI
3. The tunisian urban planning law : instruments and actors evolution … by Sourour KHAROUBI
Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences LAW OF ENVIRONMENT AND URBANISM DEPARTMENT
01 Communication Integrating sustainability
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Speaker 3 : ELOUAER S. soumayaelouaer@gmail.com
Soumaya ELOUAER
Soumaya ELOUAER
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO PUBLIC POLICIES OF THE TUNISIAN STATE: Sustainable Development Urban policies Decentralization
Soumaya ELOUAER
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THE CONSTITUTIONALISATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
(THE NEW TUNISIAN CONSTITUTION OF 2014 ADOPTED ON JANUARY 26, 2014 BY THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTED ON OCTOBER 23, 2011):
Soumaya ELOUAER
THIS IS A FIRST IN TUNISIA AFTER THE REVOLUTION:
The right to a healthy and balanced environment.
The state is committed to ensure a sustainable development.
Soumaya ELOUAER Preamble of the constitution “…the need to contribute to the protection of the natural environment and a healthy environment, to ensure the sustainability of our natural resources and the permanence of a peaceful life for future generations…”.
ARTICLE 12 “THE STATE ACTS TO ENSURE SOCIAL JUSTICE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND BALANCE AMONG REGIONS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF COUNTERVAILING INEQUALITY. IT ALSO ENSURES THE RATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF NATIONAL RESOURCES”
Soumaya ELOUAER
IN ARTICLE 42, THE STATE UNDERTAKES ALSO TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY IN ORDER TO GUARANTEE THE RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS. ARTICLE 44: PRESERVING WATER AND WATCHING OVER THE RATIONALIZATION OF ITS EXPLOITATION. ARTICLE 45: IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY MEANS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION.
Soumaya ELOUAER
THE CONSTITUTION PROVIDES FOR THE CREATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL INSTANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS AMONG THE FIVE CONSTITUTIONAL INSTANCES THAT ACCOMPANY THE DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN TUNISIA : This instance is compulsorily consulted for draft laws relating to commercial, social and environmental issues as well as for development. It may give its opinion on matters falling within its field of competence.
Soumaya ELOUAER
II. Urban policies The integration of sustainability in the Tunisian code of spatial planning, urban planning and construction: The integration of sustainability in urban policies begins with the consecration of sustainability in the legal definition and legal objectives of the concept of urbanism in this code
Soumaya ELOUAER
Definition: Urbanism is one of the levers of public action, it translate the spatial expression of the economic, social, cultural and ecological policies of an entire society and allows, through a rational and coherent territorial and urban organization at the national level, the regional balance and the social cohesion of the country in order to guarantee sustainable development.
Soumaya ELOUAER
Objectives: Article 19 of the Code of Regional Planning, Urban Planning and Construction: The aim of urbanism is the planning and management of cities in the context of economic, social, spatial planning and environmental protection policies. The main objective is the development and management of cities. Organization or responsible spatial transformation of cities and urban or rural territories, at different geographical and temporal scales, in the respect of the general interest and the prospect of a harmonious, balanced and sustainable development of territories.
Soumaya ELOUAER
The provisions of this code are applicable throughout the country and set the rules to be followed for the optimal organization and exploitation of the national, regional and local spheres, the programming of infrastructures, equipment and economic activities. Creation, planning and harmonious development of cities, in order to:
Soumaya ELOUAER
PROMOTE THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW DYNAMIC OF GLOBAL, INTEGRATED AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENSURING THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AND SPATIAL COHESION THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW POLICY OF THE CITY. Preserve the heritage and safeguarding areas, and protect natural and cultural sites, including archaeological sites.
Soumaya ELOUAER
ENSURE THE RATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL
RESOURCES AND LIMIT THE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN ORDER TO ENSURE SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH. to ensure a rational distribution between urban and rural areas, in the framework of a harmonization between economic development, social development, and ecological balances, with a view to ensuring sustainable development and the right of citizens to a healthy environment .
Soumaya ELOUAER
III.THE INTEGRATION OF SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS IN TUNISIA The new constitution devotes a whole chapter (chapter7) for local governance which is based on decentralization. Decentralization is concretized by local authorities including municipalities, regions and districts. Each of these categories covers the entire territory of the Republic.
Soumaya ELOUAER
ARTICLE 139 OF THE CONSTITUTION: “LOCAL AUTHORITIES ADOPT THE MECHANISMS OF PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF OPEN GOVERNANCE, IN ORDER TO ENSURE GREATER PARTICIPATION OF CITIZENS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE ELABORATION OF DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING PROJECTS AND THE MONITORING OF THEIR IMPLEMENTATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW”.
Soumaya ELOUAER
THE CODE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES: AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT THIS PROJECT THAT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE TUNISIAN PARLIAMENT TO BE REVISED AND VOTED IS AN IMPORTANT PROJECT TO COMPLETE THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN TUNISIA, IT IS ALSO PART OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK NECESSARY TO MAKE THE NEXT MUNICIPAL AND REGIONAL ELECTIONS IN ADDITION TO THE ELECTORAL LAW WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN VOTED.
Soumaya ELOUAER
THIS TEXT CONTAINS SEVERAL PRINCIPLES AMONG WHICH WE CAN QUOTE:
Administrative and financial autonomy of local authorities. The principle of decentralized cooperation. The principle of participative democracy and open governance…etc.
Soumaya ELOUAER
 THESE PRINCIPLES ALLOW LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO HAVE THE TOOLS TO BE A KEY ACTOR IN DECISION-MAKING ON PLANNING AND URBANISM IN ITS OWN TERRITORY AND IN THE FIELD OF THESE COMPETENCES. THE DRAFT CODE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES DEVOTES A CHAPTER FOR SPATIAL PLANNING, URBANISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
Soumaya ELOUAER
CONCLUSION THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY IN TUNISIA KNOWS A GREAT EVOLUTION AFTER THE REVOLUTION ESPECIALLY AT THE LEVEL OF THE LEGALISTIC. PENDING 1: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL INSTANCES, P2: THE VOTE AND THE ADOPTION OF THE CODE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES, P3: THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CHAPTER 7 OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION, P4: THE ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL AND REGIONAL ELECTIONS TO COMPLETE THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN TUNISIA.
Soumaya ELOUAER
THE CRUCIAL QUESTION THAT ARISES IN TUNISIA IS THAT WILL WE SUCCEED IN SETTING UP THIS LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND THESE POLITICAL STRATEGIES ?
ARE WE GOING TO TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE?
Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences LAW OF ENVIRONMENT AND URBANISM DEPARTMENT
02 Communication The right to decent housing
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Speaker 2 : NAHDI N. nab.nahdi@gmail.com
« No fatality forces us to conceive the city as a pile of cold and sad concrete cubes. The color and the vegetable can replace the greyness. ». BILLAUDOT(F) et BESSON-GUILLAUMOT(M), « Environnement, Urbanisme et Cadre de Vie : le droit et l’urbanisation », Paris, Montchrestien, 1979, p.427.
The right to decent housing in Tunisia
Nahdi Nabil PhD in Urban Law
PLAN Part 1: The right to housing: What legal consecrations? First chapter: The consecration at the international level Section 1: The right to housing as a human right § 1: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights •• The first registration of the right to housing dates back to this Declaration. •• It appears as one of the elements of the right to an adequate standard of living in the same way as food, clothing, medical care and the necessary social services. •• Article 25 recognizes in its first paragraph L that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health, well-being and well-being of his / her family, including food, clothing and housing. (...) “ § 2: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights •• This right was updated 20 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 16 December 1966, whose terms it used and systematized the sufficiency by recognizing "the right any person with a standard of living adequate for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing (...) "(Article 11, 1st paragraph). •• The Optional Protocol to the Covenant was adopted in New York on 10 December 2008. It entered into force on 5 May 2013, in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1, "to better ensure the fulfillment of For the purposes of the Covenant and the implementation of its provisions, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) should be empowered to perform the functions provided for in the present Protocol.
Section 2: The Right to Adequate Housing § 1: The Conferences on the habitat • These Declarations do not set specific binding targets, but a "shared vision" that sets standards for developing a housing strategy, a tool for social integration and co-diversity, including national and local policy, diversified provision , land management and the establishment of housing finance tools. We can cite : • The 1976 Vancouver Declaration, Habitat I. States stated that: "Providing adequate housing and services is a basic human right and governments therefore have a duty to ensure that all their nationals can exercise this right, starting the most disadvantaged sections of the population by instituting programs that encourage personal initiative and collective action. Governments must strive to eliminate any obstacles that delay the achievement of these goals. Special attention must be given to the elimination of social and racial segregation by, inter alia, creating more balanced communities, mixing different social groups, professions, housing and equipment. "(Section III ( 8)). • The Istanbul Declaration in 1996 Habitat II. According to the first paragraph, states are committed inter alia to "ensuring adequate housing for all and making human settlements safer, healthier, more livable, more equitable, more sustainable and more productive". • They promised, according to paragraph 8, "to progressively achieve the full realization of the right to adequate housing, as provided for in various international instruments. To this end, we will seek the active participation of all our public partners, private and non-governmental, at all levels, to guarantee legal security of tenure, protection against discrimination and equal access to adequate and affordable housing.
The 2016 United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat ІІІ), Quito, Ecuador, 17-20 October 2016. • The theme focused on urban development: the future of urbanization? •The challenge was to take stock of the progress made and revitalize urban development policies in relation to the global agenda for sustainable development, the Addis Ababa Action Plan on Financing for Development and the Paris Agreement on Sustainable Development. climate change. •• This Conference eventually led to the establishment of a "new Urban Agenda". Discussed for two years, the "New Urban Agenda" contains precise objectives and above all, it specifies innovative tools on a global scale to implement these commitments.
§ 2: The European Social Charter •• The European Social Charter, revised in 1996, protects the right to housing in a very explicit way. Article 31 provides that: "With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing, the Parties undertake to take measures designed: •1- to promote access to housing of a sufficient level; •2- to prevent and reduce homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination; •3- to make the cost of housing accessible to people who do not have sufficient resources.
SECOND CHAPTER: CONSECRATION AT NATIONAL LEVEL Section 1: Legislative Consecrations § 1: Explicit recognitions of the right to housing §2: Implicit recognitions of the right to housing Section 2: Constitutional Consecrations (A Parcel Consecration) •• This claim right and positive status finally begins to emerge to constitutional life. Should the right to decent housing be constitutionalized? •• This question will suffice to feed several dilemmas. Indeed, this constitutionalisation is not the miracle solution that will make it possible to house all the homeless. For some, the fact of raising this right from the status of objective of constitutional value to that of principle or constitutional right does not seem to have to change much in terms of the effectiveness of the law. •• For others, the constitutional consecration of a text reinforces its effectiveness. Privileging constitutional consecration of a text on the right to decent housing rather than enacting it in the legislative form has multiple consequences. •• The direct consequence manifests itself in the submission not only of the administration but also of the legislator to this text.
What about, then, the Tunisian Constitution? •• The right to housing is not affirmed as such. A parcel recognition, Only some elements can be deduced from some articles of the Tunisian Constitution of January 27, 2014. •• Article 24 provides that "the State protects the privacy, the inviolability of the home and the confidentiality of correspondence, communications and personal data. Every citizen has the right to choose his place of residence and to move freely within the country as well as the right to leave ".
•This article recalls one of the elements of the right to housing: freedoms. (The right not to be arbitrarily interfered with in one's home, private life or family, the right not to be hindered in the choice of residence, to decide where to live and to move freely .
•• Article 38 states that "health is a right for every human being. The State provides all citizens with prevention and health care and provides the necessary means to guarantee the safety and quality of health services. The state guarantees free healthcare for people without support and low income. It guarantees the right to social security as provided by law ". •One can see one of the elements of housing decency (location). •Housing is not suitable if there are no nearby employment opportunities, health care services, schools, childcare and other social amenities, or if is located in a polluted or dangerous area. •Article 44 provides that "the right to water is guaranteed". It corresponds to one of the elements of housing decency: habitability. •• In other countries, on the other hand, this right has only recently become a constitutional norm. This is the case today with the experience of Arab and Maghreb countries, such as the Egyptian and Moroccan Constitution. However, a look outward is valuable in this case the experience of South Africa, the European experience, Latin America and many others. This legal protection is a step forward, yet it has been denounced by many as incomplete. The coming years will therefore be decisive to see if this phenomenon of constitutionalisation has made it possible to improve the situation of the homeless and poorly housed, particularly in Tunisia.
PART TWO: THE RIGHT TO HOUSING: WHAT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP? FIRST CHAPTER: HOUSING PRODUCTION Section 1: Housing construction and land ownership § 1: The general framework of state intervention A. The Agence Foncière d'Habitation (AFH), main stakeholder • Law of 14 April 1973 on the development of tourist, industrial and residential areas. • AFT • AFI • AFH Mission: Acquire + Develop + Give up the land. • Vocation: not lucrative. • Some figures: between 1987-2000, (2750 Hectares for social projects and others). B. The limits of the intervention • Amicable acquisition + Expropriation for reasons of public utility + BIPs + Land speculation. Section 2: Housing Marketing and Real Estate Development The State presents itself as manager of the right to housing + as a real estate developer. .
• Institutional evolution The birth of social builders With the help and under the control of the State. Mission: Construction + Development + Management of unhealthy buildings + Remediation of existing houses + Creation of Garden City or allotment gardens. Examples: HBM + HLM in the form of Companies and Offices. - Construction Workers Housing Companies (SCOL). - Public limited companies in the form of Cooperatives with variable capital. - Mutual Credit Bank of Tunisia. • The creation of the SNIT - A purely public enterprise, created after the independence (1957), law n ° 57-17 of September 10, 1957 (JORT n ° 15 of September 13, 1957, p.137. - Mission: Purchase + Sales + Management + Financing (perspective of socioeconomic development of Tunisia. • The diversity of operators - For example: the Society of Promotion of Social Housing (SPROLS) .Create by the law n ° 1977-53 of August 3rd, 1977. - EPIC + Realization of real estate programs + rental of housing for the benefit of the social insured (CNSS + CNRPS).
§ 2: Regulatory evolution (the extent of achievements) - Encouragement of private real estate development. - First law of June 20, 1974 relating to the profession of real estate developer. - then another law of 2 July 1977. - Then another law n ° 90-17 of February 26, 1990 currently in force. - Extension of the scope of application: Construction of residential premises, for commercial use, for professional or administrative use. - Authorization of the participation of resident foreign or non-resident capitalists in the capital of a Tunisian property development company. • Encouraging results Mobilization of several investments. Example: close to 5000 MD during the period 1996-2000; the construction of 50000 new homes per year. - For the 10th Plan (2002-2006): 330300 housing units, that is to say 66100 housing units per year.
• Unsatisfactory results -Difficulties: Accumulation of various functions such as subdivision, financing and promotion + some weakness concerning the diversity of products (standardized + average quality) + Price increase (exclusion of the popular classes) + slip towards the most solvent categories to through the construction of luxury housing. - Exhaustion of land reserves + Orientation to housing at height + The problems of rehabilitation of lucrative housing.
SECOND CHAPTER: HOUSING FINANCING Section 1: Financing Access to Home Ownership If "building goes, everything goes". So an investment envelope for the financing of the access to the property + the improvement of the housing. § 1: The Housing Bank (BH): Financial partner must -CNSS + CNRPS: for their members. -A place of choice in the whole sector to reach the objectives of Tunisia in the matter of the habitat. - In 1989, the Caisse Nationale d'Epargne Logement (1973) was transformed into a Housing Bank (mobilization of maximum resources). §2: A range of diversified loans Several tiered services (a wide range of products). • Real estate loans promoters • Acquiring loans (Home savings loans, direct loans, FOPROLOS loans)
Section 2: Financing Urban Rehabilitation
Need to understand why the rehabilitation? -- The problems of housing are not only those of the production of new housing. -- It is therefore important to maintain, improve, rehabilitate and renovate the housing stock that is dilapidated, unhealthy or under-equipped. . The restoration of an architectural and urban heritage long neglected. -- In 1981 creation of the Agency of Rehabilitation and Urban Renovation (the ARRU). -- An avant-garde and more realistic policy: integration of informal settlements into urban life (basic infrastructure + sanitation + roads + public lighting + eradication of rudimentary housing + upgrading of working-class neighborhoods ...). -§ 1: The rehabilitation of spontaneous habitat -§ 2: The rehabilitation of old housing -§ 3: Financing of renovation
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04 Communication Instruments and Actors evolution
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Speaker 4 : KHAROUBI S. sourour.Juriste@gmail.com
THE TUNISIAN URBAN PLANNING LAW INSTRUMENTS AND ACTORS EVOLUTION !!?? PRESENTED BY: KHARROUBI SOUROUR
WHAT DOES MEAN URBAN PLANNING Is there a necessity of planning ?!
●GROWTH POPULATION ● ACTIVITIES AND JOBS ● BASIC INFRASTRUCTURES ● SERVICES ● HOUSING ● ENVIRONMENT ● PROTECT RESOURCES
THE CHALLENGES MUST BE MET:
DEFINITION Urban planning is defined as a tool to achieve a sustainable
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urban development. For that, it helps to formulate a territorial vision to medium and long term by seeking to rationalize the means to achieve its goals. It makes it possible to articulate the needs for infrastructures and services with the increase in population or the demand for urban extension with the protection of the environment. In a given area, it proposes a coordination framework for public (and private) action and for economic and social development. In this sense it organizes the human actions having an impact on the territory by framing the development and minimizing adverse effects "
PRESENTATION OF THE URBAN PLANNING INSTRUMENTS IN TUNISIA : According to the code of urban territorial planning (CUTP), (Law N° 94-122 du 28 Novembre 1994), 4 initial instruments are expected to plan the city: *The devolopement master plan: as a strategic orientation instrument and enforceable to the administration; *the urban development plan: as a regulatory instrument enforceable against the others(opposable aux tiers;
*Retail layout plain *And the allotment: both as operationals instruments
ARTICULATION AND HIERARCHY OF URBAN INSTRUMENTS: JURIDICIAL TEXTS
The urban developement
Construction
Code of urban territorial planning, fermland protection, heritage code…
The devolopement master plan
Plan Retail layout
Plain Allotmant Autorisation of
WHAT ASSESMENT FOR THE DEVELOPPEMENT MASTER PLAIN? The objectives of the devoloppement master plain (23 DMP of urban agglomerations are already elaborated to this days) consist essentialy of optimizing the use of space (urban space), the sociol-economic developement and environment protection. These aims are only partially achieved: hence the aggravation of the persistent weaknesses wich handicap the normal and sain evolution of the city: pollution, naturel ressource degradation, poverty, unrmployment, city-contry disparity‌ The differences in the application are also numerous and of different orders, namely:
THE DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN OF THE GREAT TUNIS
• Diffenrce between territoial planing orientation and sectorial politics (transport, structural equipement…); • between long term strategie vision of developpent master plain and short term vision of political decision makers ans actors of city;
• Between approch methods: too administratif and developpent master plan actuality centrolized for an effiecient and durable planification
The possible development master plan approvement should be based on : *the progressive decentralization of the territirial planing. *a better organization between the developpement master plan programmes and the sectorial regional and urban politics. *a democratization of the developpement master plan through the effective participation of the regional councils, democratically elected by the citizens, to manage regional affairs, while endowing them with financial and material means.
WHAT EVOLUTION FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPEMENT PLAN
The principal instrument of urban planification, today suffers from many weaknesses and hinders the essential role of the city as opportunity and a factor of evolution and development.
URBAN PLANNING OF GREAT TUNIS
EVALUATION OF URBAN DEVELOPEMENT PLAN
Articulate the instruments of urban politics with those of economic politics and optimizing the development objectives and control of urbanization, these are the initial objectives of the evaluation of the urban development plan assessment research make by the urban planning department in 2002 on a sample of 25 cities;
LESSONS LEARNED The most important findings of the study are: the average rate of application of the urban development plan the slowness of the approval procedure, two dependent factors of each other but also to very negative repercussions on the city;
There are many reasons: •
Heavy administrative procedures even for a simple or partial revision,
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too centralized and technical approach starting from the up down;
• Inconsistency between urban development plain and local instruments planning;
• Inadequacy between urban planning and economic planning ; • Deficiency in terms of management and monitoring of urbanization due to lack of human and financial resources at the local level.
RECOMMENDED SOLUTIONS Decentralization and local democracy: Can we decentralize the approval of planning instruments at the local level: PAU and PAD by order of the governor and how? how to make the public inquiry more effective and democratic; - Simplification of review and approval procedures; can shorten the deadlines for partial revisions - Articulation of urban planning instruments with the development master plain and PIC;
Update and adoption of urban planning standards according to the needs and size of cities;
* Adapt and revise the Code urban territorial planning to implement the recommendations cited above and thereby facilitate land ownership and the excessive spread of urban space
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