452. The Ministry of Landed Properties, Town Planning and Housing was ascribed a key mission including, among others, the design and implementation of national housing policy, the fundamental strategy of which is the Annual Performance Plan, an annual lobbying, steering and information document aimed at linking the project performance with the financial resources. 453. Its objective is to ensure social modernization by improving the living conditions and livelihoods of the population through better access to decent and secure housing equipped with all the basic social amenities; more specifically to ensure low-cost housing, a decent livelihood to a large number of Nigeriens as possible. 454. Significant steps have been taken to not only re-develop the slum areas and prevent their proliferation but also to improve access to decent housing. Thus, apart from establishing a national directorate for the improvement of housing, the following can be mentioned:  The 3rd phase of the participatory programme on slums (PPAB) initiated by UN-Habitat to rehabilitate urban villages at Gamkallé and Saga in Niamey;  The rehabilitation programmes of other suburbs such as Maradi, Zinder and Birni Konni;  The resettlement of the disaster-hit neighbourhoods and flood victims at Karadjé and Zarmagandeye. A site dubbed SENO was planned and developed and currently it houses 669 households out of the 772 people who were evacuated from the area. During this operation, the NGO Quatar Charity graciously built 112 housing units for the vulnerable households;  The establishment of private plots of land led to the development of sub-urban locations and the decline in the price of plots of land;  The simplification of the procedure for granting land titles by working on the various stages, the cost and the registration of the State property through the establishment in 2006 of a title code-named SHEDA or testimony which paves the way for a significant advancement in granting land titles which increased from 1600 deeds to 42000;  The launch in 2012, of the Niamey NYALA programme for the modernization of the city of Niamey one of the key components of which is the construction of housing units;  The production and release of close to 20,300 plots of land to State employees as part of a special operation for the payment of compensation for salary arrears;  Since 2009, a budgetary line has been opened every year for the building of low-cost housing units with State funds;  The continuation of the policy of building industries with cement products which has brought down the cost of cement, the main material used in the building of houses;  The strong involvement of the private sector in the production of social housing units (DGH/PL);  The signing of “agreements with private partners for the construction of 4000 housing units” in 2014;  The establishment of a bank for housing in Niger in 2019;  The Town Planning and Estate Construction (SONUCI) Company which has existed since 1962 and is continuing with its construction works and estate development through programmes dubbed Renaissance I and III in Niamey and Renaissance II in Dosso for an amount of 5.34 billion CFA francs; the introduction of the hire-purchase scheme and simple lease for multi-family housing units and individual housing units and the sale of serviced plots;  Support by the banks for real estate programmes. 455. For additional information on the right to housing, please refer to the development above in paragraphs 240 to 248 relating to Article 16 of the ACHPR. 92