This booklet is also in the Quick Housing Policy Guides series. It focuses on what an enabling shelter strategy actually is for a government and how to design and implement one. The booklet includes an explanation of how the housing sector works and how to enable markets to work, and also short descriptions of countries where there have been successful enabling shelter strategies. There is a section on how to initiate and facilitate a participatory shelter strategy process and sections detailing a checklist, the dos and don’ts of the enabling approach and the principles underlying this approach.