Record Item Year: 2016
Kenya Mining Act, 2016
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Pillars of the community: how trained volunteers defend land rights in Tanzania
Land, Law and Traditional Leadership in South Africa
Africa Research Institute Briefing Note
Realizing Socially-Responsible Investments in Land from a Gender Perspective: Unpacking “Zero Tolerance” to Identify Barriers and Practical Steps to Achieve Equitable and Sustainable Investments
Paper prepared for presentation at the “2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY” The World Bank – Washington DC, March 14-18, 2016
Tackling land corruption in developing countries
Housing, Land and Property rights for Somalia’s urban displaced women
Governing Tenure Rights to Commons
FAO’s Governance of Tenure Technical Guide No. 8, this guide “aims to support states, community-based organizations and civil society organizations, the private sector and other relevant actors to take proactive measures to implement the standards and recommendations of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines) for legally recognizing and protecting tenure rights to commons and community-based governance structures.”
Improving governance of pastoral lands
FAO’s Governance of Tenure Technical Guide No. 6, this guide “builds on a number of initiatives and studies from recent years that have shone a light on pastoral governance and land tenure: on the inherent challenges pastoralists face, the shortcomings of governments in securing pastoral tenure, and the emerging examples of success and progress from around the world.”
Land Tenure Security for Women: Threats and Effectiveness of Interventions
This literature review examines existing research on the external and intra-communal threats to women’s land tenure security and the effectiveness of interventions that respond to these threats. With the understanding that broad research gaps remain, the review focuses only on threats and interventions related to women’s insecure land and resource tenure but does not focus on the scope of the problem or on the benefits of securing women’s rights to land.