Support for aligning your operations with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
Record Topic: Environment
How Community-Based Rangeland Management Achieves Positive Social Outcomes In Mongolia: A Moderated Mediation Analysis
Indigenous Peoples and local communities land rights toolkit
"This toolkit gathers together information on ten tools that have been successfully used by members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) to promote, protect and strengthen indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ land rights. It is intended to facilitate mutual learning based on the good practices of specific ILC members."
The role of property rights in shaping the effectiveness of protected areas and resisting forest loss in the Yucatan Peninsula
This research paper investigates how a common conservation intervention (protected areas), has varying impacts depending on the underlying property rights and the profitability of forests.
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Extractive Sector
OECD provides practical guidance to mining, oil and gas enterprises in addressing the challenges related to stakeholder engagement.
The Gender Equality in Research Scale (GEIRS)
Includes a Brief and the GEIRS Tool.
Using the law for resource justice
iied Land acquisitions and rights | Law | Natural resource management > Legal tools for citizen empowerment Blog on 28 April 2015.
Community-based natural resource management: How knowledge is managed, disseminated and used
Institutional Innovations Towards Gender Equity in Agrobiodiversity Management: Collective Action in Kerala, South India
Full citation: Padmanabhan, M.A. (2005). “Institutional Innovations Towards Gender Equity in Agrobiodiversity Management: Collective Action in Kerala, South India.” – This study compares two institutions of collective biodiversity management in Kerala, India. The traditional mechanisms of a scheduled tribe, the Kurichyas, are contrasted with the new institution of the People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) under the local form of governance, the panchayat. Collective action is analysed for the core variables of reputation, trust and reciprocity. In the tribal institutions, traditional seed exchange rests on reputation and gender complementarities, which are eroded by a diminishing degree of trust and dissolving property rights […]
Improving Access to Land and Strengthening Women’s land rights in Africa
Full citation: Odeny, M. (2013). “Improving Access to Land and Strengthening Women’s land rights in Africa.” World Bank. – The need to improve access to land and strengthen women’s land rights in Africa has elicited a lot of discussion with women’s rights activists arguing for increased access and control over land and other productive resources. The paper examines inter-relations between women’s land rights and socio- economic development, peace and security and environmental sustainability in Africa. It goes on to highlight the impacts of the discrimination against women with regard to access, control and ownership of land and identifies promising practices […]