This guide takes communities and their leaders, and 'ocal and national civil society organisations, through the steps needed to ensure that land investments in the community are carried out inclusively and responsibly.
Uzbekistan has embarked on significant reforms since early 2017, aiming to improve the lives of ordinary citizens, enable business development, and open up to neighbors. The scale of changes is unprecedented. The new government aspires to modernize the country and to move it toward upper middle-income status. The formulation of the country partnership strategy (CPS) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is timely for supporting this reform agenda through investment financing, policy support, and capacity development.
A Guide to the Taxation Incentives for Business & Investment in Papua New Guinea PNG Internal Revenue Commission
OpenCommunityContracts.org is a repository of publicly available community-investor or community-government contracts and agreements relating to agriculture, forestry, mining, oil and gas extraction and other natural resource projects. It features plain language summaries of key provisions and provides links to learn more about how each agreement was negotiated and implemented in practice.
This Portal brings together many useful tools and resources to provide technical support to assist governments in the investment process
This policy hub brings together useful resources for policy makers on a wide variety of topics: formulating investment policies, negotiating investment agreements, monitoring investment policies in other countries and more.
ResourceContracts.org is a repository of publicly available oil, gas, and mining contracts in machine-readable, searchable, open data format. ResourceContracts.org promotes greater transparency of investments in the extractive industries, and facilitates a better understanding of the contracts that govern them. This site provides summaries of contracts and their terms to facilitate understanding of important provisions in the documents.
This platform provides an introduction to the concepts surrounding community monitoring, based on the "Contracting Roadmap" developed by the World Bank Institute. It is appropriate for civil society organisations who are exploring whether they can monitor procurements, butit also applies to any entity interested in contract and project monitoring. It explains the different types of monitoring and different approaches, how to access data and general rules in what to do with it afterwards in the analysis.
On the heels of the rural ‘land grab’ debate, the ongoing urban transition combined with large-scale urban infrastructure investments and land scarcity forces us to also pay more attention to issues of land in urban discussions. Yet how can we conceptualise land-related problems in order to connect and integrate rural and urban debates in overarching discussions of development?
In hoofdstuk 8 van de Natuurbalans 2009 wordt ingegaan op de dilemma’s en barrières in de praktijk van het natuur- en landschapsbeleid. De realisatie van dit beleid is grotendeels gedecentraliseerd naar provincies. De feitelijke uitvoering vindt vaak weer plaats in gebiedsprocessen. Onderzocht is wat de betekenis is van deze decentralisatie in het kader van het Investeringsbudget Landelijk Gebied om de natuur- en landschapsdoelen van het Rijk te realiseren. Hiervoor zijn literatuurstudies en interviewronden in gebiedsprocessen uitgevoerd.
De regeling ter subsidiëring van Landschapsontwikkelingsplannen (LOP's) wordt herzien. Eén van de door LNV gewenste verbeterpunten – op basis van een uitgevoerde evaluatie - voor het functioneren van LOP's is een betere inbedding in de lokale planvorming. Onduidelijk voor LNV is hoe de afgelopen 10 jaar de LOP's zijn ingebed in bestemmingsplannen of andere lokale en/of gemeentelijke plannen. Elementair inzicht hierin is belangrijk voor een effectieve herziening van de subsidieregeling.
