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    Réflexion sur la réforme foncière à partir de l'exemple de la Guinée Maritime

    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2011
    Guinea

    De nombreux travaux alimentent la réflexion sur le droit foncier des zones rurales en Afrique de l’Ouest. En Guinée, la réforme foncière est d’actualité depuis plusieurs années mais les différents événements politiques de ces dernières années ont continuellement repoussé le travail entamé. Il n’en reste pas moins que le sujet demeure un enjeu d’actualité et sera un des chantiers du nouveau gouvernement.

  2. Library Resource

    L’essor des contrats de Planter-Partager comme innovation institutionnelle dans les rapports entre autochtones et étrangers en Côte d’Ivoire

    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2011
    Côte d'Ivoire
  3. Library Resource
    a guide for civil society
    Manuals & Guidelines
    July, 2011
    Global

    The guide consists of an overview of the gender relevant policy framework and initiatives at IFIs. It also contains a gender checklist which should help civil society organisations in determining whether gender considerations have been addressed during the preparation and implementation of IFI-financed projects and programmes. The checklist is divided into three parts:

    • broad gender considerations during the project/programme preparation, monitoring and evaluation stages,

    • gender issues that need to be addressed during the assessment of projects in particular sectors

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    Proyecto Ecoeficiencia y desarrollo de infraestructura urbana sostenible en Asia y América Latina (ROA/101)

    Reports & Research
    June, 2011
    South America, Central America, Asia

    El documento tiene tres secciones principales. En el primero, se abarca el tema conceptual y las raíces del desarrollo sustentable. Solamente a través de la construcción de una secuencia desde lo abstracto del concepto mismo hasta la intervención concreta de la ingeniería dura, se puede mostrar el rol de la infraestructura en las transformaciones de las ciudades-regiones y su capacidad de promover un fortalecimiento del desarrollo sustentable.

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    Proyecto Ecoeficiencia y desarrollo de infraestructura urbana sostenible en Asia y América Latina (ROA/101)

    Reports & Research
    June, 2011
    Chile, Latin America and the Caribbean

    El presente documento analiza la factibilidad de los principales mecanismos de financiamiento de largo plazo para inversiones en infraestructura urbana con criterios de ecoeficiencia. La adopción de prácticas ecoeficientes en el desarrollo de infraestructura urbana facilitará el desacople entre crecimiento económico, uso de los recursos y deterioro del medio ambiente, ya que la sostenibilidad del crecimiento económico y del medio ambiente es posible alcanzarla mediante un desarrollo urbano que genere valor económico y simultáneamente disminuya el impacto ambiental y el uso de los recursos.

  6. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    July, 2011
    South-Eastern Asia

    How can REDD+ benefit from the lessons of community forestry? 

    The Forest Governance Learning Group brought together 12 experts from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, and the UN-REDD Programme to discuss how community forestry strengths and shortcomings can influence the further development of REDD+. This booklet summarizes their responses to nine timely questions and provides recommendations for future steps.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2011
    Vietnam

    In Vietnam, forests have been under state stewardship for a long time. Degradation of forest resources under state management together with the high costs of forest protection has led to increased involvement of local people in forest management. Since the early 1990s, the Government of Vietnam (GOV) has been promoting the allocation of forest rights to local people as the foundation for development of community forest management (CFM). The initiative, known as Forest Land Allocation (FLA), has been undertaken in various parts of the country, with mixed results.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2011
    Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia

    This publication is focused on oil palm expansion and land tenure in several Southeast Asian palm oil producing countries (the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia) and cross-compares their experiences with the facts and myths, stories and lessons learned from other palm oil producing countries, more specifically, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2011
    Global

    This is a review of a new book edited by Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl, Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights on the rights-based approach in forestry.

    Available from: Earthscan, London and New York. Download the Introduction at left.

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