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Women’s Land Rights in Northern Uganda (West Nile, Acholi, Lango, Teso and Karamoja)

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Africa
Land Conflicts
Land & Gender
land conflicts
land
land management
customary tenure
statutory tenure
property
land rights
land law
property rights
women
Key findings: Customary tenure remains strong with only 1.2% of plots held under statutory tenure. Over 86% of women reported they have access to land under customary tenure and c.63% of women reported they “own” land under customary tenure. Tenure security is not dependent on formal documentation as proof of ownership. Men play a dominant role in land management. General knowledge of statutory and customary land law and management systems is poor. c.50% of the population have experienced land conflicts, 72% are within household, family or clan.
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Urbanization and the Geography of Development

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2014
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
decentralization
land markets
land titling
property rights
urban areas
urban population
urbanization
This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is not straightforward. Among developing countries, changes in income or industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also influence the urbanization process.
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Fragmentation, Cooperation and Power: Institutional Dynamics in Natural Resource Governance in North-Western Namibia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Namibia
property rights
rural development
Contemporary theoretical accounts of common pool resource management assume that communities are able to develop institutions for sustainable resource management if they are given security of access and appropriate rights of management. In recent years comprehensive legal reforms of communal rural resource management in Namibia have sought to create an institutional framework linking the sustainable use of natural resources (game, water, forest) and rural development.
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Review of the legislative framework and jurisprudence concerning the right to adequate food in Nepal

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Timor-Leste, Nepal, Kenya, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Malawi, Togo, Norway, Asia
food security
land governance
land tenure
land rights
agricultural and rural legislation
property rights
The Review of the legislative framework and jurisprudence concerning the right to adequate food in Nepal discusses overarching aspects of Nepalese law and jurisprudence dealing with the human right to food. Following a brief discussion of the international legal protection of the right to food in Nepal, the review, in particular provides a critical assessment of constitutional as well as legislative provisions and offers a thorough analysis of Supreme Court jurisprudence pertaining to the right to food.
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Reaching consensus on the governance of tenure

Reports & Research
December, 2014
France, Switzerland, United States of America, Mali, Samoa, Burkina Faso, Germany, United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Namibia, Finland, Panama, Jordan, Malaysia, Italy, Russia, Romania, Brazil
land policies
property rights
land governance
land tenure
private ownership
land ownership
This paper describes the perspective of stakeholders on the development of the Voluntary Guidelines on tenure. These Guidelines represent the greatest extent of “common ground” on governance of tenure that has been found to date in a global forum. This consensus was developed through intergovernmental negotiations with the participation of civil society, the private sector and research and academic institutes. This paper draws on interviews to identify how people engaged in the process and the dynamics that were created between the parties.
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Lograr el consenso sobre la gobernanza de la tenencia

Reports & Research
December, 2014
France, Switzerland, United States of America, Mali, Samoa, Burkina Faso, Germany, United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Namibia, Finland, Panama, Jordan, Malaysia, Italy, Russia, Romania, Brazil
land policies
property rights
land governance
land tenure
private ownership
land ownership
Este documento describe la perspectiva de las partes interesadas sobre el desarrollo de las Directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza de la tenencia. Estas directrices representan la mayor medida de un “terreno común\" sobre la gobernanza de la tenencia que se ha encontrado hasta el momento en el foro mundial. El consenso fue desarrollado por medio de negociaciones intergubernamentales con la participación de la sociedad civil, el sector privado e instituciones académicos y de investigación.
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Parvenir à un consensus sur la gouvernance foncière

Reports & Research
December, 2014
France, Switzerland, United States of America, Mali, Samoa, Burkina Faso, Germany, United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Namibia, Finland, Panama, Jordan, Malaysia, Italy, Russia, Romania, Brazil
land policies
property rights
land governance
land tenure
private ownership
land ownership
Ce document décrit le point de vue des parties prenantes sur le développement des Directives Volontaires pour la gouvernance foncière. Ces Directives représentent le plus grand «terrain d’entente» sur la gouvernance foncière qui a été trouvé à ce jour dans un forum mondial. Ce consensus a été construit sur la base de (développé à travers des) négociations intergouvernementales avec la participation de incluant la société civile, du le secteur privé et des institutions académiques et de recherche.
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Property Rights for Women in Rwanda: Access to land for women living in de facto unions

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2014
Rwanda
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
women
land rights
land policies
property rights
land reform
To say that access to land is one of the most important conditions for the
empowerment of African women, would be an understatement. The cultivation of land is one
of the main sources of income and economic wealth depends strongly on a well-elaborated
system of land tenure. However, developing and protecting land rights1
for women in mainly
male-dominated societies is a long-term work. Even though law initiatives2 may guarantee a
de jure equal access to land for women, the outcome highly depends on the way the culturebound
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Property Grabbing from Ugandan Widows and the Justice System

A mixed-methods assessment in Mukono County, Uganda

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Uganda
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land grabbing
land law
land policies
land tenure systems
property rights
tenure security
women
In a first study of this kind, International Justice Mission has used mixed methods assessment to portray the depth of widow and orphan property grabbing problem and lack of justice system response in Mukono County, Uganda. The report demonstrates that nearly a third of widows have experienced land grabbing with virtually no criminal justice system response.
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Managing Risks in Rural Senegal : A Multi-Sectoral Review of Efforts to Reduce Vulnerability

August, 2014
Senegal
agriculture
capacity development
farmers
food security
land degradation
natural disasters
property rights
rural areas
rural development
rural population
The main objective of the study is to
provide the Government of Senegal the analyses and
information to implement policies towards reducing the rural
poor's vulnerability. While during the latest years,
economic growth reduced poverty in the country, this has
been less noticeable among the rural population, who
actually account for 6 million people over a total
population of 10 million. The rural economy remains