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Measuring Gender, Development, and Land: Data-Driven Analysis and Land Reform in Lesotho

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2016
Lesotho
Land & Gender
gender equity
land reform
land rights
land tenure
Development agencies are increasingly making decisions and evaluating success on the basis of an ever-growing supply of data. Some argue that the proliferation of data improves development outcomes for states and people targeted by agencies' interventions, as well as the accountability of those agencies. Others argue that problems of selection bias, a lack of longitudinal records, and misuse of data can ignore or even exacerbate the problems that development agencies seek to mitigate.
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Redress for Historical Land Injustices in Kenya. A Brief on Proposed Legislation for Historical Land Injustices

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Kenya
Land Conflicts
land allocation
land dispute
land policies
land reform
Land has been and remains a politically sensitive and culturally complex issue for Kenya. Kenya’s history with regard to the land question is characterized by indications of a breakdown in land administration, disparities in land ownership, tenure insecurity and conflict. It was therefore against this backdrop that land reform was identified as an essential component of Kenya’s National Dialogue and Reconciliation (KNDR) process and in particular, agenda item 4 on addressing long standing issues.
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Community Guide: Restitution Amendment Act Constitutional Court Challenge

Land Action Movement of South Africa and others v Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces and Others

Manuals & Guidelines
February, 2016
Africa, South Africa
land ownership
land policies
land reform
LAMOSA Community Guide - ConCourt Challenge
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People's Law Journal

Rural Land Justice

Reports & Research
March, 2016
South Africa
Land & Corruption
advocacy
agrarian reform
alienation (land)
co-ownership rights
common lands
corruption
customary law
The first volume of the People's Law Journal was written by the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) in the Faculty of Law at the Universityof Cape Town and edited and published by Ndifuna Ukwazi. The journal explores a wide range of relevant issues including land restitution, elite capture, traditional leadership, mining and the erosion of communal land rights in the post-apartheid era
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Capacity Assessment of Land Administration and Management in Bangladesh: Critical Reflections on Institutional Processes, Capabilities and Gaps

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Bangladesh
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
cadastral administration
cadastral register
land reform
land tax
land transfers
Capacity of local land administration has to be addressed for further strengthening the governance system with a view to deriving the benefits of socio-economic, political and cultural development for the common people of this country. It is true that in Bangladesh, voice in favour of effective land administration and management is becoming louder at the national level. Representatives of LGIs, development workers, civil society members and international development partners, time and again, are raising and firmly advocating this long-drawn issue at policy level.
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Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century

February, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean
Urban Tenure
land tenure
sustainable development
agrarian reform
Indigenous Peoples
urbanization
rural population
natural disasters
food security
urban areas
rural areas
women
In 2013 the World Bank set itself two
ambitious goals: to end extreme poverty within a generation
and to boost the prosperity of the bottom 40 percent of the
population worldwide. In Latin America, the significance of
both goals cannot be overstated. Indigenous people account
for about 8 percent of the population, but represent 14
percent of the poor and over 17 percent of all Latin
Americans living on less than United States (U.S.) $2.50 a