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Liveability Considerations: Towards Designing Sustainable Public Housing in Niger State, Nigeria

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2023
Nigeria
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land access
land administration
land degradation
land information systems
land reform
land tenure
tenure security
This study investigates liveability in the context of sustainable public housing in Niger State Nigeria where existing housing efforts have fallen short of residents satisfaction Recognizing the critical link between liveability indicators and environmental sustainability this research aims to identify key liveability variables that could be integrated into the design and construction of sustainable public housing Employing a mixedmethod approach the study involved cluster sampling for selecting housing estates and units followed by the administration of 910 questionnaires containing 102 qu
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Women;Land;Plantations and Oppression in Sierra Leone

September, 2021
Sierra Leone
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
environment
government
land reform
scale
land
Despite a recent transparency law and participation in transparency initiatives;Cameroon’s investment environment remains plagued by poor transparency.
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Push, pull and push-back to land certification

Regional dynamics in pilot certification projects in Côte d'Ivoire

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2021
Côte d'Ivoire
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land registration
land titling
land reform
Since 2000, many African countries have adopted land tenure reforms that aim at comprehensive land registration (or certification) and titling. Much work in political science and in the advocacy literature identifies recipients of land certificates or titles as ‘programme beneficiaries’, and political scientists have modelled titling programmes as a form of distributive politics. In practice, however, rural land registration programmes are often divisive and difficult to implement. This paper tackles the apparent puzzle of friction around rural land certification.
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Property Rights and Resource Governance Profile

Côte d'Ivoire

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Côte d'Ivoire
Land in post-conflict settings
land registration
land governance
post-conflict settings
land reform
conflicts

The West African country of Côte d’Ivoire is divided between two large agro-ecological zones: the northern savannah zone, where food crops, cotton and livestock predominate; and the fertile forest zone of the south, where most of the country’s cash crops, including cocoa and coffee, are produced. Nearly 64% of land in Côte d’Ivoire is used for agricultural purposes, and 68% of the labor force works in agriculture.
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IMPROVING TENURE SECURITY FOR THE RURAL POOR

MALI – COUNTRY CASE STUDY

Reports & Research
October, 2006
Mali
land administration
land reform
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
land transactions
land tenure
Has 3 main chapters: modes of access to land and natural resources and the tenure situation of the poor and marginalized groups (customary rules, statutory law, development of commercial transactions); some ways of securing land rights for the poor and other vulnerable groups (local resource management agreements, formalization of collective rights and of land transactions, access to justice); can the necessary reforms be carried out?
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In the land of the chiefs : customary law, land conflicts, and the role of the state in Peri-Urban Ghana

Reports & Research
March, 2008
Ghana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary law
land administration
land reform
land rights
tenure security
The central themes of this book are customary law, traditional leadership and local land management. International policy is currently witnessing a renewed interest in customary tenure systems and traditional leadership, through which it aims to enhance the efficiency of local governance, and create general access to and secure rights in land. Contrary to these ideas, practice reveals a lack of security of customary tenure in many areas.
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LAND FOR ALL: LIBERIA EMBRACES COMPREHENSIVE LAND REFORM WITH HISTORIC PASSAGE OF THE LAND RIGHTS ACT

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2018
Liberia
land administration
land equity
land governance
land policies
land reform
land rights
women
In a watershed moment for land rights in Liberia and across Africa, President George Weah on Sept. 19 signed into law a land reform bill that extends land rights to millions of rural Liberians.

The Land Rights Act ensures, for the first time, that the land rights of rural Liberians are recognized, protected, and guaranteed by law – an essential ingredient for these communities to achieve secure land rights. Under the previous land tenure system, as much as 80 percent of Liberians lived without legally recognized rights to land.
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Land Acquisition and Use in Nigeria: Implications for Sustainable Food and Livelihood Security

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2019
Nigeria
Land Conflicts
land registration
land governance
land policies
land reform
land use
land acquisitions
land rights
land access
Land acquisition and use remain a critical issue of great policy relevance in developing countries such as Nigeria. This study therefore examined land acquisition and use in Nigeria within the context of food and livelihood security. The chapter used secondary data obtained from the World Bank website, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and other sources. It was found that there are gender, location and income-group considerations in the allocation of land in Nigeria.
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KEY LAND TENURE ISSUES AND REFORM PROCESSES FOR SIERRA LEONE

Reports & Research
September, 2009
Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
land access
land administration
land reform
land tenure systems
land use
local communities
This Scoping Mission Report, aimed at identifying the key land policy and land tenure reform issues and processes facing Sierra Leone, is based on extensive consultations with a wide range of stakeholders and review of available literature, undertaken in July 2009. It was commissioned by the Recovery for Development Unit of the UNDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment. It will serve the purpose of enhancing public dialogue and programme development on land reform, and to also guide the coordination of initiatives and resource mobilization.
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Ghana’s Land Reform and Gender Equality

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Ghana, Africa
Land & Gender
land
land reform
land administration
land tenure
property
women
occupation
In 1999 Ghana engaged in an ambitious land reform process with the adoption of a National Land Policy implemented through a Land Administration Project. The reform aims at strengthening land administration institutions and increasing the security of land tenure for landholders on both customary and state land, but the process is facing multiple challenges, e.g.