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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2017
    India

    India registered rapid economic growth over the past couple of years, with the GDP growing 7.6 percent in 2015-2016. While economic activity remains buoyant, however, the country still has a long way to go. The government must capitalise on the current economic momentum and use it to accelerate its reform agenda. One of the areas requiring regulatory attention is the property market. Despite a push for reform through the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), India’s current land title system remains plagued with deficiencies.

  2. Library Resource

    Create Wealth, Transform Lives

    Reports & Research
    November, 2016
    Global

    Becoming land degradation neutral is not simply about restoring degraded lands. It is about self interest making sure the land can still provide food and fresh water for us, our children, and to the third and fourth generations. It is about giving every child, from Mongolia to Afghanistan and from Ethiopia to China, the fighting chance for a better life. If this all sounds too good to be true, read this book.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    August, 2016
    India

    An Act to deal with establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and of each State, credit the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from such agencies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2016
    India

    This book made an attempt to bring together various legislative protections available to the tribals communities pertaining to the land and governance in the scheduled areas and the role of different institutions to achieve the goals enshrined in the Constitution. It examined the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and its various provisions and special arrangements made for areas inhabited by Scheduled Tribes and the law relating to local self governance in these areas, primarily through village panchayat-an institution of local self governance.

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2016
    India

    This paper analyzes the state’s Land Governance in terms of the five themes for
    administrators, technicians and professionals working in the land sector as per the gender-framework of FAO’s VGGT along with an additional theme on community perspectives on women land rights, and recommends strategies for moving towards it.

  6. Library Resource
    Monitoring Framework for WLR in India
    Manuals & Guidelines
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2016
    India

    This monitoring framework prepared by Center for Land Governance, NRMC, Bhubaneswar with the support of The World Bank, New Delhi which envisages on reliable and accessible appropriate data set, well laid out procedure to calculate and report Women Land Rights (WLR) indicators across administrative layers as well as an institutional mechansim to sustainably carry out this process to address regular monitoring of WLR in Indian context to meet the SDG requirement.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2016
    India

    This Policy breif, prepared by Center for Land Governance, NRMC, Bhubaneswar with support of The World Bank, New Delhi provides breif information on legal framework and changes, institutional processes, measuring and monitoring changes, compares operational holding with ownership and plot level data around women's land rights in India. It also proposes policy recommendations on measuring and monitoring women’s land rights. 

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2016
    India

    The study was commissioned by the World Bank and conducted by the Center for Land Governance, to document Odisha’s experience and the emerging best practices for Gender Equitable Land Governance (GELG). It assess and analyse the state’s efforts toward GELG in relation to the VGGT, documents the best practices, identifies challenges and suggests recommendations for policy and institutional arrangements, technical issues, capacity building and strategies.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    India

    The study examined the status of women’s land rights in India, using Agricultural Census data, with state-wise and district-wise granularity and presents tables and maps depicting women’s land rights against indicators, further segregated across ethnicity and socio-economic categories. It also reiterates necessity  to establish a robust and participatory monitoring mechanism for the status and change of women’s land rights at state, district and tehsil levels. This study was conducted by Center for Land Governance, NRMC with support from the World Bank.

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