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   Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

   Successful Approaches and Their Impacts

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   July, 2019

   Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Eastern Europe, Global

   cadastral administration

   community land rights

   customary tenure

   displacement

   eviction

   gender equity in access to land

   informal settlements

   land registration

   land rights

   land tenure systems

   private ownership

   public ownership

   tenure security

   tenure regularization

   The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices. It discusses examples from the German technical cooperation but also includes good practices and impacts achieved by other development partners.

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   FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2010

   Switzerland, United States of America, Nepal, Israel, Sweden, Germany, China, Australia, Canada, Samoa, Finland, Ethiopia, New Zealand, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Uganda, Spain, Cambodia, Ghana, Europe, Asia, Africa, Northern America

   natural resources management

   land governance

   land administration

   land tenure

   land access

   land registration

   land ownership

   Land administration and cadastral systems are playing a crucial global role in safeguarding the security of access to land and natural resources. Information technology systems have become basic elements of these systems everywhere. Introduction of automation to land administration has improved systems’ efficiency, standardisation and accessibility, which in turn have contributed to responsible land governance. Developing country land administrations are, however, often inefficient and poorly structured.

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   Improving tenure security for the poor in Africa

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2006

   Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Australia, Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Uruguay, Tanzania, Senegal, Sudan, Cameroon, Norway, Kenya, Africa

   property rights

   land registration

   land rights

   land access

   rural development

   private ownership

   land tenure

   landowners

   land ownership

   Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits.

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   Eastern and Anglophone Western Africa Regional Assessment for the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources

   Reports & Research

   December, 2010

   Africa, Libya, Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Panama, Brazil, Jordan, Romania, United Kingdom, Germany, Samoa

   Land & Investments

   VGGT

   land administration

   land registration

   land use mapping

   land governance

   land policies

   land-use planning

   natural resources management

   land markets

   land economics

   land rights

   land access

   land ownership

   The Eastern and Anglophone Western Africa Regional Assessment meeting was organized by a task force consisting of FAO, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African Land Policy Initiative, the United Nations World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme officials in Ethiopia.