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Proceedings of the 2nd Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Forum on Responsible Governance of Investment in Land

29-31, March 2022, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2023
Ethiopia
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
land information systems
land governance
land stakeholders
capacity development
legal empowerment
The second Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue Forum (MSD 02) was held from 29 to 31 March 2022 in Bahir Dar city, the capital of the Amhara region. The MSD Forum brought together 115 representatives of government officials, technical experts, investors, local community representatives, development partners, and the media in order to find solutions to the various challenges in the governance of largescale agricultural investments in Ethiopia. The three-days MSD meeting included presentations, group work and field visits.
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Access to land and land based resources among women in pastoralist and forest-dependent communities in East Africa : exploring multiple exclusions and their impacts on women’s citizenship; final technical report

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Eastern Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
corruption
customary law
land
land ownership
land tenure
land use
women
The security of women’s entitlement to land and land-based resources in the East Africa region has been compromised by a combination of unfavourable laws and government policies, socio-economic change toward greater commoditization of and competition for land and land-based resources, and exclusionary practices defended as ‘customary’. Law, policy, and practice have excluded women in land ownership and control and made their access tenuous.
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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts

Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Gender
land governance
corruption
sustainable development
land rights
tenure security
women
In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land, which effectively excludes marginal populations from accessing resources for their land. While customary land is a major resource for most Zambians, the inadequacy or total lack of documentation leads to tenure insecurity, making people susceptible to forced displacements, and frequent land disputes.
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Mitigating Land Corruption through Computerisation of Statutory Land Governance Activities: Evidence from DRC, Tanzania and Zambia

Vol 3, No 3: September 2020

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Land & Corruption
land governance
corruption
activities
This study was on mitigating land corruption through computerisation of land governance activities that include land use planning, cadastral surveying, servicing of land, land allocation, land registration and titling and land development. Using evidence from Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Kitwe (Zambia), the study used both primary and secondary data to conclude that despite computerisation of land governance activities in Tanzania and Zambia, corruption still persists.
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Digital Innovations Global Programme Responsible Land Policy

Institutional & promotional materials
September, 2019
Ethiopia, Peru, Laos, Global
Land & Corruption
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
cadastral register
capacity development
corruption
land administration
land registration
land rights
This brochure presents recent digital innovations that enable a more effective, efficient and transparentin land management. It refers to examples in Peru, Ethiopia and Laos.
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Land Corruption in Africa in 3 Topics

Reports & Research
September, 2019
Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana
Land & Corruption
compulsory acquisitions
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
eviction
gender equity in access to land
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land inheritance rights
legal empowerment
marital property rights
women
From July 17 to August 7, 2019, the Land Portal Foundation, the African Land Policy Center, GIZ and Transparency International Chapters in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda co-facilitated the dialogue Land Corruption in Africa addressing the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its Impact on women’s land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.
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Consent is Everybody's Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent

Reports & Research
August, 2019
Kenya, South Africa, Guatemala, Honduras, United States of America, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
communal territory
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
contract farming
corruption
grazing contracts
grazing land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
land investments
land rights
A community’s choice to give, or withhold, their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) to a project or activity planned to take place on their land is a recognized right of Indigenous peoples under international law. It is also a best practice principle that applies to all communities affected by projects or activities on the land, water and forests that they rely on.
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Corruption in community-driven development. A Kenyan case study with insights from Indonesia

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Kenya, Indonesia
Land & Corruption
corruption
land governance
land rights
local communities
Community-driven development is a strategy for empowering people to choose their own priorities, project leaders, and monitoring. Many believe that this model results in lower corruption rates. We look at what happened in the Arid Lands Project in Kenya and a community-development project in Indonesia. These projects had strikingly different corruption rates, even though the countries had similar corruption perception rates at project startup. Find out which design elements may account for the differences in corruption.
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LAND AND CORRUPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, South Africa, Ghana
Land & Corruption
corruption
food security
gender equity in access to land
land governance
land ownership
land rights
land titling
sustainable development
women
Land is a vital resource that sustains livelihoods across Sub-Saharan Africa, but also one that is heavily prone to corruption. Every second citizen in Africa has been affected by land corruption in recent years, according to a study by Transparency International.
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Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land Conflicts
land governance
corruption
post-conflict settings
sustainable development
land rights
land conflicts
capacity development
Indigenous Peoples
development agencies
local communities
Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias. The highly complex, politicized realities of work in conflict- and post-conflict settings often require quick, pragmatic and results-oriented decisions, the foundations of which remain frequently implicit. Such decisions might follow an intrinsic logic or situational pragmatism rather than intensive deliberation.