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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2021
    Namibia

    The VGGT Popular Version for Communal Land Administration was developed to support the Parliament of Namibia in delivering training to traditional authorities and regional institutions to enhance their capacity to administer communal land within their jurisdictions. This was carried out in line with the Communal Land Reform Act, Act 5 of 2002 and the resolutions of the 2nd National Land Conference. The Popular Version outlines 14 pertinent land governance issues in Namibia’s communal areas.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Poland

    Many Polish cities are faced with a dilemma: to enact their local land-use plans and be exposed to the immediate financial consequences of their adoption, or to protect their budgets against these costs and give up control of the development of the cities. There are very broad compensation rights for value decline due to planning regulations and for areas designated in plans for public roads.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Ethiopia

    This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in four different areas in the Oromia and SNNP Regions in the southern highlands of Ethiopia. Household panel data from 2007 and 2012 are used. The large majority of the sample prefers land sales to remain illegal, and the resistance to legalizing land sales increased from 2007 to 2012. In the same period, perceived median real land values increased sharply but also exhibit substantial local variation.

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    Report of a Home Office fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka

    Conducted between 28 September and 5 October 2019. Published: 20 January 2020.

    Reports & Research
    January, 2020
    Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

    ABSTRACTED FROM PURPOSE OF THIS MISSION: The purpose of the mission was to gather accurate and up-to-date information from a range of sources about a number of issues concerning the treatment of Tamils including the government’s attitude to diaspora activities and the treatment of members of diaspora groups, in particular members of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE). The mission was also interested in gathering information about the treatment of members and former members of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE).

  5. Library Resource
    Natural Habitats Group in Sierra Leone: Evolution of Company Perspectives, Policies and Practice
    Reports & Research
    March, 2020
    Sierra Leone

    This document compiles four short reports and reflection pieces produced by Natural Habitats Group (NHG) during their involvement in a LEGEND project in Sierra Leone implemented by Solidaridad, which aimed to ensure that an NHG land based investment, undertaken by group member company Natural Habitats Sierra Leone Ltd (NHSL) to develop a large oil palm plantation respected existing community members and land holding families’ land rights.

  6. Library Resource
     How can REDD+ promote and support social safeguards in national laws? Executive summary

    Executive summary

    Reports & Research
    October, 2019
    Congo, Ghana, Liberia

    This executive summary offers recommendations based on lessons learned from Ghana, Liberia and RoC, for other countries of West and Central Africa who are considering how to embed REDD+ social safeguards into their national laws.

    The full report is available from here.

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     How can REDD+ promote and support social safeguards in national laws?

    A comparative look at the integration of social safeguards into the laws of Ghana, Liberia and the Republic of Congo

    Reports & Research
    October, 2019
    Congo, Ghana, Liberia

    In West and Central Africa, home to 25% of the world’s tropical forests, the climate challenge is set against the threat of deforestation. In light of this threat, national laws and regulations seek to protect, restore, and manage the use of these forests for national development.

    International initiatives such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) have identified that strengthening national laws to improve forest governance is an important tool to strike a balance between protection of forests and national development.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 1977
    Mali, Niger, Africa

    This report describes an investigative study into the feasibility of establishing compensation fund to benefit Mali and the Nigera both land-locked countries members of the African Groundnut Council, and to assist them in overcoming the cost of transporting groundnuts over the longer distances necessarily involved to ports of shipment. Both countries put high priority on sound agricultural development and all efforts are made to sec increased groundnut production. Groundnut is one of the two most important export commodities of Mali and the Niger.

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