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  1. Library Resource
    A Study Report on Analysis of Key Land Laws in Sri Lanka

    A special reference to Women and Community Land Rights

    Reports & Research
    October, 2017
    Sri Lanka

    Land is an imperative and crucial factor in the social, cultural and economic identity of the people in Sri Lanka due to the importance it has been given throughout our history. Moreover, the rights and interests over land are unequivocally and legally secured without any discrimination on the basis of gender, caste, religious or ethnic lines for its peaceful enjoyment and for the economic development of the people and the country.

  2. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 99

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2020
    Norway

    While strengthening women’s land rights is increasingly on national and international agendas, there is little consensus on how to understand women’s tenure security. Analyses of women’s land rights often use very different definitions of land rights, from formal ownership to women’s management of plots allocated to them by their husbands. This paper identifies aspects of women’s tenure that should be included in indicators. It then provides a conceptual framework to identify the various dimensions of women’s land tenure security and the myriad factors that may influence it.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2005
    Africa

    Includes land rights in gender equity; issues in gaining access to land property – acquiring land rights from the state and through inheritance and the market, legal pluralism, population displacement; three postconflict studies (Rwanda, Guatemala, Afghanistan); conclusions and recommendations – legislation and policy, programme implementation, overcoming patriarchal norms, the cost of speaking out, gender sensitivity training and legal assistance, information on gender impact.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2006
    Africa

    Argues that there are 5 shortcomings in both the old (World Bank) and contemporary (Hernando de Soto) arguments for formalisation of land title. First, legality is constructed narrowly to mean only formal legality. Therefore legal pluralism is equated with extra-legality. Second, there is an underlying social-evolutionist bias that presumes inevitability of the transition to private (conflated with individual) ownership as the destiny of all societies. Third, the presumed link between formal title and access to credit facilities has not been borne out by empirical evidence.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2016
    Myanmar

    Executive summary:
    "In January 2016 the government adopted a National Land Use Policy, which included the recognition
    of customary land management practices. While this is a welcome first step in the necessary
    integration of Burma’s customary land management systems with the national-level system,
    there is an urgent need for constitutional reform and devolution of land management powers
    prior to any such integration.
    This report by the Ethnic Community Development Forum (ECDF) presents how Burma’s diverse

  6. Library Resource

    Security and Justice Thematic Paper

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2010

    There is broad recognition, across the political spectrum and in both 'northern' and 'southern' countries, that justice reform, and more generally the promotion of the 'rule of law', are central to development policy, particularly in conflict-affected, fragile and violent contexts. More recently an increased focus on global security and the interaction between security and development as put a renewed emphasis on such efforts.

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This paper develops a framework and some
    hypotheses regarding the impact of local-level, informal
    legal institutions on three economic outcomes: aggregate
    growth, inequality, and human capabilities. It presents a
    set of stylized differences between formal and informal
    legal justice systems, identifies the pathways through which
    formal systems promote economic outcomes, reflects on what
    the stylized differences mean for the potential impact of

  8. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    This paper develops a framework and some
    hypotheses regarding the impact of local-level, informal
    legal institutions on three economic outcomes: aggregate
    growth, inequality, and human capabilities. It presents a
    set of stylized differences between formal and informal
    legal justice systems, identifies the pathways through which
    formal systems promote economic outcomes, reflects on what
    the stylized differences mean for the potential impact of

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2013

    Expert statements indicate that annually
    approximately 20 billion dollars will be needed to prevent
    90 percent deforestation in tropical countries. Development
    practitioners are eager to see the benefits from REDD plus
    initiatives shared with local partners. Equally important to
    understanding how local partners might benefit are questions
    such as, who should derive benefits from REDD plus
    initiatives, and how to ensure these initiatives reach the

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