Land in Ethiopia is held by the state, who acts as a custodian for the Ethiopian people. Even though it is the state which controls land ownership, farmers and pastoralists are guaranteed a lifetime ‘holding’ right that provides rights to use the land, rent it out, donate, inherit and sharecrop it. Everything except sell and mortgage it. On paper and under existing formal laws, women have equal rights to men as far as use and control of and access to land is concerned.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2021Ethiopia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2021Global
This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries. There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2016Central Asia, Uzbekistan
This report focuses on the analysis of livelihood type-specific behaviors regarding household
choices in land use and management practices. This is a contribution to the overarching
framework of “Integrated Systems Analysis and Modeling in Aral Sea Region” activity within
Dryland System CRP. The report is based on further analysis of baseline data collected within
“Innovation Platform” activity, surveyed and reported in 2015 (Rudenko 2015). Preliminary
analysis of household survey data including description of the study area and the content of -
Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2015Bangladesh
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Cambodia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Asia, Eastern Asia, China, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, VietnamWorldFish is working with partners in the Mekong Region to support a new alliance of regional and local partners that will contribute towards sustainable wetlands management that benefit the poor. This project supports the Wetlands Alliance, an extensive network of organizations —government, civil and NGOs— actively engaged in developing innovative solutions to poverty alleviation. The Alliance helps local partners to build the capacity they need to work effectively with communities that they are supporting.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2010Cambodia, Asia
The rapid sustainability assessment of Mekong electricity planning in Cambodia using Section I of the 2009 Draft Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (2009 HSAP) was conducted by a group of Cambodian assessors from March to May 2010. A multi-stakeholder consultation and trialing was conducted in Phnom Penh on April 8, 2010.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2007Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2009Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Zambia
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