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    Benefit sharing and community contracting: from legal design to full operation

    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2021
    Africa, Congo, Gabon, Western Africa, Ghana, Liberia
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land Conflicts
    rural development
    rule of law
    community forestry
    compensation

    Benefit-sharing agreements and community contracts are intended to ensure affected communities are involved in and benefit from the management of forest resources, but communities have often been left feeling short-changed.

    This briefing note provides an overview of the functioning of community benefit sharing and community contracting in the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana and Liberia, through ClientEarth’s experience. It also draws out key considerations on benefit sharing and community contracting mechanisms.

  2. Library Resource

    Partage des bénéfices et contrats communautaires : de la conception de la loi jusqu’à la pleine mise en oeuvre

    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2021
    Africa, Congo, Gabon, Western Africa, Ghana, Liberia
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land Conflicts
    rural development
    rule of law
    community forestry
    compensation

    Le partage des bénéfices et les contrats communautaires visent à garantir aux communautés affectées le moyen d’être impliquées et de tirer des avantages de la gestion des ressources forestières. En pratique, toutefois, les communautés se sentent souvent lésées sur ces points.

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    wrm bulletin

    In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

    WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2021
    Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    Land & Investments
    gender equity
    poverty
    sustainable development
    land-use planning
    environment
    climate change
    fisheries
    deforestation
    forest conservation
    forest management plans
    mining
    land dispute
    community land rights
    customary tenure
    tenure security
    Indigenous Peoples
    land rights activists
    local communities
    extractive industries
    women

    The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.

  4. Library Resource

    Armed conflict and mining induced land-use transition in northern Nimba County, Liberia

    Reports & Research
    January, 2019
    Liberia
    Land Conflicts
    Land in post-conflict settings
    land governance
    environment
    deforestation
    land use
    land use change
    mining
    natural resources management
    land conflicts
    local communities

    This study determined pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict land use change and analysed the impact of armed conflict on the intensity of land use change in northern Nimba County. Landsat images of 1986, 1990, 2002 and 2016 were classif

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