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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    South Africa

    The land governance assessment framework (LGAF) is an innovative and participatory diagnostic tool that assesses the state of land governance in a country. The LGAF has optional modules for other topics such as large-scale land acquisition, forest land, and regularization of rights in urban areas. In South Africa, large-scale land acquisition was selected as an additional thematic area, as was the case in Nigeria. A framework of approximately 21 land governance indicators guides the process in these thematic areas, each divided into three or four dimensions.

  2. Library Resource

    A Critical Review

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

    This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe

    Between 1970 and 1992, the World Bank
    assisted financially in about 15 wildlife-related projects
    in Sub-Saharan Africa. The lending volume was US$ 368
    million or about 1percent of the Bank's totals lending
    during the same period. While geographically, these projects
    have been concentrated in East Africa, especially Kenya, the
    others are located in Somali, Malawi, Botswana, Cote
    d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Ghana, the Central African

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Eswatini

    Unplanned and unregulated urban
    development is not unique to Swaziland, but addressing the
    issue through direct consultations with beneficiaries is an
    important improvement toward resolving this persistent
    problem. The Swaziland Urban Development Project includes
    standard infrastructure work, such as increasing urban
    roads, rehabilitating and expanding water and sewage
    services, and developing a solid waste facility However, in

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Botswana

    The objective of the Botswana Investment
    Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the investment
    climate in Botswana in all its operational dimensions and
    promote policies to strengthen the private sector. The
    investment climate is made up of the many location specific
    factors that shape the opportunities and incentives for
    firms to invest productively, create jobs, and expand. These
    factors include macroeconomic and regulatory policies; the

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Namibia

    Namibia is a large country in Southern
    Africa that borders the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola
    to the north and South Africa to the south. With a surface
    area of 824,290 square kilometers, it is similar in size to
    Mozambique and about half the size of the U.S. state of
    Alaska. Namibia has a small population of approximately 2.1
    million people. It is also one of the least densely
    populated countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an average

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Lesotho

    Lesotho began a structural economic
    transformation in the early 1990s. The transformation has
    brought higher, more secure incomes to households while the
    government succeeded in dramatically improving access to
    services such as education, health, water, and
    transportation. Yet today, Lesotho faces a number of serious
    development challenges, including a high rate of chronic
    poverty, entrenched income inequality, and most troubling

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