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New land governance approaches in Mauritania and Tunisia: From VGGT principles to change

Conference Papers & Reports
February, 2021
Tunisia, Mauritania
VGGT
land administration
land governance
land management
land tenure
This paper presents how the active use and contextualisation of the principles of the
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and
Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) by national stakeholders in
Mauritania and Tunisia contributed to changing the approach to tackling tenure challenges
in the two member countries of the Maghreb Arab Union.
In Mauritania, we see how the model of establishing multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs)
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Improving Tenure Security for the Rural Poor: Mali Country Case Study. Working Paper No. 4. FAO.

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2006
Mali
Land & Gender
land rights
land access
land tenure
tenure security
women
The present study aims to clarify the various issues regarding land security of poor and other marginalized groups in Malian rural areas. It looks into questions relating to how poor and vulnerable groups obtain access to land and natural resources, and what factors cause their exclusion. It analyzes existing methods for formalizing land rights and land transactions and their impacts on the poor.
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Mali : 2018 Article IV Consultation and Eighth and Ninth Reviews Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Mali

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2018
Mali
land records
land register
land titling
sustainable development
land investments
This 2018 Article IV Consultation highlights that Mali’s economic recovery continued in 2017 amid persistent security challenges. GDP growth remained robust, at an estimated 5.3 percent supported by good harvests and robust domestic demand. Inflation was subdued, remaining well below the regional ceiling. The 2017 fiscal outturn and the 2018 budget are in line with the program targets and the goal of converging to the West African Economic and Monetary Union’s regional fiscal deficit norm of 3 percent of GDP by 2019.
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Responsible Land Governance in LDN Programmes

Benin Case Study

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Benin
Land Degradation & Tenure
land governance
land degradation
forest conservation
forest land
community land rights
Land degradation neutrality (LDN) is increasingly recognized as an effective mechanism to address land degradation and sustain ecosystems. Although this mechanism could accelerate the achievement of SDGs, we should approach with caution many of the policy measures proposed within countries’ LDN target-setting programmes to avoid violating rights to land and resources.
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Liberia Country Assessment

LANDex Baseline

Reports & Research
March, 2022
Liberia
Land Degradation & Tenure
land governance
land degradation
land rights
local communities
This report presents a full Country Assessment of land governance in Liberia carried out with the Global Land Governance Index (LANDex). As the first full report on Liberia, the report assesses the country on 33 indicators related to land governance, which are organized according to the 10 Commitments to People-Centered Land Governance and thematic areas that define and guide the work of the International Land Coalition (ILC).
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Planning For Inclusive Greater Banjul

Reports & Research
December, 2020
Gambia
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
COVID-19
gender equity
urban planning
urbanization
women
The Gambia has one of the fastest urbanization rates in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than two-thirds of the country’s population currently living in the Greater Banjul Area (GBA).

To address the environmental and socioeconomic challenges that arise from this situation, UNOPS is supporting The Gambia’s government to develop a strategic urban plan, through the Greater Banjul 2040 project. The initiative, will drive urban development and improve services while promoting climate resilience, economic growth and social inclusion.
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Issues and Options for Improved Land Sector Governance in the Gambia

Results of the Application of the Land Governance Assessment Framework

Reports & Research
August, 2013
Gambia
land administration
land governance
customary tenure
land stakeholders
The Government of the Gambia has acknowledged that a prudent and sustainable management of the country‟s limited land resources is an essential precondition to poverty reduction and national food security. A critical step towards the realization of current national strategic objectives
would be an evaluation of the land governance environment to determine where the country stands. In order to evaluate and prioritize these issues more systematically, country experts utilized the Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) developed by the World Bank and its
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The 2020-21 Gambia SDGs Survey

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Gambia
sustainable development
sustainable land management
land stakeholders
urban population
open data
The decision to conduct a Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) survey was reachedafter thecompletion of the2020 Voluntary National Review (VNR) for The Gambia.It was realized thatthecountry was able to reporton only 52%of SDG indicators. The Gambia Bureau of Statistics(GBoS)in collaboration with the Directorate of Development Planning (DDP) of the Ministry ofFinance and Economic Affairs (MoFEA) with financial support from the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) Country Officedecided to take on this task of updatingthestatus of the indicators.
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image Gambia: Banjul Urban Profile

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
December, 2011
Gambia
Urban Tenure
sustainable development
urbanization
urban land
The Banjul Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to develop urban poverty reduction policies at local, national, and regional levels, through an assessment of needs and response mechanisms, and as a contribution to the wider-ranging implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.
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Study on the state of consumer welfare in the real estate industry

Reports & Research
December, 2020
Gambia
property law
land economics
land transactions
government
local communities
The Real Estate Industry is a key sector in the socio-economic development of The Gambia,
and the sector has been rapidly growing in the past decade with over 1oo real estate
companies operating in the Gambia (AREC 2020). The industry is under the purview of the
Ministry of Lands and Local Government; however, it is not regulated by Government; which
has led to consumers being vulnerable to various types of unfair, misleading and deceptive
market practices by stakeholders in the transaction process.