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Land certification in Madagascar: formalizing (f)or securing?

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2014
Madagascar
land administration
land reform
land tenure
customary tenure
tenure security
Two major innovations have inter alia emerged from the land reform in Madagascar: (i)

decentralised land management through the creation of local land offices, and (ii)

certification, which enables individuals to register private property provided the community

agrees on the legitimacy of the claimed rights.

Despite the political crisis and the withdrawal of international aid during this period (2009 -

2013), new local land offices have been created, and now cover a third of the country’s
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"We're Leaving Everything Behind"

The Impact of Guinea’s Souapiti Dam on Displaced Communities

Reports & Research
April, 2020
Guinea
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land investments
resettlement
customary land rights
customary tenure
Guinea’s 450 megawatt Souapiti dam, scheduled to begin operating in September 2020, is the most advanced of several new hydropower projects planned by the government of President Alpha Condé. Guinea’s government believes that hydropower can significantlyincrease access to electricity in a country where only a fraction of people have reliable access to power.
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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 Nairobi Declaration, presented by the Africa Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to the Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) 2022

Conference Papers & Reports
July, 2022
Kenya
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
land conservation
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
Representatives of Indigenous Peoples-led conservation organisations and networks in Africa convened in Nairobi, Kenya on 15 – 16 June 2022 under the auspices of the Alliance Rights, Inclusion and Social Equity in Conservation (ARISEC), to plan for their meaningful participation in the first IUCN’s Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) scheduled for July 2022 in Rwanda. At this event, they created this declaration.
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Support to Strengthen Governance of Tenure through the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure Of Land, Fisheries and Forests in Tanzania - TCP/URT/3702

Manuals & Guidelines
December, 2021
Tanzania
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
VGGT
land governance
customary law
land tenure
land tenure systems
Land has played a critical role in the development of the United Republic of Tanzania, with the roots of land tenure frameworks, issues and conflicts dating back hundreds of years Current land laws in the country are seen as progressive policies and legislation recognize the equal rights to land of men and women, including unregistered rights under customary laws, and any transfer of rights requires the consent of local people In practice, however, land tenure rights are disputed among village, district and national administrative authorities, and conflicts over land are common, widespread
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Local land grabbers evict villagers at night; foreign investors cultivate the same lands the next day

September, 2021
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land
customary tenure
sustainable development
environment
dispossession
displacement
An educational resource that debunks myths used for privatizing land around the world while providing facts on how customary tenure systems are critical to protecting livelihoods and ensuring sustainable development for the people and the planet.
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How collective action can influence the direction of a land reform. Lessons learned from civil society mobilisation in Senegal

December, 2020
Senegal
Land & Investments
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
land
land governance
environment
customary tenure
A study commissioned by IIED. With less than 20 percent of landholdings in Uganda currently registered;land governance is at the forefront of a profound change as customary land is demarcated and registered. A key challenge is to ensure the equitability of this process involving gender and social equality;the protection of the poor and vulnerable comprising children and the disabled;and the environment.
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Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa

Contested histories and current struggles

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2021
South Africa, South America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property law
community forestry
common rights
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
statutory tenure
local communities
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa analyses contestations of power and control over land through the lens of local case studies in the densely settled former African ‘homelands’ or Bantustans. These were areas reserved for African occupation by the apartheid government and when the ANC came to power in 1994, they were the poorest and least developed parts of the country. Over the last few decades, mineral deposits have been exploited and some are located close to the boundaries of rapidly expanding cities, such as Durban, where peri-urban land is at a premium.
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Uneven development, politics and governance in urban Africa

An analytical literature review

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Sub-Saharan Africa
Urban Tenure
post-conflict settings
poverty
urbanization
informal tenure regimes
landowners
This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of existing literatures relevant to the politics and political economy of African urban development. It considers the economic and demographic drivers of urbanisation in Africa and their consequences for urban restructuring and uneven development, before turning to the forms of urban politics that have emerged alongside, responded to and also helped shape these urban economic developments.
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Tenure-Responsive Land Use Planning

A Practical Guide for Country-Level Intervention

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Uganda, Philippines
rural development
land-use planning
land use
land tenure systems
tenure security
Land use planning is rarely a neutral process. Stakeholders often use it to control access to, ownership
of and use of land. It is therefore essential to have a participatory tool (with constantly counterchecked processes) and flexible monitoring approaches to ensure sustainable land use and secure
land tenure. The Practical Guide presents a unique approach to simultaneously addressing land
use and tenure security challenges at the country level. The information and processes presented