Community-Led Rangelands Assessment promotes the use of traditional or indigenous knowledge of pastoralists, as the dominant group utilizing rangelands, to guide planning and management of rangelands resources to support and build resilient pastoral livelihoods. Use of traditional knowledge is considered cheaper, easier to use and replicable. It promotes the respect of local communities’ culture and its integration into scientific methods.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesMarch, 2014Global
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesMay, 2015Global
This framework provides guidance on policy and practice in public-private partnerships and on the mechanics of disclosure by practitioners within governments and the private sector, to help develop programmes for the systematic, proactive pre- and post- procurement disclosure of information.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesMarch, 2014Global
The framework provides guidance to policy makers on how to approach the question of shared use. It highlights the operational models that are necessary for implementation, the key-success factors, the enabling conditions and how to ultimately better coordinate major investments in physical infrastructure by privately-owned natural resource concessionaires with national infrastructure development plans. The framework also equips policy makers with a set of questions that should help conduct the negotiations on shared use with companies.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesSeptember, 2010Brazil
(Artigo publicado em: Seminário Internacional de Curitiba - comunicações - Sessão temática "Projeto de Regularização Fundiária- Boas Práticas"l, setembro de 2010, Curitiba- PR.) O presente trabalho tece uma discussão teórica acerca dos instrumentos de recuperação das mais-valias fundiárias sob a perspectiva de gestão social da valorização do solo urbano, enfocando as possibilidades de otimização dos processos de regularização fundiária. Em linhas gerais, mais-valias fundiárias são incrementos sofridos pelo valor da terra, sejam decorrentes de esforço público ou privado.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2009Global
Forests are essential for human survival and well-being. They harbour two thirds of all terrestrial animal and plant species. They provide us with food, oxygen, shelter, recreation, and spiritual sustenance, and they are the source for over 5,000 commercially-traded products, ranging from pharmaceuticals to timber and clothing. The biodiversity of forests—the variety of genes, species, and forest ecosystems—underpins these goods and services, and is the basis for long-term forest health and stability.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2016Global
This document provides guidance to agribusiness companies and investors that face legacy land issues and seek to manage them to manage social impacts for project-affected communities. It outlines tools to address these issues and safeguard the rights of local communities, and to promote community development and business opportunities for mutual benefits.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2016Africa, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana
This guide presents a step-by-step approach in using a participatory mapping method with community members to identify and map ecosystem services and changes in their supply across multiuse agricultural landscapes. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies and researchers can use this approach to learn from communities about how they use and access natural resources.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesApril, 2017Global
This guide provides information for companies in the mining, oil and gas sector - and their consultants - on how to undertake a gender impact assessment to gain and maintain a “social licence to operate” with impacted communities and avoid conflict and costly shut-downs. It
• describes some important principles and approaches that should underpin a gender impact assessment,
• provides a framework for companies to identify, understand and respond to the gender impacts of an extractive industry project, and
• outlines some key concepts, definitions and case studies.
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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national or sub-national level
Manuals & GuidelinesOctober, 2014GlobalRecent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits. This handbook presents the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), which provides a flexible and affordable framework for countries to rapidly identify and analyse FLR potential and locate special areas of opportunity at a national or sub-national level.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2018Papua New Guinea
A Guide to the Taxation Incentives for Business & Investment in Papua New Guinea PNG Internal Revenue Commission
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