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A Collaborative Approach to Human Rights Impact Assessments

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2017
Global
advocacy
agriculture
capacity development
development agencies
extractive industries
land rights
research
tenure security
sustainable development
This paper provides guidance on how to conduct collaborative and participatory risk assessments, paying attention to the human rights of project-affected people. It was written for stakeholders who seek more effective strategies for investigating the human rights impacts of business projects or operations, and who wish to make their human rights impact assessments more inclusive and responsive, or who seek to encourage greater buy-in from other stakeholders.
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A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity

Manuals & Guidelines
June, 2018
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land law
property law
common law
customary law
indigenous peoples' land rights
legal empowerment
This guide provides step-by-step instructions on establishing and operating a paralegal or other community-based program to help people obtain legal identity documents. It is primarily for people designing and managing community-based paralegal projects to help clients access documentary proof of citizenship and other forms of proof of legal identity, such as birth certificates.
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A comparison of influences on the landscape of two social-ecological systems

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Italy, Panama
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
land use
research
Case studies of social-ecological landscapes that consider local, spatially explicit land cover changes are necessary for the development of generalised knowledge on deforestation. This study focussed on two indigenous territories of eastern Panama that share the same settlement history, size and location but are perceived by local dwellers to differ in terms of land cover.
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A competitividade à luz da grande expansão de exploração de recursos naturais em Moçambique

Reports & Research
October, 2013
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
advocacy
land governance
mining
natural resources management
O objectivo deste estudo e desta missão é contribuir para a compreensão e ajudar no desenvolvimento de um consenso sobre as oportunidades e desafios colocados à competitividade e ao crescimento económico de Moçambique, como resultado da actual grande expansão de exploração de recursos naturais. A missão identificou a competitividade, os desafios e os problemas de crescimento, e preparou esboços de trabalho para futuras pesquisas sobre a competitividade e o crescimento em Moçambique, no contexto da potencial “Doença Holandesa”.
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A Comprehensive Process for Stakeholder Identification and Engagement in Addressing Wicked Water Resources Problems

Volume 9 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2020
Mexico
land
research
Various sectors of stakeholders (urban, agricultural, policymakers, etc.) are frequently engaged in participatory research projects aimed at improving water resources’ sustainability. However, a process for comprehensive and integrative identification, classification, and engagement of all types of water stakeholders for a region or river basin, especially in a transboundary context, is missing for water resources research projects.
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A COMUNIDADE URUÇU E A CONVIVÊNCIA COM O SEMIÁRIDO

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Brazil
farmers associations
common rights
rural development
legal empowerment
A comunidade Uruçu está situada na zona rural do município de Mairi, Bahia-Brasil, próximo ao Rio Jacuípe, clima semiárido, subtropical e ameno. A precipitação pluviométrica média anual varia entre 600 a 800 milímetros, coordenadas geográfica -11.642196 -40.263096.
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A Critical Analysis of the Extent to Which the National Land Commission Addresses the Land Question in Kenya.

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Kenya
land
research
The land question in Kenya has never been solved. Land is a pertinent source of livelihood, the problem has persisted and in a number of years caused chaos as people grow impatient. Over time, there have been complaints from various communities and recently, the past governments have sought to listen to the ailing communities. The National Land Policy and the National Land Commission characterize efforts to remedy the continued situation bedeviling the African communities.
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A Critical Look at the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act (EMCA), 1999

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2003
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
land rights
sustainable land management
As the Government of Kenya treads the path to economic recovery, every Kenyan should be at home with the fact that many forms of economic development activities damage the natural resources upon which the economies are based. Nationally and internationally, a major environmental and development challenge is how to maintain the equilibrium between population, ecosystems and development.
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A decade research in land and water management, 1957 - 1967

Reports & Research
December, 1968
Netherlands
land
rural planning
rural development
land use
land improvement
land
research
Publicatie n.a.v. 10 jaar ICW
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A deriva social da geografia colonial portuguesa

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2022
Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
research
local communities
A presente nota de pesquisa sugere que se atente ao enquadramento epistémico e institucional da ocorrência da geografia humana nas antigas colónias portuguesas, em particular da Missão de Geografia da Guiné, dirigida por Orlando Ribeiro e considerada o momento inaugural desta linhagem, como ponto de partida para procurar agregar os relatos cindidos acerca da afirmação desse saber, por um lado, e sobre o seu contexto de emergência, por outro; para integrar as narrativas paralelas que se ocupam da geografia metropolitana e da geografia colonial; e para fazer convergir a história da geografia