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    Identifying opportunities for policy advocacy and practical action

    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    South Africa

    This report prepared for the Laborie Dialogue Initiative (LDI) draws on a recent review of the
    literature and empirical research conducted for the Cape Winelands District Municipality; analysis of
    farm worker tenure security conducted for the High Level Panel appointed by Parliament which has
    been supplemented by further desktop research and policy analysis. The report also reviews current
    tax, VAT and rates regimes and the ways in which these influence employers’ willingness to invest in

  2. Library Resource
    Property Rights and Water Access: Evidence from Land Titling in Rural Peru cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2015
    Peru

    Insecure land tenure and property rights are an impediment to the construction of water infrastructure in many developing countries. This paper explores whether alleviating this impediment through a land titling program in rural Peru is associated with improvements in water access. The economics literature on the links between property rights and investment decisions has amassed yet, due to the unique characteristics of water, it is not obvious how water service provision would respond to improvements in land tenure.

  3. Library Resource
    Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: Lessons from Six Countries in Latin America cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Latin America and the Caribbean, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Peru

    Secure land tenure in rural landscapes is widely recognized as an essential foundation for achieving a range of economic development goals. However, forest areas in low and middle-income countries face particular challenges in strengthening the security of land and resource tenure. Forest peoples are often among the poorest and most politically marginalized communities in their national contexts, and their tenure systems are often based on customary, collective rights that have insufficient formal legal protection.

  4. Library Resource
    Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights cover image
    Training Resources & Tools
    Multimedia
    July, 2017
    Global

    Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

    These are:

    1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

  5. Library Resource
    SDG Indicator 1.4.2: Approach and data availability cover image
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2017
    Global

    Presentation at the LandAc conference in June 2017, by Thea Hilhorst, representative of the World Bank, custodian agency of the development of SDG indicator 1.4.2. 

    Thea Hilhorst presents the approach to measuring this indicator and the available data that can be used.

  6. Library Resource
    Land and the SDGs: Let's Start with Evidence cover image
    Multimedia
    July, 2017
    Global

    International Land Coalition infographic on why Land Rights are central to achieving the SDGs.

  7. Library Resource
    Platform Policy Brief: Renewed commitment on Indicator 1.4.2 for achieving global land tenure security in the SDGs cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2017
    Global

    The Global Donor Working Group on Land releases this policy brief to reiterate its commitment on the SDG indicator 1.4.2 for achieving global land tenure security. The policy brief clarifies the status of indicator 1.4.2 towards its implementation by countries, as well as informs how the Global Donor Working Group on Land is supporting the custodian agencies for this indicator (UN-Habitat and WB) to have it re-classified by the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators by October 2018.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Global

    Political reactions ‘from below’ to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. This essay introduces a collection of ground- breaking studies that discuss responses that range from various types of organized and everyday resistance to demands for incorporation or for better terms of incorporation into land deals. Initiatives ‘from below’ in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats.

  9. Library Resource

    Final Report- 2017

    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2017
    Global

    The World Bank Group and UN-Habitat as co-custodians of the SDG Indicator 1.4.2, in collaboration with the Global Land Indicator Initiative (GLII) organized an international Expert Group Meeting (EGM) at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. from 25 -26 May 2017 in preparation for the reclassification process of the SDG Indicator 1.4.2.

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