Making Land Rights Real
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Land Rights
Land rights are largely taken for granted in the developed world. Yet for many people in developing nations, land rights have no reality. In the developed world, land rights are...
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Using Mobile Technology for First Registration of Land: Lessons Learned in Tanzania
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Land Rights
“In the 21st century,” as I write with my co-authors in the companion piece to this article, “land administration systems will nearly always be developed using digital systems. Assuming...
From Land Tenure Regularisation to a Sustainable Land Register
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Land Rights
The evidence is clear: property rights are essential foundations for poverty alleviation and economic development. In Africa, it is less clear as to what may be the most effective way...
Dialogue and Development in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Region
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Land Rights
In 2007, oil and gas was discovered off the coast of Ghana, leading to a boom in infrastructure projects and investment in the country’s Western Region, particularly in six coastal...
Public-Private Partnerships for Land Administration: Can It Work in Cabo Verde?
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Land Rights
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have a long history as effective mechanisms for delivering infrastructure projects and more recently as vehicles for service provision. The use of PPPs for land administration services...
Ethiopia Land Registration Ready for Lift Off: Now What?
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Land Rights
Large-scale land registration programmes such as the U.K. for International Development (DFID)-funded Rwanda Land Tenure Regularisation Programme have demonstrated that it is possible to roll out land registration programmes...
The Law of the Land: Recent Cases Show Legal Support for Local People
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Land Rights
International efforts to secure the land and resource rights of local and indigenous peoples are increasingly finding a friend in the law. National and international law, policies, and jurisprudence are...
Legitimate Land Tenure and Property Rights: Fostering Compliance and Development Outcomes
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Land Rights
At the request of the U.K. Department for International Development, DAI recently undertook structured research into the following question: What policies and interventions or approaches have been successful in...
Enhancing Women and Girls’ Land Rights in Rural Sierra Leone
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Land Rights
Around 70 percent of Sierra Leoneans live in rural areas, the large majority of them depending on agriculture for their livelihoods. Issues of land ownership, tenure, and inheritance rights are...
Investing, Leasing Land, and Compensating Landowners: The Addax Bioenergy Experience in Sierra Leone
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Land Rights
Much has been written about the impacts of long-term land-based investments on local land rights, development, and livelihood opportunities—and much of the commentary, driven by notable controversies, has been hostile...
Delivering Large-Scale Land Certification Programmes: Lessons from Rwanda
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Land Rights
The challenge was steep but straightforward. Survey, collect, and clarify information for all land parcels in Rwanda—an estimated 7.9 million plots that eventually turned out to be millions more—and provide...