Land and the New Urban Agenda - Briefing Note for POLICY MAKERS
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2018Global
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2018Global
LAND AND THE NEW URBAN AGENDA Land underpins all the key aspects of the NEW URBAN AGENDA because it is a key driver for inclusive and sustainable urban development
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2018Mongolia
Mokoro’s practical and action-oriented long-term strategic research project, the Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS), is piloting its methodology through a ‘Study on the threats to women’s land tenure security in Mongolia and Tanzania’.
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Opportunities and Challenges for Communities
Journal Articles & BooksPeer-reviewed publicationJanuary, 2018KenyaKenya is the most recent African state to acknowledge customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. This paper researches this new legal environment. This promises land security for 6 to 10 million Kenyans, most of who are members of pastoral or other poorer rural communities. Analysis is prefaced with substantial background on legal trends continentally, but the focus is on Kenya’s Community Land Act, 2016, as the framework through which customary holdings are to be identified and registered.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2018Global
This report presents the results of the multi-country assessment carried out in 17 countries across the world. The findings of this assessment is expected to directly inform the work of the co-custodian agencies for land Indicator 1.4.2 (UN-Habitat and World Bank) in formulating a coherent capacity development strategy for NSOs at country level, and strengthen their collaboration with land agencies for enhanced data infrastructure needed to regularly report on this indicator.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksReports & ResearchJanuary, 2018Global
From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2018Brazil
O ano de 2014 nos deixou a sensação inequívoca de que não será facilmente esquecido. Após a polêmica celebração dos 50 anos do golpe militar, e ainda no inquietante reverberar das jornadas de junho do ano anterior, a sociedade brasileira viveu um processo eleitoral absolutamente denso de tensões e radicalizações.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2018Brazil
Este Guia, produzido pela Relatoria Especial da ONU para a moradia adequada, sintetiza o que as normas internacionais determinam sobre remoções involuntárias decorrentes de projetos públicos e privados de infraestrutura e urbanização. Contém orientações e dicas para todos os envolvidos: projetistas, gestores públicos, operadores do direito, órgãos financiadores nacionais ou internacionais e populações atingidas. O objetivo deste Guia é orientar para que os projetos sejam desenvolvidos com respeito ao direito  moradia adequada das comunidades por eles atingidas.
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Library ResourceLegislationJanuary, 2018Brazil
Lei No. 601 de 18 de Setembro 1850 Dispõe sobre as terras devolutas do império
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesJanuary, 2018Brazil
Cartilha Querem nos despejar. E agora?
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