Indigenous, mobile, and local communities all over the world have for millennia played a critical role in conserving the earth’s patrimony. They have protected forests, wetlands, rangelands, watersheds, hunting grounds, rivers and streams and other water catchment systems that are to day the basis of prosperity for all nations. “Community” husbandry of these resources has been done for a wide range of reasons ranging from economic, cultural, spiritual, aesthetic to many others.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresoctobre, 2005Kenya, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Ouganda
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresnovembre, 2010Inde
The 'Annual Report to the People on Environment and Forests' by The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India tries to make the citizens of India aware of country's State of Environment and generate greater environmental consciousness amongst them.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférenceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2009Inde
This report focuses on the threats to biodiversity, status of implementation of the National Biodiversity Action Plan and progress achieved towards meeting the 2010 biodiversity target.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresmai, 2007Afrique australe
Introduction: "Since its independence in 1975, and most notably in the last decade, Angola has struggled to create a legal framework adequate to address the complex issues relating to the country’s land. In 2004, the country enacted a new land law1 that sought to strengthen perceived areas of weakness in prior legislation. The new law delineated and expanded a range of land rights available by concession and recognized some measure of traditional land rights.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2010Bangladesh
This is USAID's review of Bangladesh's rules and regulations on property rights and resource governance.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférenceDocuments de politique et mémoiresfévrier, 2010Belize
About the Belize SIF: "The Belize Social Investment Fund (BSIF) was established in 1996 as a statutory body under the auspices of the Ministry of Economic Development which is mandated by law to work with the Government of Belize in the implementation of programs and projects aimed at reducing poverty in Belize. The BSIF responds to the basic human needs of the poorest of the poor in Belize in an efficient, transparent, and ethnically sensitive manner utilizing an approach that is participatory, collaborative and demand driven"
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Policy and Legal Review against the Background of International Best Practices
Rapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2019ÉthiopieLarge-scale agricultural investments (LSAI) in Ethiopia are expected to provide input for the processing industry and to bring foreign currency as well as technology transfer to the country, while the local communities will benefit from employment and infrastructure improvements related to these investments. But the results of investment projects have been rather limited so far. In the past, the land identification (and verification) process for LSAI, due to various reasons, was not implemented with the required accuracy, which often resulted in environmental and social problems.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresfévrier, 2000Global
What evidence is there of gender inequalities in life outcomes between women and men? This report provides facts and figures that expose gender inequalities, providing evidence of the need to engender development. It offers an insight into the available gender statistics in the following areas: poverty, health, access to resources, education, globalisation, governance, conflicts and emergencies, and human rights. The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) highlighted the different needs of women and men, girls and boys.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2015Rwanda
This Policy Brief summarizes the main findings and recommendations of qualitative and quantative research on implementation and outcomes of the 2007 Expropriation Law in Rwanda. Rwanda is developing at a remarkably rapid pace, and with that development has come a multitude of corresponding changes to the orientation and use of land throughout the country.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresaoût, 2010
In the decade leading to the recent commodity boom, which peaked in 2007-08, several resource-rich, low-income countries displayed high rates of gross domestic product (GDP) growth while social indicators did not improve significantly. It is well known that, in itself, the widely tracked GDP may not be the most relevant summary of aggregate economic performance in all places at all times.
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