Journal Articles & Books
April 2021
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Manuals & Guidelines
February 2021
Global
Indicator 5.a.2: Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
Peer-reviewed publication
January 2021
Senegal
L’importance de l’accès à la terre aux femmes n’est plus à démontrer, eu égard aux impératifs liés à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable.
Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
November 2020
South Africa
Tenure governance is a complex and multi-dimensional issue that requires cross-sectoral and holistic approaches, gathering the resources, information and expert skills of a variety of actors while exploring innovative, polycentric multi-stakeholder governance arrangements to address collective action challenges.
Journal Articles & Books
May 2020
Spain
This article explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for public transport. Three elements are explored. Firstly, the short-term effects, including perceptions of public transport as a vector of virus transmission and shifts towards less-sustainable modes of transport.
Reports & Research
November 2019
Sri Lanka
Institute for Constitutional Studies (ICS) commissioned a study on Key Land Laws in Sri Lanka during 2017-2018 in order to identify the priority areas for which the attention of policy makers and the administrators is required. These policy briefs are prepared focusing on the five important areas identified by that study.
Agreements & Contracts
December 2018
Central America
Históricamente América Central es una región con importantes niveles de inequidad en la distribución y uso de los recursos naturales.
Journal Articles & Books
December 2018
Bhutan
As global inequality is dropping, inequality within countries is rising. The problem of inequality is a cause for concern for nations as it undermines democracy and reduces welfare. Bhutan, a developing country in South Asia, also faces rising inequality. Based on the experience of the kidu system in Bhutan, this paper argues that the system is effective in reducing inequality of opportunity.
Journal Articles & Books
July 2016
Kenya
This report, which focuses on Kenya, constitutes one of four country-wide assessments produced under the overall project.
Reports & Research
December 2011
Afghanistan
While there is no right to land codified in international human rights law, the Convention for the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), provides for women’s right to own and inherit property without discrimination on the basis of sex. Afghanistan ratified CEDAW in 2003, without reservations.