This document compiles four short reports and reflection pieces produced by Natural Habitats Group (NHG) during their involvement in a LEGEND project in Sierra Leone implemented by Solidaridad, which aimed to ensure that an NHG land based investment, undertaken by group member company Natural Habitats Sierra Leone Ltd (NHSL) to develop a large oil palm plantation respected existing community members and land holding families’ land rights.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesMarzo, 2020Sierra Leona
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Executive summary
Informes e investigacionesOctubre, 2019Congo, Ghana, LiberiaThis executive summary offers recommendations based on lessons learned from Ghana, Liberia and RoC, for other countries of West and Central Africa who are considering how to embed REDD+ social safeguards into their national laws.
The full report is available from here.
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A comparative look at the integration of social safeguards into the laws of Ghana, Liberia and the Republic of Congo
Informes e investigacionesOctubre, 2019Congo, Ghana, LiberiaIn West and Central Africa, home to 25% of the world’s tropical forests, the climate challenge is set against the threat of deforestation. In light of this threat, national laws and regulations seek to protect, restore, and manage the use of these forests for national development.
International initiatives such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) have identified that strengthening national laws to improve forest governance is an important tool to strike a balance between protection of forests and national development.
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2016 Testing of a New Survey Module on Perceptions of Land Tenure Security in Nine Countries
Informes e investigacionesMarzo, 2017Egipto, Tanzania, Nigeria, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Indonesia, GreciaThis report presents results from nationally representative surveys with 1,000 residents aged 15 and older in eight countries — Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Nigeria, Peru and Tanzania — and with 3,000 residents in India. Each survey attained comprehensive coverage of both urban and rural areas of the country using multi-stage stratified cluster sampling.1 Standardized interviewer and supervisor training, as well as robust validation of data collection/data entry, help to ensure rigorous quality standards.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de política y resúmenesNoviembre, 2016Liberia
Agriculture and mining are increasingly driving deforestation in Liberia, as trees are cleared to make way for plantations and mines. The environmental impacts of deforestation are devastating, but the people and communities who live in the forest are also at risk.
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