Clear and coherent laws are key to successful community forestry.The Republic of Congo is currently developing its first legal framework on community forestry — presenting policymakers with a unique opportunity to design an enabling and comprehensive legal framework that empowers communities. This briefing outlines key areas the framework should be built on, including five that should be addressed as a priority.

This summary examines the challenges orphan children face in securing their land rights that affects their status during land registration. Particularly;the current practice of LIFTs implementation of procedures for registering deceased landholders parcels and its impact on single orphans. The study provides a strategy to ensure that orphans who have lost either one or both parents receive long-term access to their land use rights .This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

this proposal examines the potential negative consequences SLLC may have had on women and vulnerable groups in woredas where Social Development Officers (SDO) were not in post to engage with these groups and provides an approach to revisit a selected number of non-SDO woredas to rapidly identify and resolve disputes..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.