This paper analyses patterns of corruption and corruption risks related to community mineral beneficiation schemes (CMBSs) that distribute benefits funded by mineral revenues to communities. It analyses insights from existing scholarship on CMBSs, evidence from seven cases of corruption, and lessons from guidance documents on reducing corruption in the mining value chain. The aim of the paper is to stimulate debate and further research about the suitability of anti-corruption strategies for CMBSs.

Community-driven development is a strategy for empowering people to choose their own priorities, project leaders, and monitoring. Many believe that this model results in lower corruption rates. We look at what happened in the Arid Lands Project in Kenya and a community-development project in Indonesia. These projects had strikingly different corruption rates, even though the countries had similar corruption perception rates at project startup. Find out which design elements may account for the differences in corruption.

mproving land governance is key in assuring that land resources can be enjoyed by all parts of the population. Donors can play an important role in combatting corruption in land administration and building a well-functioning land administration by both supporting domestic government efforts as well as engaging in international and multi-country initiatives. However, donors are advised by experts and civil society organisations to be mindful of the possible impact of their interventions on issues of land grabbing and forced relocations.

Land issues have been rising up the agenda of policy makers due to rapid urbanisation and high food prices. Yet, land administration is one of the most corrupt government activities. How should international donors respond? The first priority is to support domestic governments in improving land administration and anti-corruption processes in general. In addition, donors should undertake explicit analysis of the political economy of land, reduce the impact of their own projects on land administration corruption, help increase transparency and exploit international connections.

This topic guide presents an overview of land corruption in rural and urban areas, focusing on:

The investigative series Indonesia for Sale, co-published by The Gecko Project and Mongabay, exposes the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis.

http://www.thegeckoproject.org

Abstract: Conflict and vested interest on khasland are common phenomenon in rural Bangladesh due to impact of colonial exit. Landless poor are living upon other’s land which is very painful in their life at the age of modern state. Many landless poor are living without having legal access to Government khas land.

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Twenty years of

legal struggle to

obtain ownership

of public ‘khas’

land In 1994, the landless villagers of Rajarampur in Dinajpur

district, Bangladesh, applied for access to public ‘khas’

land (government owned land available for allocation

according to government priorities) that had been lying

fallow for years. In 1995 they occupied 115 acres of this

fallow land. The occupation was contested by local elites,

The village of Rampur, in the Dinajpur district of

Bangladesh, was established on public ‘khas’ land in 1953

by landless farmers. However, in the following decades,

different groups of local elites claimed the land and tried

to evict the villagers. Thanks to support from CDA, the

villagers resisted the harassment and false claims. In 2000

the court quashed the false claims; in 2001 the village was

beneficiary to a governmental land distribution scheme;

Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “Achieve