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Communal Land Tenure - A Social Anthropological Study in Laos

Reports & Research
January, 2016
Myanmar
South-Eastern Asia

CONCLUSION:
"A developing country like Lao PDR is struggling to gain recognition from other countries
in the world. This requires that the country applies a human rights perspective to
governance of land. In this case the land rights are the rights of the ethnic groups in the
uplands that practice customary communal tenure. These groups would like the
government to accept and register their communal land use legally. The first step
towards this is in the development of the National Land Use Policy which is still in draft.

Karamoja Sub region Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Uganda

Since Karamoja is richly endowed with gold, marble, iron ore, tungsten, limestone, oil and gas, it has attracted many investors, in particular since the protracted  armed conflicts in northern Uganda started fading away. Approximately  1 7,000 km2 or 62% of the total land area of Karamoja has been licensed for mineral  exploration  and exploitation (Kabiswa, 2014).

COMMUNITY LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE TENURE RECOGNITION: REVIEW OF COUNTRY EXPERIENCES

Reports & Research
December, 2015
South-Eastern Asia
Myanmar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "In recent years, many governments globally have formally recognized community land and natural resource tenure, either based on existing customary practices or more recently established land governance arrangements.1 These tenure arrangements have been called by a variety of names, such as community, customary, communal, collective, indigenous, ancestral, or native land rights recognition. In essence, they seek to establish the rights of a group to obtain joint tenure security over their community’s land.

Política Pública Contra El Racismo Y La Discriminación Racial Para El Desarrollo Integral De Los Pueblos Indígenas Y Afrohondureños (P-Piah) 2016-2026.

National Policies
December, 2015
Honduras

La Política Pública Contra El Racismo Y La Discriminación Racial Para El Desarrollo Integral De Los Pueblos Indígenas Y Afrohondureños (P-Piah) es un instrumento de alcance nacional, relativo al período 2016-2026, que tiene por objeto garantizar el ejercicio de los derechos humanos de los P-Piah, manteniendo su identidad y diversidad, promoviendo, con carácter de corresponsabilidad, espacios de participación y ejercicios de derechos en los ámbitos sociales, económicos, políticos, culturales y ambientales, y respetando su cosmovisión.

Settlement Lands Regulation (Y.O.I.C. 2016/111).

Regulations
December, 2015
Canada

The present Regulation is made under the Land Titles Act, 2015. In particular, the Regulation provides for the correct and efficient enforcement of the aforementioned Act. Section 1 establishes that a Yukon First Nation is eligible to apply to bring its settlement land under the Act and have a certificate of title issued for that land if its final agreement or selfgovernment agreement provides that the Act applies to its settlement land registered in the land titles office.

Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Western Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa
Ghana

For decades, policymakers and development practitioners have debated benefits and threats of property rights formalization and private versus customary tenure systems. This paper provides insights into the challenges in understanding and empirically analyzing the relationship between tenure systems and agricultural investment, and formulates policy advice that can support land tenure interventions. We focus on Ghana, based on extensive qualitative fieldwork and a review of empirical research and policy documents.

Myanmar National Land Use Policy (English)

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Myanmar

Introduction: "1. Myanmar is a country where the various kinds of ethnic
nationalities are residing collectively and widely in 7 Regions, 7
States and Union Territory. The country is located in Southeast
Asia and is important geographically, economically and politically
in the region.
2. Moreover, Myanmar is a country that has rich natural resources and
environment, including valuable forests, fertile planes, natural gas
and mineral deposits, long coastline, mountain ranges, and rivers

Myanmar National Land Use Policy - အမျိုးသားမြေအသုံးချမှုမူဝါဒ (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Myanmar

၁။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးပေါင်းစုံတို့ စုပေါင်းနေထိုင်လျှက်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံတစ်နိုင်ငံဖြစ်ပြီး၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး ရ ခု၊ ပြည်နယ် ရ ခုနှင့် ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတို့တွင် ပြန့်နှံ့နေထိုင်လျက်ရှိသည်။ နိုင်ငံတော်သည် အရှေ့တောင်အာရှတွင် တည်ရှိပြီး ပထဝီအနေအထားအရသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ စီးပွားရေးအရသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ နိုင်ငံရေးအရသော်လည်းကောင်း အချက်အချာကျသည့်နိုင်ငံဖြစ်ပါသည်။

Our People, Our Resources

November, 2015

This report presents a brief discussion
of indigenous peoples’ development as evidenced in a select
number of case studies about World Bank financed projects
that had a positive impact on indigenous peoples’
communities. The main objective of this study is to identify
and document good practices and lessons learned that can be
shared with World Bank staff, borrower governments, and
Indigenous Peoples’ organizations to help improve the design

The Status of Customary Land and the Future of Smallholder Farmers Under the Current Land Administration System in Zambia

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Zambia

The past decade has ushered in an era of increasingly contentious land politics in Zambia, with investors, the government, and chiefs simultaneously blamed for injustices in land allocation. These conflicts over land have been exacerbated, and at times caused by the lack of transparency and available data on the status of land. While a variety of actors has real grievances with the security and efficiency of the current system of land allocation, smallholder farmers bear the brunt of the risk of continuing the status quo in land policy.