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ADOPTING “First-level Adjudication” INTO A GIS MEDIUM

A Preliminary report for AFRA by Denis Rugege, March 2005

Other legal document
March, 2005
South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
adjudication
land administration
This project is a component of the project “Piloting of Local Administration of Records - PILAR”, undertaken by the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA). AFRA is an independent land rights NGO that aims to redress past injustices, to secure tenure for all and to improve the quality of life and livelihoods of the rural poor. Pilar’s main objective is to assist the people of Ekuthuleni obtain legal, affordable and accessible land records in order to improve their tenure security and their access to credit and municipal services.
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Committees and Forest Area under JFM

Other legal document
December, 2015
India
community forestry
forestry
Environmental Information System (ENVIS), established by Government of India, in December, 1982 provides environmental information to different stakeholders etc. This webapge provides information on area, number of committee, membership, benefits related to Joint Forest Management in India state-wise. It also provides state-wise forest cover (1987-2015).
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Environmental Annual Report 2016-17

Reports & Research
Legislation & Policies
Other legal document
May, 2017
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
conflict of interest
environment
forest conservation
forest management plans
This Environmental Annual report 2016-17 is prepared by The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India.

This Report contains activities and achievements of planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of India's environmental and forestry policies and programmes in yearly basis.

The areas that this report deals are as follows:

· Natural Resources- Surveys and explorations by different departments under the ministry

· Environmental Impact Assessments
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EXTENSION OF SECURITY OF TENURE AMENDMENT BILL [B24-2-15]

Legislation & Policies
Legislation
Other legal document
January, 2016
Africa, South Africa
housing rights
illegal occupation
informal settlements
regularization of illegal occupation
Submissions to the Portfolio Committee: Rural Development and Land Reform on the Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill
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Follow-up to the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources

Other legal document
June, 2014
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
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Forest laws, acts, regulations

Other legal document
June, 2017
India
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
MoEFCC is the central ministry of Government of India, responsible for forest administration in the country; the page provides information on forest laws, acts, rules and guidelines etc.
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Implemetating the 1997 Land Law of Mozambique

Other legal document
February, 2008
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
assessment
capacity development
development
this short paper will discuss where things currently stand with the implamentation of the innovative and widely regarded 1997 land law of Mozambique. A recent assessment begens with the upbeat conclusion that significant progress has been made. A decade after its approval by the assembly there are howver many voices calling for a changes. Mozambique is apparantly a very diferent place compared with a vary diferent place compared with the mid 1990s and according to same, now requires a diferrent kind of land law.
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Israeli forced transfer of Palestinian Bedouins: IDMC joins 42 other NGOs calling on world leaders to stop the implementation of the plan

Other legal document
September, 2014
Israel, Palestine
Land Conflicts
displacement
land dispute
IDMC was one of 44 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organizations calling on world leaders to stop Israeli plans to forcibly transfer thousands of Palestinian Bedouins out of their communities in the central part of the occupied West Bank and into a designated township.
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Mapping community development requirements in the mining sector

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Maps
April, 2021
Global
mining
local communities
IIED, the Sustainable Development Strategies Group (SDSG) and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) have created a collection of community development laws for the mining sector to encourage and facilitate better research and policy. The resource, with all community development laws available to search via the map above and all legislation and agreements in the list below, includes relevant legislation from 54 countries. All documents are available to download in PDF format.
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MINERAL AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT BILL: NO 15D OF 2013

Legislation & Policies
Legislation
Other legal document
March, 2017
Africa, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
customary land rights
development
extractive industries
indigenous peoples' land rights
mining
Written submissions on the MPRDA Amendment Bill 15D of 2013 to the Gauteng Legislature, made on behalf of the Land Access Movement of South Africa (LAMOSA), the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), and Bench Marks Foundation.