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Eric Kinaga on open data initiatives to fight land corruption in Kenya and beyond

5 February 2021

Kenya

Ancient fort community in Bangkok loses 25-year battle against bulldozers

7 May 2018

Thailand

A 300-year-old community in Bangkok will have its homes demolished as part of the city's modernisation plans

BANGKOK - For more than two decades, a community of more than 300 people living next to an old fort in Bangkok staved off drug dealers keen to extend their turf, and city officials eager to tear down their homes and build a park to draw more tourists.

Philippines: Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program: Free distribution of public lands? (OPINION)

10 August 2017

Philippines

On top of the socio-economic reform demands being pushed by the National Democratic Front, collectively dubbed as the comprehensive agreement on socio-economic reforms (CASER), is the free distribution of land for the country’s landless rural poor.

Blogs

Sustainable corridors? Urban land and mobility infrastructure development in an era of climate change

5 July 2021

Authors:

Dr. Kei Otsuki

Global

This session aimed to generate discussions on different experiences of infrastructure development that addresses climate change in cities. It paid particular attention to new transportation “corridor” development, which has increasingly become popular as a way to redesign the rapidly growing city to reduce traffic congestions and thereby carbon emissions, promote affordable public transportation system, and to make public green spaces accessible for all the citizens. However, it is known that it significantly affects ways that urban land is used, accessed and governed by local communities.

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Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

Policy Papers & Briefs

July 2019

Africa

Ethiopia

Uganda

Namibia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Brazil

Peru

Asia

Cambodia

Laos

Eastern Europe

Global

The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices.

Law No. XIII-971 amending Law on land (No. 1-446).

Legislation

December 2017

Lithuania

Article 7 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Article 7. Management, use and disposal of state land by trust.

Governmental Decree No. 810 “On the issues of allotment of land plots for subsoil management”.

Regulations

December 2017

Kyrgyzstan

This Governmental Decree establishes that land plots shall be allotted for provisional tenancy covering the period of subsoil management for the following purposes: (a) geological exploration of subsoil; and (b) mining and construction of the infrastructure for subsoil management.

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Organizations

Ministry of Development

The Ministry of Development (MoD; Malay: Kementerian Pembangunan) is a ministry in the government of Brunei responsible for public works, land use, environment, public housing and national geomatics. The current Minister of Development is Suhaimi bin Gafar and has held office since 2018.

United States House Committee on Natural Resources

The House Committee on Natural Resources, chaired by Rob Bishop of Utah, considers legislation about American energy production, mineral lands and mining, fisheries and wildlife, public lands, oceans, Native Americans, irrigation and reclamation. The Committee is comprised of 44 Representatives, 26 Republicans and 18 Democrats. Learn more about Chairman Bishop and meet all of the Committee Members.

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