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Fit-for-purpose land administration: lessons from urban and rural Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yesSurvey Review, 2015
Lessons for designing fit-for-purpose land administration and land management activities, where the stated purposes are poverty alleviation, food security, and good governance, are provided. Contemporary developments from urban and rural Ethiopia provide the empirical basis: data is synthesised from fieldwork and other research activities undertaken ...
Bennett, R. M., Alemie, B. K.
openaire   +2 more sources

Introducing Collaborative Governance in Decentralized Land Administration and Management in South Africa: District Land Reform Committees Viewed through a ‘System of Innovation’ Lens

open access: yesLand, 2021
A Fit-for-Purpose (FFP) land administration system strives for a more flexible, inclusive, participatory, affordable, reliable, realistic, and scalable approach to land administration and management in developing countries.
Evert Waeterloos
doaj   +1 more source

Fit-for-Purpose, Private-Sector Led Land Regularization and Financing of Informal Settlements in Brazil

open access: yesLand, 2021
This paper aims to analyze the financial and operational approach to land regularization and financing used in Brazil by an innovative private social enterprise in order to demonstrate that the approach widens the concept fit-for-purpose land ...
Malcolm Childress   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Innovative Remote Sensing Methodologies for Kenyan Land Tenure Mapping

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
There exists a demand for effective land administration systems that can support the protection of unrecorded land rights, thereby assisting to reduce poverty and support national development—in alignment with target 1.4 of UN Sustainable ...
Mila Koeva   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

SmartSkeMa: Scalable Documentation for Community and Customary Land Tenure

open access: yesLand, 2021
According to the online database landmarkmap, up to an estimated 50% or more of the world’s habitable land is held by indigenous peoples and communities.
Malumbo C. Chipofya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Tradable Conservation Easement For Vulnerable Conservation Objectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Weeks talks about tradable conservation easement for vulnerable conservation objectives. The critical conservation objectives in some conservation easements will probably be compromised by the effects of climate change in the relatively near future ...
Weeks, W. William
core   +4 more sources

The SmartLandMaps Approach for Participatory Land Rights Mapping

open access: yesLand, 2023
Millions of formal and informal land rights are still undocumented worldwide and there is a need for scalable techniques to facilitate that documentation.
Claudia Lindner   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terrorism on Trial: The President’s Constitutional Authority to Order the Prosecution of Suspected Terrorists by Military Commission [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Sverige har sedan 1960-talet varit ett invandringsland. Av befolkningen är idag cirka 15 % födda i annat land. Andelen av befolkningen som är utlands-födda är i nivå med länder som USA och Tyskland.
Larson, M, Thång, P-O
core   +3 more sources

Documenting informal and customary land rights in Africa Challenges of using participatory means

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
The adoption of modern Land Administration Systems (LAS) in Sub Saharan Africa is done with the expectation that principles of equity, non-discrimination, efficiency, transparency, productivity and sustainability among others may be achieved to meet ...
Kealeboga Kaizer Moreri
doaj   +2 more sources

Do Design Science Research and Design Thinking Processes Improve the ‘Fit’ of the Fit-For-Purpose Approach to Securing Land Tenure for All in South Africa?

open access: yesLand, 2021
In South Africa, land tenure security is a challenge for 60% or more of the population who hold interests in land outside of the formal system of registered title.
Simon Hull, Jennifer Whittal
doaj   +1 more source

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