| 2012
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- Publisher: Association of European parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA)
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- Keywords: poverty, land acquisition, natural resources, governance, eu, africa south of sahara
The seminar “Managing Africa’s Natural Resources Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)” (Rome, 28 Sep. 2012) serves to promote a dialogue on the roles and responsibilities of both European and African parliamentarians in the management of natural resources, incl. land.
| 2012
- Author(s):
- Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: development assistance, development planning, information exchange, governance, local government, decentralization in government, germany
The 7th annual meeting of the working group on Decentralisation and Local Governance was held in Berlin in 2012. The need to better position decentralisation and local governance as an important development policy field was emphasized.
| 2012
- Author(s):
- Publisher: Rights and resources initiative (RRI)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: governance, resources conservation, deforestation, land rights, community organization, forest resources, africa south of sahara, latin america
Research shows that where the rights of Indigenous Peoples and communities are recognized, their territories and community-managed forests outperform public protected areas in preventing deforestation and ensuring conservation. Most of the progress occurred in Latin America.
| 2011
- Author(s):
- Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: local government, decentralization in government, development assistance, cost benefit analysis, development strategies, international co-operation
In the closing statement of the 6th Annual Meeting of the Development Partners Working Group on Local Governance and Decentralisation the importance of DLG issues in the aid-effectiveness discourse was reiterated.
| 2011
- Author(s):
- Publisher: Committee on world food security
- Pages: --
- Keywords: land titles, land acquisition, local government, governance, small farms, land rights
Measures to strengthen local land rights in the face of global land grabbing include recognition of local land rights and devolution of land management responsibilities to local government, with accountability mechanisms, such as in Tanzania‘s Village Land Act of 1999, and in Senegal.