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Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation

… rights in Africa 13 3. What kind of local leadership and decision-making structures best allow for downward … power, stronger kinship ties, and access to powerful decision-makers are more likely to triumph in struggles over … "property" of their husbands, and often have little to no decision-making power around questions of household …
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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments

… national  actors  at  both  technical  and  decision‐making  levels,  to  ensure  that  countries’  … who will be  responsible  for oversight. Where a decision  is  taken  to  integrate  responsible  … forth  general provisions and providing authority for decision‐making and oversight. They may also  be  found  in  …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… areas “Officially designated protected areas where decision-making power is shared between state agencies and … customary laws and practices; • governance systems and decision- making processes; • community development plans; • … in relation to customary no-take zones and customary decision-making concerning tribal land and the coastal zone. …
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Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone

…  hear their case, consider the evidence and issue a binding decision. In mediation,  …  and reach a dispute settlement agreement, without making a decision and closing other options to  … the youth do not often participate in decision‐making processes.    … to  land and minerals. Anyone dissatisfied with a decision of the Agency may apply to the High  …
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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

… • A self-definition of the group and its leadership and decision- making processes; • How they promote in situ … against environmental degradation. For example, a recent decision by the Loisukutan Forest Committee has determined … be given all relevant information with which to take a decision and given time to discuss the issues within the …
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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… disputes in their jurisdictions. Appeals against a wazir’s decision went to the Raja for a final decision. Lumbardars were paid in kind, usually with grain, … were resolved in this way, the jastero would announce the decision openly in the same sitting. Otherwise, the jastero …
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Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world

… to take whatever action it considers appropriate where a decision that is otherwise binding on the court is … on issues of state and public importance with the decision reached by the kurultai submitted to the relevant … supreme law of the land. Any law, customary practice or a decision of an organ of state or a public official which …
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Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation

… water governance by facilitating transparent and inclusive decision-making to improve livelihood security, human and … Management of the Ramsar Convention in Lao PDR; and the Decision of the Provincial Committee for Wetland Management … practices, conceptions of rights, and leadership and decision-making structures; conceptual aspects and scope of …
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Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

26 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… its 1997 judgment in the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Case. In that decision, the ICJ referred to what it called a state’s “basic …
26 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater