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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… potential for both public and private agricultural … sustainability, renewed public and private sector commitments have been made to reverse decades of … policy goals, encouraging much needed responsible public and private agricultural investment to enhance …
Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone
… in the policy, to the public structures and processes through which rights in … with the VGGT provisions, set out how companies in the sector should go about that. It is not … reform efforts within the justice sector have paid scant attention to non‐judicial …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… may be done by establishing new roles for the state and public officials on the one hand, while on the other hand … in this way: (1) the legislative strategy involves public authorities "setting the rules regulating local land … FRELIMO and RENAMO deputies, religious groups, the private sector, academic institutions, traditional authorities, and a …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… over 1,000 staff in 45 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. … report. The survey was the first activity under the Legal Sector Master Plan Toward the Year 2020, which was formally … fishery for consumption and [for producing] food for the public, raw materials to supply industrial processing …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… NSW, an independent community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law, and the Division of … including ILCs, and/or NGOs and individuals or private sector institutions.” (Kothari, 2006). Community protocols … 10 has three pillars: promoting access to information, public participation, and access to justice. The …
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… that courts shall apply customary law not contrary to public order57 and Liberia requires courts to apply both … to actions that do not “affect general interests and public order”. The scope and modalities of these measures as … territorial entities are the city, the commune, the sector and the chiefdom (la chefferie). Paragraph 3: They …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… economies in transition. 4 Most importantly for the forest sector, the Bali Action Plan calls for consideration of … ICCAs are often being abandoned or lost. At the same time, public recognition of ICCAs can be crucial for some … for residents and visitors. Inclusion of ICCAs in public databases also requires that some amount of data …