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  Tenure, diversity, and commitment: community participation for urban service provision

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2002

  This paper examines factors influencing a household’s willingness to participate in community based service provision programs.
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  Integrating land issues and land policy with poverty reduction and rural development in Southern Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

  This paper is a synthesis of land issues and land policy constraints in Southern Africa prepared for the World Bank Regional Workshop on Land Issues in Africa and the Middle East held in Kampala, Uganda, in May 2002.
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  Rural land management in Zambia: the need for institutional and land tenure reforms

  Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2002

  This study contends that Zambia cannot develop if it neglects policy for the efficient utilization of its natural resources.
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  Land restitution and redistribution: providing opportunities for broad-based rural development

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  This case study deals with the South African government policies for restitution and redistribution of land to people in rural areas who were deprived of it due to racially discriminatory laws and practice. Its main focus is on how the interactions between civil society and the state in the several phases of land reform through the 1990s reflect some key issues of governance, eg.
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  Bringing the vertical dimension to the negotiating table: preliminary assessment of a conflict resolution case in the Philippines

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2002

  This report shows how Participatory 3-D Modelling and other advanced geographic and cartographic techniques have helped in consensual solutions for land and resource tenure conflicts, based on an improved understanding and visualisation of territorial landmarks.
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  The impact of regulation on the livelihoods of the poor

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2001

  The key concept of the Global Strategy for Shelter, and its successor the Habitat Agenda, is that of enabling; of governments' stepping back from housing production and measures to control the price of outputs and, instead, working to enable the current and potential suppliers of housing to do what they do best.
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  Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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  From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afghanistan

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This issue focuses on the economic, social and instiutional restructuring required in Afghanistan to achieve food security and justice.The major areas of action required include:the revival of Afghan agricultureaffirmative actions to restore Afghan women’s rightseducation to develop human capital The articles included are:From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afgha
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  Land tenure and land conflict in the South Pacific

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 2001

  The paper is a desk study prepared as a basis for discussion and further field research into land tenure and conflict in the region.The first section provides an overview of land tenure and land utilization issues. This section includes an analysis of gender and other demographic issues as they relate to land tenure and access to natural resources.
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  Linkages between rural population ageing, intergenerational transfers of land and agricultural production: are they important?

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  The paper considers: the question of whether the process of population ageing affects the ways in which land is passed on between members of different generationsthe likely implications of ageing-related changes in intergenerational transfers for food production in developing countriesThe paper concentrates primarily on rural population ageing in contexts where the individual

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