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  Integrating gender equality dimensions into public financial management

  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2010

  This issues brief is on the integration of a gender equality perspective into public financial management (PFM). It introduces the what, why, where and how of both PFM and gender-responsive budgeting (GRB); outlines opportunities and challenges for implementing GRB; suggests ways of using GRB techniques; includes a comprehensive list of material for further reading.
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  Gender Responsive Budgeting and Aid Effectiveness Knowledge Briefs

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2010

  This series investigated how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) tools and strategies had been used in the context of aid modalities, such as general budget support (GBS) and sector budget support (SBS). Research was carried out in ten countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Nepal, Mozambique, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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  Securing land rights in rural communities of Nigeria: policy approach to the problem of gender inequality

  2013

  In Africa, the pursuit of gender equality in inheritance rights remains one of the most difficult challenges due to its entrenched patriarchal characteristics. This is also the case in the rural communities of South-Eastern Nigeria.
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  Elections and the risk of instability in Africa: supporting legitimate electoral processes

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  Whereas elections have become commonplace in Africa over the past 20 years, several recent examples have shown that they can also crystallise tensions and cause violence (as happened in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe), and can fail to legitimise power.
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  Lessons from electoral management and processes in West Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  A significant issue in the debate on constitutional and political reform in West Africa continues to be the improvement of governance to ensure electoral integrity and protect the electoral mandate through free and fair elections.
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  Evolving customary institutions in the Drylands: an opportunity for devolved natural resource governance in Kenya?

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014

  Improved governance of natural resources is crucial for building climate resilient livelihoods and economies in Africa’s drylands. This paper looks at why the authority and capacity of customary natural resource management institutions has been weakened, and how this impacts on resource governance and climate resilience.
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  Displacement and dispossession through land grabbing in Mozambique: the limits of international and national legal instruments — Refugee Studies Centre

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2014

  The scale and speed of coordinated land grabs over the past five years has created a new avenue through which people are being displaced and dispossessed of their lands.  This paper looks at what limits international and national law in addressing displacement and dispossession due to land grabs in Mozambique.
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  Impact of land certification on sustainable land resource management in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2014

  In Ethiopia, 85% of the population is directly supported by the agricultural economy.  However, the productivity of that economy is being seriously eroded by unsustainable land management practices both in areas of food crops and in grazing lands (Berry, 2003).
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  Towards a conceptual framework for improved monitoring and evaluation of SEA outcomes: a discussion note

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This paper tries to answer the question how can standard Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) process be modified to incorporate robust long term monitoring frameworks which facilitate outcome mapping and impact assessment.
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  Land and conflict in Sierra Leone: a rapid desk-based study

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This paper is a desk-based study of land rights and conflict in Sierra Leone.  It reviews post-2002 academic and grey literature. It addresses land ownership and rights within Sierra Leone, as well as exploring the concept of land ownership as a source or driver of conflict. It also reviews literature on the current land tenure system, and government stated policies.

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