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Transnational land deals and gender equality: utilitarian and human rights approaches
2014Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land deals.DocumentMainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique is one of the few public sector departments in the world known to have allocated its own resources to developing a sector-specific anti-corruption strategy.DocumentREDD+ in India: managing carbon storage and biodiversity safeguarding in national forest politics?
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014The report analyses India's approach towards the mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhance-ment of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), with particular attention to India's handling of both carbon and biodiversity matters.DocumentInstituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.DocumentRising powers and the African security landscape
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014As the rising powers of China, Brazil, India and South Africa extend their economic engagement in Africa, they are also gradually becoming more involved in the African peace and security agenda. The four articles in this report describe and analyse how these rising powers are engaging with the African security landscape:DocumentThe political economy of corruption and REDD+: lessons from the Philippines' pilot sites
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014Corruption is a continuing feature of the Philippines’ natural resource sectors. Given keen interest in the country’s REDD+ potential, it is useful to consider corruption risks related to REDD+ from a political economy perspective.DocumentLocal preferences for REDD+ payment formats in Brazil, The Bolsa Floresta Programme, RDS Rio Negro
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013Poverty and sustainable development impacts of REDD architecture is a multi-country project led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED, UK) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Aas, Norway).DocumentEthiopia: Overview of corruption in land administration
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014Improving land governance is key in assuring that land resources can be enjoyed by all parts of the population. Donors can play an important role in combatting corruption in land administration and building a well-functioning land administration by both supporting domestic government efforts as well as engaging in international and multi-country initiatives.DocumentCorruption risks and mitigating approaches in climate finance
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014There are major governance and corruption challenges associated with climate finance, with huge amounts of money from a wide variety of sources flowing through new, complex and relatively untested funding mechanisms at international, national and local levels.