Best Practices for Land Tenure and Natural Resource Governance in Africa

Training

Start Date: October 08, 2012

End Date: October 11, 2012

Location:

Monrovia, Liberia

The USAID Short Course on Best Practices for Land Tenure and Natural Resource Governance in Africa was held on October 8-11, 2012 in Monrovia, Liberia. The course hosted approximately 35 decision makers from Africa and USG foreign assistance practitioners interested in strengthening their knowledge and skills in applying land tenure and property rights (LTPR) in their economic, governance and natural resource (biodiversity) portfolios. The course provided participants with the opportunity to:

Exchange experiences, deepen discussion and strengthen understanding of land tenure and property rights issues, and their application to government and USAID programming;
Study land tenure and property rights approaches, best practices and tools aimed at improving programmatic interventions on critical issues in the region related to natural resources, agriculture and economic growth, and governance and conflict; and
Learn tools to address land tenure and property rights issues, or use land tenure and property rights interventions to strengthen economic development, governance, conflict mitigation and natural resource management objectives.

Training materials are linked below.

Further Reading

Course Agenda 368.67 KB
Course Bios 120.89 KB
Course Participants 2.01 MB
Module: 1 Concepts and Definitions (Roth) 2.01 MB
Module 1: Introduction to LTPR Tools (Roth) 5.09 MB
Module 1: ABCs of Land Tenure 2.76 MB
Module 1: Liberia Case Study (Marquardt) 2.38 MB
Module 1: Best Practice on Recognition of Customary Law 171.91 KB
Module 1: Future of Customary Tenure 345.43 KB
Module 1: Concepts and Definitions 140.00 KB
Module 1: Matrix 243.65 KB
Module 1: Minerals Overlay 121.56 KB
Module 1: So Who Owns the Forest 3.54 MB
Module 1: Suggested Readings 456.33 KB
Module 2: Land and Conflict Prevention Handbook (Freudenberger) 1.74 MB
Module 2: Land NR and Conflict (Freudenberger) 2.84 MB
Module 2: Commons Web (Wily) 1.22 MB
Module 2: From Land Grab to Win Win 93.87 KB
Module 3: Property Rights of Women and Vulnerable Populations (Bledsoe) 1.54 MB
Module 2: Suggested Readings - Land Grabbing 425.94 KB
Module 2: Suggested Readings - Conflict 113.32 KB
Module 2: Whose Land (Wily) 1.46 MB
Module 2: Responding to the Land Grab (Liversage) 202.21 KB
Module 2: Potential Programmatic Interventions 151.43 KB
Module 2: Land and Conflict Prevention Handbook (Bruce and Holt) 1.24 MB
Module 2: New in Ghana (Yaro) 1.68 MB
Module 2: Global Land Rush (Cotula) 250.32 KB
Module 3: Urban Land Markets (Morales) 858.50 KB
Module 3: Gender Brief 329.66 KB
Module 3: HIV Gender Brochure 336.92 KB
Module 3: Indigenous Peoples Issue Brief 239.90 KB
Module 3: LTPR and HIV/AIDS 409.12 KB
Module 3: Pastoral Land Rights and Resource Governance Brief 379.41 KB
Module 3: Potential Interventions Gender and Vulnerable Populations 75.19 KB
Module 3: Suggested Readings - Strengthening Property Rights of Women 232.88 KB
Module 3: Suggested Readings - Understanding Vulnerability and Property Rights 243.87 KB
Module 4: Climate Change and Tenure (Freudenberger) 1.94 MB
Module 4: NRM Land Tenure and Conflict (Litz) 2.08 MB
Module 4: Tenure and NRM (Freudenberger) 4.02 MB
Module 4: Climate Change and Tenure Issue Brief 283.52 KB
Module 4: Potential Programmatic Interventions 349.78 KB
Module 4: REDD Issue Brief 315.05 KB
Module 4: Suggested Readings 66.48 KB
Module 5: African Union Land Policy Statements (Freudenberger) 387.73 KB
Module 5: Land Administration (Marquardt) 999.17 KB
Module 5: Land Markets 91.28 KB
Module 5: Large Scale Land Acquisitions (Roth) 1.35 MB
Module 5: Voluntary Guidelines (Giampaoli) 91.34 KB
Module 5: African Union Declaration on Land Issues 27.74 KB
Module 5: Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy 806.91 KB
Module 5: Integrating Customary Land Tenure 157.87 KB
Module 5: Land Administration Best Practice (Williamson) 63.09 KB
Module 5: Potential Programmatic Interventions 85.06 KB
Module 5: Setting the Standard for Land Information Management 317.56 KB
Module 5: Voluntary Guidelines 165.30 KB
Module 5: Land Registration Modernization in Latin America 205.00 KB
Module 5: Suggested Readings 8.10 KB

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