The possible shape of a Land Transparency Initiative
This report provides input into discussions on a global land transparency initiative, which was the focus of talks at the recent G8 Summit in June 2013.
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Literature review of property rights and development
This study aims to look at the state of evidence on the link between secure property rights and development, with an emphasis on recent evidence in African countries, and identify where there are significant gaps that need to be plugged by further research. -
Shining a light on land deals: sharing lessons for transparency
The ‘3Ts’ of the G8 summit – tax, trade and transparency – are interlinked, especially through the axis between transparency and tax, as Kevin Watkins outlines. Discussions on tax are bringing to light the hidden worlds of corporate tax avoidance and tax evasion by individuals, whereas – led by the UK – the transparency agenda is focusing on land, open data and extractives.
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Climate change litigation: a rising tide?
CDKN’s Mairi Dupar reports back from a roundtable exploring climate change litigation, policy and mobilisation in which participants debated the role of the courts in climate change. -
Accountability and Non-discrimination in Flood Risk Management: Investigating the potential of a rights-based approach. A Honduras case study
This report describes how the flood management/DRR ‘sector’ in Honduras has been ‘scoped’ using tools of analysis to investigate how well (or inadequately) poor populations at risk are being served by current laws, policies and institutions.
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Human Rights and Livelihood Approaches for Poverty Reduction
Marta Foresti and Eva Ludi with Roo GriffithsThis briefing paper maps the key features of the sustainable livelihoods approaches and human rights-based approaches to poverty reduction and their foundation, content and contributionto analysing poverty in specific contexts, also identifying operational entry points (Section 2). In Section 3 the two approaches are compared, with synergies identified as well as differences. Section 4 then provides some ideas on how the two approaches could be combined, and what could be gained from such a two-pronged approach. Section 5 pulls together some of the most relevant issues and makes initial recommendations for the reader.
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Human Rights and Poverty Reduction - Public goods and private rights: The illegal logging debate and the rights of the poor
David Brown, Adrian Wells, Cecilia Luttrell and Neil BirdThis paper explores the potential for applying rights perspectives in policy development in the tropical forest sector, focusing especially on an area of current concern: forest law enforcement and governance (FLEG).
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Right to Water: Legal Forms, Political Channels
This paper analyses the three principal legal forms of a right to water to understand the divergences in opinions on the issue.
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Rights and Livelihoods Approaches: Exploring Policy Dimensions
Tim Conway, Caroline Moser, Andy Norton and John FarringtonDrawing on case studies of rights-based approaches to livelihood development, this paper briefly reviews the main features of these two approaches, and the possibility of integrating them.
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Sustainable livelihoods, rights and the new architecture of aid
A number of new aid vehicles have been introduced recently, mainly by the Washington-based institutions. This paper aims to give an overview of the range and provisions of these, and then to assess how they might relate to existing approaches to development.