Topic Guide: Land

Assessing the Evidence: The Effectiveness and Impact of Public Governance-Oriented Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives

“…58 Others argue that EITI needs to identify performance indicators that more clearly align with its core national-level activities. 59 Yet, the majority opinion by far is that the EITI itself is in need of improvement.…”

The plight of urban settlements based on the proliferation of dichotomy in Tanzania

“…Urban development and resettlement had been faced with several challenges that are affecting urban portfolio performance due to the exercising of the conventional approaches in land acquisitions and urban land development [52,62,66]. The rapid urbanization in Tanzania exposes its emerging cities and the process appeared to cause a burden and challenge to local and central governments which have the responsibility and overseer of any urban land development in their jurisdictions [5,6,23,64,70]. In the land development process, there is a close relationship between compulsory land acquisition and land development or urban planning [26].…”

“…This situation makes land development initiatives face some challenges especially when land acquisition is required for urban land development due to the legal requirement of paying relatively expensive compensation. The major reasons for the dichotomy of urban land development among the challenges stipulated by these scholars are dissatisfaction of the projectaffected peoples [9,27], inadequate and delay in payments of the compensation fees [9,29,30], lack of financial resources for projects to regularize land through compensation [57], socioeconomic challenges after the compensation project and incapacity to overcome the relocation and resettlement of project affected people [5], lack of good governance, failure to adhere with the statutory requirements and corruption practices revolving within the land management and administration authorities. Furthermore, other studies revealed that the resettlement actions plan resulted from the compensation in land acquisition and planning which entails reducing the informal settlements, had resulted in the vicious circle of the emergence of new informal settlements because the displaced people were not able to find alternative plots, they could afford with the amount of money they received from compensation in their previous acquired land for development purposes [5,30].…”

Topic Guide: Women’s empowerment in a changing agricultural and rural context

“…Many aspects of women's empowerment in rural areas can be explored in much more detail elsewhere. In many cases the Guide touches on an issue and provides links to more detailed references on that topic or refers to other Topic Guides such as the one on Land (Locke and Henley, 2014).…”

“…Two Evidence on Demand publications: the Topic Guide on Land (Locke and Henley, 2014); and a case study from Rwanda (Gillingham and Buckle, 2014) as well as a recent DFID property rights evidence paper (DFID 2014c) may be useful for those with a particular interest in land. They are available to download here:…”