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Human Rights Matters Locally - Human Rights Assessment Tool
Framework, Human Rights, Civil SocietyThe C2C Toolkit provides a practical framework for local governments to assess human rights The toolkit: 1. Offers step-by-step guidelines to ensure local government policies comply with the legal obligations of the Charter. 2. Can help local governments go beyond minimum compliance to build a culture of human rights in the community. 3. Can help foster deeper understandings of how human...
The Land Governance Assessment Framework : Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector
Framework, Land Governance, Academic/Think TankAuthors/Editors: Klaus Deininger, Harris Selod, and Anthony Burns The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is intended as a first step to help countries deal with these issues. It is a diagnostic tool that is to be implemented at the local level in a collaborative fashion, that addresses the need for guidance to diagnose and benchmark land governance, and that can help...
Fast Facts on Participatory Governance Assessments for REDD+
GAP, UNDP Produced, Other UN AgencyA quick overview of how UN-REDD programme is using participatory governance assessments to provide capacity-building and training for governments to provide relevant, reliable and timely information, as well as civil society to act upon the information provided in order to hold their governments to account.
Realising rights, protecting forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation: Case studies from the Accra Caucus
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyThe Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The Caucus works to place the rights of indigenous and forest communities at the centre of...
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyFirst UN publication on the state of the world’s indigenous peoples reveals alarming statistics on poverty, health, education, employment, human rights, the environment and more. In the United States, a Native American is 600 times more likely to contract tuberculosis and 62 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population. In Australia, an indigenous...