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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa:Pilot Evidence from Rwanda
Article / Working Paper, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, DonorAlthough recent developments have increased interest in African land tenure, Rwanda’s nation-wide Land Tenure Regularization (LTR) program is one of a few models to address these issues at the required scale. A rigorous empirical analysis that is used to evaluate the pilot for this program highlights four main effects; namely, (i) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly...
Gender and Elections | BRIDGE
Governance and Gender, Training Material, Inter-Governmental Organization, UNDP Produced, Other UN Agency, Civil Society, DonorIn many places in the world, women struggle to be heard and, when it comes to having a voice in the highest authority in the land, the difficulties in some countries can be almost insurmountable. Gender issues affect all aspects of an election. There are numerous barriers to women’s participation in political and electoral processes. This module examines strategies for promoting women’s...
The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizens and States
Civil Society, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil Society, DonorA new DFID synthesis report,The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizen and States, shows how research from four major DFID-funded research programmes closing this year is changing academic and policy thinking on governance. Governance is sometimes seen as an intangible concept. But, at root it is a simple one. Governance describes the way countries and societies manage their affairs...