Principles of Community Monitoring
Principles of Community Monitoring

This document shares emerging ideas, principles, and good practices to socialize the concept of community monitoring among companies and investors in land-based sectors, as well as outline steps they can take to meaningfully engage with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples to monitor and respond to the potential environmental and human rights impacts of their operations, supply chains, or investments.

Community Land Rights in Liberia: A Summary of 2020 Analyses
Community Land Rights in Liberia: A Summary of 2020 Analyses

This summary highlights findings of three RRI studies conducted in 2020 as they relate to Liberia, and explains what the findings of these three studies mean for Liberia and aims to equip local communities and civil society organizations (CSOs) with data to advance their advocacy work to influence future reforms, and help the government, donors, private sector actors, and conservationists make informed decisions.

Whose Water?
Whose Water?

This report presents an innovative, international comparative assessment on the extent to which various national-level legal frameworks recognize the freshwater tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, and local communities, as well as the specific rights of women to use and govern community waters.

A Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands
A Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands

If properly leveraged, natural climate solutions can contribute over 37% of cost-effective CO2 mitigation by 2030. Evidence shows Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to achieving such outcomes. This report presents the most comprehensive assessment to date of carbon storage in documented community lands worldwide.

This report discusses the critical role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the context of emerging climate and development priorities, and the unprecedented opportunity to scale up the recognition and protection of community land and resource rights—both for the benefit of rural peoples and for the realization of global peace and prosperity.

Tenure and Investment in Africa: Synthesis Report
Tenure and Investment in Africa: Synthesis Report

A synthesis of an investigation of tenure risk in East, West, and Southern Africa, that shows that a majority of tenure disputes are caused by the displacement of local peoples, indicating that companies and investors are not doing enough to understand competing claims to the land they acquire or lease.

Tenure and Investment in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Key Trends and Contextual Factors
Tenure and Investment in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Key Trends and Contextual Factors

An empirical picture of the causes and effects of tenure-related disputes between private sector actors and local peoples across different sub-regions and countries in Africa, this analysis details statistical evidence of key trends in tenure-related disputes, including their causes as well as the prevalence of violence, work stoppages, and regulatory interventions.

Who Owns the Land in Africa?
Who Owns the Land in Africa?

This brief summarizes findings on community ownership and control of lands in 19 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Les Droits aux Ressources en Crise
Les Droits aux Ressources en Crise

L’objectif de cette série de cinq essais est d’informer et d’aider à structurer le plaidoyer et les actions contestant la faiblesse juridique des droits fonciers…

Rights to Resources in Crisis
Rights to Resources in Crisis

This five brief series, written by panelist Liz Alden Wily, analyzes the roots of African land tenure systems, recent policy trends and puts the phenomenon…

Liberia
Liberia

This presentation provides an overview of the challenges facing Liberia as international interest in its land and resources intensifies” as well as of the promising…

Community Mapping
Community Mapping

Community Mapping: An Alternative Advocacy Tool For Ensuring That Land And Natural Resources Management Are Right” Pro Poor And Tenure Based In Liberia

Who Owns the Forests of Africa?
Who Owns the Forests of Africa?

In recent decades there has been a shift away from government control of forest land towards increasing access and ownership for indigenous groups, communities, individuals,…