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Enabling Voices, Demanding Rights: A guide to gender-sensitive community engagement in large-scale land-based investment in agriculture

25/05/2018

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Agricultural investment can benefit local communities, but evidence suggests that the adverse impacts of large-scale land-based investments in Africa are disproportionately borne by women. Women often suffer from a lack of formal land rights and can be excluded from opportunities to participate and voice their interests in the management and proposed allocation of community land […]

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Briefing paper

Contract Disclosure Survey 2018: A review of the contract disclosure policies of 40 oil, gas and mining companies

03/05/2018

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In most countries, subsoil oil, gas and mining resources are the property of citizens and are managed on their behalf by governments. The projects that contracts govern typically last longer than most governments. Estimated oil, gas and mineral rents totalled $1.7 trillion globally in 2015 – 1.7% of global GDP in that year and more […]

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Briefing paper

Testing Community Consent: Tullow Oil project in Kenya

08/11/2017

1 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study assesses the extent of Tullow Oil’s compliance with the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Turkana County, Kenya. It examines the company’s engagement in selected communities and finds that, while community engagement processes have improved in important ways, it has yet to achieve FPIC. The study provides recommendations that […]

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Briefing paper

Pathways to Deforestation-Free Food: Developing supply chains free of deforestation and exploitation in the food and beverage sector

07/09/2017

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Hidden in the food we buy every day, from chocolate to ice cream, are commodities like palm oil and soy that are driving deforestation across the world. From Indonesia to the Peruvian Amazon, vast areas of carbon-rich forest are being cleared to produce these agricultural commodities, contributing to climate change and social conflict. Several food […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Responsible Data Management training pack

29/03/2017

25 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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A stimulating, adaptable training pack for humanitarian organizations on managing programme data. Managing data properly may be the greatest challenge of the information age. We now have more ways to collect, store, share, transmit, analyse and publish data than ever before. As new legal frameworks emerge and increasing attention is paid to the ethics of […]

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Briefing paper

Community Consent Index 2015: Oil, gas, and mining company public positions on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

23/07/2015

4 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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As large-scale oil, gas, and mining projects move to increasingly remote areas, they threaten to generate adverse impacts for the local communities and indigenous peoples who inhabit these areas. For many project-affected communities, Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) represents a critical tool for ensuring that they have a say in whether and how extractive […]

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Briefing note

Power, Rights, and Inclusive Markets: Public policies that support small-scale agriculture

05/06/2013

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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By supporting small-scale agricultural producers, policy makers in governments and donor agencies can help some of the poorest people in the world to improve their livelihoods. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that most donor and government policies are currently biased towards large-scale agriculture at the expense of small-scale producers, women, and rural communities. This briefing note draws […]

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Enabling Voices, Demanding Rights: A guide to gender-sensitive community engagement in large-scale land-based investment in agriculture

Contract Disclosure Survey 2018: A review of the contract disclosure policies of 40 oil, gas and mining companies

Testing Community Consent: Tullow Oil project in Kenya

Pathways to Deforestation-Free Food: Developing supply chains free of deforestation and exploitation in the food and beverage sector

Responsible Data Management training pack

Community Consent Index 2015: Oil, gas, and mining company public positions on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

Power, Rights, and Inclusive Markets: Public policies that support small-scale agriculture