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The Access Initiative Online Assessment Toolkit - Environmental Governance
Framework, Land Governance, Civil SocietyAt the heart of The Access Initiative’s (TAI’s) work is an online assessment toolkit that helps civil society coalitions pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in environmental governance in their countries and identify opportunities to make positive changes. Using a framework of case studies and indicators that evaluate both laws on the books and government practices on the ground, TAI coalitions...
Integrating a Gender Dimension into Monitoring & Evaluation of Rural Development Projects
Framework, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Toolkit for Integrating Gender into Monitoring and Evaluation has been developed to assist project task teams, borrowers and partners to recognize and address gender concerns in designing rural development sector projects, to monitor progress in gender integration during implementation, and to evaluate its impact in achieving overall rural well-being. The toolkit contains among other things...
The Pyramid a Diagnostic and Planning Tool for Good Forest Governance
Civil Society, Framework, Land Governance, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe objective of ’’The Pyramid’: a diagnostic and planning tool for good forest governance is to offer a framework to stimulate participatory assessment and target-setting in forest governance at country level. Wielded by well-facilitated multi-stakeholder processes, the tool can help fill the ‘forest governance gap’ between assessing and accelerating field level progress in sustainable forest...
The Governance of Forest Toolkit
Civil Society, Framework, Land Governance, Civil SocietyThe Toolkit consists of a conceptual framework for defining forest governance and a comprehensive set of indicators for measuring and assessing forest governance. The GFI Toolkit is unique in that it provides: a common definition and conceptual framework for understanding the meaning of good governance of forests across different country contexts a practical tool for civil society...
Capacity Assessment in Land Administration
Framework, Land Governance, Civil SocietyThis Guide addresses the ability/capacity of land administration systems at the societal and institutional level as well as the individual level in terms of professional competence and human resource development. The guidelines are developed to serve as a logical framework for addressing each step in the process of building adequate land administration systems – from land policy, policy...
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...
IFAD land tenure indicators
Framework, Land Governance, Other UN AgencyRural Sector Performance Assessments (RSPA) is a rules-based system that uses a formula that incorporates measures of country need and country performance, in the rural sector. The purpose of PBAS is to increase the effectiveness of the use of IFAD’s scarce resources and to establish a more transparent basis and predictable level of future resource flows. Main purpose is to provide...