This publication explores how legal empowerment work can account for gender and power dynamics when advancing land, environmental, and climate (LEC) justice. The strategies and stories within are drawn from…
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This clear and well laid out guide has been put together by Namati with UNDP funding after consulting widely on inputs, pre-testing in four chiefdoms, and validation by stakeholders. The…
The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible…
Women in the districts of Bombali and Pujehun, affected by the large-scale land acquisition by multilateral companies, have called on the government to ensure inclusiveness in decision-making and good governance…
Includes history of the project, the scale down, the role of European DFIs (Development Finance Institutions), recommendations. The issues of concern and damages often expressed by a critical mass of…
Includes Socfin in Sahn Malen, Pujehun District, lack of free, prior and informed consent, inadequate compensation for loss of land and crops, failure to mark boundaries of family land before…
An 11 minute film illustrating how rural villagers in Sierra Leone are seeking to ensure justice. When a Chinese rubber company seized their forest and land they came together, used…
Includes an interview with Amanda Massaquoi, member of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in West and Central Africa, who is supporting women in Sierra Leone who are…
Before the company’s arrival in 2011, the people of Ngovokpahun village had used their land to grow cocoa and other cash crops to help them pay for their children’s education….
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone in 2008 and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from…