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Voluntary guidelines for good governance in land and natural resource tenure - Issues from an international institutional perspective

Year of publication 2009

Pages 72

Author Land and Water Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Voluntary guidelines are human-rights based documents that provide a framework and reference point for national and international policies. They need to be derived from international agreements and credible examples of good practice if they are to command wide support. This paper is based on 56 authoritative international documents from which 14 principles about land and natural resources tenure have been derived.

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