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Helping Communities Protect Their Resources, June 2012
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Photo 1 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiA new two-year comprehensive report details a cost-effective process to assist communities in creating partnerships that help increase control of their land. The report explains a process in which communities in Liberia, Mozambique and Uganda were able to leverage national laws to protect family lands and communal resources from so called "land grabs". Here, a Liberian community draws maps of their land. -
Photo 2 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiMeeting with clan and paramount chiefs, Rivercess, Liberia. -
Photo 3 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiLiberian community greeting members of the field team before a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony. -
Photo 4 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiA county superintendent and county land commissioner witness a boundary harmonization memorandum of understanding in Liberia. -
Photo 5 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiLiberian man signing the memorandum attesting to the boundaries of community lands with their neighbors. -
Photo 6 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiMozambican community learning about their land rights. -
Photo 7 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiCommunity meeting, Inhambane, Mozambique. -
Photo 8 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiMozambican community members and government technicians taking GPS coordinates of community land. -
Photo 9 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiParticipatory map of community in Mozambique. -
Photo 10 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiMen's focus group in Uganda. -
Photo 11 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiUgandan community learning about their rights. -
Photo 12 of 12Credit: Rachael Knight/NamatiUgandan women after community meeting.
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