Download or read book Evaluation of Benefits of Land Restitution Forest based Public private Partnership Models in South Africa written by Ratsodo Phillip Tshidzumba and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of land ownership in South Africa, like in other developing countries, has received undisputable attention from political parties, government and disadvantaged local communities. In response to this most contentious issue of land, the first democratic government of South Africa introduced a more cautious land reform programme in line with the rural development plan. Specifically, the new regime℗þs land reform programme focused on redressing the injustices and imbalances of land ownership of the past, which had been perpetuated by the Native Land Act of 1913 through introduction of land reform legislations including Restitution, Redistribution and Tenure. However, the most prominent challenge faced with the land claimant communities has remained the lack of technical and financial skills required for management of agricultural and forestry production. This has led to forestry industry and government pursuing strategic partnership models to expedite the land claims settlement process and at the same time ensuring sustainability of existing forestland use. These models include joint venture (JV), out-grower schemes, sales and leaseback (SLB), cooperative and community managed enterprise (CME). In this study, the input-process-output framework was used to evaluate the benefits of land restitution forest-based land reform public-private partnership (PPP) models (SLB and CME) in the two selected communities. This study was conceptualized on the basis that benefit accrual by land claimant in an equitable manner from land reform projects has remained a serious knowledge gap, especially in forest-based land reform partnership project arrangement. Additionally, sustainability of the existing forestland use remained critical to the government and forestry sector, thus, this has in turn equally presented community beneficiaries with opportunities to change livelihood of their households. Thus, the study assessed the level of satisfaction of the people on benefit-sharing modalities of forest-based land reform initiatives in their locality and factors that facilitated or hindered the participation of the community beneficiaries. In addition, the study examined and compared benefits accrued by the two community beneficiaries from the two forest-based PPP land reform models The study was conducted in communities at Amabomvini in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) and Cata in Eastern Cape (EC) provinces, respectively. These communities were purposefully selected as they both had claimed and benefited from land transferred under restitution programme. The Amabomvini Community received the land under the Eyethu Trust, through which they forged a Sales and leaseback partnership. On the other hand, Cata community was under a Trust that at a later stage changed into a Communal Property Association (CPA). Consequently, they decided to manage their land with the assistance from Border Rural Committee (BRC), which is a non-governmental organisation (NGO). The study used generic questionnaire to collect primary data from the respondents in both communities. Based on the household beneficiaries℗þ lists, 140 and 175 households were randomly selected for questionnaire administration in both Amabomvini and Cata communities, respectively. Moreover, focus group discussions were used to gather in-depth knowledge on benefits sharing mechanisms available for equitable benefit-sharing to all the beneficiaries from key informants purposively selected from the Community Trust (CT) and CPA. Data analysis involved descriptive statistical analysis wherein frequencies and chi-square test of independence were used to determine the relationship between responses of respondents in both communities. In addition, ordinal logistic regression analysis was used to predict which benefit accrued had a statistically significant effect on socioeconomic status of the household beneficiaries. In this model, the household accrued benefits from the forest-based land reform (FBLR) partnership in the two study communities were used as explanatory variable with socioeconomic status as dependent variable. Additionally, the multinomial regression analysis was used to predict the likelihood of partnership extension by household beneficiaries. In the multinomial logistic regression (MLR) model analysis, the number of rotations was used as dependent variable (0-10 years=0, 10-20 years=1, 21-30 years=2, 31-40 years=3) while gender (male=0 and female=1), community (Amabomvini=0 and Cata=1) and Beneficiaries℗þ Confidence (confident=0 and not confident) were used as explanatory variables in the analysis. The findings of the study revealed that beneficiaries from Cata community accrued more employment benefit opportunity from the partnership compared to those from Amabomvini. However, the respondents from both communities perceived the challenge of lack of transparency, greediness, conflict amongst the CPA/Trust as the factors that cause poor benefit sharing. Additionally, the findings revealed that respondents from Cata community when compared to those from Amabomvini, experienced improvement in their household socioeconomic status post implementation of the reform. Also, there was lack of postsettlement support from the government with regard to monitoring and evaluation and discretionary grants in line with the land claim settlement agreement in both communities. This in turn has substantially compromised the effective participation in the FBLR partnership arrangements of the community beneficiaries. Moreover, the non-existence of benefit sharing mechanisms was also identified as a shortcoming in the forest-based land reform PPP models. Generally, the SLB partnership arrangement at Amabomvini community had done little to empower the household beneficiaries compared to CME at Cata community. This contrast in the two partnership arrangements is directly linked to the phenomenon of elitism raised by the beneficiaries and the trustees. Thus, a long-term study on accrual of socioeconomic benefits is critical to understand the impact of SLB and CME forest-based land reform PPP models to land restitution claimant beneficiaries. It is therefore pertinent that the post-settlement support from government is advanced timely with relevant government departments mobilised to provide expertise within their mandate in order to achieve the intended objectives of the land reform policy. In addition, the involvement of the community beneficiaries in the development of the benefits-sharing mechanisms would also be critical in ensuring the success of the FBLR partnership arrangements. Finally, the development of forestry tailor-made technical and financial management training at the level of the land claimant beneficiaries should be prioritized. Noteworthy, a research study that should focus on understanding the desirable benefits-sharing mechanisms of the land claimant beneficiaries is highly recommended.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry written by Janette Bulkan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry. Containing contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Handbook begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry, conservation and ecosystem management, relationships with industrial forestry, trade and supply systems, land tenure and land grabbing, and climate change are addressed. The Handbook also focuses on governance, looking at the range of approaches employed, including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches, and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The Handbook reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly, the Handbook not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry, but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions. The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry is essential reading for academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in forestry, natural resource management, conservation, and sustainable development.
Download or read book The Implementation of the Public Private Partnership Model in Land Restitution Claim Settlement for the Masakona Community in Limpopo Province South Africa written by Mulatedzi Calvin Nemaangani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidebook on Promoting Good Governance in Public private Partnerships written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook offers training modules for the promotion of public-private partnerships in the delivery of public services. PPPs in theory are supposed to combine the best of both worlds. The private sector with its resources, management skills and technology; and the public sector with its regulatory actions and protection of the public interest provide a balance in delivering public service. PPPs though are also complex in nature, requiring different types of skills and new enabling institutions and they lead to changes in the status of public sector jobs. To work well, they require "good governance", that is, well-functioning institutions, transparent, efficient procedures and accountable and competent public and private sectors. This guidebook therefore seeks to elaborate best practice and is aimed at policymakers, government officials and the private sector.
Download or read book The Role of Public Private Partnerships and the Third Sector in Conserving Heritage Buildings Sites and Historic Urban Areas written by Susan Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of cultural heritage requires the involvement of multiple actors from across the public, private, and nongovernmental, or third, sectors, not only to initiate and carry out conservation but also to sustain heritage places. The conservation of the historic urban environment poses specific and urgent challenges that require a multidisciplinary approach in which conservation actions are embedded within economic, social, and environmental development strategies. Increasingly, the private and third sectors are playing a pivotal role in these processes. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are contractual arrangements in which the private and/or third sector assists in delivering a public facility or service by providing funding or operating leadership. The third sector, which may include heritage-related NGOs, as well as people living near a heritage site, is of particular relevance to PPPs used for heritage conservation. This publication focuses specifically on the use of PPPs for historic buildings and historic urban areas, and is targeted to those working in the cultural heritage sector. It draws on existing literature, which it aims to make more accessible to those interested in cultural heritage conservation. While providing information on the basic concepts of public-private partnerships and the roles and responsibilities of the partners in a PPP, this is not a guide to the use of PPPs. It discusses the types of PPPs that have been used to conserve historic buildings and historic urban areas, provides specific examples of where and how they have been used, and demonstrates ways in which PPP mechanisms have met conservation goals. This publication also makes some limited observations on the aims of PPPs drawn from the literature, from published case studies, and from a few further case study investigations. This publication draws on English-language works produced between 1992 and 2012, but concentrates on the more recent literature. Much of this material is from the Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European nations that have been the most active in conducting PPPs for heritage resources and in publishing information about these projects. This overview includes an extensive bibliography and provides some suggestions of topics for further research.
Download or read book Guidance for the assessment of ecosystem services in African Biosphere Reserves written by Azadi, H. and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Landscape Restoration written by John Stanturf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a practical approach to forest restoration particularly in developing countries, where an approach which is both large-scale and focuses on meeting human needs is required. Yet despite increased investigation into both the biological and social aspects of FLR, there has so far been little success in systematically integrating these two complementary strands. Bringing experts in landscape studies, natural resource management and forest restoration, together with those experienced in conflict management, environmental economics and urban studies, this book bridges that gap to define the nature and potential of FLR as a truly multidisciplinary approach to a global environmental problem. The book will provide a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers interested in ecological restoration, forest ecology and management, as well as to professionals in environmental restoration, natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy.
Download or read book Public Private Partnerships for Health in Vietnam written by Sang Minh Le and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Vietnam. It defines health-related PPPs, describes their key characteristics, and develops a taxonomy of the different types of PPPs that exist in practice, illustrated by international examples. It also assesses the regulatory and institutional framework for the health PPP program in Vietnam, as well as financing and accountability mechanisms for PPPs at its national and subnational levels. It provides an overview of the PPP project pipeline in Vietnam and analyzes important issues in the health PPPs’ design, preparation, and implementation, using eight case studies involving projects in different phases of the project cycle. This book also examines barriers that have hampered the successful design and implementation of health care PPPs in Vietnam. These barriers may be broadly categorized as barriers in the PPP policy and regulatory framework, in the public sector, in the private sector, and in the financial sector. It proposes feasible and actionable recommendations so that the government can consider tackling the identified barriers and advance the successful design and implementation of health PPPs.
Download or read book Realizing the Potential of Public Private Partnerships to Advance Asia s Infrastructure Development written by Akash Deep and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights how public–private partnerships (PPPs) can be effective to meet Asia's growing infrastructure needs. It shows how governments and their development partners can use PPPs to promote more inclusive and sustainable growth. The study finds that successful PPP projects are predicated on well-designed contracts, a stable economy, good governance and sound regulations, and a high level of institutional capacity to handle PPPs. It is the result of a collaboration between the Asian Development Bank, the Korea Development Institute, and other experts that supported the theme chapter "Sustaining Development through Public–Private Partnership" of the Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update.
Download or read book Rural Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Ventures in Agriculture written by Edward Lahiff and published by International Institute for Environment & Development. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards more resilient and diverse planted forests written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAO’s most recent global synthesis on planted forests was released in 2009 and the last Unasylva on planted forests was published in 2005. Developed together with a coalition of external partners, including the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) task force on planted forests and the TreeDivNet network, Issue 254 hereby responds to the need for wider information-sharing on data, tools and approaches available for leveraging the contributions of planted forests to meet the target of increasing the global forest area of 3 percent by 2030, which Global Forest Goal 1 provides for. Unasylva issue 254 was launched in November 2023 at the International Congress on Planted Forests 2023 (ICPF2023) – the first edition of this global forum to be held in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya).
Download or read book Fair Weather written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-05-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather servicesâ€"NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and creating occasional friction. Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services examines the roles of the three sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. Readers from all three sectors will be interested in the analysis and recommendations provided in Fair Weather.
Download or read book The Forest Sector written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1978, when the World Bank published its policy paper on forestry, the world's understanding of and concern about the forest sector of the developing world has increased substantially. It has become clear that forests and woodlands play an even more important economic and ecological role than had earlier been recognized. In particular, the importance of tropical moist forests in protecting biological diversity has become more fully appreciated, as has their role in the carbon cycle and in global climatic change. The nature of the challenge; Deforestation and forest degradation; The growing demand for forests and trees for basic needs; Strategies for forest development; The role of the world bank; Challenges for the forest sector; Strategies for forest development; The role of the world bank.
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Issues in Public Private Partnerships written by Geert Dewulf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing PPP projects is not a routine job, as every PPP project is different and should be managed accordingly. These projects require considerable capability and skills from both public sector and private sector managers involved, Strategic Issues in Public Private Partnerships, Second Edition, delivers the insight and tools necessary to assist those managers. As Public private partnership (PPP) arrangements become an increasingly popular way for national governments to fund and develop public infrastructure and urban areas with private sector contributions, a better understanding of the risks involved is crucial. The second edition of Strategic Issues in Public Private Partnerships : Provides an international overview of the application of concessions - the most common form of PPP [eg PFI (Private Finance Initiative); BO(O)T (Build/Own/Operate/Transfer) or DBFMO (Design/Build/Finance/ Maintain/Operate)]. Focusses on the introduction of concessions and the problems encountered, the solutions found for these problems, and the different approaches to concessions chosen across different countries. Provides a strategic overview for those involved in setting up and managing PPP projects. Illustrates lessons from different national backgrounds and gives managers the insight and tools to manage PPP projects effectively. Essential reading for Contractors & funding organizations involved in PPP projects as well as Researchers in construction management and public administration.
Download or read book Realising REDD written by Arild Angelsen and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REDD+ must be transformational. REDD+ requires broad institutional and governance reforms, such as tenure, decentralisation, and corruption control. These reforms will enable departures from business as usual, and involve communities and forest users in making and implementing policies that a ect them. Policies must go beyond forestry. REDD+ strategies must include policies outside the forestry sector narrowly de ned, such as agriculture and energy, and better coordinate across sectors to deal with non-forest drivers of deforestation and degradation. Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms. We must learn from the past. Many approaches to REDD+ now being considered are similar to previous e orts to conserve and better manage forests, often with limited success. Taking on board lessons learned from past experience will improve the prospects of REDD+ e ectiveness. National circumstances and uncertainty must be factored in. Di erent country contexts will create a variety of REDD+ models with di erent institutional and policy mixes. Uncertainties about the shape of the future global REDD+ system, national readiness and political consensus require exibility and a phased approach to REDD+ implementation.
