The reports on this page provide guidance on issues and typical constitutional provisions relating to the identification and administration of land rights and environmental protection, conservation and rights. Additional materials on these and related topics can be found by clicking on the keyword links below.
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This consultant report for the USAID Sudan Task Force studies the changing ways in which African countries identify and administer land rights. The report discusses these changes being carried out in new national constitutions, many of which have full chapters on land.
This paper gives a synthesis of the review of the current constitution of Tanzania and constitutions of selected countries which provide for environmental rights, protection and management of the environment. The review highlights on the inclusion of provisions providing for environmental rights, protection and management in the would-be new constitution. This paper provides a review and recommendations on what should be done to ensure that sound provisions are entrenched in the would-be new constitution.
This policy brief considers the environmental rights-related constitutional provisions in the Interim Constitution of Nepal and draws on examples from numerous other constitutions to provide road maps to permanently implement these rights. It broadly examines many issues that have a relationship to environmental conservation, including the rights to information, development, participation, compensation, resistance, and remedy, as well as access to environmental resources, provision of environmental education, and observation of international environmental law.&nbsp