SECURING CONSERVATION: THE GOVERNANCE CONTEXT FOR LAND TENURE SECURITY ALLISON KELLY, PHD CANDIDATE
EVANS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FLARE ANNUAL MEETING 2016, EDINBURGH, UK
MOTIVATION • Land tenure security has recognized benefits for human well-being. • Relationship to conservation outcomes is more ambiguous. • Prerequisite for REDD+ and PES programs. • Further studied needed in integrated social-ecological systems.
WORKING GROUP MEMBERSHIP
LAND TENURE SECURITY AND CONSERVATION FRAMEWORK
EXISTING INDICES • Strength of Property Rights • Property Rights Alliance • Heritage Foundation
• Registering Property • World Bank – Ease of Doing Business
• Insecure Tenure and Property Rights • ARD/USAID
INDEX PROXIES Indicator Proxy Political Economy Political capacity Government Effectiveness Political will Presence of Conflict Formal Institutions Capacity to adjudicate Exclusion authority/ability Governance capacity
Corruption Perception Index Political Stability and Absence of Violence Rule of Law Strength of Property rights Ease of doing business – Registering Property
Data Source
Year
World Governance Indicators Transparency International World Governance Indicators
2014
World Governance Indicators Wall Street Journal / Heritage Foundation The World Bank
2014
2014 2014
2015 2015
GOVERNANCE CONTEXT FOR LAND TENURE SECURITY
GOVERNANCE CONTEXT FOR LAND TENURE SECURITY WITHIN INTACT FORESTS
RADAR GRAPHS, GC-LTS INDEX=0.48
Outliers: Ghana Rwanda South Africa Belarus Kazakhstan Croatia
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS • Interrelated development and conservation goals require integrated studies of land tenure security. • Globally, areas with lower degrees of land tenure security overlap with intact forest areas– highlighting the potential for tenure interventions.
THANK YOU! • Many thanks to the FLARE Meeting Coordination Committee. • Thanks to the TNC Asian-Pacific region and the Packard Foundation for generous support of this research.
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EXTRA SLIDES
DEFINITIONS OF INDICATORS Indicator Political Economy Political capacity Political will Conflict Formal Institutions Capacity to adjudicate Exclusion authority/ability Governance capacity
Definition Ability of a government to implement a set of policy choices. Extent of committed support by decision makers to a set of policy choices. Struggle between opponents over values and claims to scarce status, power, and resources. Formal legal process of resolving a dispute. Ability to refuse access to and use of a particular resource. Ability to promote the interests of society as a whole and promote effective public policy.
USAID RANKING METHODS