land governance & property

DRAN explores key questions around land rights, property ownership, and approaches to resettlement in the case of displacement. The network’s global approach to scholarship allows for a wide reach of comparative views on land governance and property rights.

PROPERTY IN LAND, DISPLACEMENT, AND FAIR COMPENSATION

DRAN worked on a project funded by the Samuel Tak Lee Research Fund that compared compensation frameworks for displaced individuals and communities across five different countries—USA, India, South Africa, Colombia and Brazil—along with international standards from the World Bank and various UN bodies. Each national compensation framework was analyzed in practice through 5 detailed case studies using primarily qualitative methods. Key issues addressed in the project included: the different ways in which landed property is assigned value; the rights afforded to communities in negotiating for compensation; and some possible alternative compensation frameworks that could be pursued by governments or international agencies.