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20 Mar 2014

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Community Land Rights

Expanding and Leveraging Private Sector Action to Secure Community Land Rights [UK]

Secon Meeting of the "Interlaken Group" March 19 - 20, 2014 London...The March 2014 meeting was the second session of a working group of representatives from leading companies, investors and NGOs…committed to addressing community land rights issues. A subset of this group first met in September 2013 in Switzerland at a conference entitled Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights where members worked to identify the problem…key obstacles and major gaps in private sector intervention, and produced a set of agreements and recommendations. A slightly larger…group then met in February 2014 in Bellagio, Italy as a technical follow-up...Participants…This meeting…gathered additional representatives from leading companies, investors and NGOs…to examine both company and investor domains as they relate to land rights…Highlights…Reaching a Common Vision of the Gap and Key Roles and Responsibilities…Major Stumbling Blocks to Achieving Good Practice…Key Leverage Points to Achieving Good Practice…Gaps that Need Filling, Opportunities Worth Exploring and Next Steps…