Sentences with phrase «communities secure their tenure»

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Tenure - secure indigenous and other community forestlands are often linked to low deforestation rates, significant forest cover, and the sustainable production of timber and other forest products.

In recognition of the dividends of helping indigenous peoples and local communities in rural areas secure rights to their traditional lands, in October the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) announced the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, a $ 100 million, fund for scaling up recognition of rights to collective lands and forests.

The tenure facility aims to secure at least 400,000 square kilometers (154,400 square miles) of forests and rural lands for local and indigenous communities.

Secure tenure firmly places the responsibility at the feet of each housing authority or community housing organisation to provide a decent level of housing service just as mainstream public housing providers must do in the city.

priority for enhanced infrastructure support and service provision should be to larger and more economically sustainable communities where secure land tenure exists, allowing for services outreach to and access by smaller surrounding communities.

[the] progressive resolution of land tenure on remote community - titled land in order to secure government and commercial investment, economic development opportunities and home ownership possibilities in economically sustainable communities.

priority for enhanced infrastructure support and service provision should be to larger and more economically sustainable communities where secure land tenure exists, allowing for services outreach to and access by smaller surrounding communities, including:

Sixteen communities were selected for new housing, on the condition that there was a grant of secure tenure to the government.

In keeping with the Australian Government's secure tenure policy, communities must have in place a lease for at least 40 years in order to be eligible for new housing.

«While we have differing views within our community on how to improve the variety of special Indigenous land tenures across Australian, we recognise that collective ownership is inherent in Aboriginal custom and we believe in the fundamental importance of securing that underlying land title for future generations.»