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Local Content Frameworks in Latin American Oil and Gas sector: Lessons from Ecuador and Colombia

Ecuador

Resumen:

During recent decades, debate around non-renewable resources has mainly focused on finding sustainable and alternative ways to enhance development beyond the revenues generated by this sector and to avoid the resource curse. When it comes to extractive industries, particularly the oil and gas sector, these concerns are of major relevance...

Autor:

Juan José Herrera; Marcela Morales; Sebastián Jarrín

Año:

2016

Policy options for sustaining productive pastoral systems

Otros territorios

Resumen:

Pastoral communities in East Africa are found in areas characterised by arid and semi-arid conditions such as low rainfall and high temperatures. Therefore, these areas are suitable for extensive livestock production systems, and are predominantly under collective land tenure regimes. Pastoral communities have continued to use customary laws in management...

Autor:

Timothy Njagi,

Lilian Kirimi y

Nthenya Kinyumu

Año:

2016

Community-based crime prevention: often effective but needs regulating

Otros territorios

Resumen:

Weak criminal justice and policing systems often necessitate the Introduction of complementary, community-based crime prevention models. In Africa, such community models are common, but their effectiveness and legitimacy is the subject of debate. This Policy Brief uses new research by the University of Ibadan to explore these issues in one...

Autor:

Ayobami Ojebode,

Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi,

Ngozi Joy Onyechi,

Oyewole Oladapo,

Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele,

Israel Ayinla Fadipe y

M. O. Babajide

Año:

2016

Mind the gap: understanding the policy and practice of horizontal accountability mechanisms in Argentina

Otros territorios

Resumen:

While some threats to institutional quality still exist in specific countries, democracy has become the ‘only game in town’ in Latin America. But institutional weaknesses remain. This Policy Brief explores one of those weaknesses. It looks at the relationship between the executive and the legislature, and examines the question of...

Autor:

Natalia Aquilino,

Julia Pomares,

Agustina Suaya,

María Page y

Sofía Estévez

Año:

2016

Getting more out of the oil and gas sector: lessons from Angola and Chad

Otros territorios

Resumen:

Several African countries have adopted Local Content frameworks as a mechanism to transform the short-term benefits of natural resource extraction into long term development - through institutional building and strategic policy tools to promote direct employment, skills development and the participation of local companies in the supply of goods and...

Autor:

Elijah Dickens Mushemeza y

John Okiira

Año:

2016

Domestic violence laws in the spotlight: enhancing protection services for survivors in Mexico

Otros territorios

Resumen:

The Latin American convention on gender-based violence, known as Belém do Pará, creates obligations for individual countries to address domestic violence. Therefore, almost all countries in the region have legislative frameworks on domestic violence, but many face challenges in implementing them. This brief analyses the Mexican domestic violence law’s implementation...

Autor:

Cecile Lachenal y

Cecilia Toledo

Año:

2016

Las leyes de violencia doméstica a examen: mejorar los servicios de protección para mujeres sobrevivientes en México

Otros territorios

Resumen:

La Convención Interamericana para Prevenir, Sancionar y Erradicar la violencia contra las mujeres, conocida como Belém do Pará, establece obligaciones a los estados parte para abordar la violencia doméstica. Por esta razón, casi todos los países en la región latinoamericana han adoptado marcos normativos para atender la violencia doméstica; sin...

Autor:

Cecile Lachenal y

Cecilia Toledo

Año:

2016

On the doorstep of formality: different solutions for different informalities

Otros territorios

Resumen:

Informality is a corrosive phenomenon for taxes, production, competitiveness, and society I general, but it is also the only livelihood option for some population groups. This report analyses how informality affects inclusive growth, studying informality by different socio-economic groups, and presents policy recommendations for each of these groups. In the case...

Autor:

Cristina Fernández,

Leonardo Villar y

Francisco Fernández

Año:

2016

Al umbral de la formalidad: diferentes soluciones para distintas informalidades

Otros territorios

Resumen:

La informalidad es un fenómeno corrosivo tanto en términos fiscales, sociales y productivos, como en términos de competitividad y de productividad; pero es a la vez la única opción de subsistencia para algunos grupos de la población. Este reporte presenta un análisis del impacto de la informalidad sobre el crecimiento...

Autor:

Cristina Fernández,

Leonardo Villar y

Francisco Fernández

Año:

2016

Boosting the benefits from extractive industries through local content policies

Ecuador

Resumen:

Extractive industries are important in most Latin American economies. Because of this, decision makers have focused efforts both on increasing revenues from the extractive sector and on transferring these benefits to other sectors of the economy. Local content (LC) policies have become a viable strategy for governments to achieve these...

Autor:

Morales, M.,

Herrera, JJ. y

Jarrín, S.

Año:

2016

Potenciando los beneficios de las industrias extractivas en el Ecuador: ¿Cómo generar beneficios a través del contenido local?

Ecuador

Resumen:

Las industrias extractivas representan un elemento clave para la mayoría de las economías latinoamericanas. Debido a su importancia, los tomadores de decisión han enfocado sus esfuerzos en incrementar las rentas del sector extractivo y en trasladar estos beneficios hacia otros sectores de la economía. El contenido local (CL) se ha...

Autor:

Morales, M.,

Herrera, JJ. y

Jarrín, S.

Año:

2016

Nuestro trabajo en Alpacas

Perú

Resumen:

Quien quiera trabajar con campesinos pobres de las zonas altoandinas del Perú debe, necesariamente, hacerlo con alpacas. Esta premisa llevó a Soluciones Prácticas a diseñar, desarrollar e implementar intervenciones dirigidas a contribuir a fortalecer los medios de vida y la seguridad alimentaria de la población rural en ecosistemas de montaña,...

Autor:

Practical Action

Año:

2016

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