In 2021, Transparency International and the Equal Rights Trust published Defying Exclusion: Stories and Insights on the Links between Discrimination and Corruption. Bringing together a diverse group of case studies from across the globe, it documented and illustrated the mutually reinforcing links – the vicious cycle – between discrimination and corruption. Defying Exclusion marked the first attempt to systematically explore the phenomena we termed “discriminatory corruption”. This new publication explores – for the first time – the dynamics of corruption and discrimination in the land sector. It examines evidence and presents case studies from seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to understand how these harms exacerbate one another and fuel land inequalities. This report aims to document, map and analyse discriminatory corruption in the land sector in order to identify where and how laws, policies and practice need to change. It is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Transparency International and the Equal Rights Trust and forms part of Transparency International’s wider Land and Corruption in Africa initiative. To develop this report, the Equal Rights Trust worked with Transparency International chapters in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe to explore the links between corruption and discrimination in the land sector and to identify factors that may drive or exacerbate these harms.

This Beautiful Land: Corruption, Discrimination and Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

Resource Key: GQHGW56G

Document Type: Report

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Author:

  • Transparency International
  • Equal Rights Trust
  • Sam Barnes
  • Alice Stevens

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Place: Berlin

Institution: Transparency International

Date: April 2024

Language: en

In 2021, Transparency International and the Equal Rights Trust published Defying Exclusion: Stories and Insights on the Links between Discrimination and Corruption. Bringing together a diverse group of case studies from across the globe, it documented and illustrated the mutually reinforcing links – the vicious cycle – between discrimination and corruption. Defying Exclusion marked the first attempt to systematically explore the phenomena we termed “discriminatory corruption”. This new publication explores – for the first time – the dynamics of corruption and discrimination in the land sector. It examines evidence and presents case studies from seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to understand how these harms exacerbate one another and fuel land inequalities. This report aims to document, map and analyse discriminatory corruption in the land sector in order to identify where and how laws, policies and practice need to change. It is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Transparency International and the Equal Rights Trust and forms part of Transparency International’s wider Land and Corruption in Africa initiative. To develop this report, the Equal Rights Trust worked with Transparency International chapters in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe to explore the links between corruption and discrimination in the land sector and to identify factors that may drive or exacerbate these harms.

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