HIC | 21st Issue of Land Times published
The Housing and Land Rights Network of Habitat International Coalition has published the 21st issue of Land Times. This issue of is rich in positions, perspectives, progress and proposals of civil society in the Middle East/North Africa and… Read More
IIED | Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile
In this article by IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), the Chilean NGO Observatorio Ciudadano shares their story on how they are supporting Indigenous Peoples to combine Human Rights Impact Assessments with investment chain mapping to hold… Read More
Special Issue Politics and Power in Land Administration Reform (PPLA)
The research initiative PPLA is seeking interested scholars to join a “research cluster”, whose objective will be to publish a special issue on politics and power in land administration reform in a reputable academic journal. Despite a number… Read More
Shelter City Netherlands – New Call
Justice and Peace Netherlands is launching a new call for applications for at risk Human Rights Defenders to participate in Shelter City. The deadline for applications is 10 December 2020. Please be aware that special conditions apply because… Read More
LAND-at-scale tender Colombia
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is seeking (an) organization(s) to implement the LAND-at-scale intervention in Colombia. See the original post on the Land Portal website here. Background LAND-at-scale is a land governance support programme for developing countries. A… Read More
GLP | COVID-19, reverse migration, and the impact on land systems
Recently published blog by Sébastien Boillat and dr. Julie Zähringer on the impact of COVID-19 and reverse migration on land systems; “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world abruptly, affecting nearly all of humanity with breath-taking speed. At… Read More
IIED, Namati and CCSI | New Initiative ALIGN
IIED, Namati and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) have developed a new initiative to support governments, civil society, local communities and private sector actors in improving the governance and practices of land-based investments. The Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) project… Read More
RRI | New research by the Rights and Resources Initiative
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has shared three new technical analyses to serve as a roadmap to scale up land tenure reforms globally. The launch of these analyses is intended to influence donors, policy makers, negotiators, and… Read More
MDPI | Using a Gender-Responsive Land Rights Framework to Assess Youth Land Rights in Rural Liberia
This article by Louis, Mauto, Dodd, Heidenrich, Dolo and Urey (2020) was published in Land and summarizes the evidence on youth land rights in Liberia from a literature review combined with primary research from two separate studies: (1)… Read More
Last Updated: 7th January 2021 by Coordinator
Blog Prindex | Five things to know about land property rights in East Asia and the Pacific
Five things to know about land property rights in East Asia and the Pacific Blog post on the Land Portal website, by Ryan Flynn In 2020 Prindex – the first ever global measure of land and property rights… Read More