ASCL & LARC | Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land
The Land & Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town commissioned the vivid documentary film This Land as a way for rural people to bring the untold story of their struggle for rights and accountability on communal land… Read More
European Commission | EU Support to Responsible Land Governance – State of Play 2018
Secure access and use of land for men and women is crucial for sustainable development, food security and for a vibrant agricultural sector in support of inclusive socio-economic development. The brochure briefly presents how land governance is improving… Read More
ZOA | Making Land Rights Work: Land Rights Guidelines
Secure access to land and secure use of land, for housing, agricultural and other purposes is one of the cornerstones of making sustainable, positive development possible. As ZOA provides relief, hope and recovery to people impacted by conflicts… Read More
World Bank | Seeking NGOs, governments, donors, and private sector firms with interventions to improve women’s land tenure security
The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is seeking NGOs, governments, donors, and private sector firms with interventions designed to improve women’s land tenure security in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Submission deadline: 5pm US Eastern Standard Time… Read More
LANDac | Policy Brief #6 Negotiating and implementing large scale land deals in Sierra Leone – Improving transparency and consent
Improving transparency and consent – Caitlin Ryan LANDac Policy Brief #6 by Caitlin Ryan
LANDac publication | Plantations are everywhere! between infrastructural violence and inclusive development
This paper by Annelies Zoomers discusses Tania Murray Li’s article After the Land Grab: Infrastructural Violence and Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone, placing it in the wider debates about global land grabbing and inclusive development. An excerpt: Although Tania Murray’s article focuses… Read More
GIZ | New publication: Safeguarding Human Rights in Land-Related Investments
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development commissioned a study to compare the Voluntary Guidelines on Land with the IFC Performance Standards and the World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework. The result is the analysis… Read More
LANDdialogue | APG Reference Guide for Risk Assessment in relation to LAND – document and webinar
In the context of the LANDdialogue, APG initiated a LGD_Reference Guide 2017. The guide provides a useful tool that can help investors identify and monitor ESG risks, and gives an overview of available information on general land-related topics… Read More
Both ENDS | Reference Guide on Infrastructure Set Against Land Governance
The past years have seen a surge in large infrastructure projects, including dams, mines, highways, airports, ports, land reclamation, canals and urban renewal projects. The land assigned to these projects is often inhabited and used for agricultural purposes…. Read More
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
LANDac | Blog Building Towards Ownership: Exploring the Role of a Community Land Trust in Sustainable Development
In this blog, Eva Labrujere explores how local knowledge and a community-based approach can provide a base for a strategic framework to guide sustainable development in Mathare Valley (Nairobi, Kenya). The developed integrative strategic framework aims to build towards overcoming… Read More