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 large part of the world’s population depends on having secure access to land for their incomes. LAND-at-scale aims to contribute to fair and just tenure security, access to land and natural resources for all.
The Dutch embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, submitted an idea to the LAND-at-scale program that was selected by the LAND-at-scale Advisory Committee and resulted in the following tender.
Project objectives
The overall long-term project impact of the LAND-at-Scale project is to contribute to improved livelihoods due to just, inclusive and sustainable land governance by filling the Multipurpose cadastre with information about land titles and natural resources of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, which is obtained in a fair, efficient and effective manner, and create security for the communities to invest in sustainable income generating activities in those areas.
The objective of the project is to finetune a Fit for Purpose approach with and for indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities with specific attention for income generation and natural resource protection, in order to create land tenure security and improve livelihoods. The approach and results should be documented and shared throughout the project with the appropriate stakeholders in order to scale up in other areas in Colombia.
The objective of this European procurement assignment is to support a participatory process to create a well-defined plan, and support the first steps for indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities to be able to attract (financial) resources to sustainably develop income generating activities while protecting and developing the natural resources in the communities. The results of this method and the lessons learned will be used for scaling up of the Fit for Purpose approach in other areas.
The focus on an integrated approach is meant to strengthen land tenure security for all in the community, while at the same time starting the discussion on what can be reached when land tenure is secure: how to plan for income generating activities which respect natural resources? How to plan for a sustainable future for men, women, youth, elderly, vulnerable people within the communities? By piloting and approaching land formalisation to spark broader development, the fieldwork of all implementors will be done simultaneously. Where -during and after mapping- Kadaster International will focus on the achieving land formalisation and thus governmental actors needed to upscale the FIT FOR PURPOSE approach, the other implementor(s) will mostly focus on the non-governmental actors who could become involved in land formalization processes, and find (financial) support for the chosen pilot areas to kick start their income generating activities and natural resource protection, for which the foundations will be laid during this project.
Please refer to the full tender documents (link is external) for a complete description of the proposed assignment, as well as tender procedure and requirements. In case of any differences between those documents and this announcement, the information in the official tender documents on Tendernet prevails.
Tender Timeline
October 19th, 2020 – Deadline questions and clarifications about the tender
November 13th, 2020 – Deadline tender submissions
December 14th, 2020 – Deadline selection of tender candidates
February 1st, 2021 – Contract starting date
Applications for the tender, as well as requests for more information can be submitted through Tenderned.
Posted: 12th November 2020 by Coordinator
Include | The (business) case for social protection
INCLUDE – a Dutch-African platform that promotes evidence-based policymaking on inclusive development in Africa through research, knowledge sharing and policy dialogue, recently published a document that summarises the work INCLUDE has done on the link between social protection and inclusive development. Read the two-pager here.
Posted: 12th November 2020 by Coordinator
Vice Versa | Communities need land rights to gain from investments
In the autumn of 2020, Vice Versa publishes a series of articles on transforming African food systems to provide sufficient and healthy food to the growing population, while at the same time generating income and employment for the increasing number of young people.
In this article, Siri Lijfering shows that communities being able to participate on an equal basis in land governance is key to achieve food security and inclusive development. How can securing land rights pave the way for responsible investments and what can we learn from experiences with the palm oil industry? To answer these questions the article turn to West Africa where two activists are fighting for their communities’ right to land. ‘If we want to move forward, we need to share the wealth that the land brings.’
Read the full article here!
Posted: 12th November 2020 by Coordinator
Global Land Alliance | Community Participation and Inclusion during a Pandemic: Recent Experiences from Around the World
In this recently published blog, Laura Bermudez, Jordan Oestreicher, Christen Corcoran, Elyse Magen address the questions: How can we reconcile the hazards of social interaction in a COVID-19 world with the importance of community participation to the successful, and sustainable, implementation of on-going land projects?
With strict health standards in place, COVID-19 has significantly impeded the way land tenure projects are operating in the field. Many of the participatory aspects of land tenure projects have had to be either postponed or adjusted in order to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus. This has the potential to obstruct successful and sustainable implementation for projects seeking to formalize and secure land tenure, where community participation is of the upmost importance.
This blog provides examples of community engagement during COVID-19 in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Colombia.
Read the blog here!
Last Updated: 12th November 2020 by Coordinator
Landesa | Secure Land Rights: A Sustainable Solution at the Intersection of Climate Change and COVID-19
In this blog on Skoll Foundation, Rachel McMongagle addresses the dual crisis of climate change and COVID-19.
“COVID-19 and climate change are impacting all of us, but the dual disasters have a disproportionate impact on communities in emerging economies. These impacts are felt most acutely in rural areas, especially among indigenous communities and minority groups, and by women and others who are marginalized within those groups.
One fundamental factor unites them in their plight: rights to the land they depend on for food, identity, and survival, are too often insecure. Land rights in rural areas were already crucial for securing dignity and escaping poverty; but COVID-19 and climate change make land rights an increasingly vital solution in rural areas.”
Read the full blog here!
Last Updated: 12th November 2020 by Coordinator
IIED | Farmer-herder conflict: open your eyes, change the narrative, find solutions
New research by IIED’s Camilla Toulmin and Saverio Krätli uproots deep-set trend to help understand increasing violence in dryland Africa through the lens of ‘farmer-herder conflict’. They have been digging into the data and found no evidence to support impressions that farmer-herder conflict is increasing at a faster pace than overall violence in the respective countries.
Read the full blog here.
Image top page: Despite assumed narratives of farmer-herder conflict, both populations maintain peaceful relationships in most areas (Photo: Bob Denaro via Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
Posted: 12th November 2020 by Coordinator
University of Manchester | Blog: Overcrowding, not density, makes cities more vulnerable to Covid-19
Recently published blog by Professor Diana Mitlin, CEO of the African Cities Research Consortium
Covid-19 has brought a new realization to many governments and development agencies: investment in towns and cities is essential. People need to live in healthy neighbourhoods with access to basic services. In this context, some have argued that an essential response to Covid-19 is the ‘de-densification’ of urban areas.
This response is based on a misconception. The problem isn’t density itself; it is the overcrowding resulting from low-incomes, expensive housing and the lack of infrastructure and services – and this is caused by state neglect. The lowest income urban residents are facing a global health crisis. The risks associated with Covid-19 are exacerbated by debilitated – or outright non-existent – health services and infrastructures.
It is therefore critical that appropriate learning takes place so that interventions can be successfully designed.
Read the full blog here!
Posted: 4th November 2020 by Coordinator
LandCollaborative Learning Cycle – Call
ILC’s LandCollaborative is looking for an interested and experienced organization – especially members and partners of LandCollaborative conveners – to collaborate in the development and implementation of a capacity building and learning cycle for Multi-Stakeholder Platforms on engagement with the corporate sector on responsible land-based investments in agriculture. This will be the outcome of a consultative and collaborative process approach, in collaboration with MSPs facilitators/practitioners, and the LandCollaborative coordination group.
Please find the related call and concept note here. Interested and experienced organisations are invited to apply by sending one page expression of interest and a succinct institutional CV highlighting previous experience on the topic by 13 November 2020 to s.manetto@landcoalition.org, copying y.mekonen@landcoalition.org. Please do not hesitate to contact them for additional information or clarifications.
Last Updated: 3rd November 2020 by Alke Gijrath
LANDdialoog organiseert kennissessie landrechten IMVO-convenant sierteelt
Op 28 oktober organiseerde de LANDdialoog een kennissessie voor de Convenantpartijen in de Sierteelt. Landrechten en landgebruik is een van de 7 prioritaire thema’s binnen het IMVO-Convenant Sierteelt https://www.imvoconvenanten.nl/-/media/imvo/files/sierteelt/convenant-sierteeltsector.pdf
Er waren een drietal sessies, waarbij landrechten en landgebruik in relatie tot de sierteel vanuit verschillende invalshoeken werden benaderd. Het laatste deel gaf ruimte aan de leden van het Convenant om vragen te stellen vanuit hun positie binnen de keten.
LANDac – Guus van Westen opende met een sessie over internationale afspraken op het terrein van Due Diligence en het Nederlands handelingsperspectief (vrijwillige versus dwingende afspraken) gelieerd aan landrechten, landgebruik en de daaraan gekoppelde mensenrechten.
Het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken – Frits van der Wal gaf inzage in het Nederlandse beleid en de implementatie op programma en ambassade niveau.
Resilience BV – Sander de Raad gaf een inkijk in issues ten aanzien van landrechten en landgebruik vanuit hun samenwerking met investeerders en gemeenschappen in Ethiopië, Rwanda en Mozambique in de Sierteeltsector. Interessante insteek vanuit hun context-sensitief investeringsprogramma is dat een goede verstandhouding en samenwerking met gemeenschappen voor beide partijen in het voordeel werkt.
De sessie werd goed ontvangen en riep interessante vragen op ten aanzien van hoe en waar deze binnen de keten en certificatie een plaats zou kunnen krijgen. De werkgroep due diligence en sector mapping zullen overleg hebben over de mogelijke vervolgstappen om de opgedane kennis met betrekking tot landrechten verder in te zetten om hier vorm aan te geven.
Last Updated: 13th October 2020 by Coordinator
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 large part of the world’s population depends on having secure access to land for their incomes. LAND-at-scale aims to contribute to fair and just tenure security, access to land and natural resources for all.
The Dutch embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, submitted an idea to the LAND-at-scale program that was selected by the LAND-at-scale Advisory Committee and resulted in the following tender.
Project objectives
The overall long-term project impact of the LAND-at-Scale project is to contribute to improved livelihoods due to just, inclusive and sustainable land governance by filling the Multipurpose cadastre with information about land titles and natural resources of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, which is obtained in a fair, efficient and effective manner, and create security for the communities to invest in sustainable income generating activities in those areas.
The objective of the project is to finetune a Fit for Purpose approach with and for indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities with specific attention for income generation and natural resource protection, in order to create land tenure security and improve livelihoods. The approach and results should be documented and shared throughout the project with the appropriate stakeholders in order to scale up in other areas in Colombia.
The objective of this European procurement assignment is to support a participatory process to create a well-defined plan, and support the first steps for indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities to be able to attract (financial) resources to sustainably develop income generating activities while protecting and developing the natural resources in the communities. The results of this method and the lessons learned will be used for scaling up of the Fit for Purpose approach in other areas.
The focus on an integrated approach is meant to strengthen land tenure security for all in the community, while at the same time starting the discussion on what can be reached when land tenure is secure: how to plan for income generating activities which respect natural resources? How to plan for a sustainable future for men, women, youth, elderly, vulnerable people within the communities? By piloting and approaching land formalisation to spark broader development, the fieldwork of all implementors will be done simultaneously. Where -during and after mapping- Kadaster International will focus on the achieving land formalisation and thus governmental actors needed to upscale the FIT FOR PURPOSE approach, the other implementor(s) will mostly focus on the non-governmental actors who could become involved in land formalization processes, and find (financial) support for the chosen pilot areas to kick start their income generating activities and natural resource protection, for which the foundations will be laid during this project.
Please refer to the full tender documents (link is external) for a complete description of the proposed assignment, as well as tender procedure and requirements. In case of any differences between those documents and this announcement, the information in the official tender documents on Tendernet prevails.
Tender Timeline
October 19th, 2020 – Deadline questions and clarifications about the tender
November 13th, 2020 – Deadline tender submissions
December 14th, 2020 – Deadline selection of tender candidates
February 1st, 2021 – Contract starting date
Applications for the tender, as well as requests for more information can be submitted through Tenderned.
Posted: 2nd October 2020 by Coordinator
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 the time of writing in mid-September 2020, almost 20 million people have contracted the disease and more than 900,000 have died.[1] Besides its tragic direct toll on human lives, the pandemic is triggering a cascade of unexpected and dramatic effects that will deeply impact the global economy, social inequalities, and human–nature relationships in the coming years.[2]
Here, we wish to draw attention to an ongoing process that could have important consequences for land systems: that of reverse migration, or the return of migrant workers from cities to their rural areas of origin, especially in low- and middle-income countries.[3] To date, most reports on the mobility effects of the pandemic have emphasized international migration flows.[4] In this blog post, we focus instead on urban–rural migration flows triggered by COVID-19, and how they could affect the way land systems are used, understood, and governed in the future.”
Read full blog here!