Cadasta has launched its Land Rights Challenge Fund!
The Land Rights Challenge Fund is available to help Cadasta’s partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative technical tools and services to document and secure land and resource rights worldwide. The Land Rights Challenge Fund will feature multiple grant programs through 2021, each designed to advance land rights and tenure security for vulnerable populations around the world.
The first opportunity under the Fund is the Data Accelerator Grant to help partners overcome challenges and barriers to their data collection efforts. For more information, download Cadasta’s brochure here!
Kei Otsuki and Griet Steel (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) are convening a panel at the 2020 EADI/ISS Conference Solidary, Peace and Socal Justice: HP059 – Solidarity for investment-induced displacement and resettlement.
In this panel, they address what solidarity actually means in often contested land-based investments that induce displacement and resettlement in rural and urban areas. They are particularly interested in papers that analyze cases in which various actors’ roles and chains of effects unfold in processes of displacement and resettlement in the Global South. They are also interested in discussing methodological issues pertaining to our responsibilities of doing research on this issue.
Deadline to submit an abstract to this particular panel and the EADI/ISS Conference in general 15 December. For more information on the panel, click here. For more information on the conference, click here.
Would you like to know more about the programme, the research projects or get in touch with one of the fellows? Have a look here or contact coordinator Romy Santpoort (r.m.santpoort@uu.nl).
The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) announce the 16th EADI General Conference, to be held in The Hague (Netherlands) from Monday 29 June to Thursday 2 July 2020. The conference will be hosted by the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and combined with the Development Dialogue, the annual European conference of PhD candidates working in development studies.
The call for papers for the conference is now open! Deadline: 15th December 2019.
For more information on the call for papers, click here.
The EADI ISS Conference 2020 takes place back-to-back with the LANDac 2020 Annual International Conference on the 2-3 of July.
The Responsible Land-Based Investment (RLBI) Navigator helps private
sector actors identify and access the practical tools and guidelines
that are most relevant to their work. It was developed jointly by the
Land Portal and the International Institute for Environment and
Development (IIED) as part of the DFID-funded Land: Enhancing Governance
for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme.
Tools and guides
can be accessed based on the topics they cover and/or their main target
audience. The Navigator also offers a selection of additional resources,
including general principles such as UN documents; reports and case
studies providing insights into experiences with addressing land rights
issues; and links to external platforms that offer complementary
services to the Navigator.
The extraction, exploitation and trade of natural resources continue
to be a source of conflict worldwide, notwithstanding claims of
inclusive and equitable development. This course helps PhD students
unravel the multiple contraditions surrounding the access to natural
resources, the overt and covert forms of violence involved, and the
resistance this may generate. Specific attention is paid to the role of
institutionalised and state power in shaping conflict. The course offers
students a solid theoretical basis to problematize the relation between
natural resources and conflict.
Organised by the Wageningen School of Social Sciences and Centre for
Space Place and Society (Wageningen University), the course is relevant
to PhD students who are interested to (further) develop a
conceptualization of conflict and violence relevant to their research
problem and setting. It moves beyond well-known theories on resource
scarcity and the ‘resource curse’, discussing critical perspectives from
political sociology, philosophy, geography and economics.
A recently published report by the World Bank highlights the intersections between land programs/projects and violence against women and girls. It provides recommendations for policy, as well as institutional and community level interventions that may address violence against women and girls.
“The purpose of this Brief is to highlight entry points that offer actionable guidance to development practitioners on how to integrate prevention of and response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) into land programming. The following pages contain guidance on ethics and safety, resources for carrying out a rapid situation analysis, specific actionable ideas for implementation at the policy, institutional/sectoral and community level, detailed examples of promising practices, a menu of indicators for use in M&E, and dozens of active links to more detailed resources and toolkits. This brief complements the World Bank/IFAD’s Toolkit for Integrating Gender-Related Issues in Land Policy and Administration Projects.” (p2.)
Last Updated: 15th November 2019 by Coordinator
Cadasta | Land Rights Challenge Fund
The Land Rights Challenge Fund is available to help Cadasta’s partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative technical tools and services to document and secure land and resource rights worldwide. The Land Rights Challenge Fund will feature multiple grant programs through 2021, each designed to advance land rights and tenure security for vulnerable populations around the world.
The first opportunity under the Fund is the Data Accelerator Grant to help partners overcome challenges and barriers to their data collection efforts. For more information, download Cadasta’s brochure here!
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
EADI/ISS 2020 | Call for Abstract: Solidarity for investment-induced displacement and resettlement
Kei Otsuki and Griet Steel (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) are convening a panel at the 2020 EADI/ISS Conference Solidary, Peace and Socal Justice: HP059 – Solidarity for investment-induced displacement and resettlement.
In this panel, they address what solidarity actually means in often contested land-based investments that induce displacement and resettlement in rural and urban areas. They are particularly interested in papers that analyze cases in which various actors’ roles and chains of effects unfold in processes of displacement and resettlement in the Global South. They are also interested in discussing methodological issues pertaining to our responsibilities of doing research on this issue.
Deadline to submit an abstract to this particular panel and the EADI/ISS Conference in general 15 December. For more information on the panel, click here. For more information on the conference, click here.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
CFS 46 | LEGEND | Findings and Key Lessons from LEGEND’s Work on Responsible Land Investments
At the 46th Edition of the Committee on World Food Security, LEGEND (Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development) partners presented their key findings and lessons-learned from LEGEND’s work on responsible land investments.
You can download the presentation here.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
LANDac | Launch Blog Series Professional Learning Programme
In the newly lanched blog series, LANDac fellows from the Professional Learning Programme share their experiences in the field.
‘”This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda‘ is the first blog in the series, a contribution by Teddy Kisembo, researcher and urban planner at the Urban Action Lab at Makerere University.
Would you like to know more about the programme, the research projects or get in touch with one of the fellows? Have a look here or contact coordinator Romy Santpoort (r.m.santpoort@uu.nl).
Last Updated: 15th January 2020 by Coordinator
EADI ISS Conference 2020 | Call for Papers
The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) announce the 16th EADI General Conference, to be held in The Hague (Netherlands) from Monday 29 June to Thursday 2 July 2020. The conference will be hosted by the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and combined with the Development Dialogue, the annual European conference of PhD candidates working in development studies.
The call for papers for the conference is now open! Deadline: 15th December 2019.
For more information on the call for papers, click here.
The EADI ISS Conference 2020 takes place back-to-back with the LANDac 2020 Annual International Conference on the 2-3 of July.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
Land Portal and IIED | Launch of the Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator
The Responsible Land-Based Investment (RLBI) Navigator helps private sector actors identify and access the practical tools and guidelines that are most relevant to their work. It was developed jointly by the Land Portal and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) as part of the DFID-funded Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme.
Tools and guides can be accessed based on the topics they cover and/or their main target audience. The Navigator also offers a selection of additional resources, including general principles such as UN documents; reports and case studies providing insights into experiences with addressing land rights issues; and links to external platforms that offer complementary services to the Navigator.
Click here to visit the RLBI Navigator!
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
Wageningen University | Winter School Natural Resources and Conflict: Violence, Resistance and the State (for PhD students)
9th December 2019 @ 08:00 – 18th December 2019 @ 17:00
Download the flyer here!
The extraction, exploitation and trade of natural resources continue to be a source of conflict worldwide, notwithstanding claims of inclusive and equitable development. This course helps PhD students unravel the multiple contraditions surrounding the access to natural resources, the overt and covert forms of violence involved, and the resistance this may generate. Specific attention is paid to the role of institutionalised and state power in shaping conflict. The course offers students a solid theoretical basis to problematize the relation between natural resources and conflict.
Organised by the Wageningen School of Social Sciences and Centre for Space Place and Society (Wageningen University), the course is relevant to PhD students who are interested to (further) develop a conceptualization of conflict and violence relevant to their research problem and setting. It moves beyond well-known theories on resource scarcity and the ‘resource curse’, discussing critical perspectives from political sociology, philosophy, geography and economics.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
World Bank | Violence Against Women and Girls Resource Guide: Land Sector Brief
Read the full brief here.
A recently published report by the World Bank highlights the intersections between land programs/projects and violence against women and girls. It provides recommendations for policy, as well as institutional and community level interventions that may address violence against women and girls.
“The purpose of this Brief is to highlight entry points that offer actionable guidance to development practitioners on how to integrate prevention of and response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) into land programming. The following pages contain guidance on ethics and safety, resources for carrying out a rapid situation analysis, specific actionable ideas for implementation at the policy, institutional/sectoral and community level, detailed examples of promising practices, a menu of indicators for use in M&E, and dozens of active links to more detailed resources and toolkits. This brief complements the World Bank/IFAD’s Toolkit for Integrating Gender-Related Issues in Land Policy and Administration Projects.” (p2.)
Read the full brief here.
Last Updated: 31st July 2020 by Coordinator
LANDac | Professional Learning Programme Update
To download the programme brief, click here.
Last Updated: 3rd October 2019 by Coordinator
UN | Senior Expert Consultant Global Land Outlook
For more information on the vacancy, click here.