From January 15 to February 6, 2018, the USAID’s Tenure and Global Climate Change Program and Land Portal Foundation co-facilitated a dialogue on experiences of documenting household and community-level customary rights in Zambia. The dialogue brought together the perspectives of government, traditional leaders, practitioners, civil society, and academics to consider how customary land documentation can contribute to national development goals and increased service delivery in rural and peri-urban areas.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2018Zambia
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJunio, 2019Uganda, Myanmar, Global
Post-war societies not only have to deal with continuing unpeaceful relations but also land-related conflict legacies, farmland and forest degradation, heavily exploited natural resources, land mines, a destroyed infrastructure, as well as returning refugees and ex-combatants. In the aftermath of war, access to and control of land often remains a sensitive issue which may precipitate tensions and lead to a renewed destabilization of volatile post-conflict situations.
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A Webinar Report
Informes e investigacionesAgosto, 2019Tanzania, Jamaica, Globallack of transparency in the land and property sector prevents individuals, communities and governments from unlocking the value of the property as an asset, and undermines policies and legal frameworks that aim to provide land tenure security, potentially leading to a misallocation of rights. In fact, land governance is ranked among the sectors in which people are most likely to pay bribes for access to services, according to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2020Etiopía, Uganda, Perú, Indonesia
Evidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems. Improving tenure security for land held collectively has been shown to improve resource management and to support self-determination of indigenous groups.
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Uncovering South Africa's land information ecosystem
Informes e investigacionesSeptiembre, 2020SudáfricaThe report is based on a collaboration between the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa and the Land Portal Foundation, in collaboration with local partners, in individual countries. It is based on a wide-ranging survey of sources of land information in South Africa, conducted by the CSIR, ‘Sources of Land Information in South Africa and their Institutional Context’, published as a companion document.
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A Webinar Report
Informes e investigacionesNoviembre, 2020África australThe spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage.
The kind of emergency response that was required to address the imminent spread of COVID-19 highlighted the widespread vulnerability of the poorest, compounded by highly unequal access to services and ongoing unhealthy living conditions.
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A Webinar Report
Informes e investigacionesNoviembre, 2020África australWhat is the state of land information in South Africa? Is there really a lack of land data to support decisions and to improve land governance? This was the point of departure that a team of specialists grappled with to uncover the many different sources of land data and information available in South Africa. For the very first time, they attempted to systematically review and categorize the entire ecosystem of data and information related to key land topics in the country, assessing over 104 land datasets from 59 different sources.
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Companion to Land Portal Botswana country narrative
Informes e investigacionesMarzo, 2021BotswanaThis detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Botswana presented in the Land Portal Botswana country profile
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Companion to Land Portal Namibia country narrative
Informes e investigacionesFebrero, 2021NamibiaThis detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Namibia presented in the Land Portal country profile
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Companion to Land Portal Eswatini country narrative
Informes e investigacionesMarzo, 2021EsuatiniThis detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Eswatini summarised in the Land Portal country profile.
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