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Call for 2024 Equator Prize Nominations

Call for nominations to the Equator Prize 2024 Nominate now!

25 January 2024
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
environment
indigenous peoples' lands
natural resources
community land rights
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities

This year’s Equator Prize will recognize innovative initiatives that showcase how action on nature, led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, can provide effective climate solutions, and demonstrate effective pathways to transform our global systems for people and Planet. Winning initiatives will be honored for their successes in protecting, restoring, and/or sustainably managing nature for nature-positive development outcomes.

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“Justice for all in the management of land conflicts ”: Introducing a new LAND-at-scale project in Burundi

26 October 2023
Burundi
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
rule of law
customary law
conflicts
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
customary tenure
tenure security
women

The Land and Development Expertise Center (LADEC) and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) are excited to announce their partnership for a new LAND-at-scale project in Burundi: "Justice pour Toutes et Tous dans la Gestion des Conflits Fonciers" (JTT-GCF) (in English: Justice for all in the management of land conflicts. Starting September 2023, the project will run for a period of three years, focusing on promotion equality and non-discrimination in the management of land conflicts.

Robin Palmer

In memory of Robin Palmer

1 March 2023
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
land rights
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
land rights activists

Robin Palmer passed away on Sunday 19 February. Robin was a pro-poor land activist who worked tirelessly as an academic and practitioner in the land rights sector for more than five decades.

Members of the Orang Asli Seletar tribe with their lawyers at the Court of Appeal this morning.

Ancestral land dispute resolved, Johor tribe to be resettled

12 January 2023
Malaysia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
fisheries
indigenous peoples' lands
water
compensation
encroachment
resettlement
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
customary land rights
customary tenure
water rights

An Orang Asli Seletar tribe in Johor, whose ancestral land was taken and sold to developers, will be relocated on new land to be gazetted for their settlement.

COP27

2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference: Cop27

25 October 2022
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land policies
environment
climate change
natural disasters
indigenous peoples' lands
nature reserves
natural resources
natural resources management
indigenous peoples' land rights
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
youth

The 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UNFCCC took place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 6-18 November 2022. This served as an important opportunity to  member States and stakeholders worldwide to scale up commitments to deliver on the Paris Agreement and Glasgow Climate Pact.    

Ousainou Darboe

Open Letter to Hon Ousainou Darboe: The Intolerable Kombo Lands Situation

16 July 2020
Gambia
land administration
cadastres
customary law
customary land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure

I write to you as a Kombo native; and as a Gambian, to express my concern at the continuing expropriation of customary lands. The gravity of the crisis is causing a sense of insecurity in Kombo’s traditional landowners.

Three of the over 500 Mbale residents who received certificates of customary ownership Photo: ACTogether Uganda

Uganda issues first ever Certificates of Customary Ownership in urban areas

6 December 2021
Africa
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
urbanization
slums
urban areas
customary land rights
customary tenure

On 2 December 2021 the mayor of Mbale City, Cassim Namugali, issued 511 Certificates of Customary Ownership in a colourful ceremony. The event took place at Wanale Division Hall in Mbale City. These are the first ever such certificates to be issued in an urban area in Uganda. Several hundred Mbale residents took part in the ceremony.

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“Boosting local capacity to manage land conflicts and protect customary rights” – Introducing the LAND-at-scale project in Mali

6 December 2021
Mali
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land governance
customary law
legal pluralism
climate change
rural areas
sustainable land use
regularization of illegal occupation
land dispute resolution
customary tenure
formal tenure
tenure security
capacity development
research
farmers
government
youth
women

The Netherlands Agency for Enterprise and Development (RVO) is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Bamako, SNV, the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako and the National Coordination of Peasant Organizations for implementation of a LAND-at-scale project in Mali "Strengthenin

LAND-at-scale Uganda

Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land in Uganda

10 September 2021
Uganda
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land registration
land-use planning
land use
sustainable land use
customary tenure
tenure security
capacity development
local communities
women

The Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency (RVO), the Netherlands Embassy in Kampala (EKN), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) are pleased to announce their collaboration for a LAND-at-scale project in Uganda. In a virtual signing ceremony on September 9th, the partnership was made official.

Forest Reserve near the Village of Masako, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. CIFOR/Ollivier Girard

Taking stock of REDD+ in Democratic Republic of Congo

16 November 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Forest Tenure
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
environment
climate change
land degradation
deforestation
mining
natural resources
customary tenure
Indigenous Peoples
extractive industries

Coordination, data and inclusivity key to move ahead, says study


Displaced Families Want Help To Recover Their Land

Displaced Families Want Help To Recover Their Land

12 May 2021
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land administration
land policies
land acquisitions
land grabbing
land rights
displacement
landlessness
customary tenure
local communities

Hundreds of families who were left homeless after the demolition of houses in Kinango Sub-county, Kwale County on Friday last week, are now appealing to the government to help them repossess their land from a private developer.

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AAKAR Books (AAKAR)

Established in 1991, AAKAR Books is a publishing company, started publishing quality scholarly books in Social Sciences in English and Hindi since 2001 and is now a niche for itself. Aakar Books is reputed for quality scholarly publishing in the field of Social Sciences.

Ethnic Community Development Organization (ECDO )

ECDO’s mission is to assist indigenous communities in working for a positive and sustainable change for those deprived of rights and opportunities by implementing both service delivery and rights based approaches. ECDO implements its activities in a fully participatory and bottom-up approach with an emphasis on empowerment from within indigenous communities.

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Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)

Established in October 2011, the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) is a non-profit Zambian company limited by guarantee which collaboratively works with public and private stakeholders in the agricultural sector. IAPRI is led by a local Board of Directors drawn from various state and private sector stakeholders.


Our Vision: To be the Centre of Excellence for Agricultural Policy Research and Outreach in Zambia.


Innovations for Successful Societies

Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS)

ISS chronicles government innovation, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Often the most creative and successful ideas are generated internally, framed by people who have deep knowledge of local conditions. ISS enables practitioners to tell their unique stories and join a knowledge network of reform-minded public servants from around the globe. ISS case studies distill these conversations into a tool for learning, for cross-cutting analysis, and for scholarship.

Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI)

Land Development and Governance Institute

 

MISSION: To contribute to improved livelihoods through offering a bridge between communities, stakeholders and policy makers in the promotion of equitable access and sustainable management of land and natural resources.

HEKS EPER

Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER )

HEKS champions the cause of a more humane and just world and a life in dignity. Internationally, HEKS/EPER focuses on rural community development, humanitarian aid and inter-church cooperation. 

The Tenure Facility

The Tenure Facility

The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility is focused on securing land and forest rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. We are the first financial mechanism to exclusively fund projects working towards this goal while reducing conflict, driving development, improving global human rights, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

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