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Close to 100 experts have been trained to bring about change in land use planning
8 August 2023
The right to land is a fundamental prerequisite to the other rights (economic, social, and cultural) that depend on land, and which determine the living conditions and social integration of Ethiopia’s rural and urban communities. In recent times, high rates of population growth, unregulated urban…
Africa’s groundbreaking women’s rights treaty turns 20 - the hits and misses of the Maputo protocol
16 July 2023
2023 marks two decades since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) is arguably the most progressive legally binding instrument on women’s and human rights instruments globally. A…
Job Opportunity: Country Research Consultants for French and Spanish Speaking Countries
3 July 2023
We are looking for two consultants to conduct research on the land governance situation in French and Spanish speaking countries.
Projects
Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest: Kenya
Durationaab: January 2010 - January 2014
Value: $490,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest (Justice) Project piloted an approach for improving women’s access to customary justice, particularly related to women’s land rights, by enhancing the customary justice system in one target area. The work also resulted in a clearer understand
Evaluation Research and Communication: Global
Durationaab: January 2013 - January 2018
Value: $18,800,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The purpose of the Evaluation, Research and Communication (ERC) project is to create, expand, and communicate the results of evidence-based knowledge around best land tenure and property rights practices in order to enhance internal USAID and external USG learning, guide program design and implemen
Kosovo Property Rights Program
Durationaab: January 2014 - January 2018
Value: $8,343,070.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The rule of law in Kosovo is constrained by poorly defined and enforced property rights, especially the property rights of women and members of minority communities. The absence of an effective property rights regime weakens democratic governance, impacts human rights, disempowers women and impedes
Safeguarding livelihoods of women baobab harvesters through improved land and natural resources governance
Durationaab: October 2016 - March 2019
Value: £221,184.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The project supported women in 14 communities incorporating 23 villages across two Districs in Northern Mozambique to get secure access to land/trees and an improved income from those trees. The Project achieved this by: obtaining secure access rights to Baobab trees through the development of natur
Geographic information for environment, climate change and EU integration (LAKI II)
Durationaab: January 2013 - April 2017
Value: $10,832,000.00
Donors: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
The project has the general objective of increasing the capacity of ANCPI in the implementation of the EU Directive on the harmonization and sharing of geographic information domestically and internationally and will be implemented in partnership with the Norwegian Mapping Authority and Registers Ic
Moldova Cadastre System
Durationaab: January 2012 - December 2017
Value: $2,768,000.00
Donors: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Property Registration system, coooperation with the national bureau for statistics
Unknowing abuse
19 September 2023
Tuya describes her decision to take action on GBV in her Mongolian herding community after becoming a gender and land champion.
Whose Land? - Inclusive Pathways to Land Governance
26 April 2022
How can civil society actors ensure inclusivity in their land governance work with communities? Tuesday, 26 April, 2022 10:00-11:30 AM CEST | 15:00-16:30 PM JAKARTA Both ENDS and the Land Portal Foundation held the first webinar in the Whose Land? - Inclusive Pathways to Land Governance…
