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Policy Papers & Briefs
September 2021
Global

Over the past 30 years, an increasing number of states have passed good laws that significantly strengthen the tenure rights of their citizens. However, due to multiple barriers, a high percentage of many nations’ citizens are either unaware of their legal rights or unable to use national laws to protect their rights when threatened.


Designing and Implementing a Pro-Poor Land Recordation System
Reports & Research
September 2019
Africa
Asia

The challenges to tenure security in both urban and rural areas are not only large, but they are increasing due to the different types of pressures making land more and more scarce. There is growing acceptance that only by recognizing and supporting a continuum of land rights, can tenure security be reached for all people in an inclusive way.

Policy Papers & Briefs
August 2019
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global

In April 2019, UN Habitat through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and Global Urban Observatory (GUO) Units; with support from the Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) contacted National Statistical Offices (NSOs), National Land Registries and SDGs focal points with the aim of mobilizing existing data on land tenure security in response to SDGs indicator 1.4.2.

Catalyzing the Land Data Ecosystem
Conference Papers & Reports
July 2019
Africa
Eastern Africa
Kenya
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda

There is no doubt that the Global Data Revolution has reached the land sector. Government data portals, open access academic journals, community mapping initiatives and other citizen-generated data - there is a palpable positive drive across the world that allows processes such as data collection to be more inclusive and open.

Women’s Right to Land Entitlement an Effort of the Gender Mainstreaming for Gender Equality (The Case of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan)
Journal Articles & Books
November 2018
Pakistan

This study deals with the women’s right to land ownership. Economic Transformation Initiative, Gilgit-Baltistan (ETI-GB), an ambitious program supported by International Fund for Agricultural Development United Nation (IFAD, UN), aims to reduced poverty and increase income through agricultural development.

Reports & Research
July 2018
Brazil

A comunidade quilombola do Forte Príncipe da Beira fica no município de Costa Marques, Estado de Rondônia/Brasil. Abrange a extensão de 20.108,8709 hectares em plena região amazônica. Forma parte desses territórios chamados de “Negros do Guaporé” constituídos a partir de distintos processos de territorialização, desde o século XVIII na linha de fronteira entre Brasil e Bolívia...

Valuation of Unregistered Lands: A Policy Guide cover image
Manuals & Guidelines
May 2018
Global

This guide aims to support the process of valuation of unregistered land and property for the public and private agencies that undertake this exercise. It will be relevant for policy makers, local authorities, international finance institutions, investors, property developers, banks, civil society organisations, citizens, land owners, local communities and women’s groups.

Reports & Research
October 2017
Mozambique

Este relatório considera um dos aspectos práticos mais importantes da participação
local na Lei de Terras e outra legislação sobre recursos naturais: a consulta
comunitária, através da qual os estranhos – o Estado, novos investidores, empresas
madeireiras, grupos de hotéis – obtêm acesso à terra e recursos locais com a

Conference Papers & Reports
July 2017
Global

The UN-Habitat, World Bank and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) host of the Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) 1 in collaboration with Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL)2 jointly hosted a side event titled Land Tenure Security Monitoring in the SDGs: Leaving no one behind at the 2 nd High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).

Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights cover image
Training Resources & Tools
Multimedia
July 2017
Global

Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

These are:

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