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Environ 7000 certificats fonciers délivrés dans le domaine rural (AFOR)

14 July 2021

Au total, 7 523 certificats fonciers ont été délivrés avant juin 2021 à des personnes détenant des droits coutumiers sur des terres dans le domaine rural en Côte d’Ivoire, a révélé, mardi 13 juillet 2021, à Yamoussoukro, l’Agence foncière rurale (AFOR), lors de l’atelier de formation des professionnels des médias nationaux sur la politique nationale de sécurisation foncière.

A road project in Indonesia’s Gorontalo carves a path of graft and grief

14 July 2021
  • More than 1,000 families were entitled to payments for land needed to construct the Gorontalo Outer Ring Road, a national priority infrastructure project on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island.
  • The road will connect Djalaluddin Airport in the capital of Gorontalo province with the province’s main ferry port.
  • Spending on the project reached almost 1 trillion rupiah ($69 million) between 2014 and 2017.
  • A senior provincial official and two surveyors have been jailed in connections with corruption in the land acquisition process, while anot

Document forgery on the rise leads to Nepal’s international repute on the decline

11 July 2021

Rabindra Maharjan from Bhainsepati has a government document which states that he constructed a hospital in Chandrapur municipality-8 in Rautahat. The document, which is on the letterhead of the Buddhist Philosophy Promotion and Monastery Development Committee under the Ministry of Culture, states that the hospital was completed on September 24, 2016, at an investment of little over Rs 433 million.

But, according to the municipality, no hospital has been constructed in the area in the past eight years.

Sénégal: exploitation du zircon, quel impact social et environnemental

11 July 2021

Depuis 2014, la société Grande Côte Opérations exploite des sables minéralisés dans le secteur de Diogo, essentiellement de l’ilménite et du zircon. L’État du Sénégal lui a accordé une concession pour 25 ans. Le ministre des Mines a souligné jeudi 8 juillet que les « retombées de l’exploitation minière n’étaient pas suffisantes pour le Sénégal ».

“Scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and climate resilience”: Introducing the LAND-at-scale Mozambique project

09 July 2021

Centro Terra Viva, Terra Firma Lda and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) are excited to announce their partnership for a LAND-at-scale project in Mozambique. Starting this year, the project will run for three years focusing on three components, namely scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and increasing climate resilience.

Consultancy Opportunity: A consultant to conduct a scoping study on land access for migrants in Africa

09 July 2021

1. Context

Migration drivers in Africa are various and interrelated. As mentioned in the 2018 Migration Policy Framework for Africa (MPFA), a combination of push and pull factors influence migration decisions. With its strategic place the livelihood and socio-economic models of many African households and individuals, it is clear that access to land and property rights can be either a push or a pull factor for migration.

Job Opportunity: Open Land Data Management Consultant for Liberia

09 July 2021

The Land Portal exists to nurture a vibrant online platform to inform and engage with partners, promoting open data and the sharing of best practices and stimulating debate and collaboration both on and offline. We provide a vital bridge for those grappling with complex land governance issues – from researchers and NGOs through to governments and grassroots communities – connecting people, facilitating dialogue and joining the dots between fragmented information.

Peru's indigenous hope for a voice, at last, under new president

08 July 2021

CARATA, Peru, July 5 (Reuters) - Maxima Ccalla, 60, an indigenous Quechua woman, has spent her life tilling the harsh soil in Peru's Andean highlands, resigned to a fate far removed from the vast riches buried deep beneath her feet in seams of copper, zinc and gold.

The Andean communities in Ccalla's home region of Puno and beyond have long clashed with the mining companies that dig mineral wealth out from the ground.