Land Corruption - Topic Guide

This topic guide presents an overview of land corruption in rural and urban areas, focusing on:

• the social costs of corruption in land governance and the forms that corruption takes at different levels of land governance such as policy making, legal processes and administrative processes.
• the different ways in which land corruption is being counteracted. To illustrate how those anti-corruption approaches are being implemented, it includes successful experiences from all around the world with concrete ideas to fight land corruption.

The guide then compiles a list of resources to learn more about the topic, including background studies, standards and guidelines, data sets and a list of main stakeholders and actors working on the issue from different perspectives; as well as handbooks and tool-kits with practical suggestions to implement in the field.