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Namati’s Community Land Protection Program (CLPP) is…
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 7, 2015–The Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA) and Toledo Alcaldes Association (TAA) today received recognition in Paris, France, as the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Equator Prize in land rights, as part of the Climate Change Conference.
The award was received by MLA…
Research shows that indigenous peoples and communities manage their forests and other ecosystems well if they have secure rights over their land. Because healthy ecosystems deliver a whole suite of services — from timber to nonforest products to carbon mitigation — it’s in the broadest public…
ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT
DUTY STATION: Nairobi, Kenya with some travels
FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Land indicators Initiative Coordinator
DURATION: 12 months (renewable subject to performance and availability of funds)
CLOSING DATE: 4 January 2016
BACKGROUND
The United Nations Human…
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is pleased to offer two grants of $10,000 each for innovative uses of www.OpenLandContracts.org, the world’s first searchable online repository of publicly available commercial agriculture and forestry contracts. The grants are offered to support…
Recent experience across the developing world leaves no doubt that secure land rights for women is a fundamental requirement for ensuring that land management is sustainable and equitable. Plenty of evidence shows that, with secure rights, women are more likely to plant trees and take other actions…
In a world where billions of people live outside the protection of the law, Namati is dedicated to putting the law in people’s hands. We’re building a global movement of grassroots legal advocates who work with communities to advance justice. These advocates are fighting on the front lines to…
By ANASTASIA MOLONEY, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Published January 7, 2016
BOGOTA - Latin America is the deadliest region for human rights activists with scores killed defending land rights, the environment and the rights of LGBTI and indigenous people, a campaign group said on Wednesday.
In…
In April 2014 UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lectures – lecture packages focused on subjects related to cities and urbanization.
Each package consists of a 15 min video, a synopsis of the topic, a biography of the speaker and links to in depth study. The speakers are associated with UN-…
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED: 26 FEBRUARY 2016
Hosted by: Utrecht University, International Development Studies (IDS) – The Netherlands
Venue: Muntgebouw, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dates: 30 June - July 2016
Large-scale land acquisition in the context of urban sprawl and climate change: Linking…
Mokoro has recently launched a multi-country research study in support of women’s land rights. The Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS) has three main goals over the next 10 years: to establish stronger evidence about the threats to women’s land tenure security at the community level in…