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During the Donor Roundtable Meeting in Washington on the margins of the annual land conference at the World Bank on 12 April 2013 participants agreed to establish a new Global Donor Working Group on Land facilitated by the secretariat of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.
Land is featured large in the UK G8 Presidency in 2013, as part of the transparency agenda. UK leadership generated strongly positive feedback. In the Lough Erne Declaration, leaders agreed the following principle: “Land transactions should be transparent, respecting the property rights of local communities.”
Leaders agreed to implement the UN Committee on World Food Security’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, and to support regional processes such as the Land Policy Initiative of the AU.
The following land partnerships were launched with interested governments, to accelerate and target support to countries’ existing land governance programmes in conjunction with businesses, in particular farmers, and civil society:
Ethiopia (UK, US, Germany)
Tanzania (UK), Nigeria (UK)
Burkina Faso (US)
South Sudan (EU)
Niger (EU)
Senegal (France).
Further partnerships can be added. Partners have agreed to report regularly on progress and exchange lessons learnt. Reports will be published via the website of the new global donor group on land established in 2013 and chaired by the UK (DFID).
The government of the United Kingdom has published documents on the work that has been done so far on the country partnerships and extractives. Please find the documents below: