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Job Opportunity: Regional Engagement Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

3 February 2020

Northern Africa

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Saudi Arabia

Syrian Arab Republic

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Global Land Alliance seeks a dynamic, highly motivated and self-propelled consultant to engage with a wide range of regional stakeholders to increase engagement with the Prindex initiative, encourage the utilization of its research findings for policy reform, and expand the initiative in specific countries.

MSPO recognises land use rights and NCR, says minister

22 July 2019

Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR (July 22): Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok has come out to respond to allegations by environmental group Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) that native customary land rights (NCR) are being violated in the palm oil industry.

Protestors demand land titles

25 June 2019

South-Eastern Asia

Cambodia

Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Borey Kang Meng construction site in the capital’s Dangkor district on Monday to demand the developer honour its promise to divide the site into plots and give them land titles.

Blogs

An Interview with Professor Howard Stein at the recent Conference on Land Policy in Africa

20 December 2019

Authors:

Mr. Howard Stein

Stacey Zammit

Africa

During the recent Conference on Land Policy in Africa, we had a chance to sit down and speak with Professor Howard Stein of the University of Michigan. Scroll below to read more.

1) Can you tell us a little bit about your research, work and background?

Mobilizing Change for Women Within Collective Tenure Regimes

17 November 2019

Authors:

Ms. Iliana Monterroso Ibarra

Uganda

Peru

Indonesia

Local communities manage a significant portion of the world’s remaining forests, pastures, and fisheries as common property resources, but they are rarely recognized as formal owners. Important progress has occurred during the last twenty years, as growing evidence suggests that devolving rights to communities can provide incentives for new forms of investment that facilitate sustainable outcomes as well as greater equity in the distribution of benefits.

What Works for Women?

5 November 2019

Authors:

Ms. Elisa Scalise

Ethiopia

Uganda

Peru

Indonesia

Considering that land tenure security is crucial to better outcomes for women it is a surprise that there is not more evidence out there on what works to achieve it.

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Webinar Report: The Role of Land Certification in Securing Women's Land Rights on Collective Lands

Reports & Research

January 2020

Ethiopia

Uganda

Peru

Indonesia

Evidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems.

Innovations in Land Tenure Systems and Land Titling (Cross-Cutting)

Reports & Research

February 2018

South Africa

During its transition from racial apartheid to democracy in 1994, South Africa’s government announced it would strengthen the tenure rights of the estimated 16 million citizens who lived on communal land. By 2012, however, the government’s own reports concluded that the country had made little progress in the area of communal tenure reform.

Land Tenure Journal: December 2015

Peer-reviewed publication

December 2015

Global

The Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor to the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009.

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Organizations

Research Consortium

Launched in 2018, the Research Consortium, by Resource Equity, is a powerful hub for the collection, sharing, and exchange of knowledge on how to effectively advance women’s land rights. We identify gaps in knowledge and help develop a common agenda for research so that learnings can more easily be compared, shared, and applied.

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