Dear participants,
First, I would like to thank you all for your participation and willingness to share with us your experiences and ideas on how to disseminate the Voluntary Guidelines (VGs) and make them effective. Attached you will find the summary of the discussion which tries to capture the richness of your contributions.
Warm regards,
Francesca Carpano, IFAD discussion facilitator.
Report attached, published in 2008
The World Bank recently undertook an in-depth review of land governance and land policy in South Africa, with Land Portal partners Urban LandMark managing the process and implementing a Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) for South Africa.
The Sustainable Rangeland Management Project (SRMP) aims at securing land and resource
rights of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and crop farmers, while improving land management
by supporting village and district land use planning and rangeland management in Kiteto,
Bahi, Chamwino and Kondoa Districts in Tanzania. More broadly, it aims at influencing policy
Please find here the report of the online discussion facilitated by Ekta Parishad on the land portal in December 2012 : Is the right to land for shelter a human right? Many thanks to all of the participants for their very interesting inputs, which will contribute to the ongoing negociations with the indian government.
Special thanks to Dominik Pauli for his great support and commitment.
[via FAO] This technical guide aims to assist implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines by providing guidance that supports the Guidelines' principle of gender equality in tenure governance. The guide focuses on equity and on how land tenure can be governed in ways that address the different needs and priorities of women and men. It moves away from long-standing debates about gender equality in access to land, towards the mainstreaming of gender issues to achieve more gender-equitable participation in the processes and institutions that underlie all decision-making about land.
Latin American cities have been leaders in the implementation of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems—a transportation mode often characterised by infrastructure improvements that prioritise transit over other vehicles and allow quick vehicle access.
Ekta Parishad along with support organisations launched a decisive movement called Jan Satyagrah whose focus was to bring together people’s voices for a ‘National Land Reforms Act & Policy’ as a broad framework and means of land re-distribution to the landless and homeless poor.
Oxfam International
Farmers and herders in arid regions of Africa face serious challenges in adapting to climate change and variability. They are highly exposed to climate stresses, especially drought, but adaptation to climate change is far from being a clear-cut biophysical or technical problem: it is also a social challenge.
La Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL) a été organisée suite aux nombreux conflits politiques qui ont marqué la Région des Grands Lacs. La CIRGL comprend onze Etats membres.
Below please find the World Bank's Land Governance Assessment Framework February newsletter with updates from Peru and Mauritania. The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF), developed by the World Bank in partnership with FAO, UN Habitat, IFAD, IFPRI, the African Union, and bilateral partners, is a diagnostic tool to assess the status of land governance at country level in a participatory process of 3-6 months that draws systematically on local expertise and existing evidence rather than on outsiders.
