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Secure Land Rights for All

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007

This publication on Secure Land Rights for All demonstrates how secure land rights are particularly important in helping to reverse three types of phenomena: gender discrimination; social exclusion of vulnerable groups; and wider social and economic inequalities linked to inequitable and insecure rights to land. It argues that policymakers should adopt and implement the continuum of land rights because, no single form of tenure can meet the different needs of all social groups.

Land tenure Security in selected countries: Synthesis Report

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
China
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guatemala
Indonesia
Kenya
Nigeria
Philippines
Thailand
Uganda
Zambia

 It is well recognized that secure land and property rights for all are essential to reducing poverty because they underpin economic development and social inclusion. Secure land tenure and property rights enable people in urban and rural areas to invest in improved homes and livelihoods. Although many countries have completely restructured their legal and regulatory framework related to land and they have tried to harmonize modern statutory law with customary ones, millions of people around the world still have insecure land tenure and property rights.

Village Focus International

Multimedia
Institutional & promotional materials
January, 2010
Cambodia
Laos

An introduction into the work we do to assist disadvantaged communities in Laos and Cambodia. 


We have 3 core Programs of development work: Healthy Villages & Local Leadership/ Land & Livelihoods/ Child Protection and Empowerment. 


Please visit our website for more information: https://villagefocus.org/index


 


Framework for evaluating Continuum of Land Rights scenarios

Training Resources & Tools
March, 2016
Global

This report develops a framework for evaluating continuum of land rights scenarios. Building on existing evaluation initiatives that focus on land tenure and the associated administrative systems, the report addresses an important gap by providing a framework for evaluating land rights scenarios along the continuum of land rights according to the purposes of a particular evaluation.

Shelter Report 2016

Reports & Research
September, 2015
Global

Land tenure is one of the great challenges Habitat for Humanity faces in helping families access decent housing. Countless families around the world lack rights to the land on which they live. Just imagine the stress of knowing that any day you might be forced to move because someone else claims ownership of the place you call home.


Global Land Tool Network Annual Report - 2015

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2016
Global

This annual report presents main achievements of 2015.

GLTN aims to contribute to poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure. The network has developed a global land partnership. Its members include international civil society organizations, international finance institutions, international research and training institutions, donors and professional bodies. It aims to take a more holistic approach to land issues and improve global land coordination in various ways.

The FIG Christchurch Declaration - Responding to Climate Change and Tenure Insecurity in Small Island Developing States

Manuals & Guidelines
Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2016
Global

This publication is the result of the workshop on “Responding to Climate Change and Tenure Insecurity in Small Island Developing States – The Role of Land Professionals” held in Christchurch, New Zealand 30 April – 1 May 2016 in connection with the FIG Working Week 2016. It includes a report of the seminar and a FIG Christchurch Declaration as the main outcome of the workshop.

Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part I - The challenges of post-conflict land reform

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi
South Sudan
Uganda

Disputes over land are a prominent feature of many situations of protracted violent conflict in Burundi, Uganda and South Sudan. Research conducted as part of the programme ‘Grounding Land Governance’ underscores that war reshuffles access and ownership, but also critically changes the ways in which land is governed. Land issues often come to resonate with other conflicts in society, thereby affecting overall stability. This makes interventions in land governance politically sensitive.

Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part II - Reshuffling land ownership for development

Journal Articles & Books
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi
South Sudan
Uganda

After conflict, governments and donors often feel a need for up-scaling and modernizing land use. There is an ambition to achieve economic recovery and contribute to food security through stimulating large-scale investment in land. Our research in Uganda, Burundi and South Sudan suggests that policymakers should be extremely careful when promoting large-scale land acquisitions, both foreign and national. Especially in the difficult transition from war to peace, large-scale appropriation of land risks becoming a threat to tenure security and the recovery of rural livelihoods.

Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region. Part III - Securing tenure of smallholder peasants

Journal Articles & Books
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Burundi
South Sudan
Uganda

In post-conflict settings, securing tenure of local smallholders is considered of major importance to reduce and prevent local land disputes, to contribute to the recovery of rural livelihoods, and to improve agricultural production. Registration and other ways of formalizing land ownership are generally believed to significantly enhance local tenure security and rural development.

Land Tenure Security in Selected Countries - Global Report (ENG 2015)

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Global
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
China
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Indonesia
Kenya
Nigeria
Philippines
Thailand
Uganda
Zambia

In this publication, the issue of tenure security is addressed and assessed in several countries where government, civil society, the private sector and development cooperation initiatives have been implemented for decades. The selected case studies from fifteen countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America ensure not only a eographic balance but they also represent countries with different socio-economic and land-related histories and that have followed different pathways. The studies’ key findings underline the still precarious state of tenure security in many countries.