Vision

To be an internationally recognized organisation for excellence in knowledge-based sustainable forest resources management and conservation.

Mission

Conservation, sustainable development, management and utilisation of the country’s forest resources for equitable benefit of present and future generations.

Strategic Goal

The overall goal of this Strategic Plan is to increase the national forest cover by 1% in the next three years.

Strategic Objectives

1. Increase net forest cover
2. Strengthen financial base
3. Enhance conseravtion, sustainable management and utilisation of forests by improving livelihoods in rural areas
4. Effectively manage information within interactive intergrated information systems in support of business processes and improved service delivery
5. Strenghten institutional capacity to deliver on it’s mandate

The Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) is a not-for-profit and non-partisan umbrella network of Civil Society Organisations and Individuals committed to effective advocacy for the reform of policies and laws governing land in Kenya. KLA was founded in 1999 and registered as a Trust in 2001. The initiative to create an institutional framework for land laws and policy advocacy in Kenya was necessitated by the realization that the policy, legal and institutional framework created in 1950’s had become inadequate due to many changes in the social, political, economic and cultural fronts that had occurred in the country over the years.

The increased population has resulted in intense competition for access to land and natural resources. In addition, changes in the global environment brought about by globalization have combined to create a reality that is significantly different from the one existing when the

current framework was created in the 1950s. It is on this premise that KLA has been in the forefront in efforts towards effective advocacy for land laws and policy reforms in Kenya, as recently witnessed in the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Land Law System of

Kenya and the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission. Advocating for the formulation and implementation of a National Land Policy and review of land laws.

Our Vision

A society in which all people are assured of sustainable livelihoods through secure and equitable access and utilisation of land and natural resources.

Our Mission

To facilitate the activities of members by gathering and disseminating information towards an all-embracing, participatory and comprehensive land policy and law reforms in Kenya.

Legal Name: The National Council for Law Reporting

Brand Name: Kenya Law

Organization type: A semi-autonomous state corporation

Parent Institution: The Judiciary

Parent Act: The National Council for Law Reporting Act

Mission

To Provide Universal Access to Kenya’s Public Legal Information by Monitoring and Reporting on the Development of Jurisprudence for the Promotion of the Rule of Law

Vision

Accessible Public Legal Information towards an Enlightened Society

Background

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) is an autonomous national Human rights institution established under article 59 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 with the core mandate of furthering the promotion and protection of human rights in Kenya. It is a successor to the body of the same name established by an earlier Act of Parliament in 2002, that later became operational in July 2003.The KNCHR succeeded the Standing Committee on Human Rights established in 1996 through presidential decree. The Commission is established in accordance with the United Nations approved Paris Principles. The management team consists of five Commissioners and the Secretariat.

International status

The operations of the KNCHR are guided by the United Nations-approved Paris Principles on the establishment and functioning of independent national human rights institutions. The National Commission has been accredited by the International Co-ordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC), which is based in Geneva at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as an ‘A status’ institution which means that the Commission has been found to be in compliance with the Principles. The KNCHR is a member of the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI), the ICC's regional grouping for Africa.

Mandate

The Commission plays two key broad mandates; 

It acts as a watch-dog over the Government in the area of human rights. 

Provides key leadership in moving the country towards a human rights state. 

The main goal of KNCHR is to investigate and provide redress for human rights violations, to research and monitor the compliance of human rights norms and standards, to conduct human rights education, to facilitate training, campaigns and advocacy on human rights as well as collaborate with other stakeholders in Kenya.

Vision

A society that upholds human rights for all.

Mission

To protect,promote and monitor the respect for human rights in Kenya through law,policy and practice.

In 2008, Kepa established an office in Bangkok to initiate its programme in the Mekong Region - Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. In 2010, the Thai authorities gave the official permit for Kepa to operate a regional office. In september 2015 Kepa board decided to close the Mekong office due to the budget cuts by the government of Finland. Kepa Mekong has closed its doors by the end of January in 2016.

Kepa focuses on three themes in its programme: global economic policy, climate justice and issues in development cooperation. All these themes are relevant for the Mekong countries. The opening up of economies in Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia has ushered these countries into various regional and international trade agreements. Similarly, ambitious development programmes of the Mekong countries are attracting development finance of various types: public and private; traditional and emergent.

Finally, all the countries in the region, and particularly the rice producing areas in the Mekong delta and the megacities of Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) are increasingly facing serious threats due to sea level rise and other manifestations of climate change.

Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality. To date, tens of thousands of creative projects — big and small — have come to life with the support of the Kickstarter community.

The Community 

Kickstarter is an enormous global community built around creativity and creative projects. Over 10 million people, from every continent on earth, have backed a Kickstarter project.

Some of those projects come from influential artists like De La Soul or Marina Abramović. Most come from amazing creative people you probably haven’t heard of — from Grandma Pearl to indie filmmakers to the band down the street.

Every artist, filmmaker, designer, developer, and creator on Kickstarter has complete creative control over their work — and the opportunity to share it with a vibrant community of backers.

Mission 

We built Kickstarter to help bring creative projects to life. We measure our success as a company by how well we achieve that mission, not by the size of our profits. That’s why, in 2015, we became a Benefit Corporation. Benefit Corporations are for-profit companies that are obligated to consider the impact of their decisions on society, not only shareholders. Radically, positive impact on society becomes part of a Benefit Corporation’s legally defined goals.

When we became a Benefit Corporation, we amended our corporate charter to lay out specific goals and commitments to arts and culture, making our values core to our operations, fighting inequality, and helping creative projects come to life. You can read our commitments in full below.

The 'KIIT School Of Rural Management', (KSRM), is the Rural Management wing of KIIT University. KIIT University has been categorized as an “A” Grade university by Ministry of Human Resource Development, It is located in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India and has been specially established for imparting education in rural management. It offers post graduate degree in Masters of Rural Management, MBA(RM).

KcK addresses the problem of governments in East Africa not respecting their constitutions, which leads to gross human rights violations, marginalisation, oppression, civil strife and coups. As a think tank, KcK provides critical and up to date information to East Africans on constitutionalism, good governance and democratic development. For example, KcK's fact-finding missionsprovide information and give prominence to critical constitutional, governance and democratic issues peculiar to specific countries and the region.

Her Annual State of Constitutionalism Project that audits the constitutional and governance landscape in the region is a useful source of information on the progress, challenges and prospects in the area. KcK's work aims to empower East Africans to hold their governments answerable in order to influence the way they are governed so that there is ultimately a respectful relationship between the leaders and the led.

Vision

Constitutionalism that promotes good governance and democratic development in Eastern Africa.

Mission Statement

To promote a culture of constitutionalism, where the constitution is a living document that reflects the aspirations and needs of men and women in democratic and participatory governance in Eastern Africa.

Core Values

We at Kituo cha Katiba value:

• Inclusive participation.
• Respect for human rights and rule of law.
• Equality and non-discrimination.
• Accountability, transparency, integrity and consistency.

Strategic Objectives

• To undertake research, production, collection, data banking, archiving and disseminating of information, and to promote the use of ICT to foster public dialogue and debate.
• To provide effective mechanisms and fora to engage in dialogue, self-reflection and critical debate over constitutionalism, good governance and democratic development.
• To strengthen the knowledge base of the staff to manage and implement it's programmes through training and other forms of capacity building.

Kluwer Academic Publishers was merged with Springer Science and Business media in 2004, when Springer bought the Publisher from Wolters Kluwer.

Kluwer Academic Publishers is a publisher of academic journals and books.

Source: Wikipedia

Kluwer Law International B.V. is part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. We continue to provide the global business community with reliable international legal information in English. Legal practitioners, corporate counsel and business executives around the world rely on our journals, looseleafs, books, and electronic products for comprehensive information in many areas of international legal practice.

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business is a leading provider of research information and workflow solutions in key specialty areas. The strengths of the individual brands of Aspen Publishers, CCH, Kluwer Law International and Loislaw are aligned within this Wolters Kluwer division to provide comprehensive, in-depth solutions and expert-authored content for the legal, professional and education markets.

Knoema is the most comprehensive source of global decision-making data in the world. Our tools allow individuals and organizations to discover, visualize, model, and present their data and the world’s data to facilitate better decisions and better outcomes.

The Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law is a vibrant network of experts working on generating, sharing, interrogating and applying evidence in the field of security & rule of law. The Platform’s main objective is to improve the learning capacity and knowledge base of its members, specifically decision makers for Security & Rule of Law (SRoL) policy and programs.

Based on a broad international orientation and engagement, the Platform strives to contribute to the evidence base of current policies, the effectiveness of collaboration and programming, while simultaneously facilitating the generation of new knowledge on security and rule of law in conflict affected contexts. Concurrently, the Platform aims to tackle the fragmentation of research funds by acting as the main vehicle through which the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ research funds regarding international security and rule of law are allocated.

Our activities seek to:

• Fundamentally shape our understanding and approaches towards security and rule of law in fragile and conflict affected settings;
• Influence and innovate policy and implementation; and
• Facilitate mutual learning.

To this end, the Platform brings together a network of relevant communities of practice comprising experts, policymakers, practitioners, researchers and the business sector. It provides for an informal meeting space – offline as well as online – and intellectual stimulus grounded in practice, for its network to share experiences, exchange lessons learned and discuss novel insights.

The Platform was established by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2012 as part of the Ministry’s knowledge policy. Key to its agenda are improving security for civilians, building the rule of law, and developing knowledge infrastructure in developing countries to enhance long term self-reliance. The Platform’s Steering Group is comprised of representatives of civil society organizations, knowledge institutions and government. The Secretariat of the Platform is managed by the Conflict Research Unit of the Netherlands Institute for International Relations, Clingendael, Saferworld and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO). It is based at the offices of the Conflict Research Unit, the consortium lead.

The Korea Development Institute is an autonomous policy-oriented research organization founded in 1971. KDI was established by the Korean government as an economic think tank to provide a rigorous academic perspective on the various economic policy issues that had arisen during Korea’s rapid growth and development in the 1960s. Since then, the scope of KDI’s activities has grown, and it is now called upon to provide expert analysis and advice on all aspects of long- and short-term government policies in areas ranging from domestic economic policy to international trade and investment.

Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas and information between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa. It is a digital forum for conversations about the critical challenges confronting peacebuilding in conflict-affected regions of the continent, as well as exploring the connections between African and global peace.

It is a platform for news on innovative research, including reviews of publications on African peacebuilding and reflections by scholars and practitioners on trends and developments in the field. Kujenga Amani publishes essays and briefs on Africa-related peace initiatives, and reports on APN-supported research, fieldwork, and projects. Of note is its role in launching new voices on the challenges confronting peacebuilding in conflict-affected regions of Africa, as well as highlighting new knowledge produced by African scholars and practitioners based on the continent.

The L.Y.P Group Company Limited is one of Cambodia’s most dynamic and diversified business organizations playing a key role in the Royal Government of Cambodia’s strategy of economic diversification.

Committed to the development of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the L.Y.P Group has major investments in a number of sectors including hospitality, agriculture, real estate, infrastructure, entertainment and the media (starting in 2015).

The group started out in hospitality in the 1990s with the establishment of a number of hotels. Having made a name for itself in the local hotel industry, the L.Y.P Group then branched out into leisure and entertainment.

Since the start of its operations the L.Y.P Group has contributed significantly to the development of Cambodia’s infrastructure and agro-industries. With hundreds of millions of dollars invested, the L.Y.P Group has established roads, bridges, power generation and water purification plants across the country. The company has also been instrumental in helping to build the country’s immensely productive sugar industry.

In keeping with the Group’s strategy to facilitate economic growth and assist with the Royal Government of Cambodia’s ongoing efforts to diversify the industrial sector, the L.Y.P Group has established the Koh Kong Special Economic Zone (KKSEZ). The Group continues to welcome local and foreign direct investment from medium-sized to large multi-national companies wishing to take advantage of Cambodia’s rapid emergence as an industrial and agricultural player in the South East Asia region.

Vision

The LYP Group Of Companies’ vision is to take the lead in helping to develop Cambodia’s economy in a manner that provides value and sustainability for our customers, partners, suppliers and employees.

Mission

At the LYP Group of Companies, we believe our mission is to –

• Create Cambodia’s most successful diversified business group
• Promote Cambodia as an ideal place for international companies to do business by forming sustainable partnerships with reputable and respected international organisations
• Introduce international business standards and practices to Cambodia’s working environment
• Create jobs and opportunities for the people of the Royal Government of Cambodia

La Carta de la Tierra es una declaración de principios éticos fundamentales para la construcción de una sociedad global justa, sostenible y pacífica en el Siglo XXI. La Carta busca inspirar en todas las personas un nuevo sentido de interdependencia global y de responsabilidad compartida para el bienestar de toda la familia humana, de la gran comunidad de vida y de las futuras generaciones. La Carta es una visión de esperanza y un llamado a la acción.

La Carta de la Tierra se preocupa especialmente por la transición hacia estilos de vida sostenibles y el desarrollo humano sostenible. La integridad ecológica es uno de sus temas principales. Sin embargo, la Carta reconoce que los objetivos de la protección ecológica, la erradicación de la pobreza, el desarrollo económico equitativo, el respecto a los derechos humanos, la democracia y la paz son interdependientes e indivisibles. Por consiguiente, el documento ofrece un nuevo marco ético integral inclusivo para guiar la transición hacia un futuro sostenible.

La Carta es el producto de un diálogo intercultural que se llevó a cabo durante una década a nivel mundial en torno a diversos objetivos en común y valores compartidos. El proyecto de la Carta de la Tierra comenzó como una iniciativa de las Naciones Unidas, pero se desarrolló y finalizó como una iniciativa de la sociedad civil. En el año 2000, se concluyó el documento y la Comisión de la Carta de la Tierra, una entidad internacional independiente, la dio a conocer públicamente como una carta de los pueblos, durante una ceremonia el 29 de junio en el Palacio de Paz, en la Haya, Holanda.

La redacción de la Carta de la Tierra abarcó el proceso más inclusivo y participativo que se haya efectuado jamás en torno a la creación de una declaración internacional. Este proceso es precisamente la fuente de su legitimidad como marco ético rector. La legitimidad del documento se ha fortalecido aún más mediante el respaldo obtenido de más de 6,000 organizaciones, lo que incluye a diversos organismos gubernamentales e internacionales.

A la luz de esta legitimidad, una creciente cantidad de juristas internacionales reconoce que la Carta de la Tierra está adquiriendo un estatus de documento de ley blanda. Se considera que este tipo de documentos, tal como la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, son moralmente vinculantes, aunque no en el plano jurídico, para los gobiernos estatales que aceptan avalarlos y adoptarlos. Por lo general, estos documentos establecen la base para el desarrollo de una ley vinculante.

En un momento en que se necesita con urgencia cambios importantes en la forma en que pensamos y vivimos, la Carta de la Tierra nos desafía a examinar nuestros valores y a escoger un rumbo mejor. En un momento en que la educación para el desarrollo sostenible se ha transformado en un elemento esencial, la Carta de la Tierra ofrece un instrumento educativo muy valioso. En un momento en que se necesitan cada vez más las alianzas internacionales de trabajo, la Carta de la Tierra nos exhorta a buscar aspectos en común en medio de nuestra diversidad y a adoptar una ética global que comparte una creciente cantidad de personas en todo el mundo.

La Francophonie, ce sont tout d’abord des femmes et des hommes qui partagent une langue commune, le français. Le dernier rapport en date de l’Observatoire de la langue française, publié en 2018, estime leur nombre à 300 millions de locuteurs, répartis sur les cinq continents.

C'est ensuite un dispositif institutionnel voué à promouvoir le français et à mettre en œuvre une coopération politique, éducative, économique et culturelle au sein des 88 Etats et gouvernements de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Ce dispositif est fixé par la Charte de la Francophonie, adoptée en 1997 : sa plus haute instance est le Sommet de la Francophonie ; sa clé de voûte la Secrétaire générale de la Francophonie, poste occupé par Louise Mushikiwabo.

L’OIF met en œuvre la coopération multilatérale francophone aux côtés de l’Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) et de quatre opérateurs : l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), TV5MONDE, l’Association internationale des maires francophones (AIMF) et l’Université Senghor à Alexandrie. 

La Francophonie a pour missions de : 

• Promouvoir la langue française et la diversité culturelle et linguistique
• Promouvoir la paix, la démocratie et les droits de l’Homme
• Appuyer l’éducation, la formation, l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche
• Développer la coopération économique au service du développement durable

The Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Publications (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas), or simply LA Referencia, is a Latin American network of open access repositories. Through its services, it supports national Open Access strategies in Latin America through a platform with interoperability standards, sharing and giving visibility to the scientific production generated in institutions of higher education and scientific research.

From the national nodes, scientific articles, doctoral and master's theses are integrated, coming from more than a hundred universities and research institutions from the nine countries that now form LA Referencia. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru are active members of the network and Costa Rica was integrated in 2016.

This experience is based on technical and organizational agreements between public science and technology agencies (Ministries and Oncyts ) of the member countries, together with RedCLARA. LA Referencia was born through the Cooperation Agreement, signed in Buenos Aires in 2012, which reflects the political will to offer in open access the scientific production of Latin America as a regional public good with emphasis on the results financed with public funds.

Revue du Centre de recherches et d'études sur les droits fondamentaux. La Revue des droits de l’homme est une revue universitaire juridique généraliste. Elle publie à rythme hebdomadaire des commentaires rapides de l’actualité sous formes de Lettre "Actualités Droits-Libertés", et de façon semestrielle un numéro de Revue comprenant notamment un dossier thématique et des articles sur sujet libre. Elle fait usage du multimédia.

O Grupo de Pesquisa História e Poder reúne pesquisadores que têm como objeto de investigação as práticas sociais relacionadas ao Estado e ao Poder. O Estado é entendido em um sentido amplo, abarcando aspectos diversos das relações estabelecidas entre os agentes sociais. O poder é exercido não apenas no interior da sociedade política, mas também no âmbito das mais variadas organizações e corporações da sociedade civil. O exercício do poder e a produção de hegemonia abrangem, portanto, esferas diversas, como a gestação e a afirmação, a crítica e a contraposição de projetos sociais, as elaborações intelectuais e as políticas partidárias, a organização dos diferentes grupos e classes sociais, a constituição de aparelhos privados de hegemonia, o gerenciamento e a disseminação de ideologias e projetos sociais. Nestes estudos, verifica-se a presença de abordagens sobre o Estado e o Poder, a construção de hegemonia e o exercício do domínio nas esferas e espaços da sociedade civil (corporações privadas) e da sociedade política (no Estado, no governo e nas instituições públicas), a atuação de intelectuais orgânicos e seus vínculos com determinados projetos de Nação e de Estado (sua ação em relação à regulação ou desregulamentação dos direitos sociais, à ampliação e garantia dos direitos políticos, à seguridade social, à política econômica, à inserção da economia nacional no mercado internacional, etc.)

Annually, more than 5,000,000 theses are written worldwide in the research industry. In addition to this are the numerous research notes, articles, and the many creative concepts of professors, universities and institutions.

Enterprises and scientists would be especially interested in these ideas; nevertheless, up to today, most of this work is shelved as a result of high costs.

LAP specializes in the publication of such works and uses commitment and the latest technology in order to make the invaluable work of such researchers available worldwide, quickly and efficiently.

LARC is a research and advocacy unit within the Law Department of the University of Cape Town concerned with power relations, and the impact of national laws and policy in framing the balance of patriarchal and autocratic power within which rural women and men struggle for democratic change at the local level. There has recently been a push from government to introduce laws and policies giving traditional leaders unaccountable powers over “subjects” living in the former homeland areas of South Africa. The objective is to hold back traditional leadership laws that threaten rural democracy and propose alternative laws and policies that promote rural democracy and are consistent with living law. 

LARC grew out out of the Rural Women’s Action Research unit (RWAR) of the Centre for Law and Society (CLS). 

Land and Development Bank of South Africa (LADBSA) is a government-owned development bank in the Republic of South Africa. The bank was established as a development finance institution in 1912 by the Government of South Africa. The main objective of LADBSA is to promote and finance development in the agricultural sector of the economy of the country.

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Land and Development Expertise Center, LADEC, is a Burundian social enterprise working to promote sustainable rural development and social justice through good governance of land and landed resources. LADEC started in 2018, capitalizing on the strong experience of its founding members in localized land registration. For the time being, its action focuses mainly on research, capacity building and project administration in land governance, land-related conflict and gender issues analysis and management. It ambitions to extend its intervention on food security, environment, and land planning sectors.

Through action research, LADEC analyzes contemporary community problems within its fields of action, and thus feeds ongoing development initiatives with updated and accurate data. It deems social dialogue and participatory processes to be of utmost importance for policy design and implementation. Research findings are brought into policy debate, involving public and private actors, state partners, civil society and the citizens, to foster projects that draw upon actual community needs. LADEC welcomes and offers its contribution to any organization, national and international, interested in the achievement of such an objective.

LADEC has been hard working to find adequate solutions to the issues related to the operation and sustainability of the localized offices of land registration (services fonciers communaux). This topic keeps its relevance within its whole action. This the case for the current Swiss-funded Projet de Résolution des Conflits Fonciers that LADEC is implementing in the provinces of Ngozi and Kayanza, as well as the World Bank-supported Projet de Résilience et Restauration du Paysage au Burundi to which it contributes in the provinces of Bujumbura and Muyinga, specifically the project’s localized land registration component. For both these and upcoming projects, LADEC’s members and staff have committed to relentlessly keeping up its mission to contribute, with its partners and all involved stakeholders, to “a prosperous, peaceful, and fair society, through fair access to resources and development opportunities”.

Land Conflict Watch is a research-based data journalism project that maps, collects, and analyses ongoing land conflicts in India. It not only presents a macro picture at the national level but also zooms in to give details of each conflict at the micro level.

Land Conflict Watch is a team of independent researchers and journalists, spread across India, who combine academic rigour with journalistic approach to collect data that answers questions about conflicts and their impact on the environment, industrial investments and human rights.

The project is supported by a fellowship grant from Rights and Resources Initiative. Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai has provided academic inputs.

Land Core Group is a Myanmar NGO based in Yangon that works to raise awareness of land issues, and promote policy reform to support small scale farmers and forest dependent peoples throughout Myanmar. Our project activities are as follows

- Conduct research on various aspects of land issues

- Land Rights and Land Law TOT and grassroots trainings

- Advocacy to promote stronger land tenure in policy and law

- Coordination and networking through the broader LCG network

- Information, education and public awareness on land issues and land rights including production of materials, videos and information exchange such as through the mylaff document repository www.mylaff.org

The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is a network of the research programme of Political Economy of Resources, Environment and Population (PER) of the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Part of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

The aim of LDPI is for a broad framework encompassing the political economy, political ecology and political sociology of land deals.

Our general framework is based on answering 6 key questions:

• Who owns what?
• Who does what?
• Who gets what?
• What do they do with their surplus wealth?
• Ho do social classes and groups in society and within the state interact with each other?
• How do changes in politics get shaped by dynamic ecologies and vice versa?

First steps will involve data-gathering through literature reviews, followed by research into more targeted national contexts. This will help us understand a broader set of 'so what' questions.

Land Degradation & Development is an international journal which seeks to promote rational study of the recognition monitoring control and rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments. The journal focuses on: what land degradation is; what causes land degradation; the impacts of land degradation the scale of land degradation; the history current status or future trends of land degradation; avoidance mitigation and control of land degradation; remedial actions to rehabilitate or restore degraded land; sustainable land management. Land degradation may be defined as the loss of utility or potential utility through the reduction of or damage to physical social cultural or economic features and/or reduction of ecosystem diversity.

Land Development and Governance Institute

MISSION: To contribute to improved livelihoods through offering a bridge between communities, stakeholders and policy makers in the promotion of equitable access and sustainable management of land and natural resources.

VISION: To become a centre of excellence in promoting the application of appropriate land policies, laws and management practices by empowering society through innovative and knowledge based advocacy and capacity building in Kenya and the region. LDGI values of Integrity, Trust and Professionalism influence the way we work every day and everywhere.

What is LEMU?

LEMU, the Land Equity Movement of Uganda, is a movement which aims to unite the efforts of everyone with a contribution to offer to make land work for the poor.

This includes the efforts of local people, local Government, local civil society organisations, students, elders, volunteers, and anyone with contribution to make land work for the poor.

LEMU wants to make sure that the right policies, laws and structures are put in place, in order that everyone can have fair access to land and land can be used as profitably as possibly for all. LEMU wants to help local structures working with the poor – local Government and civil society – to support the poor to claim their land rights.

LEMU tries to be a link between government and communities: it brings in knowledge of laws and policies to the communities, and facilitates them to understand rights, roles, responsibilities and changes taking place in land ownership; and it works with other stakeholders to help Government and policy makers understand the issues of people’s land rights to help design solutions and implementation strategies.

What does LEMU believe?

• Poverty is unjust and can be overcome.

• All Ugandans have a role to play in poverty eradication.

• The rights of all to development can only be realised by understanding how laws affect men, women and children in different ways.

• Everyone; women, men and children need and deserve land rights.

Where does LEMU work?

[Working the land] LEMU’s main focus is currently in the north and east of Uganda. Land ownership here is almost entirely under what is called “customary tenure” – local rules. These systems are less well understood than the more ‘international’ system of freehold ownership, so there is a greater problem of policy being formulated and implemented without a good understanding of what is happening on the ground. Additionally, the north of Uganda has been beset by conflict for the past 20 years, and this has caused mass displacement, which adds to land rights vulnerability.