Countries had increasingly turned to multilateral funds as a means to drive impactful change.
When UN member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, we celebrated world leaders’ recognition of the foundational and strategic role that sustainable land management must play to advance climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and maintain sufficient food supplies for us all.
Secure land rights for all—women and men, regardless of ethnicity or religion, or civil, economic, social, or political status—are foundational for achieving a world free of poverty, hunger, and systematic gender discrimination. So, in 2015, we celebrated when world leaders recognized the critical importance of land rights within Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Member States’ ambitious written commitments, however, have not been followed by on-the-ground action.
The Land Portal's updated Theory of Change is a roadmap for what we hope to achieve in the short, medium, and long terms (outcomes and impact), and how we plan to achieve them (inputs and outputs). This roadmap is useful for understanding and assessing the impact of the Land Portal orgaization on the land sector. This TOC has been updated in 2022 and replaces the TOC found in our strategy document.
