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Displaying 1 - 10 of 26Prindex Comparative Report, July 2020
This paper is the culmination of over five years of work to develop and apply the methodology for measuring tenure security for land and property around the globe—Prindex. We now have the first ever comparable assessment of perceived tenure security that is truly global, with data from more than 140 countries, representing 96% of the world’s adult (18+) population, equivalent to 5.2 billion citizens. This latest round of data collection therefore presents the clearest, most definitive picture of how secure people around the world feel about their homes and property.
Prindex - Global Property Rights Index - 2019/2020
Prindex stands for the Global Property Rights Index, an indicator of citizens' perceptions of the security of land and property rights. Prindex is an initiative of ODI and Land Alliance supported by Omidyar Network, DFID and other donors. It aims to fill the gap in information about individual perception of tenure security, by creating a baseline global dataset covering more than 100 countries, to support the achievement of secure property rights around the world.
An initial phase of development of the index and testing its application was carried out in ten countries during 2016 and 2017. After the development phase, the index was turned into globalized collections in 2018. In 2019, with data added to the Gallup World Poll, Prindex expanded to a total of 141 countries worldwide. In July of 2020, Prindex released comparative results from its data collection and found that almost 1 billion people worldwide feel that they are vulnerable to losing their house or property over the next five years.
For additional information about the methodology and the questionnaire, as well as the full data are available on the new Prindex website: https://www.prindex.net/.
Source: Prindex Comparative Report, Figure 2 (p. 12,) July 2020.
World Bank - Gender Indicators
The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency. Moreover, they contain information about land ownership by sex.
RRI - Forest Tenure Data
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is tracking tenure to monitor legal recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities. In total, they offer five databases, which embrace both quantitative and qualitative data. Besides tracking Land Tenure, Bundle of Rights and Women’s Rights to Community Forests, they provide the Forest Tenure Database covering more than 90% of the global forest area.
“Who owns the world’s lands and forests, and how has the recognition of communities’ statutory tenure rights shifted over time? Drawing on over 15 years of data, RRI’s quantitative Forest and Land Tenure Databases provide global evidence responding to these critical questions.”
View and download RRI's data on the Land Portal
Commodities (Global Forest Watch)
Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform with map viewer which provides data closely related to global forest land. Hence, many data sets thematically overlap with the ones of interest to the land governance sector. The data set “Commodities” is a compilation of data related to concessions and usage rights for private initiatives. The data is not yet complete and only shows for a number of countries, depending on the selected layer. The Global Forest Watch (GFW) encourages experts to contribute to the data; the data is derived from the GFW Open Data Portal, where more information on contributing institutions is provided in detail.
View e.g. the layer "managed forest concessions" in our Geoportal
Intact Forest Landscapes
Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) are defined as “an unbroken expanse of natural ecosystems within the zone of current forest extent, showing no signs of significant human activity and large enough that all native biodiversity, including viable populations of wide-ranging species, could be maintained. Although all IFL are within the forest zone, some may contain extensive naturally tree-less areas, including grasslands, wetlands, lakes, alpine areas, and ice.” This definition which the IFL maps is based on builds on the definition of Frontier Forest that was developed by WRI (Bryant et al., 1997). IFL are mapped at global scale for the years 2000, 2013 and 2016. IFL change is documented for 2000-2013 and 2000 - 2013 - 2016. All data is freely available on the IFL website.
View the IFL for year 2016 in our geoportal