The USAID-funded Land for Prosperity Activity is developing capacity in land administration across all levels of government to strengthen land rights in underfunded municipalities across Colombia.
Una selección y revisión de lecturas que arrojan luz sobre el papel que los datos abiertos sobre la tierra pueden desempeñar en el desarrollo equitativo y sostenible, y en la justicia social.
Traditional Maasai leader and Gender and Land Champion - Peter Sangeyon has become a force for change in his community since taking part in WOLTS training.
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A medida que nos acercamos al final del año, quiero agradecerles sinceramente su apoyo y confianza en 2023. Tanto si se trata de algo que ha leído como de un seminario web al que ha asistido, espero que el Land Portal haya sido un recurso positivo para usted, su trabajo y su comunidad.
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Estimados amigos/as y colegas:
A medida que nos acercamos al final del año, quiero agradecerles sinceramente su apoyo y confianza en 2023. Tanto si se trata de algo que ha leído como de un seminario web al que ha asistido, espero que el Land Portal haya sido un recurso positivo para usted, su trabajo y su comunidad.
De parte de todos los que formamos parte de Land Portal, le deseamos a usted y a sus seres queridos unas felices fiestas, y esperamos volver a contactar con usted en 2024
Laura Meggiolaro
Líder de equipo
De parte de todos los que formamos parte de Land Portal, le deseamos a usted y a sus seres queridos unas felices fiestas, y esperamos volver a contactar con usted en 2024
Laura Meggiolaro
Líder de equipo
Dos años después de que los donantes internacionales prometieran 1.700 millones de dólares a los pueblos indígenas en la COP26, un reconocimiento de su papel crucial en la protección de la biodiversidad y la captura de carbono, se ha avanzado bastante en la preparación de los sistemas necesarios para que se desembolse el dinero.
En la jornada inaugural de la #COP28, organizamos un seminario web titulado "Aumentando la Resiliencia Climática mediante una Gobernanza de la Tierra Inclusiva", en el que se profundizó en el papel crucial que desempeña una gobernanza de la tierra inclusiva en el aumento de la resiliencia climática.
The second LAND-at-scale (LAS) exchange took place from June 26th to June 28th, 2023. Sixty partners came together in Utrecht, the Netherlands to exchange lessons learned and explore common challenges. As of 2023, ten country projects are currently being implemented under the LAS program, namely Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Mali, Mozambique, the Palestinian Territories, Somalia, Rwanda and Uganda. All countries were represented and almost all implementing partners were present at the Exchange.
Challenges with regards to scaling is not unique to the land sector. Working in the context of agriculture for development, CGIAR and Wageningen University developed the Scaling Readiness approach. This approach response to the fact that the pressure to demonstrate fast and visible results and impact at scale, has sometimes resulted in unreasonable and unrealistic expectations, and in fact stimulated simplistic and non-sustainable scaling approaches.
Chad is at the verge of an emerging land tenure crisis. As observed in many countries in Africa, formal and customary tenure systems overlap. Customary tenure systems, that generally prevail in rural areas, differ from region to region, with each its own needs and practices. Land conflicts are abundant, caused by degradation and transformation of land surfaces caused by climate change, as well as land investments by domestic investors with disputed legitimacy. Women, particularly, struggle in practice to obtain the same rights to land as men, even though country’s constitution enshrines gender equality.
Burundi has the world’s highest hunger score and around 45 percent of the population is affected by food insecurity. The country copes with increasing scarcity of land as a result of increasing population size, returnees and IDPs and climate change. With the majority of Burundians depending on agriculture for their food and livelihoods, land scarcity makes this reliance on agriculture precarious. This pressure on land causes elevated levels of land disputes with over 55% of all court cases being related to conflicts over land. The results of these disputes are often highly uncertain, as land is commonly not registered and no good documentation of ownership or use rights exists.
Scaling is at the heart of both the name as well as the strategy of LAND-at-scale. Scaling and scaling potential are key in the way the program was designed and is reflected in the three pillars chosen to realize the aim of the program. The first pillar is about scaling successful initiatives and projects; the second pillar focuses on land governance innovations with scaling potential; and the third pillar covers knowledge management, with a focus on gaining a deeper understanding on the conditions required to make scaling successful.
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