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Confident Gender and Land Champions - New WOLTS Paper Published
23 May 2023
Latest paper from the WOLTS team offers new evidence of a sustainable approach to securing land rights for women and communities
Cameroon: Women's land rights remain in limbo
1 May 2023
Whereas Cameroonian law grant men and women equal access to land ownership, unofficial yet prevalent customary laws greatly restrict women’s right to own land.
Close to 20 local farmers are in jail for fighting for their land not to be taken by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)
24 April 2023
Conflict over land rights is escalating in Uganda as people are forced to make way for the East Africa Crude Oil pipeline.
Projects
Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest: Kenya
Durationaab: January 2010 - January 2014
Value: $490,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
The Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest (Justice) Project piloted an approach for improving women’s access to customary justice, particularly related to women’s land rights, by enhancing the customary justice system in one target area. The work also resulted in a clearer understand
Geographic information for environment, climate change and EU integration (LAKI II)
Durationaab: January 2013 - April 2017
Value: $10,832,000.00
Donors: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
The project has the general objective of increasing the capacity of ANCPI in the implementation of the EU Directive on the harmonization and sharing of geographic information domestically and internationally and will be implemented in partnership with the Norwegian Mapping Authority and Registers Ic
Moldova Cadastre System
Durationaab: January 2012 - December 2017
Value: $2,768,000.00
Donors: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Property Registration system, coooperation with the national bureau for statistics
Public services for the real estate market and European integration
Durationaab: January 2010 - December 2014
Value: $1,490,000.00
Donors: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Assistance with procurement of diverse hardware and software needed for establishing a modern National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
Capacity Building for Improvement in Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia Herzegovina (CILAP)
Durationaab: January 2013 - December 2019
Value: $6,800,000.00
Donors: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
The “Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina” – CILAP project, is a long term project aimed to build capacity and transfer knowledge with the overall objective to increase the effectiveness and reliability of land administration processes in
CAR III - Environmental Land Registration (BMZ/KfW)
Durationaab: December 2016 - December 2022
Value: $12,300,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Establishment and standardization of environmental cadastres.
Webinar Recap: Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15 Six Months On
1 June 2023
Under the umbrella of the Land Dialogues series, the second webinar of this year’s series “Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15: Six Months On” took place on May 25th, 2023. The webinar drew in a little over 350 participants and featured panelists from Indigenous women leaders to…
Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15: Six Months On
25 May 2023
After two weeks of tense talks, the recent UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 ended with a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), includes concrete measures to halt and reverse nature loss, including putting 30%…
