Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

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The VGGT are the internationally negotiated framework to improve land governance. Drafted by over 1000 stakeholders with different cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the VGGT were negotiated by Member States of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and endorsed on 11 May 2012. According to the Land governance programme map and database of the Global Donor Working Group on Land, there are currently 253 active programmes worth 2.6 billion USD related to the VGGT.

Understanding the VGGT

Purpose, stakeholders, content and history of VGGT

The VGGT in practice

What does implementation mean? Who can Implement? How is implementation monitored?

VGGT Country Info
VGGT Endorsement
VGGT programmes

Country Information by VGGT section

Country-level information providing an overview of the status quo against the provisions of the VGGT.

Featured country portfolios - edited with local partners and organised around the VGGT

Other available country portfolios

High level endorsement of the VGGT

Map of high-level endorsement of the VGGT in international forums, by country

Land Book Indicators:

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VGGT endorsement (TOTAL)

VGGT endorsement

This indicator reflects whether a given country officially endorsed the VGGT in at least one of following international forums:

Measurement unit:

Index (0; 1=endorsed)

Countries that have officially endorsed the VGGT as part of the 2012 Committee on World Food Security (CFS 2012), the 2014 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA 2014) or the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2015 (GFFA 2015)

GDWGL - Land Governance Programme Map

According to the Land governance programme map and database, there are currently 254 active programmes worth 2.6 billion USD - most of which are related to the VGGT

Land Book Indicators:

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Ongoing Projects - Funding

DP - Map of Donors (Land governance Programme Map)

Total funding (US $) for programmes still ongoing. Last updated on the 31st of January, 2019.

Measurement unit:

US$ (Current)

Library

Experiences and Good Practices In The Use and Application of The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) - Summary and Key Elements

Relatórios e Pesquisa

Julho 2016

Global

At its 42nd Plenary session in 2015, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) decided to hold a global thematic event at the 43rd session in October 2016 to share experiences and take stock of the use and application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), as a contribution to monitorin

Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations_South Africa

Documentos e Resumos de Políticas

Março 2018

South Africa

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) set out internationally-accepted principles and standards for responsible practices, providing a framework for governments, the private sector and civil society to use when developing policies and programmes for improving food security.

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Relatórios e Pesquisa

Dezembro 2012

Africa

Algeria

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

Sudan

Tunisia

Burundi

Comoros

Djibouti

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Rwanda

Seychelles

Somalia

South Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Angola

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Sao Tome and Principe

Botswana

Lesotho

Namibia

South Africa

Eswatini

Benin

Burkina Faso

Cape Verde

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Barbados

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Haiti

Jamaica

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Belize

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Guyana

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Northern America

Canada

United States of America

Asia

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

China

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Japan

Mongolia

Republic of Korea

Brunei Darussalam

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Iran

Maldives

Nepal

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Cyprus

Georgia

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syrian Arab Republic

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Europe

Belarus

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Hungary

Moldova

Poland

Russia

Slovakia

Ukraine

Denmark

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Finland

Iceland

Ireland

Latvia

Lithuania

Norway

Sweden

United Kingdom

Albania

Andorra

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Greece

Holy See

Italy

North Macedonia

Malta

Montenegro

Portugal

San Marino

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Austria

Belgium

France

Germany

Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Monaco

Netherlands

Switzerland

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Nauru

Palau

Cook Islands

Niue

Samoa

Tokelau

Tonga

Tuvalu

Global

The guidelines are the first comprehensive, global instrument on tenure and its administration to be prepared through intergovernmental negotiations. The guidelines set out principles and internationally accepted standards of responsible practices for the use and control of land, fisheries and forests.

ANGOC: Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Documentos e Resumos de Políticas

Julho 2016

Asia

Global

This document was written by the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) with the view of increasing awareness and understanding in the context of the Philippines of the VGGT.

Assessing implementation of the Voluntary Tenure Guidelines and the AU Framework and Guidelines for Land Policy; A toolkit approach

Recursos e Ferramentas de Treinamento

Novembro 2017

Global

ActionAid International has been working over the last few years with women and rural communities to challenge commercialization of land, which leads to loss of their rights to land.

Data

This qualitative dataset shows how national laws measure up against the international standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement as established in Section 16 of the UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs). The UN Committee on World Food Security, a body consisting of 193 governments, endorsed the VGGTs in 2012.

The dataset contains indicators which ask yes or no questions about the legal provisions established in national laws.

Land is a crucial resource for poverty reduction, food security and rural development. However, men and women do not always enjoy the same rights to land. This dataset contains indicators from the FAO Gender & Land Rights Database.

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and F

Data provider:

Leila Shamsaifar

The original dataset (Land governance Programme Map & Database by Global Donor Platform For Rural Development) retains 821 projects in 144 countries with a total value of 2.6 billion dollars for active programmes and contains information the location, duration, funding and scope of each programme, as well as on the specific aspects of the Voluntary Guidelines it supports.

The quantitative dataset on forest tenure data by RRI currently covers 52 countries containing nearly 90% of the world’s forests.

Data provider:

Rights and Resources Initiative

Events

Applying the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT) in responsible agribusiness investment and land governance: Learning from LEGEND and other responsible investment pilots

11 Outubro 2017

Localização

Lebanon Room

FAO Headquarters

Rome

Itália

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Africa

DFID's Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme is promoting learning and innovation through 7 CSO-private sector partnerships in diverse agri-regions in 5 African countries; USAID and others are supporting similar initiatives. This side event will share and discuss early insights from these pilots and explore what can be achieved through these approaches:

Event

Realizing the VGGTs and SDGs: The role of data ecosystems, people-centered monitoring and impact evaluation in achieving global development goals

18 Outubro 2018

Global

In 2017, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGTs) highlighted successful integration of VGGT principles into national law and decision-making processes across several countries.

Event

LANDac Annual International Conference 2019

4 Julho 2019 to 5 Julho 2019

Netherlands

Global

LAND GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION:

How to support transformations that work for people and nature?

Latest news

Visible or invisible? That's the question for land data

21 Março 2019

Peru

Philippines

India

Global

NEW DELHI - A push to formalise land claims, map settlements and digitise records is not always in the best interests of vulnerable communities, and may even lead to greater rights abuses, analysts warned on Friday.

VGGT: what potential to engage?

29 Junho 2018

Global

This rapid scoping of the Food and Agricultural Organisation Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) sought the views of different organisations, individuals and activists on the usefulness of the guidelines for promoting forest tenure reform in support of secure community land rights.

Sierra Leone implements voluntary guidelines

21 Novembro 2017

Sierra Leone

The mention of Sierra Leone invariably conjures images of the protracted civil war and the Ebola outbreak that afflicted this West African country.
However that is not all about Sierra Leone; there are a lot of positives the country can showcase which include good practices in land administration.

Blogs

International Soft-Law Instruments and Global Resource Governance: Reflections on the Tenure Guidelines

22 Outubro 2018

Authors:

Mr. Lorenzo Cotula

Global

Following last week’s meeting of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), this piece reflects on a key CFS soft-law instrument. It is an edited extract from the article “International Soft-Law Instruments and Global Resource Governance: Reflections on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure”, Law, Environment and Development Journal (2017) 13(2):115-133. The full article can be freely downloaded at http://www.lead-journal.org/content/17115.pdf.

6 Ways to Bring Land Expropriation Laws Up to International Standards

Global

By Nicholas Tagliarino, World Resources Institute

June 13th, 2016

The Land Portal aggregates information – such as data, publications, news and events – to demonstrate the progress and challenges of improving governance of tenure in line within the VGGT worldwide.

Featured resources

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Relatórios e Pesquisa

Dezembro 2012

Africa

Algeria

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

Sudan

Tunisia

Burundi

Comoros

Djibouti

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Rwanda

Seychelles

Somalia

South Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Angola

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Sao Tome and Principe

Botswana

Lesotho

Namibia

South Africa

Eswatini

Benin

Burkina Faso

Cape Verde

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Barbados

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Haiti

Jamaica

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Belize

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Guyana

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Northern America

Canada

United States of America

Asia

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

China

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Japan

Mongolia

Republic of Korea

Brunei Darussalam

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Iran

Maldives

Nepal

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Cyprus

Georgia

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syrian Arab Republic

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Europe

Belarus

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Hungary

Moldova

Poland

Russia

Slovakia

Ukraine

Denmark

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Finland

Iceland

Ireland

Latvia

Lithuania

Norway

Sweden

United Kingdom

Albania

Andorra

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Greece

Holy See

Italy

North Macedonia

Malta

Montenegro

Portugal

San Marino

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Austria

Belgium

France

Germany

Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Monaco

Netherlands

Switzerland

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Nauru

Palau

Cook Islands

Niue

Samoa

Tokelau

Tonga

Tuvalu

Global

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security - Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Land Tenure: At a glance

Artigos e Livros

Agosto 2012

This 'At a glance' version is not meant to be a substitute for, or a summary of, the Guidelines.

Tools & Guides

Putting the Voluntary Guidelines into Practice: A Learning Guide for Civil Society Organizations

Manuais e Diretrizes

Dezembro 2017

Global

This learning guide has been designed specifically to give civil society and grassroots organizations a deeper understanding of the Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security (VGGT) to enable the members of these organizations and their constituents to use the VGGT meaningfully and effectively to improve t

Respecting Land and Forest Rights: A Guide for Companies

Documentos e Resumos de Políticas

Agosto 2015

Global

This guide has been produced by the Interlaken Group, with steering support from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). The Interlaken Group is a multi-stakeholder forum composed of representatives from companies, investors, international organizations, and civil society groups.

Safeguarding Human Rights in Land Related Investments

Relatórios e Pesquisa

Julho 2017

Global

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of national Food Security (VGGt) represent a new international legal instrument, which was adopted unanimously in 2012 by the United nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS).

E-learning Course on the Responsible Governance of Tenure

Global

The FAO announces a new e-learning course on the Responsible Governance of Tenure.

Learn about:

Organisations

FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was set up in 1974 as an intergovernmental body to serve as a forum for review and follow up of food security policies. In 2009 the Committee went through a reform process to ensure that the voices of other stakeholders were heard in the global debate on food security and nutrition. The vision of the reformed CFS is to be the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together in a coordinated way to ensure food security and nutrition for all.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (FAO)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information.