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New Portfolio on Indigenous and Community Land Rights
24 November 2023
In the run up to COP28, the Land Portal Foundation has published a completely revised and updated Indigenous and Communities Land Rights thematic portfolio. While world leaders attending COP28 have recognized the important role of indigenous communities in the fight against climate change, most…
NEWS: Land Portal celebrates 80 country profiles
13 November 2023
We are celebrating the Land Portal's 80th country profile -- Iraq -- and the 79 that stand behind it. This rich collection represents seven years of work and underpins the Land Portal's commitment to making land information open and accessible. We publish profiles in English, French, Spanish, and…
FORESTS NEWS For many Indigenous communities, land titles aren’t the same as tenure security
19 October 2023
In communities’ visions of a secure future, good governance, transparency, and respect for customary rights matter more than a piece of paper
Projects
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Enhanced Resilience
Durationaab: January 2015 - January 2018
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
USAID’s Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER) program works to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable people, households, communities and systems in targeted agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture livelihood zones in Niger and Burkina Faso. This will
From Commitment to Practice (C2P)
Durationaab: September 2016 - March 2019
Value: £658,210.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The C2P project aimed to support the operationalization of private sector commitments to addressing land rights by working closely with a leading private sector company, Illovo Sugar, to apply VGGT principles to company practice, including and piloting the application of VGGT-based Analytical Fra
Applying the VGGT to the responsible development of a large-scale oil palm plantation in Sierra Leone
Durationaab: September 2016 - March 2019
Value: £607,685.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Natural Habitats Sierra Leone (NHSL) acquired an oil palm concession of over 40,000 hectares from a previous owner, planning to produce organic palm oil from plantations to be developed within it. The concession covered the entire Makpele Chiefdom, located in Pujehun District in Eastern Sierra Leo
Investing in land tenure and management to assure sustainable tourism revenues, natural resource utilisation and conservation in the Yaeda-Mangola area in Northern Tanzania
Durationaab: September 2016 - June 2019
Value: £503,713.00
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The project secured collective land rights for surviving Hadzabe hunter–gatherer and Datoga pastoralist groups, and improved the governance of village lands in 11 neighbouring village areas in the Yaeda-Mangola area, east of Lake Eyasi, in Northern Tanzania, which forms an important wildlife and m
Piloting the ‘Community Land Value Chain’ in Zambezia, Mozambique
Durationaab: September 2016 - March 2019
Value: £676,741.38
Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
ORAM with Terra Firma, provided assistance to 20 communities and 14,000 households living in and around concession areas granted by government to Portucel Mozambique, a subsidiary of the Portugal based Navigator company, for Eucalyptus plantations, intended to supply European pulp and paper market
Development and conduct of VGGT-based framework for assessing forest tenure
Durationaab: January 2020 - January 2020
Donors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO initiated a VGGT-informed forest tenure assessment in Uganda in August 2015. The framework was developed and tested to evaluate the forest tenure related policies, laws, institutions, and administration in order to identify areas for improvement with respect to the VGGT principles, as well as id
I am not afraid to speak up
23 November 2023
Since engaging in WOLTS training, gender and land champion Sindooi is actively supporting women and widows' inheritance rights in her community.
The role of African traditional authorities in land-based investment governance
16 November 2023
By examining the landscapes of multiple African countries, we will unearth the myriad experiences of traditional leaders, emphasizing the variances in their legislative authority and the weight of their word. By drawing upon actual case studies, the discourse will underscore potential friction…
