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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2016
    Global

    Corruption in land governance is commonly defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain while carrying out the functions of land administration and land management. When land investors target countries with weak governance, the risk of corruption is high. Likewise, corruption is more likely to occur when local elites are able to manipulate their country’s land governance systems for their own benefit
     

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2022
    Africa, Namibia, Global

    This is a brief summary of the State of Land Information in Namibia report. The SOLI Namibia reports serves as a diagnostic for the land information ecosystem in Namibia and enable targeted interventions for improved information management at a later stage. 

    The full report can be found here: https://landportal.org/library/resources/soli-namibia-english

  3. Library Resource

    An Open Data Assessment

    Reports & Research
    November, 2022
    Namibia, Global

    This State of Land Information (SOLI) report is an analysis of the current state of land data in Namibia, assessing the availability of land information and the compliance of this information with open data standards. 

  4. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    October, 2021
    Global

    The Open Up Guide on Land Governance is a resource  aimed to be used by governments from developing countries to collect and release land-related data to improve data quality, availability, accessibility and use for improved citizen engagement, decision making and innovation. It sets out:

    1. Key datasets for land management accountability, and how they should be collected, stored, shared and published for improving land governance and transparency;

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2018
    China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

    The forum was co-hosted by the Mekong Region Land Governance Project and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Co-Conveners of the programme includes the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) and the Independent Mediation Group (IMG). The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg supported the Forum.

  6. Library Resource

    Companion to Land Portal Eswatini country narrative

    Reports & Research
    March, 2021
    Eswatini

     

    This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Eswatini summarised in the Land Portal country profile.

  7. Library Resource

    Companion to Land Portal Zimbabwe country narrative

    Reports & Research
    December, 2020
    Zimbabwe

    This detailed timeline provides further background information on the history and land governance of Zimbabwe summarised in the Land Portal country profile.

  8. Library Resource
    The Role of Open Data in the Fight against Land Corruption

    A Webinar Report

    Reports & Research
    March, 2021
    Global

    Opening up land-related administrative data, combining it with data from other sources  and processing and making this data available as easily accessible information for women and men equally could be a means to counteracting land corruption in land management, land administration and land allocation. But does open data and enhanced data transparency indeed help to counteract land corruption?

  9. Library Resource
    Role of Open Data in the Fight against Land Corruption

    Evidence, opportunities and challenges

    Institutional & promotional materials
    February, 2021
    Global

    This is the presentation of Dr.  Marcello De Maria, Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading during the webinar on the Role of Open Data in the Fight against Land Corruption on January 28th, 2021. 

    The analysis revealed overwhelming support for the use of open data as an anticorruption tool in the land sector, but it also found strong evidence for the existence of a high degree of untapped potential.

  10. Library Resource
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    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2020
    Guatemala

    In 2018, Global Witness found that Guatemala had experienced the highest increase in the number of murders of land and environmental defenders of any country in the world. Last year alone, the president of the village chapter of the Comité de Desarrollo Campesino (CODECA), a national organization of social movements led by indigenous people who work for the recognition of land rights, was murdered, as well as four of his colleagues. Many of these murders occurred in the municipality of Izabal.

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