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    A guide for communities and investors

    Manuals & Guidelines
    May, 2023
    Uganda

    This guide aims to help communities, to understand and address land-investment based conflicts thus supporting them in exercising their basic human rights.

  2. Library Resource
    Advancing Inclusive Land Governance

    Successful Strategies and Practices from the Field

    Manuals & Guidelines
    December, 2020
    Global

    Land lies at the very foundation of our society and social life; it plays a central role in the livelihoods and cultural identities of communities across the globe, and contains the resources that underpin our now globalised world. However, partly because of this, it is often at the heart of social and political conflicts. Increasing demand for food, energy and other primary products is driving agribusinesses, mining companies and speculative investors in a quest for new land to acquire and exploit.

  3. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    December, 2021
    Global

    These messages were developed based on the field experience in fragile and crisis affected contexts of UN-Habitat and the partners of the Global Land Tool Network and the HLP Area of Responsibility of the Global Protection Cluster. They are a quick reference on how to empower women and protect their housing, land and property rights in fragile and crisis affected contexts and why this is an essential element to sustain peace and stability.

  4. Library Resource
    Open data for improved land governance

    Open-up Guide

    Manuals & Guidelines
    May, 2021
    Global

    The period for public comments is now closed. Thank you to all those who submitted feedback. The revised version is available here.  

  5. Library Resource
    public private partnership projects
    Manuals & Guidelines
    May, 2015
    Global

    This framework provides guidance on policy and practice in public-private partnerships and on the mechanics of disclosure by practitioners within governments and the private sector, to help develop programmes for the systematic, proactive pre- and post- procurement disclosure of information.

  6. Library Resource
    spatial planning
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2020
    Global

    This technical guide provides strategies on how to strengthen, protect and promote legitimate tenure rights in spatial planning processes at the local, regional and national levels. It addresses state authorities involved in spatial planning processes, national governments and local authorities, and those operating on behalf of the state or within customary governance systems.

  7. Library Resource
    valuing land tenure
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2016
    Global

    This technical guide covers the issues associated with the identification and valuation of tenure rights for different purposes, and provides guidance on how to ensure that valuations are undertaken in a fair, reliable and transparent manner that comply with international norms. It explains why valuations are important, where and when they should be used, and by whom. The guide aims to raise the level of awareness of valuation issues and procedures among those involved in land policy and administration and those affected by land tenure decisions.

  8. Library Resource
    fao land tenure
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2015
    Global

    This technical guide elaborates on specific aspects of the Voluntary Guidelines for the responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) relating to agricultural investments and provides detailed guidance to government authorities and others on actions they can take to help them to create an enabling environment for responsible and sustainable investments.

  9. Library Resource
    governing land

    A technical guide to support the achievement of responsible gender-equitable governance of land tenure

    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 2013
    Global

    The guide focuses on equity and on how land tenure can be governed in ways that address the different needs and priorities of women and men. It moves away from long-standing debates about gender equality in access to land, towards the mainstreaming of gender issues to achieve more gender-equitable participation in the processes and institutions that underlie all decision-making about land.

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