tenure security

Synonyms:

land tenure security

secure land tenure

security of tenure (land)

sécurité de tenure (foncière)

Segurança da posse (de terra)

reconocimiento de la posesión (de la tierra)

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Security of tenure is the guarantee of continued occupancy or use rights whether by virtue of formal rights, customary rules or other forms of assurance.

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Looking back at the LAND-at-scale Exchange 2023: Scaling as the way Forward

9 October 2023

Authors:

Lisette Meij

Global

The second LAND-at-scale (LAS) exchange took place from June 26^th to June 28^th, 2023. Sixty partners came together in Utrecht, the Netherlands to exchange lessons learned and explore common challenges. As of 2023, ten country projects are currently being implemented under the LAS program, namely Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Mali, Mozambique, the Palestinian Territories, Somalia, Rwanda and Uganda. All countries were represented and almost all implementing partners were present at the Exchange.

Looking back at the LAND-at-scale Exchange 2022: The importance of collective learning and reflections for land governance support programs

15 July 2022

Authors:

Lisette Meij

Global

On 27-28 June 2022, RVO organized the first annual LAND-at-scale exchange, bringing together over fifty LAND-at-scale project partners, knowledge management partners, Committee members as well as representatives from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an in-depth introduction of all LAND-at-scale stakeholders and facilitate a learning exchange.

Learning from and scaling up tenure security approaches in Burkina Faso

15 July 2022

Authors:

Lisette Meij

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso has a long history of land interventions aiming to achieve tenure security at the local level. The “Observatoire National du Foncier au Burkina-Faso” (ONF-BF) is one of the key players in the country working on mapping land rights within communities at commune-level. How does ONF-BF address the challenge of not only attaining tenure security through mapping, but ensuring these tenure rights last over time?

Challenges to sustain tenure in Colombia: harmonizing indigenous traditions with ‘modernistic’ principles of economic growth

15 July 2022

Authors:

Lisette Meij

Colombia

10 Years Of VGGT – Time To Take Stock

11 May 2022

Sierra Leone

Global

This blog was written by Anna Schreiber and originally posted through Land for Life at https://land-for-life.org/10-years-of-vggt-time-to-take-stock/

No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights

2 June 2022

Authors:

Alexander Müller

Mr. Jes Weigelt

Global

The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is taking place in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. The theme: “Land, Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity.” “We are faced with a crucial choice,” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told participants: “We can either reap the benefits of land restoration now or continue on the disastrous path that has led us to the triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity and pollution”

What landmark Kwazulu-Natal court ruling means for land reform in South Africa

22 June 2021

Authors:

Prof. Ben Cousins

South Africa

By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape

* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021

Women’s Tenure Rights and Land Reform in Angola

6 August 2021

Authors:

Allan Cain

Angola

Southern Africa

By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

Sharing land governance knowledge within the Dutch government through LAND-at-scale

6 July 2021

Authors:

Maaike van den Berg

Global

The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation. Alignment is, therefore, a key factor in all LAND-at-scale activities - be it at project level for our country interventions or through our collaborative approach to knowledge management.

Knowledge Management for Equitable and Sustainable Land Governance: launching the LAND-at-scale knowledge management strategy

5 July 2021

Authors:

Lisette Meij

Global

Knowledge management and learning are at the heart of the LAND-at-scale program. On June 29^th at a pre-event of the LANDac conference, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), LANDac and the International Land Coalition (ILC) officially announced their collaboration to implement the knowledge management (KM) component of the program.

3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum: Forum Replay

26 May 2021

South-Eastern Asia

Cambodia

Laos

Myanmar

Thailand

Vietnam

Summaries and selected replays from the 3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum are available below. Full replays of the plenary sessions will be posted shortly -- check back soon!

Ten land messages from ILDC2020 that India needs to listen to

10 March 2020

Authors:

Mr. Pranab Choudhury

India

About 350 land actors from government, academia, civil society and business came together from more than 15 states and outside India to discuss and debate various land issues. In more than 30 sessions, about 150 speakers and panelists deliberated over 3 days around interdisciplinary land-conversations to generate important information and evidence for policy, practice and academics.

Ten important land messages that emerge from these land conversations are: