Join the Debate / Webinars
The Land Portal organizes dynamic and well-prepared discussions that have a lasting impact, getting to the bottom of the issues at hand. This approach contributes to building communities of practice, ensuring a diversity of stakeholder engagement and providing lasting results through professional recordings that may be consulted for years to come. We look forward to having you participate in our upcoming webinars.
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Uncovering Land Data Opportunities: The Cases of Senegal and Namibia
The webinar will share the latest results from the Open Up Guide implementation pilot in Senegal and the SOLI research in Namibia. We will ask and answer pressing questions concerning the interest in and maturity of open data in the two countries and specifically in the land sector.
The New Customary Land Rights Act in Sierra Leone: Bringing informed community consent to responsible investment
In September 2022, Sierra Leone enacted unprecedented laws related to land, climate, and sustainable development. This new law transforms communities’ ability to protect their land rights and pursue sustainable development. This webinar will discuss the processes, the experiences, the challenges, and the context of this new law, highlighting the new responsibilities in Sierra Leone.
Open Data x Land Governance: Reflections from the Last Five Years
On the occasion of the new publication of The State of Open Data, Land Portal and Data 4 Development are co-hosting a panel discussion to discuss the key issues and challenges that have emerged since the 2019 publication.
Pandemic, social unrest and war echoing in the Amazon
Recent global events have had dyre impacts on the world's remaining forests, particularly in tropical regions.
Showcasing transformative approaches for women’s land rights
This third Whose Land? webinar showcased gender transformative approaches on women’s land rights. Gender transformative approaches are defined by women acting as agents of change, transforming structural barriers and redefining gender norms. These approaches facilitate the participation of women in land governance decision-making processes, but require closing the land data gender gap.
Workshop on Using Data to Tell Compelling Stories About Land
Since 2019, the Land Portal has been using data stories as a way to demonstrate how combining data with engaging, memorable and persuasive narratives that can empower communities to tell their stories to the world.
Empowering civil society and communities through open land data
Evidence shows that very little land data is open to the public. This second Whose Land? webinar focused on the opportunities and constraints of civil society organizations (CSOs) and local communities in advocating for more open land data and in harnessing its power for improved land governance.
Date and Time: June 14th, 2022, 3:00-4:30 PM CEST
Post COP26 Reflections: A Focus on Opportunities for Customary Land Rights
2021 was a year of big promises concerning tenure rights. At COP26, an unprecedented 1.7 billion dollar pledge was made in support of ancestral community land rights, aiming to place IPLCs rights central to global policy-making and discourse. The questions remain; when and how funding will reach communities and how it will be used effectively.
Building open & transparent land information systems through a global alliance
Over the last three years the Land Portal Foundation has collaborated with Global Data Barometer and Open Data Charter to embed land issues within key open data activities.
Whose Land? - Inclusive Pathways to Land Governance
How can civil society actors ensure inclusivity in their land governance work with communities?
Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
