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India's women water warriors transform parched lands

30 June 2022


Main banner photo: India is struggling to meet the water needs of its 1.4 billion people -- a problem worsening as climate change makes weather patterns more unpredictable SANJAY KANOJIA AFP

Chhatarpur (India) – As the monsoon storms bear down on India, a dedicated group of women hope that after years of backbreaking labour, water shortages will no longer leave their village high and dry.

Creative partnerships for land: Reaching across sectors, constituencies, and geographies to find solutions

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This LANDac session drew on the Land Portal Foundation’s experience working at the crossroads of land governance and open data. With the recent launch of the Land Module, a first of its kind global index on land data, it was a good moment to pause, reflect, and take lessons from the work that we have done with the Global Data Barometer, Open Data Charter, and Open Government Partnership have done over the past 2.5 years. One of our core beliefs is that land data that is open and accessible can benefit all stakeholders and make land governance more democratic.

The Human Right to Land: Do we need Human Rights based Land Governance and what could it deliver?

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The session co-organised by TMG research and the Danish Institute of Human Rights looked at the interlinkages between responsible land governance and human rights. Participants discussed critical questions such as: can a more explicit embedding of land rights work in Human Rights correct overly simplistic, technical framings? Can it reaffirm the legally binding human rights foundation of voluntary responsible land governance (i.e. the VGGT)?

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