Forest Tenure

This presentation by Shahd Mustafa (ILC) introduces LandMark, the global interactive platform established in 2014 to showcase and support Indigenous and local community land rights. LandMark compiles data from multiple global and regional organisations and includes community-level and national-level maps on land tenure, biodiversity, natural resource rights, land use, and environmental change.

Capa: Mael Anhangá

Trata-se de um conteúdo que visa contribuir para uma urgente mudança de perspectiva, para que pessoas do Brasil e do mundo possam conhecer a Amazônia novamente, desta vez sob a perspectiva dos diversos habitantes da região.

UN-Habitat presents the deployment of the Social Tenure Domain Model in Yemen, highlighting how the tool addresses tenure insecurity and Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) rights amidst systemic conflict and weak land governance. The initiative documents rights, issues certificates, and strengthens institutional collaboration for peacebuilding.

This presentation details the land governance challenges and recovery strategies in Gaza’s Khan Younis Governorate following displacement and infrastructure destruction. It discusses how municipalities use digital tools like QGIS and Kobo Toolbox to plan reconstruction, secure tenure, and support vulnerable populations.

This study examines forced displacement in Area C of the West Bank following October 7, 2023, focusing on Yatta. It documents settlement expansion, land confiscation, and infrastructure destruction using GIS. The findings reveal urgent HLP rights violations and the weak humanitarian response in the face of systematic aggression.

This presentation explores how emerging technologies such as GIS, drones, and digital databases are transforming land management in the Comoros. Led by the Cartography Unit of the Ministry of Territorial Planning, the initiative aims to modernize public land inventories and improve transparency, planning, and tenure security.

This presentation by Eng. Haitham Al Hamamda from Al-Quds University highlights the development of a centralized Land Data Bank in Palestine. It emphasizes the importance of integrated, accurate land information to support land governance, resource planning, conflict prevention, and economic development.

Presented by Dr. Mohammed Al-Wathiq Abdul Hamid, this presentation explores the legislator’s role in regulating off-plan real estate transactions in Abu Dhabi. It examines Law No. 3 of 2015 and associated executive regulations, highlighting how legal frameworks intervene to restore contractual balance between developers and buyers.

This presentation by Francesco Tonnarelli outlines the evolution and upgradability of land administration systems in Bosaso, Somalia, through a fit-for-purpose approach. It reviews data quality, institutional fragmentation, taxation improvements, and capacity building efforts over multiple UN-supported projects.

Presented by Thaer Fakhoury of ACAD, this presentation outlines the structure, mission, and interventions of the Palestinian National Land Coalition (NLC), established in 2022. Despite the challenges of occupation, the NLC promotes land governance based on human rights, gender equality, and resilience.

This presentation by Bradley Jose Paterson (FAO) outlines pathways for integrating the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) into UNCCD implementation. It highlights the centrality of tenure security in addressing land degradation, especially on agricultural lands, and makes the case for tenure-responsive land restoration and planning.

In this presentation, Dr. Salwa Saidi (University of Tunis El Manar) outlines the role of academia in supporting data-driven resilience strategies in Tunisia, with a focus on collaborative data models and remote sensing tools such as Google Earth Engine (GEE).