This report provides a set of clear, in-depth recommendations to the Liberia Land Authority on improving women’s participation in community-level land governance in the implementation of the Land Rights Act (LRA) passed in 2018. These recommendations are based on learnings from primary qualitative research conducted on forest governance structures at 4 case study sites in 3 counties of Liberia on the implementation of community forestry governance bodies.
With the common aim of supporting the development of a protective, pro-poor legal framework, that will empower farmers to use the law, make informed decisions about their land, and maintain secure land tenure – ultimately leading to poverty alleviation for poor, rural women and men – Namati and Landesa have teamed up to prepare this report.
This article presents the results from Greater Than Leadership program for Inclusive and Informed Land Administration in the Western Balkans, aiming to build capacity to generate gender disaggregated reports and use them for evidence based policy making.
This paper highlights how people-centric land governance examples have improved land administration, making it more efficient and effective.
In rural India, women do a majority of the agricultural labor, yet often have no legal right or control to the land they farm. A new study conducted by Landesa India for UN Women set out to discover the barriers to women’s land rights.
This paper details and assesses National Land Policy development process in Uganda, and in so doing, examines its potential to be the source of lessons for other countries developing politically sensitive policy reforms.
This joint publication by USAID and the Nelson Institute features several case studies including two articles co-authored by Landesa’s land tenure specialist Darryl Vhugen and researcher Jonathan Miner, Threats to Village Land in Tanzania: Implications for REDD+ Benefit-Sharing Arrangements, and Carbon Rights in Mozambique: Harmonizing Land and Forest Laws to Conform with REDD+.
FEBRUARY 2011 – 2010 findings from 2010 survey of 17-provinces in rural China …