USAID has issued a call for case studies from Feed the Future program  in order to take stock of what has been learned so far about gender integration and women's empowerment in agriculture. These case studies are being collected by the USAID-funded Leveraging Economic Opportunities project and will be incorporated into an online story about Feed the Future's […]

The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, a Pan African Feminist organisation based in Johannesburg will be hosting its inaugural litigation institute on Women’s Land and Property Rights and are now inviting applications from individuals interested in participating in the litigation institute. For more information, visit the Litigation Institute website Call for Applications Women's Land […]

Renewable Natural Resources Foundation (RNRF) has three annual awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the renewable natural resources fields. Two of the awards, established in 1992, were the first to honor interdisciplinary achievements with an emphasis on the application of sound scientific practices in managing and conserving renewable natural resources. The Sustained Achievement Award recognizes […]

Nominate your candidate by March 31st The Council of the Elinor Ostrom Award has opened the call to nominate outstanding scholars or practitioners in the field of commons to receive the Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons. The Award will be given in three categories: - Practitioners (either formally or not formally […]

USAID, through its Evaluation, Research, and Communications (ERC) activity, supported by the Cloudburst Group, is seeking potential partners to collaboratively explore opportunities for addressing land tenure risks related to existing or future land-based investments (and as outlined in the Analytical Framework for Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture and similar guidance documents). We are soliciting Expressions […]

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is announcing a Call for Proposals for Systematic Maps and Reviews under its Evidence-Based Forestry initiative. As a colleague and/or partner institution interested in strengthening the evidence base used in forestry and landscapes decision-making, we’re inviting you to submit research proposals on critical policy and practice issues.  We also […]

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) requests expressions of interest under its new Development Priorities Window (DPW) for rigorous and policy-relevant impact evaluations in any of these four sectors: environment, governance, infrastructure and public finance. The aim of 3ie’s first development priorities funding window is to fill the evidence gaps in sectors where high-quality […]

KPMG has launched a Challenge Fund on the behalf of the UK Department for International Development (DFID), which supports the development and testing of innovative approaches and partnerships for strengthening land governance, with a specific focus on piloting approaches to responsible land-related investments. The first window is now open and its purpose is to test […]

The Land Portal Foundation is currently looking for a small number of national or regional partners to serve as hubs for the development-related information flows on the basis of either their geographic or thematic focus. The Land Portal Foundation is particularly interested in working with well-established information providers or land-related organizations who want to further […]