From 6-20 September, 2016, the Land Portal Foundation and the Cadasta Foundation will be jointly holding a debate on Open Data and Land Governance: Increased accountability and transparency as a means to overcoming poverty? In land governance, a sector ripe for abuse and corruption, transparency is critical in ensuring land use and allocation is fair and […]
On Thursday, September 15 at 10-11 am EDT, experts from USAID, Illovo Sugar Ltd., International City/County Management Association, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Namati, and the World Bank will host an interactive online discussion about the meaning and applications of the concept “legitimate land rights.” MODERATOR Richard Gaynor, Millennium Challenge Corporation PANEL Brian Keane, USAID Kate Mathias, Illovo Sugar […]
IUCN has compiled a list of gender related event at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Hawai'i, September 1-10. The list of events can be accessed here
When: August 11, 2016 11:00AM-12:30PM (EDT) Where: Online via Adobe Connect Does the thought of starting an online community keep you awake at night? Do you spend endless hours cajoling (and we mean stalking) members of your existing virtual community 'to engage'? When called in to a Senior Management Team Meeting to share the depth of engagement […]
3rd International Conference on Scaling-up Efforts to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights 2017, Stockholm, Sweden In 2013, leading Indigenous Peoples, community organizations, NGOs, governments, private companies, and investors met in Interlaken to devise strategies to scale up global efforts to secure community land and resource rights. In September 2015, meeting in Bern assessed and […]
Webinar organized by IIED July 6, 2016 at 12pm-1.30pm GMT+1 (UK). This webinar will shed light on how online technology can assist CSOs, communities and governments to access crucial information on land deals and local conflicts. Coupled with other forms of legal empowerment, web platforms can promote transparency and accountability, demonstrate best practices and target […]
How do we apply new knowledge and resources so extension services will provide more equitable support to both men and women farmers and contribute to improved nutrition? Does this question cause you to sit up and want to engage? Then read on because there is an upcoming opportunity to join INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning […]
Webinar: Wednesday June 1, 2016. EDT 8-9 AM. E3/Land and USAID/Ethiopia have recently completed the Agency’s first land sector impact evaluation, of two land tenure programs in Ethiopia. Find out about the impacts of spatially-referenced farmland certification on tenure security, women’s empowerment, and credit access. Hear what we’ve learned about how to do better impact evaluations. Click […]
The 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty took place from 14 to 18 March 2016 in Washington DC. Over 1,400 government officials, practitioners, academics and civil society representatives gathered at World Bank headquarters, as well as some representatives of the private sector. Latest Land Policy Bulletin from Legend provides an overview of […]
Are you a young researcher, PhD student, post-doc or in the beginning of your research carrier? Are you focusing your work on how landscapes are used in an integrated way? Welcome to our young researchers meeting in Gothenburg 7-8 June and discuss with likeminded. At the meeting there will also be a multidisciplinary group of […]
