Land Governance Programme Map
796 programmes
Tanzania
10th EDF Support to Non State Actors – Environment Component
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 13,400,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Finance
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Support Non State Actors at the local level to facilitate the implementation of the national policies and regulations related to natural resources management, in the field of forest, fisheries and wildlife
The specific objective is to empower communities through sustainable land use planning and participatory natural resources management activities. 6 projects financed:
1) Sustainable Nou Forest Ecosystem Management Project FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH MANAGEMENT LBG,
2) Enhancing Livelihoods through PFM in Northern Tanzania AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
3) Sustainable Management of Chome Nature Reserve in Same District ONGAWA INGENIERIA PARA EL DESARROLLO HUMANO ASOCIACION
4) Towards effective, transparent and equitable community wildlife management in Western Serengeti ZOOLOGISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FRANKFURTVON 1858 EV
5) Adding Value to the Arc: Forests and Livelihoods in the South Nguru Mountains TANZANIA FOREST CONSERVATION GROUP SOCIETY
6) Building effective long term fisheries co-management in five coastal districts in Tanzania, and promoting coast-wide learning on the same WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE TANZANIA PROGRAMME OFFICE SOCIETY
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Mexico
Access and Benefit Sharing of Biodiversity
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 720,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2012 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Key stakeholders apply the rules and orientation to gain access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge, ensuring the positive effects from this and provide incentives for the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity.
- Contact:
- Andreas Gettkant, GIZ
Zambia
Accompanying research (One world - No Hunger): Evaluation of large scale land acquisitions – the case of Amatheon in Zambia I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 700,000
- Implementers
- DIE, GIGA, University of Zambia
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The research of DIE focuses on the effects of large-scale land acquisitions and courses of political action. Part of this is the analysis of the Outgrower-Programme of the German investment firm Amatheon Agri.
Zambia
Accompanying research (One world - No Hunger): Evaluation of large scale land acquisitions – the case of Amatheon in Zambia II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 700,000
- Implementers
- DIE, GIGA, University of Zambia
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- The research of DIE focuses on the effects of large-scale land acquisitions and courses of political action. Part of this is the analysis of the Outgrower-Programme of the German investment firm Amatheon Agri.
Swaziland,Zambia
Accompanying research (One world - No Hunger): Facilitation of irrigated agriculture
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 120,000
- Implementers
- DIE
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- The role of PPPs regarding irrigated agriculture is focused.
Benin,Burkina Faso,Ethiopia,India,Kenya
Accompanying research: Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,700,000
- Implementers
- IASS, GRAF (Burkina Faso)
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The research accompanies the GIZ project "Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security" focusing the following question: Which structural obstacles encumber the sustainability of soil protection interventions in the local context? The goal is to carve out best practices.
Benin,Burkina Faso,Ethiopia,India,Kenya
Accompanying research: Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,800,000
- Implementers
- TMG Research gGmbH, CIAT, CETRAD (Kenya), GRAF (Burkina Faso)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The research accompanies the GIZ project "Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security" focusing the following question: Which structural obstacles encumber the sustainability of soil protection interventions in the local context? The goal is to carve out best practices.
Mozambique
Acting for the sustainable use of natural resources
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- CAFOD, Caritas Lichinga
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2013 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The programme funds local peasant and faith groups (Provincial Union of Peasants of Niassa and Diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace to promote together the communities in which they work, information activities and training on all the rights attached to land use and the land and provide the assistance necessary for the proper treatment and resolution of emerging problems in communities.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Thailand
Action for Access and Management Rights to Land and Natural Resources of Small Farmers in Northern Thailand
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 670,000
- Implementers
- OXFAM GB
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Sep 2017
- Summary:
- Overall Objective: To contribute to the adoption of laws promoting equitable land distribution and natural resources management.
Specific Objective: Increased capacity of small-scale farmers and their networks in northern Thailand to organize movements for and demand their rights to land and natural resources management.
The action will support the strengthening of the civil society movement for land reform to be led by the Northern Land Reform Network (NLRN) and the People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-Move). They will engage stakeholders including the affected farmer communities, local administrative organizations (LAOs), independent public organizations, academics, the media and parliamentarians to be aware of the community rights to land and sustainable natural resources management, and call for policy implementation and relevant laws which will solve the land and natural resources access problem of small scale farmers in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. The permanent laws will also be necessary to mitigate the risk of the change of government as experienced currently.
Fiji,Micronesia, Federated States of,Kiribati,Marshall Islands,Nauru,Palau,Papua New Guinea,Solomon Islands,Tonga,Tuvalu,Vanuatu,Samoa,Samoa
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Region
- Donors:
- Germany,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 13,460,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- Strengthening the capacities of regional organisations in the pacific region and their member states for mitigation to climate change.
Kosovo
Addresses for people and businesses in Kosovo
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The Project aims at supporting efficient first time giving out and subsequent maintenace of road addresses throughout Kosovo, by building vital components of electronic address registers and related information services
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Colombia,Guatemala,Peru
Addressing Biodiversity-Social Conflict in Latin America (ABC-LA)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 1,300,000
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The overall goal of the U.S. Government in providing technical support and training under this program is to improve indigenous/minority community and local/regional governmental capacities to better address conflicts (potential and on-going) in the extractives sector that may negatively impact areas of significant biodiversity, thus leading to greater inclusion of marginalized groups. Inclusion encompasses indigenous/minority communities active participation in the decision making processes of planned, or on-going, extractive enterprises that have the potential to negatively impact their lands, societies, livelihoods, and biodiversity. Enhancing the ability of people, communities, and local/regional governments to address complicated issues surrounding extractive activities directly works towards USAID’s mission to (1) build local sustainability and partnerships, (2) foster innovation, and (3) strengthen USAID’s capacity to deliver results. Extractive activities primarily refer to mining (alluvial and hard-rock) and hydrocarbon enterprises. A key focus of this project will be strengthening organizations, including applied research centers that work on preventing and mitigating conflicts arising over extractive activities. Developing and disseminating applicable tools for improved conflict management is a project priority.
Select South and Central American countries have been identified as priorities for USAID conflict alleviation work in the LA region; this project will therefore focus primarily on these LA sub-regions. During the first two years of project implementation, the project will focus on Guatemala, Colombia and Peru; complementing LA bilateral Mission work in the area of conflict management.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Addressing Human Rights Concerns of Indigenous Peoples in Resource Conflict Areas, Enhancing Capacities of Indigenous Peoples on Oversight Mechanisms within the Framework of Indigenous Peoples Rights Based Development
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 428,000
- Implementers
- Dinteg Org. Inc Corporation
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Nurture community participation and enhance capacities in oversight mechanisms in ancestral domain sustainable development and protection plans
Mozambique
Advancing land use rights and natural resource benefits in Mozambique
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 8,300,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2010 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Assessment of the implementation process of land governance in the country, assessment of community rights prospects and community involvement in this process and information dissemination on land governance and natural resources
- Contact:
Laos,Vietnam
Advancing Understanding of Forest Carbon Stock Enhancement as part of REDD+
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 620,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2011 Feb 2015
- Summary:
- For Vietnam and Lao PDR, which contain large areas of degraded forests the issue of forest carbon stock enhancement should be an integral part of any National REDD+ Strategy. To date, in these countries, like in most others, the focus of REDD+ efforts has been on deforestation and to a lesser extent forest degradation. Accordingly, there is a matching deficiency in guidance material and national approaches to forest carbon stock enhancement as part of the REDD+ Strategy.
This project aims to advance understanding of forest carbon stock enhancement as part of any future REDD+ Agreement through exploring the technical and economic feasibility of different forest carbon stock enhancement strategies in pilot sites, across Vietnam and Lao PDR. The sites will be chosen to reflect representative forest ecosystems of the region. The results and operational guidance will feed into the National REDD+ Strategies, which will ensure their replication across the respective countries. The project also aims to better understand the economic feasibility of different options and the incentives which need to be in place to engage local communities and improve their living conditions.
To bring the results to a wider audience, publications, regional and international workshops and communications platforms will be used to disseminate the lessons to the many individuals working on REDD+ and interested in advancing understanding of Forest Carbon Stock Enhancement as part of REDD+. The project has earmarked support to ensure the results can feed into the international discourse on REDD+.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ukraine
Advisory services for the development of the legal and institutional framework for the agricultural land market (BMELV/BVVG)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2006 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims at supporting the Ukrainian government in establishing the legal and institutional framework for an open and transparent land market, review of land legislation, management and administration of state-owned (agricultural) land, spatial planning, land use planning, land market monitoring, institution building, training and capacity building
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Investment Climate Programme (AICP)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Harakat
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2016 Jul 2023
- Summary:
- To support inclusive economic development in Afghanistan through improvement in the investment climate, including (i) strengthening legal and regulatory frameworks, investor protection, investment risk-sharing instruments and access to land; (ii) building partnerships and dialogue between the private sector and government; (iii) advocacy for the role of private sector in economic development; and (iv) increasing women’s access to capital, assets and business services.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Land Administration System Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 25,000,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2019 Sep 2024
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective is (a) to support the development of the Afghanistan land administration system; and (b) to provide the population in selected areas with improved land registration services, including issuance of Titles and Occupancy Certificates.
African Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF) - Tranche 2016
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,230,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Mar 2026
- Summary:
- Objective of the project is to improve the access to financial services and markets for businesses and smallholders in rural areas of Africa.
Burundi,Burkina Faso,Central African Republic,Cote d'Ivoire,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Congo, Republic of the,Cape Verde,Djibouti,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Ghana,Guinea,Gambia, The,Guinea-Bissau,Equatorial Guinea,Kenya,Liberia,Madagascar,Mali,Mozambique,Mauritania,Malawi,Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Sudan,Senegal,Sierra Leone,South Sudan,Swaziland,Chad,Togo,Tanzania,South Africa,Zambia,Zimbabwe
African Forest Forum
- Donors:
- Switzerland,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 9,200,000
- Implementers
- AFF Secretariat
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2011 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- This programme aims at supporting African stakeholders in strengthening the role of Africa's forests and trees to adapt to climate change in ways that enhance liverlihoods, sustain buidiversity and improve the quality of the environment
- Contact:
Agricultural Index "benchmarking the Business of Agriculture"
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 3,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2015
Burundi
Agricultural Intensification and Value-Enhancing Support Project (PAIVA-B)
- Donors:
- European Union,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 6,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2009 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- Donor's contribution:
European Union: US$ 6.00 million
World Food Programme: US$ 4.66 million
Other funding: US$ 2.50 million
The project was designed in a post-crisis context, and it aims to contribute to the fight against poverty among the 30,000 most vulnerable households, in the six provinces north and east of the capital Bujumbura: Cibitoke, Kayanza, Karusi, Bubanza, Muramvya, Gitega and to develop organized and sustainable family farming to allow small-scale rural producers to increase their incomes. Measures will be taken to combat erosion and integrate crops and livestock, the use of pesticides and agricultural intensification.
Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to strengthen the land tenure security owned or held by household; to strengthen the security of land tenure of individuals and groups who have access to State-owned marsh lands. The project aims to spread the relevant provisions of the Land Code, the Environmental Code and the law on public water resources. Women will have priority access to rehabilitated wetlands and those developed by the project.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kyrgyzstan
Agricultural Investments and Services Project (AISP)
- Donors:
- Switzerland,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 5,870,000
- Implementers
- Agricultural Projects Implementation Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture Water Resources and Processing Industry Community Development and Investment Agency
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2009 Sep 2014
- Summary:
- The aim of the project was to improve the institutional and infrastructure environment for farmers and herders, with a strong emphasis on the livestock sector. Specifically, the project intended to increase the productivity of 61,000 farmers' households nationwide, particularly targeting livestock farmers, and reduce animal diseases that have a public health impact (e.g. brucellosis).
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project facilitated the development and adoption of the Pasture Law in 2009 by raising the awareness of decision makers and advising on legislative reforms. It further supported activities related to sustainable pasture management.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Jordan
Agricultural Resource Management Project II (ARMP-II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 850,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- May 2005 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project, which builds on a first phase, aims to improve food and water security and the income levels of 22,300 rural poor households in the governorates of Karak, Tafila and Ma'an. This will be met by promoting community development and through the efficient use and improved management of soil and water resources.
On land and natural resource governance, the project intends to provide support for the formation of WUAs, participatory land use planning and the use of a GIS. Activities will enhance the enabling policy, regulatory and incentive frameworks that govern natural resource use, promote integrated land use planning and mainstream sustainable land management (SLM).
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Agricultural Sector Development Programme - Livestock: Support for Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Development (ASDP-L)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,370,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Water and Livestock Development for the mainland and Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Cooperatives for Zanzibar
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2007 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to improve food security and increase incomes among 460,840 households in the areas of Manyara, Tanga, Pemba, Unguja, Dodoma and Singida. Specifically, the programme works to improve the livelihoods of the poorest agro-pastoralists and pastoralists. It strengthens the capacity of livestock communities and enhances the delivery of livestock development services to smallholders. Further it aims to improve marketing systems and infrastructure for livestock products and strengthen national and local government institutions to provide services to the livestock subsector.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme stresses the importance of land-use planning particularly with respect to assuring tenure, resolution of conflicts over land and water among competing interest groups and the sustainability of the natural resource base. It adopts land-use plans which will establish clear land-use demarcation and protect and monitor water resources. The programme supports village land use planning and rangeland management through the Collaborative Initiative on Land Issues (CALI). The goal is that on the mainland at least 72 villages will have proper land-use plans.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Botswana
Agricultural Services Support Programme (ASSP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 680,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2012 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to contribute to economic diversification, reduction of rural poverty and food insecurity and improve livelihoods of approximately 20,000 farming households in the regions of Ngamiland, Chobe, North East, Central, Kgatleng, Kweneng, Southern and South East. The programme aims to achieve a viable and sustainable smallholder agricultural sector based on farming as a business, not reliant on subsidies or welfare measures, focusing on women and youth currently engaged, or potential new entrants, into smallholder agriculture.
Land and natural resource governance interventions intend to strengthen participatory local land use planning in the identification, demarcation and planning of cluster farming areas. The programme aims to encourage the allocation of under-utilised land to landless women and youth while maintaining security of tenure of owners by strengthening rental agreements. Cluster Management Committees and Agricultural Management Associations will be established to strengthen group management of land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Agricultural Value Chains Support Project (PAFA)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 250,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2010 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to improve incomes and livelihoods of 14,000 farmers households, specifically women and young people, in Senegal's groundnut basin. It intends to integrate farmers into profitable value chains based on local agro-ecological potential. Its most innovative feature is its focus on consolidating local value chains as instruments for fostering broad-based, self-sustaining and inclusive local development. Focusing especially on women and youth, it facilitates access to finance for harvesting, processing and packaging activities to allow better market placement.
In line with the above, the project activities related to land governance support women's access to land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Agricultural Value Chains Support Project – Extension (PAFA-E)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 950,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Infrastructure
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 Jun 2022
- Summary:
- The project builds on the lessons of PAFA, which is being implemented in the Groundnut basin, and aims to improve the livelihoods of 25,000 farmers households in the regions of Kaolack, Fatick, Kaffrine and Diourbel and the Louga agro-pastoral region, through their incorporation into diversified, profitable value chains. It specifically intends to improve food security and the income of small-scale producers and to create jobs for rural inhabitants, especially young people and women.
Activities related to land governance support formal land allocation and women's access to land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ukraine
Agriculture and Rural Development Support
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 20,600,000
- Implementers
- Chemonics
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- The Agriculture and Rural Development Support (ARDS) project will support broad-based, resilient economic growth through a more inclusive, competitive, and better governed agriculture sector that provides attractive livelihoods to rural Ukrainians. The project consists of three components: Improve enabling environment and governance of the agricultural sector; Increase investment, productivity, employment, and incomes in the agricultural sector; and Improve welfare of rural communities and marginalized producers. ARDS will create a better enabling environment for agricultural small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by strengthening the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture to implement sector reforms, by developing a transparent legal framework for agricultural land markets, and by implementing reforms that attract irrigation system modernization investments. The Agriculture and Rural Development Support Project will improve agriculture sector competitiveness by supporting agricultural SMEs to introduce international quality and safety standards and take advantage of the trade opportunities available through the EU Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). ARDS will support rural development by expanding employment and income opportunities and supporting target rural communities to develop viable economic strategies that stimulate economic growth.
- Contact:
- Anna Bogdanova, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger
Agriculture Niger
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 11,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Improving the economic Potential of small irrigation.
Namibia
Agriculture Project/Land Access and Management Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 23,100,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Namibia
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2009 Sep 2014
- Summary:
- The Land Access and Management Activity has two sub-activities: Community-based Rangeland and Livestock Management (CBRLM), focusing on promoting sustainable land management and grazing activities; and Communal Land Support (CLS), aimed at improving tenure security and land governance. The primary objectives of CLS are: (1) to empower residents and landholders at the village/local level to actively and effectively participate in the use and management of their land resources in Namibia's Northern Communal Areas; and (2) to improve the administration and management of communal lands.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Agriculture Rural Growth and Land Management Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 13,900,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2016 Jun 2021
- Summary:
- Support to the Regional Land Administration Offices (Cirdoma & Cirtopo): This activity aims (i) to improve the current land information system, in particular the information exchange between the State land services and the municipal land offices and (ii) to establish or to improve Local Land Use Mapping (PLOFs) aiming the preparation of local development plans, including the delimitation of investment areas. The activity will focus on computerization of land services, improving the quality, accuracy and reliability of the PLOFs. The project will also provide support to the "Specialized Offices" (“Bureaux Spécialisés" – civil servants responsible for monitoring the local land offices) to enable them to carry out their mission. This will involve training and additional equipment.
- Contact:
- Andre Teyssier, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cameroon
Agro-pastoral Youth Entrepreneurship Programme (PEA)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 470,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Livestock
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2015 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- The programme aims to support young people in creating and managing successful agro-pastoral businesses and to promote a policy, organizational and institutional framework conducive to the creation and development of agro-pastoral businesses among young people. The programme will directly benefit 10,000 households in four regions: Centre, South, Littoral and Northwest, accounting for about 40% of the youth population living in rural areas in Cameroon. It is expected that about 4,700 agro-pastoral businesses will be created and about 350 existing businesses will be further developed.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme plans to work at the local and national level to provide youth, especially young rural women, with secure access to land, and also support all beneficiaries in obtaining property titles. It will work to this end with the Ministry in charge of land affairs and with local authorities. These actions will be accompanied by consultations between landowners and local administrative institutions and by sensitization campaigns and advocacy for a more favourable framework for access to land by young people. Ideally these will result in negotiations between landowners and land users, and in the signing of a property charter recognized and respected by all stakeholders.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Belize,Costa Rica,Dominican Republic,Guatemala,Honduras,Nicaragua,Panama,El Salvador
Agrobiodiversity Program Central America
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,230,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2017 Apr 2024
- Summary:
- The project is a regional program aimed at preserving agrobiodiversity in traditional agricultural production systems of indigenous and peasant communities.
Ukraine
AgroInvest
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 2,500,000
- Implementers
- Chemonics
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- The project works with Government agencies including the State Land Agency of Ukraine and the State Registration Service of Ukraine to assess and improve land management policy and develop needed by-laws and regulatory acts. They also work with vulnerable land owners to ensure access to information and legal aid (through establishment of a resource center, outreach activities and legal services) to protect land rights and make informed decisions on selling or leasing land.
- Contact:
- Michael Torreano, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tunisia
Agropastoral Development and Local Initiatives Promotion Programme for the South-East (PRODESUD-II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 700,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2014 Mar 2020
- Summary:
- The programme, built upon the achievements of the first phase, aims to contribute to improved living conditions and rural poverty reduction, for 13,200 households in the Tataouine region, by: Improving the management and productivity of collective and private rangeland, and of rainfed and irrigated farming systems; by diversifying income sources and expanding employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups, including young people and women; and by empowering communities to take charge of their own development.
On land and natural resource governance the programme is supporting the formation and networking of farmer's organization, M&E of measures to improve the management and productivity of collective and private rangeland. It further supports the communication and dissemination of knowledge regarding rangeland management activities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tunisia
Agropastoral Value Chains Project in the Governorate of Médenine (PRODEFIL)
- Donors:
- European Union,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 385,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2015 Jun 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the living conditions for 15,040 vulnerable rural households in the governorate of Medenine and to create new opportunities for employment by strengthening the resilience of agro-pastoral production systems. To that end, the project seeks to help public and private actors manage and develop local agro-pastoral value chains, including those for camelids and small ruminants.
On land and natural resource governance, the project intends to strengthen rangeland management organizations, mostly through the capacity building of Agricultural Development Groups (GDAs). Furthermore it aims to improve natural ecosystems through the development of three participatory rangeland management plans. It also will undertake a study to create an inventory of water points.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Yemen
Al-Dhala Community Resource Management Project (ADCRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 650,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2007 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The goal of the project was to enhance family food security for subsistence 15,600 farmers households, raise family incomes and improve the living conditions and development participation of small farm households, including women, in Al-Dhala through better management of their resource base.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions intended to provide support for rangeland management through surveys and mapping, demarcation and the establishment of Grazing Management Groups in 30 community associations.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Albania
Albanian-Norwegian hydrographic information project (ALNO_HIP)
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The project will contribute to competence and capacity building for the Albanian Hydrographic Service (AHS) and the Military Geographical Institute (MIG). Both institutes are led by the Ministry of Defense.
AHS is responsible for depth mapping and navigational marking (buoys, lights, etc.). Sea measurement activities are currently underfunded, with a lack of equipment and usable boats.
Activities
The Norwegian Mapping Authority is assisting AHS with the acquisition of multibeam solutions for processing and management of data. The project will also provide for the education of hydrographs, as well as the procurement and installation of two tide gauges.
MGI is responsible for the production of sea and land maps, as well as the national geodetic network. MIG has a lot of good skills, but lacks modern equipment. Much of the support for this institute will be acquisition of production systems for ENCs and paper charts. Necessary upgrades to the network, server capacity and workstations will be included. A "production line" will be established that includes both institutes.
- Contact:
- Evert Flier, Norwegian Mapping Authority, Hydrographic service
Burkina Faso,Ghana
Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,230,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2018 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase the productivity of small-scale cultivation of food crops (Ghana: corn, rice, soy, cassava, Burkina Faso: corn, rice, beans, millet (sorghum)) and their marketing shares in selected regions of Ghana and Burkina Faso. This will increase the income of smallholders and improve their nutritional status.
Peru
Alternative Development Programme in Santipo
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 10,720,000
- Implementers
- Agencia Peruana de Cooperación Internacional (DEVIDA)
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The objective is to promote a model of sustainable development in rural areas, empowering local communities.
- Contact:
- Joachim.Knoth, EC
Colombia
Amazon Conservation Team
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 1,000,000
- Implementers
- Amazon Conservation Team
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2017 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is dedicated to preserving South American rainforests by working with local communities to map and secure rights to their indigenous lands.
ACT values three core components that contribute to the success and longevity of the environment around us – biodiversity, culture, and health. They deploy a successful conservation model that features various methods including ethnographic mapping, sustainable development, indigenous land protection, and land management.
Omidyar Network has partnered with ACT to secure the property rights of up to 300,000 indigenous peoples in Colombia. ACT will work closely with those people and the government of Colombia to expand and constitute 31 indigenous reserves, pilot drone mapping, and help newly constituted reserves gain financial independence through improved self-governance
- Contact:
- Peter Rabley
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
Amzonia Fund, Phase II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,172,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2017 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The aim is to contribute to the fight against deforestation as well as the protection and sustainable use of forests in Amazonia.
Bolivia,Chile,Colombia,Ecuador,Peru
Andean Forests and Climate Change (ANFOR)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 6,000,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2014 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- The project is well embedded in the SDC Global Programme Climate Change's global approach to face climate change in the land-use sector through increased regional cooperation and strengthened joint information and negotiation platforms. The fundamental rationale of ANFOR is that through the consolidation and up scaling of advanced conservation mechanisms, significant improvements in the conservation and sustainable management of Andean forests will be reached, improving the livelihoods of Andean farmers and concurrently addressing climate change.
- Contact:
Colombia
Apoyo a la Comisión de Seguimiento
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 2,250,000
- Implementers
- Civil Society Monitoring Commission - MC
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Conducting research into the situation of IDPs and the restitution of land. Providing inputs and recommendations to draw up national policies.
- Contact:
- , Netherlands Embassy in Colombia, (+57) (1) 638 4200
Cote d'Ivoire
Appui au Programme National de Sécurisation du Foncier Rural
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 2,680,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- May 2011 May 2016
- Summary:
- Dans le cadre d'un programme FLEX global 2008 pour soutenir le secteur de l'agriculture le projet a pour objectif la mise en oeuvre du Programme National de Sécurisation du Foncier Rural au moyen de formations (délimitation des terroirs) de délivrance de certificats fonciers, l'amélioration du dispositif administratif et technique, l'établissement de bornes géo-référencées pour délimiter les terroirs villageois et assurer leur transcription cartographique, la mise à disposition de contrats de location, la révision et mise en œuvre de législation foncière, le lancement d'une campagne de communication
- Contact:
- Joachim.Knoth, EC
Niger
Arziki Project (Niger Food Security Program)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The main objective of the Niger Food Security Program (NFSP) is to increase food production and incomes, and ensure livelihood protection and health for food insecure farming households through the use of improved agricultural and livestock production technologies, increased market participation, innovative approaches to strengthening the household asset base and provision of safe drinking water.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia,Laos,Burma,Malaysia,Philippines,Singapore,Thailand,Vietnam
ASEAN Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 10,300,000
- Implementers
- CIFOR, RECOTFC, ICRAF, NTFP-EP, SEARCA
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2010 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The programme has two specific objectives (1) Social forestry approaches integrated in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in ASEAN Member States (2) Socio-economic benefits derived from inclusion of vulnerable communities in adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Contact:
Congo, Republic of the
Assessment and development of a revised and expanded Protected Area Network in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,030,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2009 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Working in collaboration with governmental administrative authorities and participating actors along with NGOs and local communities, the project’s mission is to assess and delineate possible protected areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The project’s main focus is on strengthening the ability of these partners to initiate and implement transparently defined land use planning. The overarching objective of the project is to establish a comprehensive network of conservation areas in the DR Congo (accounting for 15% of the nation’s total area).
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ukraine
Avoiding Greenhouse Gas Emissions through the Restoration and Sustainable Management of Peatlands in the Ukraine
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,640,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2009 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- Through its plans for reflooding drained wetlands and sustainable management of degraded swamps, the project contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting the biodiversity of wetlands in the Ukraine. It supports efforts to develop the future system of conservation areas and improves the living conditions of the local inhabitants. The project follows up and builds on the currently ongoing predecessor project of the BMU’s International Climate Protection Initiative ‘08_II_026_BLR_K_RSPB Torfmoore’ (peat bogs).
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan address system
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 429,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Capacity building in connection with the establishment of an address register and development of related procedures for data collection and maintenance.
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Burkina Faso
Bagre Growth Pole Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 5,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2011 Nov 2018
- Summary:
- The objective is to increase economic activity in the project Area, resulting in an increase in private investment, employment generation, and agricultural production.
On land, the project will:(i)Design and install an effective and socially responsible system to resolve land tenure issues, facilitate access to land, and reduce the cost of land in order to make serviced land available for development, and (ii)Develop simpler and more transparent procedures for investors to acquire land use rights and reduce the cost of land transactions
- Contact:
- Aguiratou Savadogo-Tinto, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund 2 (BICF2)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- International Monetary Fund (IFC) and the World Bank Group (WBG)
- Timeframe:
- May 2016 Jun 2022
- Summary:
- Provides technical assistance to the Government of Bangladesh and other stakeholders to improve the investment climate and business competitiveness of the country. The programme focuses on reform of the laws, regulations and institutions most closely affecting businesses. Its three pillars include i) modernising and reforming the regulatory framework by working with the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA); ii) improving industrial infrastructure (including access to industrial land), and; iii) enhancing export diversification and sector competitiveness.
Colombia
Biodiversity and Protected Areas Program - LifeWeb 2
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,460,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2017 Jun 2022
- Summary:
- Strengthening the technical, political and financial capacities of the National Wildlife Sanctuary System in Colombia.
Namibia
Biodiversity and sustainable land management
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 8,792,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The framework conditions established by the ministry of Environment in Namibia to support a sustainable management of natural resources have improved
Philippines
Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 300,000
- Implementers
- Chemonics International
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The 5-year B+WISER Program in the Philippines aims to (1) conserve biodiversity in forest areas, (2) reduce forest degradation in seven priority sites, (3) build capacity to conserve biodiversity, manage forests and support low emissions development, and (4) contribute to disaster risk reduction at sub-national levels. Activities related to land tenure and property rights focus on enhancing inclusion of indigenous peoples, upland farmers, and women in natural resources management. Illustrative activities include development of studies on costs and benefits of different land uses, co-management options for overlapping management regimes (e.g. protected areas within ancestral domains), payments for ecosystems services; forest land use planning and/or implementation; and support for land tenure and dispute resolution initiatives.
- Contact:
- Gil Dy-Liacco, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Vietnam
Biodiversity Center - Small Grants Program Phase II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 786,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2017 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The aim of the national component is to ensure that successful small-scale actions (i) contribute to the improvement of biodiversity protection in selected ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP) and their peripheral areas, and (ii) to improve the living conditions of the local population. In addition, (iii) coordination mechanisms and management capacities for Vietnamese AHPs should be strengthened at national level. The aim of the regional component is to (iv) strengthen the ACB as a regional institution for the sustainable protection of biodiversity in ASEAN member states.
Ecuador
Biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 10,510,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2013 Feb 2017
- Summary:
- Indigenous communities and producer organisations implement models for sustainable use of biodiversity with consideration of climate change.
Botswana
BOTSWANA Land Administration Procedures, Capacity Building and System, LAPCAS
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 1,490,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2008 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Improvement of land administration procedures, capacity and systems in Botswana.
Colombia
Building Rural Entrepreneurial Capacity Programme: Trust and Opportunity (TOP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,185,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to tackle problems of inequality and poverty in rural areas, and to promote equal access to basic services, including rural financial services. Its target group is composed of approximately 50,000 rural households composed by small farmers, indigenous groups, Afro-Latino communities, rural young people, families who have been forcibly displaced and households headed by women, living in extreme poverty across 17 departments in Colombia.
Land and natural resource governance issues are central to this programme supporting the improvement of environmental conditions by defining regulations signed by the community members for access to, use and protection of natural resources. These activities are specifically focusing on women and young people.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sudan
Butana Integrated Rural Development Project (BIRDP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,500,000
- Implementers
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2008 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve in a sustainable manner the livelihoods and resilience to drought of 40,000 poor rural households in the region of Butana. Specifically it aims to establish an effective governance framework that ensures regulated access to land and water resources. It further aims to improve the access and bargaining position of women and men in the marketing of livestock and builds the capacity of community-based organizations to engage in environmentally sound, socially and gender equitable development initiatives.
With regard to the goal of the establishment of the governance framework to ensure regulated access to land and water resources, the project intends to support the development of a herding, grazing and farming legislation to promote a regulated access regime to natural resources and provides a capacity building programme of community organization on communal land management.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cadasta Foundation
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 9,680,000
- Implementers
- Cadasta Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Jan 2022
- Summary:
- Founded in 2015, Cadasta Foundation uses innovative technology, services, and advocacy to advance global land and resource rights. Cadasta targets the world’s 1 billion tenure-insecure people in areas left out of government land registry systems.
Through partnerships and participatory approaches that encourage the inclusion of women and other marginalized groups, Cadasta enables individuals, organizations, communities, and governments to make data-driven decisions and put communities and their needs on the map. Partners using the platform to securely store and manage land and resources data can access high-quality imagery, data layers, dashboards, and analytical tools for monitoring, advocating, and reporting.
By realizing their land rights, households and communities are improving their lives and making their communities more sustainable. Cadasta has advanced land and property rights for over 1 million vulnerable rural and urban people in 17 countries and continues to expand its tools and services to reach millions more.
- Contact:
- Amy Regas, Omidyar Network
- Website:
- Project weblink
Azerbaijan
Cadastre and Registration (BMZ/KfW)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,750,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Aug 2016
- Summary:
- Systematic inventory of real estate objects by area-based cadastral surveying and collecting attribute data about proprietors and real estate objects to secure ownership rights to the local citizens/property owners.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Georgia
Capacity Building and Improved Client Services at NAPR of Georgia
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,660,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2008 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The project is a twinning-like cooperation to build capacity of the National Agency of Public Registry to provide efficient, transparent and cost-effective services according to unified strategic guidelines and technical standards and with reliable real property information, in order to build a well-functioning land administration, including secured property rights and a rational use of land
Vietnam
Capacity building for collaborative Management of coastal Wetlands in Soc Trang
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,890,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Oct 2014
- Summary:
- The coastal wetlands in the province Soc Trang are protected and being used sustainably.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capacity Building for Improvement in Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia Herzegovina (CILAP)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 6,800,000
- Implementers
- Lantmäteriet
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The “Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina” – CILAP project, is a long term project aimed to build capacity and transfer knowledge with the overall objective to increase the effectiveness and reliability of land administration processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From the beginning CILAP project is planned, described and approved for six (6) years period with the goal to support geodetic authorities in BH during the whole implementation period of Real Estate Registration Project (RERP), funded by World Bank loan.
The Project contributes to expected long- term impact:
-By efficient land administration contribute to economic and social development, sustainable market and usage of real estates, and BiH accession to EU.
The expected impact will be reached if the project main goal is fulfilled, and it is:
-Confidence in Geodetic Authorities in BiH strengthened through delivering of efficient services and providing of secure and reliable information to the customers.
- Contact:
- Nedim Bukvic, Embassy Sweden in Sarajevo, +38733276052
- Website:
- Project weblink
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Capacity Building for Responsible Minerals Trade
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 5,759,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The goal of the Capacity Building for Responsible Minerals Trade (CBRMT) project is to strengthen the capacity of the Democratic Republic of Congo and regional institutions to transparently regulate a critical mass of the trade in strategic minerals in eastern DRC in order to transform the region’s mineral wealth into economic growth and development. The project supports programming in responsible mineral access, trade, and chain of custody related tin, tantalum, tungsten, (3Ts) and gold. The project is implemented in three locations with a headquarters in Kinshasa, an Eastern Congo field office in Goma supervising the conflict free minerals trade, and an office in Bujumbura, Burundi, the headquarters of the International Council on the Great Lakes (ICGLR). Partners include Pact and RESOLVE, as well as a number of Congolese organizations dedicated to the responsible minerals trade.
- Contact:
- Richard Robinson, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Capacity Building in Support of Land Policy Development and Implementation in Africa
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 11,792,000
- Implementers
- African Land Policy Initiative (AU-UNECA-AfDB)
- Timeframe:
- May 2010 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The programme fosters economic development and poverty reduction through improved land use, management and governance. The expected outcome is to facilitate the implementation of the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa via enhanced capacity of the AU-ECA-AfDB LPI, RECs, African governments, civil society and other stakeholders in land policy development as well as improved land information systems, increased networking, lesson learning and knowledge sharing among practitioners in land policy and increased monitoring of progress in land policy development and implementation.
- Contact:
- Eulogio.Montijano, European Union Delegation to the African Union
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capacity building of geodetic administrations in BiH to deal with climate change and reducing the risk of natural disaster
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,400,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- Activities
1.Data collection activities:
•Levelling measurements and processing
•Gravimetric measurements and processing
•Analysis of all data collected
•Computation of the geoid surface
•CORS network improvements
2. Roll-out of Digital Archive IT systems
Bosnia and Herzegovina, like all other countries in the world, is not immune to natural and artificial disasters regardless of their origins, type and impact. Disasters have the potential to destroy years of investments, development and efforts and potentially lead to devastation of the assets intended for the priorities, such as education, health, construction and other critical infrastructure projects.
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Liberia
Capacity Development in the Transport Sector
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,680,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- May 2014 Jul 2019
- Summary:
- Capacity Development in the Transport Sector
- Road Building
- Road administration
Liberia
Capacity Development on Respecting Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Land Acquisition
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 100,000
- Implementers
- Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Apr 2015
- Summary:
- This project is intended to design and run a capacity development package, based upon the FAO Technical Guide on Respecting Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Land Acquisition, to raise awareness and improve capacities of the Liberian government, the private sector, NGOs, indigenous peoples and local communities to apply FPIC.
The activities planned aim to engage in a collaborative way Liberian stakeholders in order to apply the Technical Guide as a tool to develop the capacity of local parties to respect FPIC in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security and the international legal obligations of the Government of Liberia.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Panama
Capacity development programme on the VGGT applied for and with Indigenous Peoples
- Donors:
- FAO,Switzerland,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 106,000
- Implementers
- Centro para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CADPI)
- Timeframe:
- May 2015 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The “Capacity development programme on the VGGT applied for and with indigenous peoples” in Central America was conducted with the Centro para la Autonomia y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indigenas (CADPI). It brought together Indigenous Peoples Representatives and Experts from different countries in the Central America Region (Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama), including representatives of the national/regional/local governments. The VGGT were translated into Miskitu (indigenous language from Nicaragua), and specifically designed training material was prepared, which is currently being collated with funding support from the MUL project. Good practices and major challenges related to governance of tenure in each country involved were identified and shared; the participants carried out studies comparing the respective national legal and policy framework on Indigenous Peoples'tenure rights and the international one, using the VGGT as a reference. These studies also addressed specific aspects of the VGGT in their own indigenous communities. A final programme report was prepared which included: an analysis of workshop series results and key messages; the participants' studies; and the participants' evaluation of the training programme.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Capacity development: Applying the VGGT for and with Indigenous Peoples (India)
- Donors:
- FAO,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 45,000
- Implementers
- Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2015 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The programme, jointly developed by the Indigenous Peoples’ team and the Land tenure team in FAO, as well as with the Asia Indigenous Peoples pact and local Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, was specifically designed for Indigenous Peoples of India (Adivasi). It lasted for about one year, and consisted in two sub-national workshops (in north-east India and central India), a period during which the participants conduct research in their communities, and one national workshop carried out in New Delhi, in August 2016 to present the results of this research and discuss with government representatives. The overall objective was to strengthen the recognition and protection of indigenous peoples’ tenure rights and customary tenure systems, exploring practical actions to implement the VGGT in conjunction with national and local laws, in particular the Forest Rights Act.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
CAR II - Environmental Land Registration (BMZ/KfW)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 25,300,000
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- The projects primary goal is the implementation of the environmental registry (Cadastro Ambiental Rural – CAR). All landowners and land users are obliged to register themselves in the environmental registry and provide information in electronic form about the use of their land. The registry is designed to help the Brazilian authorities enforce compliance with forest protection legislation.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
CAR III - Environmental Land Registration (BMZ/KfW)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 12,300,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- Establishment and standardization of environmental cadastres.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Albania,Bangladesh,Bolivia,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Colombia,India,Kenya,Cambodia,Madagascar,Malawi,Nepal,Peru,Philippines,Togo
Catalysing Commitment to Pro-Poor Land Governance
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,000,000
- Implementers
- International Land Coalition (ILC)
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2011 Sep 2012
- Summary:
- The goal of the grant to the ILC was to enable poor women and men to achieve secure and equitable access to and control over land to enable them to increase their food security and overcome poverty and vulnerability. The project's objectives were to influence the formulation and implementation of national land policies for the benefit of rural people; influence global and regional land-related processes and systems in favor of pro-poor land policies and governance; and build a leading knowledge network on land governance, contributing to substantive improvements in the monitoring, sharing and uptake of land related knowledge.
Technical assistance has been provided to address specific issues raised as priorities, these included the influence for the formulation and implementation of national land policies to benefit rural people and to influence global and regional land-related processes and systems in favor of pro-poor land policies and governance. The grant built a leading knowledge network on land governance, contributing to substantive improvements in the monitoring, sharing and uptake of land-related knowledge.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Catalysing partnership for pro-poor land governance
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 5,360,000
- Implementers
- ILC (IFAD)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Support to ILC Strategic Framework: Enhance the capacity of the ILC and its members to influence global, regional and national land policies, processes and systems in favour of the poor to build and share knowledge and evidence on land issues. Specific goals include influencing the formulation and implementation of national land policies and land-related processes, build the world's leading knowledge network on land governance and strengthen ILC network.
Bangladesh
Char Development and Settlement Project (CDSP IV)
- Donors:
- Netherlands,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 730,000
- Implementers
- Bangladesh Water Development Board (Ministry of Water Resources)
- Timeframe:
- May 2011 Jun 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to develop improved and more secure livelihoods for poor people living on newly accreted coastal islands known locally as chars in the areas of Lakshmipur, Noakhali and Chittagong. This will be achieved through the provision of support for rural livelihoods, legal title to land and climate-resilient infrastructure benefiting about 28,000 households.
On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to improve land record systems and to provide land titles for 20.000 households.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cities Alliance
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 500,000
- Implementers
- Cities Alliance
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2018 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- Omidyar Network is supporting Cities Alliance to encourage innovation in the promotion of tenure security and property rights in Africa’s informal urban settlements. Micro Funds for Community Innovation will address the nexus between the issue of property rights, Africa’s growing young population, and its capacity to innovate and deploy modern technologies. The innovation fund will be run through a micro-grant facility targeting tech-savvy entrepreneurs, micro enterprises, innovators, community-based organizations and local NGOs, and stimulate the use of simple, affordable, accessible innovations to secure property rights.
- Contact:
- Amy Regas, Omidyar Network
- Website:
- Project weblink
Namibia
CLDP - Communal Land Development Project (EU/KfW)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 9,800,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The project purpose is to improve tenure security and registration of communal land rights in communal areas as well as developing integrated regional land use plans and infrastructure investments in the small scale communal farming sector. Measures are for an example, zoning of grassland and construction of waterholes.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Vietnam
Climate change adaptation through biodiversity promotion in Bac Lieu Province, Viet Nam
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,280,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2010 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- In the context of climate change, the southern coastal region of Viet Nam is one of the globally most at-risk areas. The purpose of the project is to increase the protective effect of coastal forests through the sustainable use of resources and biodiversity promotion. To this end, the relevant government agencies will be enabled to tailor their land-use planning to the probable consequences of climate change. The elaboration of adapted management strategies in agriculture and aquaculture will contribute to securing livelihoods of the coastal population. A broad-based awareness-raising campaign through environmental education programmes at schools, combined with the secure establishment of the two focal areas ‘biodiversity promotion’ and ‘climate change adaptation’ in the planning and administrative procedures for coastal zone management at provincial level, has innovative character for the region.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia,Nepal,Thailand,Vietnam
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Rights
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 1,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
Guinea
Climate change, resource management, food security - ABN Guinea
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,722,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The objective of the project is to increase agricultural production and productivity through improved and sustainable use of natural water resources in the Niger Basin, thereby contributing to the improved food security and protection of the population from the impacts of climate change.
Ethiopia
Climate Protection and Preservation of Primary Forests – A Management Model using the Wild Coffee Forests in Ethiopia as an Example
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,700,000
- Implementers
- Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V.
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2009 Oct 2013
- Summary:
- The project objective is to preserve 200,000 ha of cloud forest in Kafa, the region of southwestern Ethiopia where coffee originated. Up to two million tons of CO2 emissions will be prevented over the course of the project term through reforestation, establishment of the first Ethiopian biosphere reserve, and introduction of management methods that conserve forest resources. Tried and proven processes of participatory management will be used to integrate climate protection and climate adaptation measures.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Climate Protection Aspects of Preserving Biodiversity in Peruvian Tropical Forest
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,120,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The project supports the development and initial consolidation of a national policy strategy for the Peruvian Amazon. It thus contributes to sustainably developing this habitat and economic area while at the same time preserving its global importance for biodiversity and climate protection. The planned advisory services for the regional and local actors involved are on the one hand aimed at promoting the national system of conservation areas and identifying suitable economic alternatives to the current utilisation of the area, while they are also intended to introduce innovative financing instruments and to valorise environmental services.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Fiji,Papua New Guinea,Solomon Islands,Vanuatu
Climate protection through forest conservation in Pacific Island States
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 7,200,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2010 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to preserve forest ecosystems in the Pacific and thus contribute to climate change mitigation. To this end it is supporting three island states in creating the conditions necessary for par-ticipation in an international financing mechanism for reducing emissions from the forest sector (REDD+). Together with the partners it is developing REDD+ strategies and policies and boosting capabilities in the field of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) at national level. At local level the project is working with communities and user groups to implement REDD+ pilot projects which directly protect the forest, while at regional level a coherent regional REDD+ policy is being developed. Apart from this the project is establishing a regional REDD+ information and support platform by setting up a virtual network of users and REDD+ specialists, installing a data platform and carrying out training for operating the network.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Climate-Related Modernisation of National Forest Policy and Piloting REDD Measures in the Philippines
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 920,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2009 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The project objective is to orientate Philippine forestry policy towards climate protection goals by preventing deforestation (REDD) and in particular by developing a REDD strategy that considers the causes of deforestation and encompasses incentive systems for preventing deforestation and rehabilitating degraded forest areas and mangroves. Priority is given to efforts that promote good governance, participation of local and indigenous communities in forestry policy-making processes and clarification of land-use rights as well as conservation of biodiversity and poverty reduction.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Co-management Amazon Peru
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,500,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jun 2017
- Summary:
- The effects of climate change and the advanced deforestation in the Amazon region pose a threat to the livelihood of the local population and biodiversity. Protection efforts in communal reserves have had little success to date because the indigenous communities were not involved in the protection measures. The project’s objective is to further develop the co-management approach and implement it in selected communal reserves for indigenous communities. To achieve this objective, there will be interventions in four areas: 1. Developing co-management concepts and capacities; 2. Protecting biodiversity and forests; 3. Sustainable use; 4. Information and knowledge management.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ghana
COLANDEF
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 400,000
- Implementers
- COLANDEF
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2018 Feb 2020
- Summary:
- COLANDEF is an NGO that aims to secure land tenure rights and promote women’s empowerment in Ghana through local governance, policy advocacy, and mainstreaming gender into development.
Omidyar Network has funded COLANDEF to implement a two-year advocacy and media campaign to improve customary land rights documentation across Ghana. Within this project, COLANDEF aims to produce an agreement between Customary and Statutory leaders on the form and process for customary land rights documentation, and to produce and then pilot a handbook and template agreement for documenting land rights. The project’s media component aims to educate rural populations about the benefits of land documentation, their rights, and how to obtain documents. It consists of 24 primetime appearances on Ghanaian TV, and will potentially reach six million people.
- Contact:
- PETER RABLEY
Niger
Collaborative Action on Land Issues - CALI III Niger
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 320,000
- Implementers
- FIDA - IFAD
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Sep 2014
- Summary:
- L’objectif global de la proposition : « contribuer à une mise en application efficace de la réforme foncière (notamment les textes du Code Rural sur le Pastoralisme) favorisant un accès équitable des producteurs ruraux à la terre et aux ressources productives ».
- Contact:
- Thomas Hiergens, DGD
Indonesia
Collaborative land use planning and sustainable institutional arrangement for strengthening land tenure, forest and community rights
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 2,407,000
- Implementers
- CIRAD
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2010 Feb 2014
- Summary:
- Avoid deforestation and environmental degradation by supporting the development of sustainable institutional arrangements promoting land policies and instruments involving local communities.
Specific objective: Collaborative and equitable LUP and NRM are established, leading to the design and testing of new institutional arrangements, environmental policies and instruments based on more secure land tenure and community rights.
Comic Relief Programme Partnership Arrangement
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Charity Projects (Comic Relief)
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2010 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- The programme aims to improve the lives of poor and disadvantaged people in Africa by supporting direct action by UK Civil Society Organisations working with African partners. Land is one component of this project.
- Contact:
- Cathy Welch, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Commercialisation of land - Implications for land rights and livelihoods in the SADC Region
- Donors:
- Austria
- Funding:
- USD 791,366
- Implementers
- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of Western Cape
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The project supports policy-makers and civil society organizations in the SADC Region evidence-based information for policy-decision-making in order to promote good land governance and to protect people from dispossession. In the framework of the project, land deals are analyzed and their impacts on livelihoods assessed. This is combined with capacity development and empowerment to inform the different stakeholders and to make evidence-based decisions.
Namibia
Communal Land Development Project
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 17,500,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The CLDP project is implemented as an integral part of the PCLD and is structured along a series of causally interlinked activities. Existing customary land rights and infrastructure will be mapped and registered in a designated Namibian Communal Land Administration System (NCLAS). The information provided by this system will be used during the planning phase where, depending on the complexity of an area, an Integrated Regional Land Use Plan (IRLUP) or initially only a Local Level Participatory Plan (LLPP) will be developed. This will result in the registration of legitimate existing land rights, as mapped and validated in the first step, as well as the registration of “new” land rights which emanate from and are defined in the participatory planning process. These land rights can accrue to individuals as well as to groups of people, and are an important step towards securing the remaining commonage in the interest of more marginalised rural residents, as well as creating a conducive environment for private investments on the land. Planning for, and investments in infrastructure developments, will explore a mix of potential interventions which make provisions for different ownership, management and land use options to stimulate diversification options. Advisory services will strengthen both the planning phase, as well as the optimal utilisation of the infrastructure investments in order foster the integration of rural communities in the mainstream economy.
- Contact:
- Joachim.Knoth, EC
Communications Evidence and Learning (CEL)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 23,900,000
- Implementers
- TRG
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Jan 2023
- Summary:
- The CEL contract—managed by the E3/Land and Urban Office—is a broad, multi-faceted support mechanism available for field Missions and USAID/Washington operating units to buy into for activities through May 2023. CEL can provide short- and long-term technical assistance, analytical services, and field implementation across six primary domains: 1. Evaluations – from simple performance evaluations to complex, rigorous impact evaluations; 2. Research – both primary research and secondary, desk research; 3. Assessments – targeted assessments available from subject matter experts across a wide variety of disciplines; 4. Pilots – limited on-the-ground implementation of field activities to test promising approaches or technologies; 5. Communications and Knowledge Management – strategic communications planning, digital storytelling, website management, and support for knowledge sharing events and webinars; 6. Training – including in-person and online training programs and workshops
- Contact:
- Jeremy Green, USAID
Mozambique
Community - investor partnerships
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 820,000
- Implementers
- FAO, IFAD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Dec 2012
- Summary:
- Assisting the development of new approaches for community-investor partnerships to secure new investment and improve the livelihoods of smallholders.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD, +39 0654592144
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Community Based Integrated Natural Resources Management Project (CBINRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,580,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Amhara National Regional State
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims to enhance the access of poor rural people to natural resources such as land and water, and to introduce improved technologies for agricultural production, mainly through sustainable land management. The project targets the Lake Tana watershed benefiting 450,000 households, it establishes and strengthens community-based organizations involving them in decision making, and promotes off-farm employment opportunities.
On land and natural resource governance, the project supports the Community-Based Resource Management (CBRM) giving communities the lead role in watershed planning and management. It provides support for land administration, certification and registration; and rehabilitation of degraded lands. Motivators for community participation will include training, access to secure land rights, the right to manage and exploit common assets and increased use of indigenous knowledge, practices and institutions for natural resource management. The project ensures also access to land and security of tenure to women heads of households.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Pakistan
Community Development Programme (AJK)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 830,000
- Implementers
- Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2004 Sep 2012
- Summary:
- The purpose of the programme was to expand and improve the well-being of 123,000 poor households, especially those headed by women in the area of Azad Jammu and Kashmir where the lack of agricultural and of employment opportunities have forced much of the male population to migrate. It provided support for the creation of small irrigation schemes to irrigate 3,800 ha using 55 water lifting devices, 55 mini-dams and 85 tube wells; 150 km of rural roads, 20 bridges and 20 footbridges.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme integrated GIS services and computerised maps of land tenure systems into the activities. It helped set up community-based organizations, ensuring broad social participation including women and invested in improving infrastructure and natural resource management increasing income opportunities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Albania
Community forestry
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 5,000,000
- Implementers
- CNVP Connecting Natural Values People
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- Improved decentralized management and better securing property for forest and pasture in target communes;2 improving income generating strategies and opportunities for forest and pasture;3 strenghtening the institutional policy and legal framework for forestry;4 Improving the manamgnet of the Nations communal forest and pasture areas through enahanced capacity and responsiveness of Local Government..
- Contact:
- Janaq Male, CNVP, +355 69 20 53 480
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Community Investor Partnership Project (PROPARCERIA)
- Donors:
- Switzerland,IFAD,Finland
- Funding:
- USD 250,000
- Implementers
- National Directorate for the Promotion of Rural Development
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2010 Sep 2013
- Summary:
- The aim of this grant, which complemented the Rural Markets Promotion Programme (PROMER), was to strengthen land and natural resource tenure security through the piloting of business partnerships between smallholder farmers, rural communities and outside investors. It examined the tools available for establishing and securing land rights in the context of such partnerships and for negotiating and documenting sustainable partnership arrangements, including the award of legal personality to the community groups involved. The project worked with communities that had already been delimited and which wanted to work with investors. In areas where investors interest was high but local rights had not been delimited, the Community Land Initiative and similar projects were used to delimit local rights ahead of a new pilot exercise.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Community Land Use Fund
- Donors:
- Denmark,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 11,038,000
- Implementers
- KPMG
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2006 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- To enhance the capacity to secure land tenure and natural resource rights of local communities in Gaza, Manica and Cabo Delgado provinces under the Land Act and increase the sustainable management and utilisation of these resources for poverty reduction and economic growth.
- Contact:
- Gareth Weir, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Afghanistan
Community Livestock and Agriculture Programme (CLAP)
- Donors:
- FAO,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 860,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL)
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The goal of this project is to increase agricultural and livestock productivity, and improve food security, for almost 170,000 rural households in selected districts of Kabul, Parwan and Logar provinces. The project also aims to reduce gender disparities by increasing the social and economic status of women. To these ends, the project focuses on enhancing productive assets, skills, services, technologies and income opportunities in the targeted households. The target group includes small-scale farmers and livestock-keepers, including landless households; women and female-headed households; and resettled and nomadic Kuchi people.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project supports the settlement of Kuchi people on land allocated by the government, and trains women on land ownership rights.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mexico
Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States (Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca) (DECOFOS)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,140,000
- Implementers
- National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR)
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2009 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the livelihoods and incomes of 18,000 extremely poor forest households in Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca located in the southern states of Mexico. Special attention is given to strengthen the capacity of the communities to better manage their natural resources, enhance conservation practices such as promoting increase of vegetation cover and put in place mechanisms to cope with impact of climate change.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions included territorial planning and the generation of legal documentation giving more land tenure security to the agrarian public through workshops, courses and technical assistance.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bangladesh
Community-based sustainable management of Tanguar Hoar
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- IUCN Bangladesh, others
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2012 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- Decentralized co-management system conserves ecosystem values and services and provides a basis for improving rural livelihoods
- Contact:
Costa Rica,Honduras,Panama,El Salvador
Compensation payments for resource and landscape management conducive to carbon storage
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,330,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Oct 2017
- Summary:
- Central America is the tropical region most severely affected by climate change worldwide. Soil degradation, forest loss and monocultures make it even more vulnerable to climate change. Regional efforts to harmonise climate protection activities and biodiversity goals have so far been unsuccessful. The project will create carbon sinks through forest landscape restoration (FLR) and establish these across the entire region. FLR is seen here as an approach that treats the entire landscape as a whole. The objective of the project is to restore forest resources in a way that is appropriate to the landscape as part of REDD+ in Central America. Therefore, in supporting measures for preserving landscapes (e.g. compensation mechanisms), the different types of use that lead to increased carbon storage must be taken into account and the various user groups (small-scale forest owners) must be involved in designing the mechanisms. The lessons learned, especially with regard to the negotiation process and the implementation of compensation mechanisms related to FLR, will be fed into the international discussion on climate change, particularly into dialogue on REDD+.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
COMPETE
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 1,500,000
- Implementers
- The Asia Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- Component 3 of COMPETE, Expanding the Use of Domestic Credit through Efficient Capital Markets, includes activities related to land tenuring and titling, including: Unleashing dead capital and SME borrowing through land titles; Drafting of Amendment on Land Registration, and determine regulatory constraints in land registration for credit .
- Contact:
- Gil Dy-Liacco, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Uganda
Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 54,000,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- The objective of the project is to improve the competitiveness of enterprises in Uganda by providing support for: (i) the implementation of business environment reforms, including land administration reform; and (ii) the development of priority productive and service sectors. The project will fund the scaling-up of the land reform process. Specifically, it will seek to improve land administration, undertake systematic registration of communal and individually owned land, implement a program of actions for strengthening institutions and mechanisms for land dispute resolution and for strengthening land administration and management institutions.
- Contact:
- Moses Kibirige, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Conflict senisitives ressource and asset Managemnet (COSERAM) I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,740,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2010 Jul 2015
- Summary:
- Capacity building and consultation with focus on "Peace and Secruity"
Philippines
Conflict sensitive Ressource and asset Management (COSERAM) II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 13,200,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Capacity building and consultation with focus on "Peace and Secruity".
- Contact:
- Peter Hauschnik, GIZ
Ethiopia
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Ressources; Biodiversity
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 19,410,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The aim is to provide Ethiopia with consolidated system to protect biodiversity.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Conservation of Biodiversity and Forest Management
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,430,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2016 Aug 2019
- Summary:
- In the peripheral area of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, smallholders are supported in the application of local agricultural production / reforestation systems on 1,000 ha of land secured by modern land titles. The program plans to support smallholders (men and women) in obtaining land titles (customary land titles), including the cadastre of each plot supported through geolocation.
Philippines
Consolidating Indigenous Peoples Forest Corridors through Sustainable Ancestral Domain Management
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,319,000
- Implementers
- Anthrowatch Corporation
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Foster cooperation among indigeneous communities, dvt organisations and local municipalities to help ensure the viability and self-governance of ancestral domains and ultimately towards recogniition on indigeous and community-conserved areas
Benin
Consolidation des acquis et des actions de sécurisation foncière (PCASF)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- MCA Benin
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 May 2015
- Summary:
- The programme consists of three components: 1) Operationalization of the Land Law (including orders of applications, jurisprudence, dissemination, communication); 2) Establishment of an institutional framework (including interdepartmental cooperation and the establishment of the National Agency for land); 3) Rural land plan (continued support for the issuance of certificates).
- Contact:
- , Netherlands Embassy in Cotonou
Cambodia
Contribution to the protection of land rights
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 9,540,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The share of the Cambodian population having a legally protected access to land is socially balanced and has furthermore increased on the base of a spatial overall plan
- Contact:
- Adalbert Eberhardt, GIZ
Cambodia
Contribution to the protection of land rights II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,240,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2014 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- The share of the Cambodian population having a legally protected access to land is socially balanced and has furthermore increased on the base of a spatial overall plan
Core program funding to International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) 2009-2014
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 11,570,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Support for IIED strategy for 2009/10 - 2013/14 which aims at environmental sustainable development addressing four major global trends and challenges: 1) tackling the resource squeeze, 2) demonstrating climate change policies that work for development, 3) helping to build cities that work for people and the planet and 4) shaping responsible market.
Core Support to The International Union for Conservation of the Nature (IUCN) 2013-2016
- Donors:
- Denmark,France,Switzerland,United States,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 6,000,000
- Implementers
- IUCN
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Sidas core support to IUCNs socio-economic and rights-oriented approach to nature conservation in order to integrate the work of communities engaged in biodiversity conservation, nature-based solutions and sustainable development. One of IUCN 3 objectives is "an effective and equitable governance of nature's use by means of improved governance arrangements over natural resources deliver rights-based and equitable conservation with tangible livelihood benefits".
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cote d'Ivoire
Cote d'Ivoire Land Policy Improvement and Implementation Project (P157206)
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 50,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, National Rural Land Agency (AFOR)
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2018 Sep 2023
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective is to build the capacities and institutions necessary to support implementation of the national rural land tenure security program and to register customary land rights in selected rural areas.
- Contact:
- Mercedes Stickler, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bangladesh
Creating Opportunities for the Poor and Excluded in Bangladesh (COPE)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 2,640,000
- Implementers
- Manusher Jonno Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2013 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to work with the most poor and marginalised people in Bangladesh to make them aware of their rights, and provide advice, advocacy support and organisation to claim those rights in practice. The programme empowers the poor and socially excluded, with a particular focus on women and girls, by enabling them to access to basic public services and productive assets to participate in economic development. This includes enforcing land and property rights.
- Contact:
- Mamunur Rahim, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Papua New Guinea
Creating the YUS Conservation Area
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 10,000,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2008 Jun 2013
- Summary:
- Within the framework of this project, the first region to be declared a protected region under Papua New Guinea’s National Conservation Act is to be established as the YUS Conservation Area, encompassing some 76,000 ha. The local population is being directly integrated in the decision-making processes along with sustainable management of the protected area. Other efforts include developing methods for measuring the area’s carbon inventory and investigating what impacts climate change is having on biodiversity in the region.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Kenya,Mali,Niger
Crisis prevention through good governance in the area food security
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,370,000
- Implementers
- KAS, DR Congo: Conseil National des ONG pour le Développement (CNONGD), Sahel-Region: SOS Civisme, Centre Africa Obota
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- Local and national politicians are able to react fast on food shortages.
Albania,Macedonia
Cross-border Biosphere Reserve Prespa
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,046,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The complementary program supports and builds the young cross-border biosphere reserve in the Prespa Ohrid region and promotes the Prespa National Park. It contributes to the protection of biodiversity and to the fight against poverty in the Albanian Prespa region.
Kyrgyzstan
Data for Sustainable Development Goals
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- This is a project where the Norwegian Mapping Authority, SSB and our respective counterparts in Kyrgyzstan will work together in a joint effort to further improve the efficiency of the Kyrgyz institutions, especially in the field of using maps and register information for production and dissemination of statistics. Experience from Norway has shown that both types of organisations gain from working together, and monitoring and reporting on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires cooperation between data owners, producers of maps and producers of statistics.
Background
SRS/DCR has spearheaded major reforms to the land sector in Kyrgyzstan. Impressively, it takes only one day to register a sale or a mortgage. However, there is no solution for distribution of maps via Internet, which is vital for statistical purposes. Maps are currently not easily available and used for preparation of statistics in Kyrgyzstan. Kartverket, SRS and DCR will work closely together with Statistics Norway (SSB) and the National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan (NSC) to integrate geospatial data to serve statistical needs in line with Objective 3.4 of the Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data.
Kyrgyzstan also lacks up-to-date photomaps. The current photomaps in use are made in 2002 and do not show changes that occurred since that time. There is an urgent need for new photomaps that are produced from aerial imagery. Likewise, up-to-date line maps in vector form do not currently exist. Such maps are especially needed for Bishkek.
The project will ensure access to maps via a national Geoportal (to be developed in the project), inter alia, to provide geographic data for statistical purposes. A main goal of the project is to prepare geographic data (maps) needed for production of statistical data supporting implementation and reporting on Sustainable Development Goals for Kyrgyzstan. This project should be considered as a component to a well-coordinated and integrated effort on strengthening the capabilities of Kyrgyz governmental institutions to provide maps and statistical data for sustainable development. The coordinated efforts will also facilitate use of the various registers at the State Registration Service for production of statistics.
Activities
1.Making geographic information available for statistical purposes:
◦Collection of existing maps to support statistics nationwide. Existing maps will be collected, analyzed, upgraded if needed, and stored in a format suitable for distribution online via the geoportal, inter alia, to be used for statistical purposes
◦Development of principles, standards and procedures for data sharing between respective data-holders in Kyrgyzstan.
◦Development of a geoportal for distribution of data. The activity will start with specifying the requirements.
2.Production of photomaps and line maps: ◦Aerial photography and photomap production for 20 000 km2 including Bishkek and surrounding areas, settlements around Issyk-Kul Lake and in Fergana Valley.
◦Preparation of line maps for Bishkek, 150 km2. The line maps will be prepared using the same aerial images as prepared for the photomaps.
◦Quality control of deliverables. All data delivered is subject to quality control, which will be executed by SRS/DCR assisted by Kartverket and with potential support from the State Geodetic Institute in Kyrgyzstan “Goskartographia”.
◦Development of a solution for efficient distribution of photomaps online via the geoportal.
3.Capacity building, public awareness campaign ◦A number of training courses for technical personnel will be held in Norway and Kyrgyzstan, supporting all activities of the project
◦Public awareness campaign will promote the institutional cooperation between Kyrgyz authorities on sharing data and making data available for distribution via the geoportal as well as targeting users of geo-information.
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Poland
Data Model and Database Management System with Spatial Information on Natural Environment for Thematic Mapping of water resources
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 4,857,000
- Implementers
- The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Apr 2017
- Summary:
- Putting into place a National Spatail Data Infrastructure, with special focus on handling of marine data
- Contact:
- Olaf Østensen, The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zambia
Decentralisation for Development !
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 880,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2012 May 2015
- Summary:
- Support for the Zambian government to implement a development-orientated decentralisation.
- Contact:
- Eike Vater, GIZ
Zambia
Decentralisation for Development II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,450,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2015 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Support for the Zambian government to implement a development-orientated decentralisation.
Indonesia
Degraded Land Mapping for Kalimantan and Papua provinces
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 3,476,000
- Implementers
- World Resources Institute
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2012 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to ensure decision makers (in public and private sector) implement policies to support socially equitable oil palm expansion onto low- carbon degraded land and reduce conversion of forested areas. The programme will address critical governance questions around how to grant access to suitable land, how to revoke permits, how to change land status and how to involve local people in decisions where their rights are affected. On-the-ground community mapping will work with local people to evaluate what livelihood options exists in the area, and thus what is the best way to deliver a poverty-reducing forest management approach.
- Contact:
- Irma Handayani, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Namibia
Delivery of Advisory Services for the Communal Land Development Project
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,700,000
- Implementers
- GIZ and Agri Bank Namibia
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The CLDP project is implemented as an integral part of the PCLD and is structured along a series of causally interlinked activities. Existing customary land rights and infrastructure will be mapped and registered in a designated Namibian Communal Land Administration System (NCLAS). The information provided by this system will be used during the planning phase where, depending on the complexity of an area, an Integrated Regional Land Use Plan (IRLUP) or initially only a Local Level Participatory Plan (LLPP) will be developed. This will result in the registration of legitimate existing land rights, as mapped and validated in the first step, as well as the registration of “new” land rights which emanate from and are defined in the participatory planning process. These land rights can accrue to individuals as well as to groups of people, and are an important step towards securing the remaining commonage in the interest of more marginalised rural residents, as well as creating a conducive environment for private investments on the land. Planning for, and investments in infrastructure developments, will explore a mix of potential interventions which make provisions for different ownership, management and land use options to stimulate diversification options. Advisory services will strengthen both the planning phase, as well as the optimal utilisation of the infrastructure investments in order foster the integration of rural communities in the mainstream economy.
- Contact:
- Joachim.Knoth, EC
Uganda
Demoratic Governance Facility,(DGF)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 430,000
- Implementers
- Democratic Governance Facility,(DGF)
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- Component 3/Sub-Component 3: Harnessing Natural Resources for Better Service Delivery and other
development purposes benefiting the citizens.Objective: Ensure that the extractive industry benefits the development of Uganda as a whole.
Outputs 1:Improved accountability and transparency to citizens in natural resource extraction.
- Contact:
- , Democratic Governance Facility
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Developing an effectively managed and resilient network of protected areas in Lesser Sunda Ecoregion
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 970,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jun 2017
- Summary:
- The project supports the development of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs), improved land-use planning on the part of the Indonesian provincial and district governments and effective fisheries management. The objective is to preserve ecosystems along the coastlines of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, already threatened by overfishing, pollution, non-sustainable coastal zone development and climate change. The project is to take stock of the condition of the marine protected area in the Savu Sea, set up monitoring systems, conduct studies into various fishing methods and the resulting by-catch and question relevant actors about the MPA. It also trains decision-makers and other actors on how best to exploit this new data and information. In order to promote sustainable fisheries, the project advises on creating stronger market incentives and formulating appropriate strategies and regulations. This also contributes to food security in the region.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bolivia,Bhutan,Cameroon,Congo, Republic of the,Gambia, The,Guatemala,Honduras,Kenya,Madagascar,Burma,Mongolia,Nepal,Peru,Portugal,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Tanzania,Uganda,Zambia
Development of Commuity based forestry assessment framework for assessing the extent, enabling environment, and effectiveness of participatory forestry regimes
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 180,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- A Community based forestry assessment framework/tool was developed and tested to evaluate the extent, enabling environment including tenure, and effectiveness in order to identify areas for improvement. The framework provides for assessment of a range of tenure regimes providing for participatory forestry in country.
- Contact:
- Safia Aggarwal, FAO
Mongolia
Development of fiscal cadaster system
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 330,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2011 Mar 2013
- Summary:
- Improving the economic and legal conditions, procedures, and instruments for a functioning real estate market.
Guyana
Development of Land Use Planning
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 4,020,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Finance
- Timeframe:
- May 2009 Nov 2013
- Summary:
- The objective is to address environmental sustainability of regional development as well as the need to review planning legislation and improve planning methodologies taking into account the needs of all groups in the community.
Grenada,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Development of National Land Banks for improved Food and Nutrition Security and Land Administration
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 418,000
- Implementers
- Government of Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2017 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The project is aimed at developing National land banks in Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines to promote food and nutrition security and support sustainable management of rural lands, in particular idle and underutilized lands. The project also aims to strengthen the capacity of staff of the Land Administration Divisions in each country to manage and operate the Land Banks, thereby promoting good governance of land tenure in the respective countries. The project will significantly contribute to increasing food production, sustainable land management and rural development in the three countries.
- Contact:
- Aurelie Bres, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ecuador
Development of the Central Corridor Project (Central Corridor)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 455,000
- Implementers
- Fondo Ecuatoriano-Canadiense de Desarrollo (FECD)
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2007 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The goal of the project was to improve the livelihoods of 36,000 poor households, indigenous and peasant communities, women and small-scale entrepreneurs in a strip of territory between the Amazon, the mountains and the coast, in the northern centre of the country. This will be achieved by providing more opportunities for participatory planning and by developing entrepreneurial capacities, managing natural resources.
One of the project's specific objectives is to provide support to beneficiary groups to improve their legal and land tenure situation, taking into account gender dimensions as well as their managerial skills to manage new initiatives and businesses.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
China,Honduras,Mongolia,Portugal,Senegal,Tanzania,Uganda,Vietnam,Zambia
Development of VGGT-based framework for assessing forest tenure; and assessments conducted in several countries
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 10,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- A VGGT based forest tenure assessment framework/tool was developed and tested to evaluate the forest tenure related policies, laws, institutions, and administration in order to identify areas for improvement with respect to the VGGT principles, as well as identify and prioritize actions for strengthening governance of forest tenure in country.
- Contact:
- Safia Aggarwal, FAO
Yemen
Dhamar Development: Dhamar Participatory Rural Development Project
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 385,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2004 Dec 2012
- Summary:
- The goal of the project was to enhance the food security of subsistence farmers, raise family incomes and improve the living conditions and development participation of 26,000 small farm households in Dhamar governorate. To that end, the project intended to empower communities, including women; remove critical physical, infrastructural and social constraints to productivity and advancement; and equip and support farm households to increase their output, thereby enabling them to secure basic food supplies, produce marketable surpluses and pursue income-generating activities.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project intended to rehabilitate grazing lands through a participatory process; it supported irrigation development through the establishment of WUAs.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Montenegro
Digital documents and maps for Real Estate Cadastre in Montenegro
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 493,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Digitalization of documents and maps for part of Podgorica municipality for the property registration system. The Project contains two components:
1.Scanning and archiving of paper maps and documents for a part of Podgorica, Bar, Budva and Kotor municipalities, and
2.Establishing a solution for generating maps in scale 1:50 000 based on existing maps in scale 1:25 000
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Turkey
Digitalisation of land parcel identification system
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 52,662,000
- Implementers
- Service Contracts
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Establish information components of Land parcel identification system that corresponds to EU standards and legislation by creating digital orthophotos and digital geographical database of reference parcel covering the whole Turkey
Gambia, The,Mali,Mauritania,Senegal
Dissemination and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Resonsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in selected countries of West Afr
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 560,000
- Implementers
- Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR)
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to strengthen access and security of tenure by promoting and mainstreaming the principles of the Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests (VGGTs)at the appropriate levels. This is a grant to IPAR. The project supports the dissemination of the VGGTs (national workshops, literacy activities, training), by building national policy dialogue platforms in the selected countries, and supporting the participation of CSOs and Farmers' Organizations in the functioning of the working groups and policy dialogue platforms. It aims at identifying the gaps in terms of the VGGTs-based measures, necessary for the strengthening of the land tenure situation of the smallholders in general, women and youth in particular.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Uganda
District Livelihoods Support Programme (DLSP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,835,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Local Government, and district councils and local governments of 13 districts
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2007 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The programme drawn on the achievements of the District Development Support Programme, scaled up the decentralized development approach in 13 districts (Yumbe, Oyam, Apac, Busia, Bugiri, Mayuge, Luweero, Nakaseke, Masindi, Buliisa, Bundibugyo, Kyenjojo, Kamwenge) targeting landless people, small-scale farmers and fishers, and, in particular, women and youth among 100,000 households. To accelerate decentralization, the programme worked to support local economic development and strengthen the capacity of district governments to foster community development. Activities focus on community mobilization, agriculture and land management, and the development of access roads and water infrastructure.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme supported the implementation of the Land Act in selected sub-counties, taking into account different tenure situations. It implemented the household mentoring approach giving a positive impact on co-spousal registration and women’s land access; and disseminated information through 52 awareness raising events on land tenure rights and training on land tenure and management policies. Through the programme, community-based management institutions were established; individual occupier land certificates were released and community and farm-based management plans for land, soil, water and vegetation conservation were developed.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sri Lanka
Dry Zone Livelihood Support and Partnership Programme (DZLiSPP)
- Donors:
- Japan,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 750,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2005 Mar 2013
- Summary:
- The programme intended to improve the incomes and the living conditions of poor women and poor men among 80,000 households in the dry provinces Ha Tinh and Quang Binh by giving support to rain-fed upland agricultural and livestock development through farmer field schools; small-scale irrigation rehabilitation; marketing and enterprise development; microfinance and income-generating activities; community infrastructure development and programme management.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme identified problems relating land tenure insecurity issues and thus engaged in the policy dialogues on key land tenure issues and undertook capacity building and awareness raising activities. It supported the assessment of local level problems relating to land tenure in each of the programmes districts and provided technical assistance to identify and assess appropriate targeted interventions.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Eastern Selous community wildlife & natural resources management project
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 1,960,000
- Implementers
- BTC
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2004 Jun 2013
Bangladesh
Economic Empowerment for the Poorest
- Donors:
- Switzerland,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- ECORYS-led consortium of UK and Bangladesh organisations
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2008 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- To improve the livelihoods of 750,000 very poor people, particularly women and children, by increasing their economic well-being.
On land, the programme supports poor households access khas land (public land earmarked for redistribution to poor households).
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Economic Growth Hubs, Infrastructure and Competitiveness Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 6,600,000
- Implementers
- The Asia Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The Economic Growth Hubs project worked with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Land Management Bureau, and Local Government Units (LGUs) to assist in passage of the Law on Residential Free Patents which lead to a more than ten-fold increase in the numbers of land titles issued to Philippine citizens nationwide.
- Contact:
- Gil Dy-Liacco, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bolivia
Economic Inclusion Programme for Families and Rural Communities in the Territory of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (ACCESOS)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Regional administrations of Debub and Gash Barka
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2013 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- The programme aims to strengthen the capacities of communal and territorial landholders, among 43,000 households, and autonomous local governments, supporting the community-based implementation of farming systems adapted to the widely varying conditions of high plateaux, inter-Andean valleys and some lowland areas, including La Paz, Oruro and Potosí, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Tarija, and Santa Cruz, Beni and Pando.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to facilitate and co-finance the formulation of territorial- or community-level natural resource management plans that identify areas of use and conservation, areas at risk, conflicts, family rights within the collective title. Land activities include also participatory mapping and capacity building to encourage the development of pilot initiatives of community self-management of property rights.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Colombia
Economic integration of internally displaced people and receiving communities in Norte de Santander
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,220,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- IDPs and receiving communities are able to overcome individual, social and economic obstructions regarding the creation of incomes.
Georgia
Economic Prosperity Initiative (EPI) (Land Registration is a minor component under EPI)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 990,000
- Implementers
- Deloitte Consulting LLC
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- USAID’s Economic Prosperity Initiative (EPI) supported a working group to develop the Land Registration Strategy and Action Plan. The draft strategy addresses the need to establish policies that deal effectively with all types of owners who received land as part of the original land privatization process. The action plan defines the program governance structure, sets the implementation timeline and phases, identifies necessary human and technical resources and outlines the overall budget (about $34 million) to complete the land reform/registration. The leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture has already reviewed the drafts. As a next step, the Minister of Agriculture plans to make a presentation of the action plan to the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development and Minister of Justice in late September, and then to the Prime Minister for final approval. During the upcoming quarter, EPI will conduct additional outreach with the donor community, where EPI already identified preliminary resources by the World Bank and the EU to contribute toward the land reform initiative. EPI will also support the Ministry of Agriculture to conduct outreach with NGOs.
- Contact:
- Keti Chogovadze, USAID
Pakistan
Economic Transformation Initiative in Gilgit Baltistan (ETI-GB)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,600,000
- Implementers
- Planning & Development Department, GoGB
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2015 Sep 2022
- Summary:
- The programme aims to increase agricultural incomes therefore reduce poverty and malnutrition for at least 100,000 households in rural areas of Gligitn Baltistan region. It will focus on improving agricultural production by introducing high-value cash crops, linking farmers to markets and developing and improving infrastructure including for irrigation schemes and rural roads.
Regarding land and natural resource governance the initiative will focus on supporting the equitable allocation of irrigated land to women-headed households and supporting the systematic registration and issuing of 800,000 land titles for newly developed irrigated land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Costa Rica,Guatemala,Honduras
Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Ecosystem and Natural Resource-dependent Smallholder Farming Communities in Central America
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,000,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2012 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- CI (Conservation International) and CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Costa Rica) propose to assess vulnerability to climate change in ecosystems whose resources support smallholder farming communities in Central America and to develop and test strategies for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) to help highly vulnerable farming communities cope with climate change.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan
Ecosystem-based land use and preservation of biodiversity through forest protection and reforestation measures in lower Amu Darya
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 670,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- Central Asia is a region that is facing increasing problems in ensuring water supplies for ecosystems, agriculture and the population. Because of the melting glaciers and changes in the runoff regime, a decline in seasonal water availability and thus irrigated land is expected, leading to massive economic impacts. The project is working on the reforestation and planting of wasteland as an adaptation strategy as well as the protection and management of natural forests and biodiversity. It is generating greater readiness for introducing and disseminating ecosystem-based land-use and land-protection strategies from the local to the national level.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ecuador
Ecuador Sustainable Forests and Coasts
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Chemonics
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Ecuador Sustainable Forests and Coasts project aims to improve income for local communities, the project helps increase their productivity and the sale of products that depend on conservation (such as organic cocoa, vegetable ivory nuts, and crabmeat). For example: helping communities meet requirements for accessing financial incentives for conservation, such as the Forest Partner Program of the Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador (MAE), which provides cash payments over 20 years for the conservation of natural forests. To access the Forest Partner Program, assistance is given for conservation area zoning and measurement, the participatory development of an investment plan for incentives, and land titling.
- Contact:
- Rocío Cedeño, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Armenia
Efficient property registration and mapping services for Armenia
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,429,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Dec 2012
- Summary:
- The project objective is objective is the establishment of uniform property registration and mapping systems in Armenia, and to contribute to economic growth through ensuring accurate and reliable information for private and public sectors. This involved procurement of 12 reference stations and laser scanning and orthophotos for 13,000 km2.
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Niger
Emergency Food Security and Rural Development Programme (EFSRDP / PUSADER)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,510,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2011 Mar 2014
- Summary:
- The aim of the programme was to support the improvement of food security of approximately 121,000 households in the most food-insecure rural areas in the regions of Tahoua, Maradi and Tillabery, by restoring and developing their production capacity. The programme gives special attention to poor farmer and herder households that are highly exposed to recurrent food and livestock crises in the three targeted regions by developing and re-vegetating 400 ha of land and creating two grazing paths of about 90 km in the department of Aguié in the Maradi region. The programme supported the development of two pastoral areas of 300 ha in the department of Madarounfa (Maradi region) and the rehabilitation of 3000 ha of degraded lands.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions provided support for negotiations of social agreements by which the owners were willing to allocate parcels to the most vulnerable groups. In the Maradi region this type of land agreements allow women's access to arable land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Emergency Food Security and Social Protection Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 10,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2014 Feb 2018
- Summary:
- This overall objective is to strengthen the immediate capacity to respond effectively to the food security and locust crises. The project will facilitate rapid and low-cost transfer of legal land rights to farming households, and provide technical assistance over 36 months to maintain essential capacity for monitoring land policy implementation, such as the collection of nationwide data on Communal Land Offices and National State Land Administration Services, maintenance of the Land Observatory’s website, and the continued publication of data and periodic information sheets.
- Contact:
- Ziva Razafintsalama, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Empowering Indigenous People for inclusive Development
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 358,000
- Implementers
- Kindernothilfe
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Assist IP communities in rebuilding and empowering the community, and organise them into a federation , to defend their rights as well as a development agenda at local level. Improved access to land will be achieved via the definition of ancestral domains and by assisting them in formalising land claims. another composant of the project regards self sufficiency, livelihood promotion, savings mobilisation and financial discipline, marketing and training in enterprise management.
END POVERTY
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 150,000
- Implementers
- END POVERTY
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Through N/Core’s incubation program, nonprofit startups working on issues related to poverty alleviation in India have the opportunity to receive mentoring, funding, and access to a vast network. With funding from Omidyar Network, N/Core is launching a new track for organizations focused on land, housing and property rights as a separate vertical.
Swaziland
Enhanced capacity for sustainable land administration and management at national, regional and chiefdom level
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,903,000
- Implementers
- Surveyor General Office, Swaziland
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 May 2017
- Summary:
- With the overall objective of improving tenure security and access to land, thereby promoting food security, the project will support the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to update the cadastre and make it widely accessible and utilised. This will form the basis of defining the 385 chiefdom boundaries in Swaziland. At the same time, two Tinkhundla (administrative and political territorial subdivision) will be selected to pilot a system of formalised documenting of land allocation that will improve the security of tenure for the land holder. Finally, the project will look to create awareness and acceptance of the role that the Land Management Board will play in a streamlined sustainable land management system.
- Contact:
- Lynn Kota
Bolivia,Ecuador,Peru
Enhanced land governance in peasant and indigenous communities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru: promoting the right to land and land access
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,232,000
- Implementers
- Welthungerhilfe
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Improved land and resource governance through the application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) in rural and indigenous communities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
Uganda
Enhancing civic participation in land governance and ressource management
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 375,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2013
Kenya
Enhancing Customary Justice Systems in the Mau Forest, Kenya (Justice Project)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 250,000
- Implementers
- Landesa
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The completed Kenya Justice Project piloted an approach for improving women’s access to customary justice, particularly related to women’s land rights, by enhancing the customary justice system in one target area. The work also resulted in a clearer understanding of the relationships between customary and statutory institutions and laws, and the development of a model to promote the integration of informal and formal justice systems.
This follow-on project seeks to share the Kenya Justice Project approach as well as results and lessons learned from the Project evaluation to explore opportunities and support for broader sustainable application throughout Kenya, particularly focused on formalizing and institutionalizing linkages and processes between the formal and informal justice sectors, consistent with Article 159 of Kenya’s Constitution.
- Contact:
- Achieng Akumu, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cambodia
Ensuring the rights of local land titles to secure the livelihood of indigenous peoples in the province of Ratanakiri
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 700,000
- Implementers
- Welthungerhilfe
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2016 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- Indigenous residents in Ratanakiri can assert their rights to municipal land titles and implementation of a sustainable land use in order to reduce food security.
Serbia
Environmental infrastructure support to the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,990,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Developing capacity of Department for Project Management for identification, preparation and monitoring of environmental infrastructure projects. The overall objective of the programme is to improve the standard of environmental protection in Serbia and further the country's progress towards European integration.
Brazil
Environmental regulation in Brazil (CAR) I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 440,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2014 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Coherent implementation of environmental regulation instruments (environmental register, -programms and -projects)
Brazil
Environmental regulation in Brazil (CAR) II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 780,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Feb 2020
- Summary:
- Coherent implementation of environmental regulation instruments (environmental register, -programms and -projects)
- Contact:
- Anselm Duchrow, GIZ
- Website:
- Project weblink
Albania
Environmental Services Project
- Donors:
- World Bank,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 23,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Environment
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- The development objective of the Environmental Services Project (ESP) for Albania is to support sustainable land management practices and increase communities' monetary and non-monetary benefits in targeted project areas which are mainly in erosion prone rural upland areas.
- Contact:
- Drita Dade, World Bank Tirana, +355 4 2280650
- Website:
- Project weblink
Djibouti,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Kenya,Sudan,South Sudan
ESBDP: Multi donor support to the eco-system based development programs, Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre & Network (HoA-REC&N)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 24,840,000
- Implementers
- Addis Ababa University's Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre & Network (HoA-REC&N)
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2006 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Support the Centre and Network in improving environmental governance, halt environmental destruction and rehabilitate damaged ecosystems where possible.
- Contact:
- , Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N), +251 (0)611 55 02 26
- Website:
- Project weblink
Serbia
Establishment of a new real estate cadastre system for Serbia
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 554,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Specification of a new IT system for cadastral registration, piloting data migration
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Ethiopia
Establishment of the Institute of Land Administration (ILA) at the Bahir Dar University - phase II
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 4,170,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Establishment of the first institute for land administration in Ethiopia, at the Bahir Dar University, Institute for land administration
Azerbaijan
EU Twinning LMV aze phase 1 & 2
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 100,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Support to the State Committee for Land and Cartography of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the field of establishment of the modern registration system of the state land cadastre information through improvement of rules of land evaluation and economic assessment of land in accordance to the EU evaluation standards
Ghana
EU-FAO Land Governance Programme
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 1,900,000
- Implementers
- Environmental Justice Foundation (Coordinator International), Hen Mpoana (Ghanaian environmental NGO)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- The project is working with coastal communities engaging in the clams fisheries by using an Open-Source Software such as Solutions for Open Land Administration (SOLA) & Open Tenure as an enabling technology to help protect tenure rights for the implementation of the VGGT.
- Contact:
- Maria Paola Rizzo, FAO
Paraguay
Evaluation of the possibility to implement the VGGT in Paraguay
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 90,000
- Implementers
- Paraguay Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Project to support the use and the implementation of the VGGT in Paraguay through a process of raising awareness and capacity development. The project will assist the establishment of an intersectoral committee.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Evaluation, Research, and Communication (ERC)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 20,800,000
- Implementers
- Cloudburst Consulting Group
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The purpose of the Evaluation, Research and Communications (ERC) project is to create, expand, and communicate the results of evidence-based knowledge around best land tenure and property rights practices in order to enhance internal USAID and external USG learning, guide program design and implementation, and make the most effective use of limited development resources to accomplish key USG development objectives. Activities will support achievement of intermediate result 1.2 under Strategic Objective 1 of the Climate Change and Development Strategy, which notes USAID support for “ensuring the rights and engagement of local and indigenous communities” in conjunction with a focus on improving tools and capacity for land-use planning to reduce deforestation. ERC will also support biodiversity conservation through collection and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge on how secure land tenure and property rights can incentivize sustainable land use and protection of valuable ecosystems including the forest, water and wildlife within them. Work conducted under ERC should adopt a multidisciplinary approach to learning that aligns with USAID’s Evaluation and Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policies and that communicates results of evaluation and research using innovative, creative methods that target key audiences. This work will also contribute to USAID Forward.
- Contact:
- Sarah Lowery, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Laos,Vietnam
Exploring mechanisms to promote high biodiversity REDD
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,400,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2010 Nov 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to make biodiversity a key criterion of the REDD+ debate. To that end, it is carrying out a measure in Viet Nam, where it is working to make the criterion of biodiversity an integral element of the national REDD+ strategy and is designing a biodiversity monitoring system. This system will be tested in Vietnamese communities. At international level, the project will conduct groundbreaking work on policy options and will contribute the experience gathered in Viet Nam to the international discourse.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bolivia
Extension to National Forestry Action Plan 2009-2011
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 5,430,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Improving forestry management in order for social groups to better control forestry resources, promoting local initiatives and the poorest part of population by means of redistributive forestry economy, reduce risks for climate change, strengthening public institutions.
Niger
Family Farming Development Programme in Maradi, Tohoua and Zinder Regions (PRODAF)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 13,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2015 Sep 2023
- Summary:
- The programme aims to help sustainably guarantee food and nutrition security and rural households' resilience to crises in the Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder regions. It aims to increase the income of 290,000 farmer households, their resilience to external shocks, including climate change, and their access to local, urban and regional markets. Sustainable land and watershed management practices will improve water infiltration in the aquifer, reduce erosion and silting, and will thus help to mitigate the constraints and effects of climate change in watershed areas. Activities address the recovery of 10,450 ha of degraded land and 7000 ha of watershed areas, the fixation of dunes around the basins on about 2000 ha and the development of 2500 ha of silvo-pastoral area. Further it is planned to develop a small-scale irrigation system on 5000 ha land.
With regard to natural resource governance, the programme will support the wide dissemination of the existing legislation, the assessment of the land tenure situation before and after programme interventions, the negotiation of sustainable management methods for the developed land and the formation or revitalization of community organizations. These activities will enhanced through the continuous support to Niger's Rural Code and to land commissions at different levels.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ghana
Far Ban Bo - protecting fisheries livelihood
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 4,400,000
- Implementers
- Friends of the Nation, Oxfam GB, Environmental Justice Foundation, Hen Mpoano
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jan 2021
- Summary:
- Empower coastal communities (women and marginalised people in particular)to articulate and voice their interests in tenure rights processes, to promote transparancy in the management of the fishery sector and to provide alternative livelihood options to fishers and processors affected by capacity reduction efforts.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Serbia
Financial System Development - Rural Area, Phase III
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,845,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Sep 2023
- Summary:
- The FC projects "Financial System Development- Rural Areas" Phase III and IV aim to support the emerging structural change in rural areas in Serbia through a sustained improvement in the supply of financial services.
Kenya
FNF contribution to the Special Initiative One World - No Hunger I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 276,000
- Implementers
- Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Small-scale farmers and rural societies are aware of their property rights and are able to use them to increase their income and the food security.
Cote d'Ivoire,Kenya
FNF contribution to the Special Initiative One World - No Hunger II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,630,000
- Implementers
- Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- Small-scale farmers and rural societies are aware of their property rights and are able to use them to increase their income and the food security.
Kenya
FNF contribution to the Special Initiative One World - No Hunger III
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,260,000
- Implementers
- Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- Small-scale farmers, the agrarian economy and other interest groups will be connected beyond their counties, to develop innovative technologies and market chances, to increase the production and the food security.
Liberia
Food and Enterprise Development (FED)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 100,000
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- FED will analyze the impact of tenure on beneficiaries’ investment decisions and access, and will conduct a land use planning survey in targeted areas, as part of its support to the development of rice, cassava, vegetable and goat value chains in Liberia.
- Contact:
- Alexis Jones, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
South Sudan
Food Security and Agricultural Development
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,660,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2017 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- Support to agro pastoral mediation through accompanying measures like providing water access to herds, while securing fields.
Niger
Food Security and Development Support Project in the Maradi Region (PASADEM)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,630,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2012 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the living conditions and resilience of smallholder households in the Maradi region through economic development based on the marketing of cereals, market-garden produce and livestock. It is to be implemented in 18 communes in farming and agro-pastoral areas, benefiting 65,000 households, primarily women and young people.
On land and natural resources, the project provides support for the recovery and development of pasture land and natural forests, by developing 4800 ha of watersheds and 4000 ha of pasture and natural forests. It further strengthens community groups dealing with land tenure security, and land commissions (COFO) at departmental, municipal and village level.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zambia
Food Security Research Program III
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 11,500,000
- Implementers
- Michigan State University (MSU)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Agricultural productivity of most staple crops has been stagnant, in part due to Government of the Republic of Zambia’s (GRZ) agriculture policies that exacerbate the challenges and focus on maize-centric subsides to the exclusion and detriment of other crops. The Food Security Research Project focuses on sustainable agricultural policy reform and capacity building. FSRP builds capacity among agricultural sector planners to achieve improved policy making through applied agricultural economic research, policy analysis, outreach, and dialogue. The current emphasis is to indigenize the capacity by supporting and strengthening local Zambian institutions, recently helping establish the Zambia Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI). FSRP has supported and built capacity with the Zambia Government to develop and implement the CAADP Compact to collect and analyze agricultural data, including information on incomes, yields, diversification, land tenure, use of natural resources, household decision making, and other information. They provide outreach and communication to stakeholders for discussion and input.
- Contact:
- Anna Toness, USAID
Philippines
Forest and climate protection on Panay
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2010 May 2014
- Summary:
- The project is seeking to protect this continuous expanse of forest and its endangered species. A further aim is to improve land use planning and put in place appropriate forestry and agroforestry practices to ensure sustainable use of natural resources in the areas bordering the forest. It is setting up an alliance of provinces and local authorities affected, designating critical habitats wherever possible across the entire forest area under the decentralised land-use planning process and then further developing them. In conjunction with local authorities, the project plans measures and ensures they are incorporated into their annual budgets. It is also establishing an ecologically sound agroforestry system in the buffer zone, driving forward largescale reforestation and working towards supplying local households with renewable, sustainably produced raw materials to generate energy.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Gambia, The,Guatemala,Liberia,Burma,Nicaragua,Nepal
Forest Farm Facility
- Donors:
- Germany,World Bank,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The Forest&Farm Facility is a mechanism for funding and capacity building to stimulate and strengthen farmers organizations and active multi-stakeholder participation in forest and farm-related policy dialogues. A development of the former NFP-Facility and Growing Forest Partnerships, it's more oriented towards cross-sectoral cooperation, local rights holders, gender equity and income creation.
- Website:
- Project weblink
China,Cote d'Ivoire,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Congo, Republic of the,Ghana,Guyana,Honduras,Indonesia,Liberia,Burma,Vietnam
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- FAO, WRI, KPMG, IUCN Nederlands Comitè, Internationakl Procurement Agency, FCO, Coffey International, Itad, Crown Agents, Palladium International, UN Forum on Forests, Global Witness, GIZ, Well Grounded, University of Wolverhampton, The European Timber Trade Federation, Rights and Resources Institute, Proforest, LTS International, International Institute for Environment and Development, Global Canopy, Forestry Commission of Ghana, Forest Trends, Forest Peoples Programme, Fern, European Forest Institute, Environmental Investigation Agency, ClientEarth, Chatham House, Centre for International Forestry Research
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2011 Apr 2023
- Summary:
- A global programme that benefits poor forest-dependent people by supporting governance and market reforms aimed at reducing the illegal use of forest resources and promoting sustainable growth in developing countries. One of its main intended outcomes is to supports adopting and implementing pro-poor land tenure reforms at national level
- Contact:
- Julia Gibson, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Forest Land Use and Governance in Indonesia
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 33,700,000
- Implementers
- The Asia Foundation (TAF), Crown Agents, IBRD, Yayasan Strategi Konservasi Indonesia, Yayasan KEHATI, World Business Councilc for Sustainable Development, Perkumpulan untuk Pembaharuan Hukum Berbasis Masyarakat dan Ekologis, Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund.
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2015 Sep 2020
- Summary:
- The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Forest policy development in Tanzania
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 127,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- The project is supporting the development of a new forest policy in Tanzania. As part of the process, the project supported a VGGT based forest tenure assessment, a community based forestry (CBF) assessment, and a forest and food security/nutrition assessment. Findings and recommendations from these assessments are informing the drafting of the new forest policy.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Forest protection and the management of natural resources in Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,373,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Oct 2017
- Summary:
- The purpose of the project is to conserve natural resources in Peru's Manu Biosphere Reserve, home to a unique and rich biological diversity. To this end, it assists the local population in managing natural resources. Measures include: utilisation agreements, development and dissemination of environmentally sound resource utilisation methods, reduction of human-wildlife conflict (for instance by setting up a hotline, building fences and conducting an environmental education campaign on the ecological function of wildlife) and delivering training for improved management of the Biosphere Reserve with increased codetermination by the representatives of local and indigenous groups. By preventing deforestation and supporting the natural regeneration of degraded areas, the project also contributes to climate change mitigation.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cameroon
Forest sector combi-financing III (Climate protection - REDD)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,230,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2017 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The objectives are the sustainable management of forests and fauna, the reduction of resource degradation and the decline of carbon emissions in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the ecological, economic and social functions of Cameroon's forest ecosystems.
Vietnam
Forest Sector Development Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2004 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The project objective is to achieve sustainable management of plantation forests and the conservation of biodiversity in special use forests. This objective will be attained by improving the environment for sustainable forestry development and biodiversity conservation, providing attractive packages to mainly poor farming households to plant trees on a sustainable basis for generating additional income and employment, providing small competitive grants for effectively managing priority special use forests of international importance, and enhancing capacity in regional, provincial, district-levels, and site-levels to provide needed support services and to monitor and evaluate impact and outcomes.
On land tenure specifically, the project will support the actual allocation process and the issuance of Land Use Right Certificates (LUCs) for plantation forest establishement purposes. Activities will include: (i) preparing a proposal on the process by each district for the approval o f the province and PPMU,(ii) surveying and mapping,(iii) arranging for public display o f the results of the survey and mapping,(iv) preparation of LUCs, and (v) approval o f the LUCs by District People’s Committee and distribution of LUCs to households.
- Contact:
- Robert Ragland Davis, World Bank, 856-21-266-229
Cameroon
Forest sector financing II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,460,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2017 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The objectives are the sustainable management of forests and fauna, the reduction of resource degradation and carbon emissions in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the ecological, economic and social functions of Cameroon's forest ecosystems.
Mali
Fostering Agricultural Productivity Project in Mali (PAPAM)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 5,935,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2011 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase the productivity of smallholder agricultural and agribusiness producers among 60,000 households in the targeted production systems (irrigated rice and vegetables, rain-fed cereals, cowpea, fodder, livestock), covering five regions: Mopti, Segou, Sikasso, Kayes and Bamako/Koulikoro. the project supports the development of infrastructure with a focus on water management, which will contribute to the development of 1,500 ha of new small-scale village gravity-fed irrigation systems and to the development of 3,100 ha of lowland along a sustainable practice of collecting water.
On land and natural resource governance, the project proposes a series of options for land tenure and technical and financial opportunities for farmers who will move to the newly created areas to encourage them to invest and increase their contribution to the construction costs.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Fostering Good Land Governance for Inclusive Agricultural Development in Tanzania
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,107,000
- Implementers
- ILC
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2016 Mar 2020
- Summary:
- The project’s objectives include: (i) Ensuring that land governance decisions respond to multi-stakeholder dialogue, inclusivity demands and independent monitoring of agricultural investments by non-state actors; and (ii) Strengthening the capacity of the Government, CSOs and communities to demand and undertake inclusive village land-use planning and grazing-land registration.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
India
Foundation for Ecological Security
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 8,100,000
- Implementers
- 7. Foundation for ecological security
- Timeframe:
- May 2010 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) enables people in rural India to access legal rights to share, self-govern, and conserve common land. FES is the largest organization focused on securing equal rights to common land (“the commons”) for India’s rural poor.
The organization represents landless communities and organizes long-term secure tenure to common land. By establishing formalized rights and using a bottom-up approach to resource management, FES ensures that the commons are governed to support individual livelihoods as well as environmental sustainability.
FES’s programs take a holistic approach to resource management that includes legal rights and financial resources for individuals. They also focus on strengthening village institutions and improving the productivity and long-term sustainability of natural resources.
Philippines
Fund For Experts and Studies
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 140,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Feb 2017
- Summary:
- Establish a training course in land use planning at University of the Philippines, Visayas
Philippines
Fund for Studies and Experts IF-LPP
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 410,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Aug 2015
- Summary:
- Strengthening of the association League of Provinces of the Phillipines (LPP)in their strategical approach to represent the interests of their members.
Future of Property Rights Program
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 977,000
- Implementers
- NEW AMERICA
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- New America is a policy and research think tank devoted to generating bold ideas into templates for change. New America develops, tests, and scales innovations that provide solutions to public problems. The innovations are then generated to national and global network of public, private, and civic partners.
Omidyar Network has funded New America to develop a Future of Property Rights (FPR) program. FPR will identify promising technological and policy innovations that can be applied to property rights, and will work to influence governments, technology providers, international development professionals, and others to deploy them.
- Contact:
- PETER RABLEY
Sudan
Gash Sustainable Livelihoods Regeneration Project (GASH)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Finance and National Economy
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2004 Sep 2012
- Summary:
- The project intended to regenerate the livelihoods of 67,000 poor households in and around the Gash Delta, compatible with the efficient and sustainable use of the land and water resources and based upon a shared vision of development and the stability of the related institutional arrangements. The purpose of the project was to ensure the efficient, equitable and sustainable operation of the Gash Agricultural Scheme and the integration of the scheme into the local economy.
On land and natural resource governance, the project supported the Land Reform and the redistribution of land. Furthermore it supported the voluntary organization of farmers into legally recognized WUAs, with which the Gash Agricultural Scheme entered into service provision contracts for the delivery of water at the masga or sub-masga level (unit within an irrigation block).
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
West Bank / Gaza
Gaza Participatory Spatial Planning Support Programme (UN Habitat)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 687,000
- Implementers
- UN HABITAT
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2015 Oct 2018
- Summary:
- Participatory planning will be tested in 5 municipalities and 10 neighborhoods of the Gaza strip by acknowledging that a human rights based approach to planning legitimizes the interests of marginalized groups. This intervention aims at fostering a more sustainable urban environment in context of continuous demographic growth, while contributing to overall reconstruction efforts after recurrent armed conflicts, and several years of full blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Macedonia
Geographic data for flood risk management
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,600,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2017 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- This project focuses on preparing a digital terrain model (DTM) for the entire territory of the Republic of Macedonia using LiDAR scanning from an airplane. The data created will be particularly useful for flood risk mitigation, flood monitoring and for actions during flood situations, but also for reducing costs of infrastructure projects, enhancing environmental protection and monitoring and spatial planning.
LiDAR surveying provides high accuracy Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, which allows capture of the bare earth structure that satellites cannot see, as well as ground cover in enough detail to allow vegetation categorization and change monitoring. The resolution and positional accuracy of LiDAR means it can be used to capture and measure above-ground features over large areas including power lines, building outlines and towers.
Activities
1.LiDar survey of the entire Republic of Macedonia and production of a precise DEM
2.Capacity building at AREC
3.Engaging stakeholders to utilise the new DEM and LiDAR data through workshops and seminars
- Contact:
- Zeljka Jakir, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Montenegro
Geographic information for development and EU integration
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Production of LIDAR and orthophotos for preparation of new maps for Montenegro for planning and development domestically and also for participation in the European Union program for data sharing and integration (INSPIRE Directive); establishment of a document management system.
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Albania
Geographic information for development and European integration
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,590,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Support to the establishment of a first National Mapping Agency for Albania , as justified in the national strategy for development and European integration.
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Romania
Geographic information for environment, climate change and EU integration (LAKI II)
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 10,832,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Apr 2017
- Summary:
- The project has the general objective of increasing the capacity of ANCPI in the implementation of the EU Directive on the harmonization and sharing of geographic information domestically and internationally and will be implemented in partnership with the Norwegian Mapping Authority and Registers Iceland.
Thus, the main activities of the project comprise the production of a detailed terrain model through scanning by LIDAR system, new maps and orthophotos for approximately 50,000 km2 of Romania's surface area, the developing of a comprehensive database allowing the efficient access to information needed for specific areas, providing the necessary equipment for the safe storage and effective sharing of geographic data and capacity building for ANCPI, knowledge transfer and staff training in the production and management of specific geographical information.
- Contact:
- Jon Arne Trollvik, Norwegian Mapping Authority, +47 9076 2974
- Website:
- Project weblink
Romania
Geographic information for environment, climate change and EU integration – LAKI III
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 5,700,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The main purpose of the project is to prepare geographic information for environmentally sensitive areas of Romania, as needed for environmental monitoring and reporting, for dealing with effects of climate change, for integrated planning and for implementation of the EU Directive on harmonization and exchange of geographic information domestically and across national borders and for climate related disaster preparedness and mitigation.
Background
The LAKI II project approved for EEA funding 2009 -2014 focused on production of maps and photomaps, as well as on establishment of detailed terrain model using laser scanning, for about 50 000 km2. This project (LAKI III) will focus on preparation of a digital terrain model for larger parts of Romania related to prevention and mitigation of floods. Due to limited financial resources NACLR does not have a digital terrain model of high/average precision, required to achieve cartography, topography, geodesy, photogrammetry and remote sensing in the entire country.
The overall objective is to enhance the capacity of NACRL to prepare geographic information needed for environmental monitoring and reporting, for dealing with effects of climate change, for integrated planning and for implementation of the EU Directive on harmonization and exchange of geographic information domestically and across national borders. New data for significant parts of the country will be produced, including environmentally sensitive areas and flood risk areas. The project will improve public access to geographic data via Internet, inter alia, to support the implementation of development and environmental policies.
Activities
1.Preparation of Digital Terrain Model for climate related disaster preparedness and mitigation through Laser scanning of 50000 sq.km:
2.Procurement of a solution for safe storage and efficient distribution of terrain data;
3.Publicity campaign and activities to strengthen the bilateral co-operation;
4.Capacity building, transfer of knowledge and training
- Contact:
- Jon Arne Trollvik, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Mali
Gestion Décentralisée des Forêts (GEDEFOR)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 13,000,000
- Implementers
- Direction Nationale des Eaux et Forets (DNEF)/Forest Department of Mali
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2009 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Support through the Mali Forest Department DNEF to decentralization in the forestry sector, small-scale enterprise development, climate change adaptation and institutional reform. Support during 2014-2016 is currently (March 2014) under negotiation.
- Contact:
- Mamby Fofana, Embassy of Sweden, Bamako
Ghana
Ghana Commercial Agriculture
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2012 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- The project objective is to increase access to land, private sector finance, input and output markets by smallholder farms from private-public partnerships in commercial agriculture in Accra Plains and SADA zone.
On land, the project will support the allocation of State and Customary land for Agribusiness and smallholders. Related activities include: establishing a mechanism for matching interested communities with available land to interested investors (State land acquisition will not be supported under the project); supporting the development of a ‘model lease agreement'; developing land rights/land use inventory to carefully ascertain the existing rights in a proposed area; addressing legal ambiguities or disputes affecting targeted land.
- Contact:
- Johannes Georges Pius Jansen, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ghana
Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- Not applicable (Project Implementation Unit)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP), which is supported by USAID and the World Bank, has four components: (1) Strengthening investment promotion infrastructure, facilitating secure access to land. This component promotes a secure investment climate that clarifies and strengthens the rights and obligations of investors, government and affected communities, and support an improved mechanism for facilitating access to land by reducing the search costs to potential investors through an expansion of a database of land suitable and available for investors and by building on nascent mechanisms for actively matching potential investors with suitable land owners. (2) Securing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and small-holder linkages in the Accra Plains. This component will conclude one or two transactions for PPPs in an irrigation investment in the Accra Plains. (3) Securing PPPs and small-holder linkages in the SADA Zone. This component involves support to the identification and realization of private investments in inclusive commercial agricultural arrangements in the agricultural value chain through PPPs, complementary public investments, and technical assistance concentrated in the SADA zone. (4) Project management, monitoring and evaluation. This component finances the operations of the project implementing agencies.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Global Land Tool Network Phase 2
- Donors:
- FAO,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden,IFAD,Norway,UN-Habitat
- Funding:
- USD 33,000,000
- Implementers
- GLTN partners
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) was established in 2006 and brings together over 70 international institutions to promote secure land and property rights for all, through the development of pro-poor and gender-appropriate land tools. The goal of GLTN Phase 2 programme is to ensure that “international organizations, UN-Habitat staff and related land programmes/projects and targeted national and local governments are better able to improve tenure security of the urban and rural poor”. Phase 2 builds on the success of Phase 1 that ended in 2011. Phase 2 of the GLTN emphasizes prioritizing, pilot-testing and rolling out priority land tools and approaches at country level; integrating capacity development and training in tool development processes; implementing capacity development programmes and supporting tool implementation in targeted countries and/ or cities / municipalities; supporting advocacy and knowledge management efforts; and mainstreaming gender equality, youth responsiveness, human rights and grassroots engagement in land work.
- Contact:
- Oumar Sylla, UN-Habitat, +254 20 7623574
Liberia,Mozambique,Uganda
Global Legal Empowerment Initiative
- Donors:
- United Kingdom,World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) within the Open Society Institute, Namati
- Timeframe:
- May 2011 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- Aims to build a stronger evidence base of what works and why in promoting the legal empowerment of the poor, including community land rights. This will facilitate a better understanding of the most effective mechanisms for legal empowerment.
- Contact:
- Macha Farrant, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin,Laos,Madagascar,Peru,Paraguay,Uganda
Global Project "Responsible Land Policy" - Special Initiative "One World - No Hunger"
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 50,280,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2015 Oct 2021
- Summary:
- The objective of the programme is to create the framework for sustainable development and food security in selected partner countries through secure and responsible land use and tenure rights. The ‘Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Gov-ernance of Tenure’ (VGGT) and the ‘Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment’ (PRAI), jointly developed by UNCTAD, FAO, IFAD and the World Bank, set the Standards for the Programme. Activities in fields such as improvement of the institutional framework and processes, conflict resolution and sensitisation of agricultural Investors for international Guidelines will lead to improved tenure security, reduced poverty and improved food security in the Partner countries.
- Contact:
- Klaus Ackermann, GIZ
- Website:
- Project weblink
Colombia
Gobernanza de la tierra con las comunidades locales habitantes de áreas protegidas
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 3,600,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- May 2016 Oct 2019
- Summary:
- El presente projecto busca promover la incorporación de las directrices de gobernanza responsible de la tenencia de la tierra con las comunidades locales habitantes de áreas protegidas y sus zonas de influencia. Esto se logrará en asocio con entidades clave de orden nacional (Parques Nacionales Naturales, Unidad de Restitución de Tierras y Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria) y WWF - Colombia.
- Contact:
- Javier Molina, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Good Financial Governance in Decentralized Administration in Rural Areas
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,140,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The Project has one component working specifically on the issue of land registry in six small scale municipalities with a focus of (a) improving the physical and digital conditions of the land registry (cadaster), (b) capacity building and (c) connecting the land, economic and fiscal cadasters with the aim of building an integrated municipal cadaster that shall improve the process of land taxation as well as the taxation of processes related to land.
Liberia
Governance and Economic Management Support (GEMS)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 8,200,000
- Implementers
- IBI International
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- GEMS is strengthening concessions monitoring and management by the Government of Liberia, including supporting the establishment of a concessions cadastre, withina broader program of support to human and institutional capacity building in Liberia's public sector.
- Contact:
- Alexis Jones, USAID
Tanzania
Grassroots Empowerment in Tanzania (GET) Programme
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- The Foundation for Civil Society and The Legal Services Facility
- Timeframe:
- May 2016 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- To improve governance, inclusive development and quality of life for Tanzanians through increased access to justice and empowerment to promote, influence and monitor inclusive economic and social development policies. Part of the programme will be to secure land tenure through accessing land titles for 100,000 poor people, 60% of whom will be women
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Green Prosperity Project/Participatory Land Use Planning Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 43,100,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- The compact’s $332.5 million Green Prosperity Project is designed to increase productivity and reduce reliance on fossil fuels by expanding renewable energy, and to increase productivity and reduce land-based greenhouse gas emissions by improving land use practices and management of natural resources. The Green Prosperity Project includes a $43.1 million Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP) activity to support participatory land use planning - administrative boundary setting, updating/integration of land use inventories and enhancing of spatial plans at the district and provincial level to support investment in renewable energy and sustainable management of natural resources.
In general, the PLUP Activty is designed to: (i) put in place the foundational spatial (land use) planning elements needed to enable and sustain the specific investments in renewal energy and natural resource management funded by the GP Investment Facility; (ii) improve land use certainty for communities within the districts selected for GP investments; and (iii) support compliance with environmental and social performance standards and safeguards.
Specifically, the PLUP is expected to: (i) enhance the technical capacity of provincial and district governments in spatial (land use) analysis, planning and enforcement; (ii) identify and, when possible, reduce land use and land tenure disputes as a means to improve the investment climate for renewal energy and natural resource management projects; and (iii) empower communities by providing spatial (locational) certainty through participatory geo-location and demarcation of village boundaries and the mapping of critical natural and cultural resource areas within these villages.
Compact funding will finance the completion of the following technical activities.
1) Participatory village boundary setting and community mapping (VBS/CM), including:
(i) the development of district level guidelines for participatory setting of village boundaries using established Government processes combined with international best practices, modern survey and mapping technology and including participation of the community, in particular women and disadvantaged groups;
(ii) the participatory determination, geographic delineation and physical demarcation of village boundaries in targeted sub-districts (kecamatan) of selected districts;
(iii) identification and resolution, as possible, of land use and tenure disputes; and
(iv) the collection of geo-spatial data and mapping of critical natural and cultural resource areas within the mapped villages.
2) Creation of sub-district (kecamatan) level land use inventories and integration of land and other natural resource information, including:
(i) compilation of and georeferencing of existing and pending licenses and permits for land and natural resource use, other use rights, community claims, and select biophysical data and creation of sub-district level land use inventories;
(ii) technical assistance to relevant provincial and district government agencies to support integration, management and exchange of geo-spatial data and to make land information widely available to the public .
3) Capacity building for spatial planning and resource management at the provincial and district government level enhancement of district spatial plans, including:
(i) investments in computer and mapping equipment, GIS software, training and technical assistance for provincial and district Bappeda offices and the office of the Bupati, to improve spatial analysis and the use, updating and enforcement of spatial plans; and improve effectiveness and transparency in licensing, permitting and decisions on land use.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nigeria
Growth and Employment in States Programme (GEMS) Component 3
- Donors:
- United Kingdom,World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 25,517,100
- Implementers
- Adam Smith International, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2008 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The programme focuses on improving the Land, Tax and Investment promotion systems in selected states of Nigeria. GEMS3 adopts a M4P approach to land markets, piloting interventions which improve the inclusiveness of the land market (e.g. land titling in selected states, regulatory assessments to ensure more effective implementation of the land act).
- Contact:
- Yawar Naeem, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ghana
GUMPP (Ghana Urban Management Pilot
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Designing and implementing a study programme in land registry
Bangladesh
Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project - Climate Adapation and Livelihood Protection (HILIP - CALIP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,760,000
- Implementers
- Local Government Engineering Department (Ministry of Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives)
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2012 Sep 2020
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve road infrastructure, build local capacity and expand access to natural resources, technology and markets in five districts of the Haor basin: Netrakona, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Kishorganj and Sunamganj benefiting 115,000 households.
On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to strengthen and empower the Beel (wetlands) User Groups, including strengthing women’s involvement in these and to improve their access to fish resources. Leases are to be granted to the Beels by the Ministry of Land after project completion.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Harapan Rain Forest
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 4,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
Indonesia
Harapan Rainforest - Pilot Restoration of a Degraded Forest Ecosystem on Sumatra
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 20,000,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2009 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- By maintaining and protecting 101,000 ha of rainforest in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, the first areas to be designated for ecosystem restoration in Indonesia, some 15.2 million tonnes of CO2 are to be securely stored over a 30-year period to serve as a model for how inactive production forest licences can be applied to a further 24 million ha of rainforest. The project calls for measures for example to combat the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, restore forest regions, develop an REDD strategy for Indonesia and other areas of rainforest around the globe and integrate biodiversity aspects, as well as to ensure the financial sustainability of the initiative.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Heart of Borneo' Forest Conservation Initiative, Succow Foundation Portion/Restoration of Peatswamp Forests in Central Kalimantan
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,350,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2009 Mar 2013
- Summary:
- The project objective is to conserve forests as natural carbon stores and to establish carbon sinks through reforestation in the province of West Kalimantan. Working in collaboration with a forestry operation in the boundary zone of the national park, the project seeks to identify forest areas highly worthy of preservation and to designate these zones protected areas. Degraded forest areas between Betung Kerihun and Danau Sentarum National Parks that hitherto have been separated are to be rejoined through reforestation efforts at the community level. The project supports the capacities of governmental and non-governmental actors in their endeavours to develop and implement local REDD demonstration measures in Indonesia.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
Cote d'Ivoire,Kenya
Human Rights-based Monitoring and Learning Processes for Responsible Land Governance (scoping phase)
- Donors:
- France,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 95,000
- Implementers
- TMG Research, DIMR
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2017 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Regional and national human rights based learning processes regarding responsible land governance are strengthened.
Syria
Idleb Rural Development Project
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 215,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAAR)
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2003 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The aim of the project was to improve the food security and income levels of farmers and rural women, among 42,000 households in the region of Idleb. This was achieved by expanding the area of arable land, improving access to water, and introducing more efficient farming and water management practices for the sustainable use of land and water resources.
Land and natural resource governance interventions supported the above mentioned activities and included the support for surveys, and studies and mapping activities related to land use, and for NRM plans. Further the project focused on the land reclamation on about 20,000 ha of largely underdeveloped land in the Jabel al Wastani and Jabel al Zawia uplands.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Djibouti,Ethiopia,Somalia
IGAD Land Governance Program, Horn of Africa
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 2,100,000
- Implementers
- Land Policy Initiative Secretariat, IGAD Secretariat, UNECA
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Sep 2017
- Summary:
- The institutional capacities of IGAD Secretariat will be supported to formulate a regional land governance policy framework in an inclusive and participatory bottom-up process. This task will be facilitated by the Land Policy Initiative that is the mandated body by the African Union to implement the Declaration on Land. The Land Policy Initiative is contract partner and will technically assist IGAD.
- Contact:
Tonga
Implementation of SOLA system within MLE CC NR
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 149,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The objective of the project is to develop an open source enterprise software application that supports core cadastre and registration functions. The project will provide support for the customization of the initial SOLA software and its implementation in Tonga.
The project will establish an open source community of users and developers around the SOLA software and improve sustainability, efficiency and transparency.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Estonia
Implementation of the INSPIRE Directive
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Implementation of the INSPIRE Directive
- Contact:
- Arvid Lillethun, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Colombia
Implementation of the public policy of restitution and formalization of lands for victims of the conflict in Colombia
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,300,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The objective is to implement the public policy of restitution/formalization of lands and territories for displaced people and other victims of violence that is covered by the section on land restitution in the Law of Victims as part of the comprehensive land policy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction 2012/2015
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 1,769,000,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Sep 2016
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mali,Mauritania,Senegal
Improved Governance of Tenure for Shared Prosperity in the Senegal River Basin
- Donors:
- FAO,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2015 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- This project funded by the Federal Government of Germany is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). Building on the momentum created by the endorsement of the VGGT, the project aims at responding to an increasing demand from numerous actors in the Senegal River Basin over the past few years - especially representatives from civil society, farmers’ and pastoralists’ organizations, local authorities, etc. - to discuss and improve governance of tenure and accountability in the context of new investments in agriculture being made by public and private investors. Outputs under this project focus on: Interrelations between VGGT, F&G and LGAF are levelled and strengthened in the three countries.; Enhanced capacity on the VGGT and F&G in the Senegal River Basin; and inclusive multi-stakeholder platform and mechanisms for dialogue and implementation of actions on tenure issues in the Senegal River Basin established. It includes the integration of contributions into the national tenure governance road maps of the three countries and ad hoc support to the road maps implementation processes towards improvement of the legal and administrative framework for land based investments in the Senegal River Basin region.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Pakistan
Improved land tenancy in Sindh
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 4,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- The objective of the action is to ''improve and formalise land tenancy, while restoring and protecting rural livelihoods, especially for women and vulnerable groups (dependent on traditional landholding and farming systems and affected by droughts, floods, insecurity and malnutrition) by adhering and promoting the principles of VGGT in Dadu, Jamshoro, Larkarna, Matiari, Mirpur Khas, Sujawal, Tando Allahyar and Tando Muhammad Khan Districts of Sindh Province.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Cambodia
Improvement of food security of former landless households in Cambodia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,790,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2016 Jul 2021
- Summary:
- The livelihood and the food security of recipients of land are improved.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Improvement of land administration in BIH
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,890,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Through an efficient land administration contribute to economic and social development, a viable land market, sustainable land use, and the EU accession and establish a more efficient, secure and reliable land administration system.
Namibia
Improvement of Land Administration procedure and Capacity in Namibia (LAPCAS)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 1,410,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- improving (i) procedures in cadastral examination, recording and Improving archiving; (ii) standardized the unique parcel identification implemented; (iii) exchange of digital land information improved; (iv) a harmonized land registration and cadastral system in place; (v) a well-functioning IT-organization in place; (vi) a proposal for revised requirements for professionals in land administration in place; (vii) monitoring of land markets improved; and (viii) land administration capacity at the Ministry increased.
Botswana
Improvement of Land Administration Procedures, Capacity and Systems in Botswana (LAPCAS)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 1,500,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The aim is to create a national systems for unique referencing of land parcels and location addresses, improve the overall land administration processes, computerize deeds register, systematically adjudicate tribal lands
Uganda
Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda to In-crease Productivity of Small-Scale Farmers on Mailo-Land (ILGU)
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,800,000
- Implementers
- GiZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The project will focus on systematically inventorying actual land use in two districts of Central Uganda in order to create a database and on-hand evidence on actual land use by small-scale farmers on private Mailo-Land parcels. This documentation of all legal and physical facts collected in the field and confirmed by the community shall be handed out to any farmer, who wants to have it, against a small fee.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Cambodia
Improvement of livelihoods and food security of former landless households in Cambodia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,100,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- The livelihood and the food security in the provinces Kratie and Kampong Thom are sustainably improved.
Belize,Dominica,Grenada,Guyana,Jamaica,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Improving climate resilience of Caribbean island and coastal states through systemic management of aqua-terrestrial ressources
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,650,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Feb 2020
- Summary:
- A systematic management of resources is used for the increase of climate resilience and as an instrument for sustainable development in selected CARICOM-states.
Indonesia
Improving governance of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry in Indonesia
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 12,355,600
- Implementers
- The Asia Foundation (International NGO) in collaboration with at least four national NGOs and selected district governments, civil society organisations and private sector stakeholders.
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jul 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to support improvements to land use and forestry governance in Indonesia, through a combination of support to national and local governments, and civil society, informed by political economy analysis. It will offer capacity building and technical assistance to national and local governments, and support strategic coalitions of reformers at the local level, from civil society, government and the private sector, in demanding good governance. A research component will contribute political economy analysis of the local contexts in order to inform the approach. The programme will be carried out in four provinces in Indonesia which have abundant forest resources and complex land use and forestry problems, with the aim of improving the rule of law on land use and forestry and the recognition of community land rights.
- Contact:
- Irma Handayani, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Improving land administration in Kenya (PILAK) with Lantmäteriet
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 6,070,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Twinning/institutional cooperation between Lantmäteriet and (Sweden) and Ministry of Lands (Kenya)
Burkina Faso,Ethiopia,Liberia,Sierra Leone
Improving land rights policies (VGGT) and responsible agricultural investments (rai) through effective and meaningful dialogue structures between civil society
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,880,000
- Implementers
- Welthungerhilfe
- Timeframe:
- May 2017 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- Land rights policies and responsible agricultural investments are implemented through effective and meaningful dialogue structures between the civil society and other actors in coherence with the right to food.
Ethiopia
Improving Land, Livelihoods, Agriculture & National Development (LAND)
- Donors:
- Canada
- Funding:
- USD 17,700,000
- Implementers
- GIZ- German Society for International Cooperation
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase agricultural productivity for women and men smallholder farmers in 18 districts in the regions of Amhara, Tigray and Oromia. These districts have reliable rainfall and high potential for agricultural growth but are increasingly affected by land degradation and food insecurity. The project is designed to address these issues by supporting the national Sustainable Land Management Program that works with communities and local officials to develop and implement resilience-building plans. These plans focus on reducing land degradation and improving agriculture productivity through increased use of sustainable land management approaches such as rehabilitating degraded watersheds, introducing high value crop varieties, and building terraces and water harvesting systems. CIDA’s contribution aims to benefit an estimated 252,000 women and men in these 18 districts.
Central African Republic,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Congo, Republic of the,Gabon
Improving Livelihoods and Land Use in Congo Basin Forests
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- World Agroforestry Centre, DAI Europe, Rainforest Foundation UK, International Institute for Environment and Development
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Aug 2020
- Summary:
- To improve the the livelihoods of forest dependent communities and reduce deforestation in the Congo Basin by providing support to forest zoning, independent forest monitoring, civil society advocacy and the strengthening of legal frameworks for community forestry, as well as direct investments in community forest enterprises. The programme is expected to benefit 2.4million beneficiaries (direct and indirect). The programme will also have a demonstration effect, building a body of evidence on Community Forestry in the Congo Basin.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Improving livelihoods for 6,000 marginalised women in DRC and supporting their access to land
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 1,350,000
- Implementers
- Women for Women International, Women for Women DRC
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2013 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- This project will provide 6,000 socially-excluded women in South Kivu, DRC with a holistic training programme that will enable them to understand their rights; gain agricultural skills; access land and credit; and increase incomes. It will contribute to creating an enabling environment for women by training 1,500 male leaders on women’s rights and strategies to facilitate these rights; and by placing women’s right to access land on DRC’s development agenda via research and advocacy
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Improving protected area management in the Philippines
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 13,700,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2012 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The project is supporting the Philippine Government in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by cooperating with local partners to improve the legal framework for protecting and managing designated protected zones in marine and terrestrial ‘key biodiversity areas’. These areas are of particular international significance in conserving biodiversity. The project enhances the protected area management capacity of the Philippine environment ministry through training measures and workshops for sharing experience. In addition, it is helping to improve administrative structures and processes in existing protected areas and establish new terrestrial and marine protected areas. In this work, it is cooperating closely with local communities and giving particular consideration to the concerns of women and indigenous populations.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Improving the Land Management System in Order to Reduce Conflict Risks and Competing Land Use in India
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 340,000
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2011 Jun 2016
Cote d'Ivoire,Colombia,Guinea,Guatemala,Indonesia,Kyrgyzstan,Liberia,Mali,Burma,Mongolia,Mauritania,Malawi,Niger,Nepal,Philippines,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Uganda,South Africa
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) among CSO and grassroots organization
- Donors:
- Belgium,FAO,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 2,800,000
- Implementers
- FAO, National and International CSOs
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Summary: This project under the overall umbrella of the VGGT will serve to develop the capacity of stakeholders to implement improvements to tenure arrangements and thereby promote food security and sustainable development. The project is implemented in 19 countries, namely Malawi, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Mali, Uganda, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire; Myanmar, Nepal, Mongolia, Philippines, Indonesia; Kyrgyzstan; Guatemala, Colombia. Improving transparent, equitable, secure access to and control over land, fisheries and forests and protecting the legitimate tenure rights, whether formal or informal, of millions of poor and insecure people, is a critical part of improving food security. The project contributes to this objective through fostering increased understanding on the VGGT use among CSOs and grass roots organizations to boost their contribution to the multi-stakeholder platforms and other tenure-related ongoing processes at country level and strengthening the partnerships for the wider application and implementation of the VGGT at all levels. The project has produced a capacity development manual for CSOs "Putting the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure into Practice: A Learning Guide for Civil Society Organizations" written in partnership with FIAN International as coordinating the Land and Territory Working Group of the International Planning Commiteee for Food Sovereignty (IPC).
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nepal
Increasing climate change resilience of vulnerable communities in Humla district, Nepal
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 350,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2011 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The purpose of the project is to improve the local population’s ability to adapt to the consequences of climate change in two catchment areas (Rodikot and Darma) in the Humla District of Nepal. This shall be achieved through capacity-building in climate-related issues among the user groups in the catchment area. Additionally, support will be given to improve erosion control for enhanced disaster prevention. A further goal of the project is to rehabilitate 50 hectares of forest as well as to restore and protect ten drinking water sources. The project thus combines the development of climate change adaptation strategies with environmental education and reforestation while at the same time developing best practices that can be applied to other catchment areas.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Independent Evaluation of Ethiopia's Land Investment Transformation (LIFT) Programme
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 1,330,000
- Implementers
- Springfield
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2015 Nov 2025
- Summary:
- Evaluation of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme
India
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 1,900,000
- Implementers
- Indian Institute for Human Settlements
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2014 Aug 2019
- Summary:
- By the year 2050, half of all Indians will live in urban areas, a significant transition that will have widespread economic, political, social, and ecological impacts. To meet these challenges, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) aims to establish an independently funded and managed interdisciplinary national university for research and innovation focused on India’s urban transition.
The IIHS team and its growing global network of partners are working on many research projects on urban law and governance, sustainability, climate change, regional planning, and land use, among other related topics.
Omidyar Network has partnered with IIHS to conduct a study on the land records management system in four Indian states (Karnataka, Haryana, Bihar, and Himachal Pradesh). The study will capture the existing processes for land records management, identify critical barriers to success, and develop recommendations for improvement in consultation with key stakeholders.
Cambodia
Influencing for Sustainable Natural Resources Governance
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Oxfam and partners
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2015 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The program will strengthen capacity and community to be able voice and raise their remand at public forum and national platform with policy makers and private sectors. National NGOs partners will coordinate and strengthening existing network to have equip capacity to monitoring implementation of EIA draft law, VGGT, Agriculture Land Management draft law and other related laws, regulation and policy related to land and forestry and able to feedback to for inclusive improvement and amendment if necessary.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Informal Settlements Improvement Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 10,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve living conditions in informal settlements in selected municipalities in Kenya. This will be achieved by enhancing security of tenure and improving infrastructure based on plans developed in consultation with the community.
On land tenure, the project will: (i) strengthen the Ministry of Lands through identification and implementation of measures to improve the speed and efficiency of mapping, planning, survey, and land registration, (ii)support implementation of the new national land policy in urban informal settlements through refinement, systematization, and scale-up of ongoing efforts to strengthen tenure security in slums.
- Contact:
- Abebaw Alemayehu, World Bank, 251-11-517-6084
Mozambique
Iniciativa de Terras Comunitarias
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- Cooperativa de Terras Comunitarias
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The main objective with the initiative is to encourage individuals and groups to make economic, social and environmental sustainable investments in rural and suburban communities, by improving the implementation of the national legislation for land rights.
Mexico
Innovative mechanisms for a cooperative climate change adaptation programme in Sierra Madre and the Coast of Chiapas, Mexico
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 470,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- This project is supporting partners in Mexico in developing and implementing a strategy for effective ecosystem-based adaptation measures in watersheds in coastal regions. The strategy focuses on the protection of resources while ensuring sustainable economic development in the region at the same time. Implementing this strategy should lessen the impact of climate change on ecosystems and preserve the livelihoods of the population. To this end, project partners initially assess a project region’s vulnerability to climate change and subdivide it into risk areas for extreme weather events. Appropriate adaptation measures are then planned for these regions, such as reforestation and restoration of ecosystems. The aim is to finance these measures sustainably through the global carbon market as well as through a regional public investment strategy, which is to be set up over the course of the project. In addition, the project will make use of participative approaches in order to sensitise the public, establish cooperation with local structures and ensure decision-makers deliver on their responsibilities.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tunisia
Integrated Agricultural Development Project in the Governorate of Siliana - Phase II (Siliana Phase II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,690,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2007 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The project intended to improve agricultural productivity and conservation of the environment, support the development of small and micro-enterprises and facilitate the labour market access of youth and women in order to increase the incomes of 8,000 poor households in the governorate of Siliana. The project also intended to promote the participation of communities and local governments in the planning and supervision of local development activities as well as decision making on resource allocation.
Land and natural resource governance related activities provided support for land consolidation activities in collaboration with the Agricultural Land Agency (AFA), the development of participatory management plan of the National Park Jebel Esserj. sustainable land management and allocation of new plots to beneficiaries.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Integrated Climate Change Management in Communal Reserves in the Amazon Rainforest
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 8,879,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The goal is to enhance the resilience to climate change of indigenous communities through the integration of Ecosystem Based Adaptation Strategies into the sustainable management of Communal Reserves in the Peruvian Amazon, thereby guaranteeing the conservation of these high conservation value areas and contributing to the sustainable development of indigenous communities whose livelihoods depend on the reserves.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
China
Integrated Forestry Development Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 1,220,000
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2010 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The objective is to demonstrate the establishment and management of sustainable multifunction forest plantations with significant environmental benefits in the Project Provinces.On land tenure, the project will support collective forestland tenure reform (issuance of forest land use rights certificates).
On land tenure, the project would complement the Government's latest efforts in reforming collective forestland tenure and strengthen the implementation, management and monitoring capacity of government institutions at all levels as well as to increase the capacity of project beneficiaries to manage their land and forest resources in a manner that optimizes the environmental benefits.
- Contact:
- Jin Liu, World Bank
Namibia
Integrated game protection management in Namibia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 611,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2017 Jun 2021
- Summary:
- The FC project shall support the establishment of an integrated game protection system in Namibian protected areas. This will ensure the sustainable use of the country's wildlife resources and preserve the livelihood of the population. As part of a demand-oriented program, measures are implemented to provide the necessary infrastructure, procure equipment and plan flexible protective actions.
Madagascar
Integrated Growth Poles and Corridor Project II
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 500,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- The objective is to contribute to increased economic opportunities and access to enabling infrastructure services, as measured by an increase in jobs and formal firms, in Targeted Regions. The project will finance TA, training, capacity building, and provide grants for equipment and works to local authorities to implement the Operation Communal d'Appui Integre (OCAI) model in communes with project-funded tourism and agribusiness value chains activities. It will also build capacity to improve management of local land records and public administration linked to regulatory enforcement and service delivery. The OCAI approach will be implemented in partnership with Fonds de Developpement Local and the Institut de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local.
- Contact:
- Andre Teyssier, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Croatia
Integrated Land Administration System Implementation – ILAS
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 7,343,000
- Implementers
- Service contract
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2011 Apr 2016
- Summary:
- Supporting the State Geodetic Administration and the Ministry of Justice in accelerating the efficiency of businesses processes in Land Registry and Cadastre in the framework of the Integrated Land Administration System Implementation (ILAS).
Croatia
Integrated Land Administration System Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 47,870,000
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2011 Jul 2021
- Summary:
- The objective of the Project is to modernize the land administration and management system to improve the efficiency, transparency and cost effectiveness of government services.
- Contact:
- Camille Bourguignon, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 26,000,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Jan 2023
- Summary:
- ILRG is a highly flexible field support Task Order under the Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR) II IDIQ managed by the E3/Land and Urban Office. ILRG will provide technical assistance services to improve land and resource governance, strengthen property rights, and build resilient livelihoods as the foundation for strong economic growth, stability, self-reliance, and resilience. USAID Missions and Bureaus can request technical assistance through ILRG for a variety of services: assessments, policy support, institutional capacity building, facilitation and partnership building.
- Contact:
- Sarah Lowery, USAID
Ethiopia
Integrated Land Use and Development Plan för Gambella
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 3,500,000
- Implementers
- HoAREC
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Aug 2018
- Summary:
- Project objective is to develop an integrated land use and development plan for the Gambella region. The plan to be developed in close consultation with a range of stakeholders such as Government, civil society, private sector and academia. Capacity building is a strong element in the project, as is forging a common view on land use in Gambella. Given the sensitivities and complexities in the region, the project will apply a conflict sensitive approach.
- Contact:
- Jörgen Eriksson, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida
Colombia
Integrated program to improve informal settlements in Medellin
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2015
Laos
Integrated Rural Development in Poverty Regions of Laos (I)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 9,350,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- supporting the process of land registration, land use planning
Laos
Integrated Rural Development in Poverty Regions of Laos (II)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,230,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- Capacity building for districts and communities, participatory, sustainable and poverty-sensitive development.
International Partnership for African Fisheries, Governance and Trade
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 15,223,000
- Implementers
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, New Partnership for Africa's Development, International Partnership for African Fisheries Governance and Trade
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2008 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- This projects supports the International Partnership for African Fisheries Governance and Trade (PAF) based in the New Partnership for African Development. The programme aims to support the use of a more strategic approach for the sustainable use of African fisheries. It aims to strengthen Africa's capacity to consider, determine and implement responsive reforms in fisheries governance.
- Contact:
- Neelam Banga, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ukraine
Introduction of voluntary land consolidation in Ukraine in the context of opening land market, and as an instrument to reduce land fragmentation and implement c
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 240,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The aim of the project was to introduce a voluntary land-consolidation approach in line with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT).
During the project FAO reviewed two versions of a draft Law on land consolidation prepared by StateGeoCadaster (SGC) and provided legal recommendations and advice how to review the drafts in line with best international practices and VGGT principles such as a key principle in land consolidation that participants should be at least as well off after the schemes as before.
The legal advice provided was fully relying on the VGGT, and respecting the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
The Project contributed to SDG 1.4, 2.3, 5.A and 8.3 and emphasized the role of efficient farm structure and the land markets in attaining aforementioned SDG goals and at country level contributed to VGGT implementation.
In addition to legal advise, a Feasibilty Study on in two communities was conducted to assess the demand and feasibility of land consolidation among the landowners and other stakeholders. A Concept Note was prepared outlinining the proposed approach for the implementation of the next steps towards a National Land Consolidation Programme in Ukraine including land consolidation pilots before scaling up to a national programme when the agricultural land market is opened.
Finally, a guest lecture at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP) about the VGGT, FAO land consolidation programme and the work conducted in Ukraine was delivered for master and PHD programmes’ students.
- Contact:
- Morten Hartvigsen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Azerbaijan
Introduction of voluntary land consolidation in Ukraine in the context of opening land market, and as an instrument to reduce land fragmentation and implement c
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 240,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- FAO is currently providing technical support to the Government of Azerbaijan (Ministry of Agriculture) with introduction of land consolidation instrument to address the problem of inefficient farm structures (small and fragmented) and boost agricultural transformation and development (Project reference: TCP/AZE/3601).
The main objectives of the project are to develop a national land consolidation strategy, increase the institutional capacity to develop and implement modern land consolidation projects and implement a voluntary land consolidation project in a selected pilot area.
Land consolidation activities are seen in a broader rural development context, because the needs and constraints the communities face are much broader than only farm structures. The Community Area Development Plan will be prepared in the process together with the local authorities and all interested local stakeholders.
Land consolidation is being currently tested in the selected community and adapted in the process to the national context. The most suitable model will be developed in line with best international practices and the VGGT. Pilot experiences from the field project will feed into the Land Consolidation Strategy to be prepared in order to integrate land consolidation into broader policy framework.
- Contact:
- Morten Hartvigsen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Netherlands
Inventory of land governance interventions supported by the Netherlands linked to the VGs on the responsible governance of tenure of land
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- LANDac Netherlands Academy on Land Governance
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Oct 2013
- Summary:
- Inventory of land governance interventions supported by the Netherlands linked to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure. To provide an overview of current and past activities and how these already link to the VGs.
- Contact:
- Gemma Betsema, LANDac, +31655787023
- Website:
- Project weblink
Investment Cimate Facility for Africa
- Donors:
- Netherlands,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 1,600,000
- Implementers
- ICF
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2005 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- To address the real and perceived obstacles to doing business in Africa by building the environment for investment reform. A significant portion of the ICF portfolio is devoted to investments to improve property rights.
- Contact:
- Simon Calvert, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Investment Facility for UK Specialist Expertise (iFUSE)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- PWC
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2011 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- Make expertise from UK government departments available to support investment climate reform (including on Land) in response to partner government requests and by facilitating knowledge exchange activities.
- Contact:
- Natalie Skerrit, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cote d'Ivoire,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Ethiopia,Gabon,Ghana,Indonesia,Kenya,Liberia,Tanzania
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Harewelle International, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, Palladium International, LTS International, Crown Agents Bank, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Proforest
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Dec 2023
- Summary:
- To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities. Land is one component of this programme.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cote d'Ivoire,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Ethiopia,Gabon,Ghana,Indonesia,Kenya,Liberia,Tanzania
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use for Partnerships for Forests - Evaluation Manager
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Natural Resources Institute (University of Greenwich), Stichting Aidenvironment
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2017 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- Evaluation of the Partnerships for Forests (P4F) Programme
Iraq
Iraq Access to Justice Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech DPK
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- This project supports vulnerable population in Iraq to have knowledge about their legal rights, constitutional rights and also have complete information about the processes involved in accessing these rights and strengthens the capacity of service providers and the legal profession to serve the disadvantaged. The project has three components: 1) public awareness and outreach, 2) legal services, 3) legal advocacy. This project is not specifically focused on land or property rights, but rather has a broader focus on the provision of legal services to disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, though some of the cases handled by the project’s legal clinics deal with property rights issues.
- Contact:
- Christopher Jennings, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Georgia
Irrigation and Land Market Development
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 2,250,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2014 Aug 2019
- Summary:
- The project will finance a pilot phase of a land registration program to redefine and test the policies and procedures for registration of agricultural land, which would allow the majority of existing land ownership rights to be registered (regularization).
The pilot would inform the design of a national land registration program (not funded under the project).
- Contact:
- Kathrine Kelm, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project/Land Tenure Security Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 4,900,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Senegal
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2010 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- The Land Tenure Security Activity is part of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project. It provide support to identify and secure land rights, including existing rights and those of farmers benefiting from the project, and to mitigate conflicts that might arise from ambiguities regarding property rights, increasing land values, and increased demand for land. The project will assist in the development of community-based land allocation procedures to assure community participation and equitable allocation of land in the project area. The capacity of local institutions responsible for allocating and managing land rights will also be strengthened.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zambia
Irrigation Development and Support Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 2,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2011 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project objective is to increase yields per hectare and value of diverse products marketed by smallholders benefitting from investments in irrigation in selected sites
served by the project. To this end, the project has four components: (i) Irrigated Agricultural Support Services, (ii) Public Infrastructure; (iii) Private and Cooperative Investment; and (iv) Management and Coordination.
On land tenure,the project will:(i)prepare a land use plan to specify/demarcate the areas dedicated for the different irrigation development models, and define the required land consolidation process and related transactions for target beneficiaries who will need to secure title deeds, and (ii)support necessary land demarcation, transfer and titling in each selected site in collaboration with the Provincial Authority, District Authority, Regional/District Agricultural officials and village headmen/ traditional chiefs.
- Contact:
- Charles Annor-Frempong, World Bank, +1 (202) 458-4211
Malawi
Irrigation, Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development Project (IRLADP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- May 2006 Jun 2012
- Summary:
- The aim of the project was to increase the incomes and agricultural productivity of 196,550 poor households in the northern, central and southern regions, by supporting comprising community public works schemes, capacity building and technical advisory services for crop production, marketing and post-harvest assets and services. The project provided farmers with seeds and fertilizer to restore agricultural production. To reduce the risks associated with rain-fed farming, the project also supported rehabilitation and development of new irrigation systems, reservoirs and rainwater harvesting structures.
On land and natural resource governance, the project included the training of farmers on land issues using land experts; it developed a local binding document which farmers and landowners signed to commit to sharing the land resource for the benefit of both. It ensured equitable land allocation and tenure security in four existing Government-owned small-scale gravity irrigation schemes and established WUAs which defined water right and water management responsibilities. Land was allocated by individual land owners and traditional authorities for various Farmer Services and Livelihoods Fund (FSLF) and Inputs for Assets programme (IFA) projects.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Argentina,Benin,Burkina Faso,Congo, Republic of the,Costa Rica,Ethiopia,Ghana,India,Cambodia,Madagascar,Mozambique,Niger,Nigeria,Netherlands,Russia,Rwanda,Senegal,Uganda,Ukraine,Vietnam,Zambia,Zimbabwe
IS Academy - Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 1,350,000
- Implementers
- LANDac Netherlands Academy for Land Governance
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2010 Apr 2015
- Summary:
- LANDac is a partnership between Dutch organizations active in the field of land governance with the aim to optimize the link between land governance, sustainable development and poverty alleviation by generating, analyzing, synthesizing and disseminating knowledge. Some of its activities include PhD programmes, short-term research in collaboration with Southern partners, an annual Summer School on Land Governance, organization of meetings and lectures and providing a platform for a wider range of stakeholders involved in and interested in land governance in the Netherlands.
- Contact:
- Gemma Betsema, LANDac, +31655787023
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh Tribal Development Project (JCTDP)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,515,000
- Implementers
- State Governments of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh through respective Tribal Development Societies (TDSs)
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2001 Jun 2012
- Summary:
- The goal of the project was to improve the living conditions of 74,000 tribal households, especially women, in the areas of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, introducing improved farming practices and proven production technologies. This was achieved by organising and enabling communities to adopt sustainable and productive natural resource management regimes, adopt market-oriented production systems and learn the skills and gain the experience of planning and implementing development plans relevant to their villages.
On land and natural resource governance, the project intended to support linkages with banks to enhance access to various government entitlements such as the Forest Rights Act and intended to support community organisations to obtain Community Pattas (title deeds). Moreover the project provided support for the preparation and implementation of management plans in 50 villages.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme - Climate- Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Window (KCEP-CRAL)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 4,000,000
- Implementers
- State Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Sep 2022
- Summary:
- The programme aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty and food insecurity of 100,000 householders in the 8 counties in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs): Embu, Tharaka Nithi, Kitui, Machakos, Makueni, Taita Taveta, Kwale and Kilifi, through the graduation of small ASAL farmers to commercially oriented farming for targeted value chains – maize, sorghum, millet and associated pulses.
Land and natural resource governance related activities will include the development and empowerment of 8 county sustainable NRM and climate change adaptation plans through GIS in line with their County Integrated Development Plans (CIDP). The programme will support the establishment of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the training in RS/GIS of selected county agricultural staff in each county.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Kenya Community Land Rights Project
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 240,000
- Implementers
- Oxfam and Partners
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- Empower target communities in Turkana and Tana River counties with skills, knowledge and information and to establish community led land rights mechanisms that will ensure that communities have more equitable and secure tenure over community lands and resources
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project KISIP
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 11,250,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- 1; Strengthening institutions and program management 2; Enhancing Tenure Security 3; lnvesting in lnfrastructure and Service Delivery, 4; Planning for Urban Growth
Kenya
Kenya Land Reform Programme
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 7,020,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Support to Land Reforms under the Kenyan Ministry of Lands' Land Reform Transformation Unit. Activities supported include public consultations, studies, capacity building and others.
Kenya
Kenya Municipal Programme (KMP) 2010-2015
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 14,630,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Handling of reforms and de-centralization of urban development and local governance in Kenya
Serbia
Key Registers for e-Government & EU-integration
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,100,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- The Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia (RGA) is the institution in Serbia entrusted with production and coordination of geographic information, and is hosting some of the key registers, such as properties, addresses and administrative units. In the future, RGA will manage their key registers in a new service oriented architecture (eliminating redundant storage of data, ensuring that registers are updated continuously directly form the data sources.)
Background and Justification
RGA and Kartverket have for more than 10 years cooperated in projects on improving the Serbian infrastructure of geographic information and land management, among the project results are:
•Scanning and transfer of old cadastral maps to digital data
•Establishment of a Digital Archive for Land Administration Data
•Developing strategy and realizing cooperation between stakeholders of geographic information in Serbia
•Realization of a web portal for exchange of map data and geographic information
•Specifications of a new Real Estate management system (cooperation with the World Bank)
•Assessment the quality of property information (Data Migration Pilot - ongoing)
In the same period there has been significant developments having impact on the operation of RGA:
•Serbia have launched an e-Government program and are developing a number of services for digital interaction between the public, businesses and public institutions.
•The European Union has implemented a series of standards under the INSPIRE directive framework, obliging public institutions to make geographic information available on standardized formats and services.
This project focuses on upgrading the key registers of RGA enabling integration with the Serbian e-Government, also enabling INSPIRE compliant services for geographic information.
Project Objectives
The overall objective is to support RGAs role as an online provider of property-, and geographic information to enable realization of efficient e-Government services, and European Standardisation. More specifically:
1.To establish three new registers (Addresses, Administrative Units and Condominiums) as an integrated part of the RGA key registers, communicate with external data through services, and support the e-government of Serbia.
2.To make geographic information available to the private and public enterprises as well as the citizens with geoportal and services that comply with the INSPIRE directive of EU.
3.To integrate the new registers with services with other registers both internally and externally to RGA, thus maintaining continuous and coordinated updating and efficient work processes.
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Mali
Kidal Integrated Rural Development Programme (PIDRK)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 7,150,000
- Implementers
- Food Security Commissariat
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2007 Sep 2014
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme was to help reduce poverty and food insecurity in the Kidal Region among 4,000 households. Its specific objectives were to increase and diversify local residents’ incomes by stabilizing returns from nomadic livestock husbandry and promoting agro-pastoral activities; and to improve their living conditions, notably those of women, by facilitating access to basic socio-economic services and infrastructure.
In the context of rangeland rehabilitation the programme supported the protection of grazing paths.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Kilombero and Lower Rufiji Wetlands Ecosystem Management Project
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- BTC
- Timeframe:
- May 2012 Apr 2016
Rwanda
Kirehe Community-based Watershed Management Project (KWAMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,140,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2009 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- The grant aims to reduce rural poverty in Kirehe District, which is to be evidenced by a steep improvement in household food and nutrition security, asset ownership and quality of life indicators among vulnerable groups including woman-headed households, orphans and those living with HIV/AIDS. The immediate objectives of the project converge with the development of sustainable profitable small-scale commercial agriculture. The project aims to increase links between farmers, local markets and agricultural intensification program through irrigation scheme and value chain development. The project also supports the regularisation of land tenure in Kirehe district.
On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to increase the capacity of government and other community institutions to ensure effective water and land use management and planning that will enable agricultural intensification through watershed planning and management, regularization of land tenure and water use management.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
KISIP (Kenya Informal Settlements
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Support to the implementation of the Land Registration and Land Information System (GLIS); preparation of a law to enable the establishment of GLIS; modernization and reorganisation of the main agencies involved in land administration
Kenya
Kisumu Urban Project
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
Kenya
KMP ( Kenyan Municipal Program)
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Capacity building and strengthening of human resources in land administration (follow-up of the 2004-2009 NUFFIC project in Guatemala)
Japan
Knowledge Co-creation program on Policy and Administration of Agricultural Land Utilization in a Responsible and Sustainable Manner
- Donors:
- Japan
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- JICA
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2015 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- To understand realities of current agricultural land related issues and possible ideas to attain agriculture-based inclusive development, and to produce brief plans for their action back home. Program was implemented in Japan by inviting representative from the following countries: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, PNG, Mozambique, Egypt, Malawi, Niger, South Sudan, Benan, Tanzania, Vietnam.
- Contact:
- Yuko Morita, JICA, +81(0)3-5226-3161
Japan
Knowledge Co-Creationg Program on Land Policy and Administration for Responsible Agricultural Investments and Inclusive Development
- Donors:
- Japan
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- JICA
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2019 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- Purpose of the course:
(1) To promote comprehensive understanding of land policy and administration for responsible agricultural investments.
(2) To develop skills to address and respond to the issues of land tenure and agricultural investments.
(3) To formulate action plans to be implemented after the program.
- Contact:
- Yuko Morita, JICA - Dept. of Rural Development, +81-(0)3-5226-3161
Kosovo
Kosovo address signalization
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,724,000
- Implementers
- The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- To support the establishment of a comprehensive public registry at the Civil Registration Authority for all addresses of private households and businesses in Kosovo, as well as street adresses for 10-15 municipalities, executed together with the Kosovo Cadastre Agency and in partnership with the EU. The overall project objective is in line with reaching EU standards.
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kosovo
Kosovo Land Administration Development
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,429,000
- Implementers
- The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Support economical growth in Kosovo by establishing efficient and transparent public registration services securing ownership and other rights in real property.
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
KTH Master Programme Land Management East Africa, Balkans, East Europe, Central Asia
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 2,290,000
- Implementers
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology/The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2006 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- MSc Land Management Programme at KTH, Sweden on management of land property and use rights. Focus on law, valuation of properties, land development processes etc.
Cameroon,Ghana,Kenya,Liberia,Madagascar,Sierra Leone,Uganda,Zambia,Zimbabwe
Land & Corruption in Africa
- Donors:
- Germany,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 4,390,000
- Implementers
- Transparency International
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2015 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- Launched in 2014, the Land and Corruption in Africa Programme is addressing land corruption risks by:
Sharing information on how land corruption manifests and what its effects are.
Ensuring that land corruption and actions to fight it are put on the agendas of governments and international bodies like the African Union.
Raising the importance of combating land corruption in the global land governance debate.
Educating citizens about their land rights and how to defend them.
Working with governments, traditional authorities, the private sector and civil society to find solutions to combat land corruption.
Ensuring intergovernmental organisations, governments and business have procedures in place to sanction offenders and bring about justice for affected citizens.
Pushing for solutions to land corruption that are responsive to the needs of women, young people and other marginalised citizens
Vietnam
Land Access for Women
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 803,000
- Implementers
- International Center for Research on Women
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- To address these complexities, the Land Access for Women pilot program will combine commune-level legal rights counseling and education with advocacy efforts. Based in two provinces in Vietnam – Hung Yen in the North and Long An in the South – the program will strengthen the reach and efficacy of land rights for farmers, particularly women farmers. Research indicates that community-based paralegals are invaluable resources for poor and disadvantages persons to access legal systems to resolve property disputes.
- Contact:
- Todd Hamner, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Montenegro
Land Administration and Management Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 16,200,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2008 Apr 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the efficiency of permitting and the property registration system by focusing on:(i) real estate administration (i.e. improving registration services, developing the information system, supporting the provision of basic maps, and completing the real estate cadastre); and (ii) supporting the planning and permitting processes in all 21 municipalities and at the central level (i.e. improving the planning process and support to MED, improving planning at the municipal level and completion of plans, improving construction permitting and inspection, and supporting the business environment).
- Contact:
- Victoria Stanley, The World Bank, +1 (202) 458-7811
Kosovo
Land administration development and Addresses for people and businesses
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,571,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- to ensure sustainability in the IT systems at KCA. The Norwegian Mapping Authority has also focused on building skills and capacity within and outside of KCA, so that the IT solutions are sustainable when aid from Norway is phased out.
The IT solution provides better security, ensures uniform registration in all municipalities, and reduces corruption by ensuring that all changes are logged with reference to the person who made the change in the registry. The IT-system works towards a central database and thus establishing a connection for municipalities and users via the Internet. The roll out of the centralized, web based IT system to all municipalities. was completed by mid 2015, A KCA geoportal is developed and in operation.
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guatemala
Land Administration II
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 51,300,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2006 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- The objective is to foster the process of achieving land tenure security in the project area through the provision of efficient and accessible cadastral and land administration services. Activities focuse on: (a)cadastral and land regularization, (b) maintenance of cadastral information and municipal services, and (c) legal reforms and institutional strengthening.
- Contact:
- Enrique Pantoja, The World Bank, +1 (202) 473-2516
Vietnam
Land Administration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 75,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2008 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- The project objective is to increase the access to land information services through the development of an improved land administration system in selected provinces of Vietnam. This objective will be achieved through ensuring that land users, including businesses and households, have access to more efficient, reliable, and transparent services from land administration services.
Project components include: (i) Modernizing the Land Registration System, to enable the development of an accurate, current, and complete information system to support land registration in the nine project provinces (activities include: completing and updating spatial data coverage, completing and updating land records, further developing and implementing a computerized land records management system to store, access and update land registration and land use information, and key policy studies in support of land administration system modernization); and (ii) Improving the Land Registration Service Delivery, by supporting the provision of access to land registration and land use data through all land registration offices, and the implementation of a program to promote awareness by the public of land information availability and participation in the processes to complete and update land records and surveying.
- Contact:
- Dzung The Nguyen, The World Bank, 84-4-3937-8246
Honduras
Land Administration Project II
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 32,800,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2011 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims to provide the population in the project Area with improved, decentralized land administration services, including better access to and more accurate information on property records and transactions.
Project components include: (i) Policy and Institutional Strengthening, (ii) Cadastral Surveying and Land Regularization, (iii) Demarcation of Protected Areas, and (iv) Strengthening Land Rights of the Miskito indigneous people .
- Contact:
- Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez, The World Bank, +1 (202) 458-8894
Ghana
Land Administration Project II
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 50,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to consolidate and strengthen land administration and management systems for efficient and transparent land services delivery.
The project will focus on: (i) Strengthening the Policy, Legal and Regulatory Framework for Land Administration by providing a platform for continued work on the legal and regulatory framework governing land administration and land use; (ii) Decentralizing and Improving Business and Service Delivery Processes, to improve transparency and reduce the time and cost involved in delivery of services such as deed and title registration and other services provided by the land sector agencies, and (iii) Improving Maps and Spatial Data Information for Land Administration, by providing up to date maps and other spatial products and developing the infrastructure for collecting and sharing data and information to be used as inputs directly or indirectly in land administration.
- Contact:
- Victoria Stanley, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Lebanon
Land Administration System Modernization
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 43,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2018 Dec 2023
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective is to improve access to land use and value data, property rights data, and geospatial information through the Land Registry and Cadastre system modernization.
- Contact:
- Olivera Jordanovic, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 11,000,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) project builds on previous USAID land administration and property rights projects from 2005-2013 and will operate from 2013-2018 in 6 regions of Ethiopia, on the federal level, and in collaboration with Ethiopian universities. The LAND program will continue to support the Federal and regional governments to improve land administration and land use laws based on rigorous research and to improve the efficiency of land use rights certification by government land administration institutions, primarily through trainings provided by higher education institutions. The new LAND project will also work with regional governments and pastoral communities to encourage the certification of communal land use rights to increase agricultural productivity, reduce conflict and resource degradation, and promote economic growth. Through trainings for government officials and communities, the project will also work to improve the rights of women to manage and control land and other natural resources.
- Contact:
- Zemen Haddis, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ghana
Land Administration- Phase 2
- Donors:
- Canada,Japan
- Funding:
- USD 2,700,000
- Implementers
- World Bank
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- The Land Administration Project is a long-term, multi-phase development intervention designed to consolidate and strengthen Ghana’s land administration and management systems including the rural areas. The effective administration and management of its natural resources, particularly of land, is fundamental to achieving food security and of critical importance to Ghana’s overall economic growth and development.
Cambodia
Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- May 2008 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The objective of this pilot project is to improve the process for identification and use of state lands transferred to poor and formerly landless or land-poor people.
On land tenure, the project will provide training, incremental operating costs, goods and contracted technical services to commune councils to prepare plans for Social Land Concession (SLC) subprojects. More specifically, the project will support commune councils in identifying SLC areas, in carrying out environmental and social screening to refine the area boundaries, and in proposing the area formally for state land mapping, allocation and registration.
- Contact:
- Mudita Chamroeun, World Bank, 855-23-217-304
Eritrea,Ethiopia,Kenya,Lesotho,Madagascar,Mozambique,Malawi,Rwanda,Swaziland,Tanzania,Uganda
Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security Learning Initiative for East and Southern Africa
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 300,000
- Implementers
- GLTN
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The grants contribute to the development and integration of pro-poor tools and approaches for securing land and natural resource rights into development programmes in 15 selected countries within East and Southern Africa (ESA). The main objective of the grants has been to identify common issues and to enhance lesson sharing and knowledge management on land‐related tools and approaches amongst the various projects, country stakeholders and partners. The principal target group is poor women and men involved in 22 IFAD supported projects and programmes in ESA. They will benefit from tenure security measures that better enable them to invest in land and agriculture and to access credit. It also provides support for mapping, land and water rights, group rights, and inclusive business.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Colombia
Land and Rural Development Program
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 65,000,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The Land and Rural Development Project, in collaboration with key GOC institutions, and other actors will support the development of tools, systems, and skills to enable the GOC to fulfill its mandate to resolve the land issues at the heart of the conflict. The Project will build the capacity of the institutions to administer and manage the programs to restitute land to victims of conflict and extend land titling in prioritized rural areas; and in collaboration with the public and private sectors, promote sustainable rural development to enable beneficiaries of land interventions to retain and make productive and efficient use of their land.
- Contact:
- Marcela Chavez, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Liberia
Land Conflict Resolution Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 6,800,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- LCRP will pilot dispute resolution methodologies, establish property rights inventories, develop clan-level Land Dispute Resolution (LDR) entities, promote the legal recognition of LDR, and raise awareness of land rights and LDR.
- Contact:
- Alexis Jones, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cameroon,Niger,Senegal
Land governance and transparency of agricultural investments
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 380,000
- Implementers
- Land Matrix, LPI, FAO, Fondation Paul Ango Ela (FPAE), National Comity of rural Code in Niger, Enda Pronat and National Comission for the Land reform in Senegal
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- this program relies on several components:
Component 1: Increase transparency and global information on land transactions (land observatory in Senegal and African land portal hosted by LPI and Land matrix)
Component 2: Articulate national land policies and the application of the VGGT (Niger and Senegal)
- Contact:
- Mathieu Boche, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Afghanistan,Burundi,Burkina Faso,Brazil,Cote d'Ivoire,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Colombia,Ethiopia,Georgia,Ghana,Guinea,Gambia, The,Guatemala,Honduras,Croatia,Indonesia,India,Kenya,Kyrgyzstan,Moldova,Madagascar,Mali,Mozambique,Mauritania,Malawi,Nigeria,Peru,Philippines,Rwanda,Senegal,Sierra Leone,South Sudan,Tanzania,Uganda,Ukraine,Vietnam,South Africa,Zambia
Land Governance Assessment Frameworks (Completed)
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- This list of countries is where an Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) has been COMPLETED.
The LGAF is a diagnostic tool that is implemented at the local level in a collaborative fashion, that addresses the need for guidance to diagnose and benchmark land governance, and that is intended to help countries prioritize reforms and monitor progress over time.
The instrument focuses on five key thematic areas identified as major areas for policy intervention in the land sector: the Legal and Institutional Framework ; Land Use Planning, Management, and Taxation ; Management and Public Land ; Public Provision of Land Information ; Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management.
Each specific theme holds a range of indicators that are ranked to measure performance. Based on these performances, countries are able to identify and prioritize areas in need of reform.
- Contact:
- Thea Hilhorst, The World Bank, 202-473-9101
Brazil
Land Governance in Amazonia – Terra Legal I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,950,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2014 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Allocation of public land and land titling wihtin Terra Legal become more effective.
Land Governance on Rural-Urban Nexus
- Donors:
- Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 800,000
- Implementers
- UNOPS on behalf of UN-Habitat
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2015 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Responsible land governance is a central element in the current process of rural transformation and urbanization in developing countries, but its complex relations to food security and fragility have not received
sufficient attention. SDC will support the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), facilitated by UN-Habitat, in
addressing these challenges through preparing pro-poor and gender-sensitive land tools to improve tenure
security for urban and rural poor with a conflict-sensitive approach.
- Contact:
Liberia
Land Governance Support Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 15,500,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- The Land Governance Support Activity (LGSA) supports the establishment of more effective land governance systems, ready to implement comprehensive reforms to improve equitable access to land and security of tenure, so as to facilitate inclusive sustained growth and development, ensure peace and security, and provide sustainable management of the environment. LGSA is applying USAID’s collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) principles through the demand-driven support to the land reform agenda led by the GOL; strengthening of land governance human and institutional capacity; development of a customary land rights recognition model based on the Land Rights Policy that can be scaled up; and support of stakeholder engagement in land governance through communications and outreach and strengthening of local capacity through the provision of land sector services. In all project activities, LGSA, through partnership with government and civil society, is developing a focused and results-oriented approach through innovative yet cost-effective tools and best practices. Activities are implemented through consultative processes with USAID; the Project Advisory Committee (PAC); and government, civil society, and donor counterparts. The use of a gender-sensitive approach ensures buy-in from all stakeholders, leading to a stronger sustainability model.
- Contact:
- April O'Neill, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Land Investment for Transformation Programme (LIFT)- Wealth Creation Programme
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 104,074,000
- Implementers
- KPMG East Africa, Coffey International Development, DAI Europe, Crown Agents, Palladium International, AECOM, World Bank, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (Ethiopia)
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2014 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- To support the Government of Ethiopia in the provision of map based land certificates to farmers in four regions and assist them to fully benefit from increased investment and productivity through the development of the rural land market and its supporting operations. The project will be a driver to increasing income by 20% for over 500,000 households. It will also secure land ownership for 6.1 million households, of whom around 70% will be women.
- Contact:
- Shewit Emmanuel, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Land Management and Administration (GESTERRA)
- Donors:
- Netherlands,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 8,800,000
- Implementers
- National Directorate for Land and Forestry (DNTF), Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG)
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2013 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Improving national capacity to deliver quality land governance; promoting an integrated vision on land administration and land use/management, that responds to the needs of all land users, providing secure and clear rights (DUATs) which can then facilitate new investments choices and decisions and enhance food security.
- Contact:
- , Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique, (+258) 21 484200
Laos
Land Management and Decentralised Planning in Laos PDR (LMDP)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,450,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Improvement of the land tenure security of the rural population in the target area. Improved governance of investments within the public and private sector.
Cape Verde
Land Management for Investment Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 17,300,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Cape Verde
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Nov 2017
- Summary:
- The Land Management for Investment Project is expected to improve Cape Verde’s investment climate by refining the legal, institutional and procedural environment to create conditions for increased reliability of land information, greater efficiency in land administration transactions, and strengthened protection of land rights; developing and implementing a new land information management system; and clarifying parcel rights and boundaries on targeted islands with high investment potential. The project supports the Government of Cape Verde in creating a single reliable and easily accessible source of land rights and land boundaries information, which is expected to strengthen Cape Verde’s investment climate for large and small investors and reduce land registration time and costs. The project is comprised of two activities: •Legal and Institutional Foundations Activity •Rights and Boundaries Activity
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kosovo
Land Management/Cadastre
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,100,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- The central cadastre authority, communal cadastre authorities as well as relevant ministries and authorities improve the institutional and organizational framework conditions for ownership protection.
Tajikistan
Land Market Development Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 9,700,000
- Implementers
- Chemonics
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- The Feed the Future Tajikistan Land Market Development Activity (LMDA) promotes market based principles for land tenure and aims to establish a functional agricultural land market that allows for the transferability of land use rights (such as buying, selling, or leasing land use rights), to ensure a simple and transparent land registration process, while promoting gender equality in rights and processes. The project focuses on land policy and legal development, private sector development, simplification of land registration procedures, and expansion of knowledge surrounding land use rights to rural governmental administrations and citizens, especially female landholders. USAID supports the Government of Tajikistan’s agrarian reform effort to increase agricultural productivity through the U.S. government’s Feed the Future initiative working to: strengthen land rights; expand the availability of quality agricultural inputs; crop diversification; and market development. The Feed the Future Tajikistan Land Market Development Activity supports the Feed the Future initiative, and continues USAID’s effort to support land reform and farm restructuring in Tajikistan, which began in 2004.
- Contact:
- Daler Asrorov, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Land Portal Foundation Core Operating Support
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 404,000
- Implementers
- Land Portal Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2018 Nov 2020
- Summary:
- Core operating support that will enable Land Portal to build: (1) a highly useable spatial data platform that showcases targeted, well-organized, and easy-to-find spatial datasets; (2) an improved level of access to data and information related to the SDG land indicators on the ‘Land & SDGs’ platform; and (3) core operational support.
- Contact:
- Laura Meggiolaro, Land Portal Foundation
- Website:
- Project weblink
Morocco
Land Productivity Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 172,000,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Morocco
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2017 Jul 2022
- Summary:
- MCC’s compact with Morocco includes a $172 million Land Productivity Project. This investment comprises three activities: a) a Land Governance Activity, which will support the development and implementation of a long-term land strategy to address governance and land market constraints to investment and productivity; b) a Rural Land Activity, which aims to increase rural productivity by streamlining the process for privatizing collective lands, while making it more inclusive and more protective of the rights of land holders, including women; and c) an Industrial Land Activity to transform the current state-driven process for developing industrial land to one that optimizes public investment and attracts private sector participation in the financing, development, management and operation of industrial zones.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, 202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
LAND Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 11,970,000
- Implementers
- Chemonics
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The goal of this project is to support Rwanda's long-term sustainability by strengthening the resilience of its citizens, communities, and institutions and their ability to adapt to land-related economic, environmental and social changes.
- Contact:
- Guillaume Bucyana, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tajikistan
Land Reform and Farm Restructuring Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Chemonics
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The objectives of the Tajikistan Land Reform and Farm Restructuring Project (LRFRP) are to support the continuing progress of dehkan farm restructuring and recognition of property rights leading to a market in land-use rights. The LRFRP will focus on policy and legal development, expanding awareness of land-use rights among rural government and citizen stakeholders, facilitating acquisition of land-use certificates, and building government capacity to effectively monitor and implement the land reform process.
- Contact:
- Suhrob Tursunov, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Afghanistan
Land Reform in Afghanistan (LARA)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 54,500,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The Land Reform in Afghanistan (LARA) project seeks to develop a robust, enduring, and Afghan-owned and managed land market framework that encourages investment and productivity growth, resolves/mitigates land-based conflict, and builds confidence in the legitimacy of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA). LARA provides technical assistance and support to GIRoA institutions that address land issues, particularly the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), the Supreme Court, and the Ministry of Urban Development Affairs (MUDA), and will create Afghan capacity to successfully design, manage, and implement needed land tenure reform for land market development.
- Contact:
- Jawid Tahiri, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tajikistan
Land Registration & Cadastre System for Sustainable Agriculture Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 10,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2005 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The project objective is to expand farm privatization to enable more rural people to become independent farmers and take management decisions in response to market forces, by providing them secure land use rights certificates distributed in a transparent and fair manner, and providing essential complementary support services.
Project components include: (i)Farm Privatization and Land Registration (i.e. privatize 300 Collective and State Farms (CSFs) in a transparent and fair manner, issue at least 75,000 secure land use certificates, and establish a uniform, parcel-based system of registration of land use rights by further supporting the central office of the State Land Committee in Dushanbe, upgrading four land offices to Regional Land Registration Offices (RLROs), establishing three new RLROs, and training staff to provide the required services). The project will finance equipment for surveying, mapping, digitization software and hardware, and training.activities include farm restructuring, reform of cadastre, surveying, titling and registration; (ii)Farm Information and Irrigation Support, to provide rural citizens with detailed information on the privatization process, including the land law, rules and regulations governing the allocations, and individual’s rights to farmland. It will train project area rural people and also support nation-wide campaigns through mass media programs, and booklet preparation and distribution, with a systematic approach to reach youth and women; and (iii)Project Management and Policy Support, by supporting the capacity development within the President’s Economic Advisor’ Office to enable Tajikistan to address national policy issues associated with scaling up the Farm Privatization Support Project approach. The policy support will include the establishment of a small policy unit, as well as technical assistance and training, to address land administration, cotton, water management, and other policy issues related to farm privatization. The policy support will also address the special issues associated with the de facto land redistribution during the civil war.
- Contact:
- Victoria Stanley, The World Bank, +1 (202) 458-7811
Turkey
Land Registration and Cadastre Modernization Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 278,000,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2008 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- The project objective is to contribute to improving the quality and effectiveness of public services through spreading and making effective e-government applications.
The specific objective of the proposed project is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the land registry and cadastre services. This will be achieved through: (i) renovating and updating cadastre maps to support digital cadastre and land registry information, (ii) making the digital land registry and cadastre information available to public and private entities, (iii) improving customer services in land registry and cadastre offices, (iv) improving human resources in the Turkish Land Registry and Cadastre Agency (TKGM), and (v) developing policies and capacity to introduce best international practices in property valuation.
- Contact:
- Anna Corsi, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Moldova
Land Registration and Property Valuation Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 35,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2019 Jun 2024
- Summary:
- To improve the quality and transparency of the land administration and property valuation systems.
Liberia
Land Rights and Access Threshold Program
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 7,100,000
- Implementers
- USAID
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2010 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The MCC Threshold Program for land rights and access seeks to: 1) increase clarity and public understanding of property rights issues in order to inform the land policy and law reform process; 2) rebuild management and public and private surveying capacity to improve future land administration; and 3) increase efficiency in deed registration, and restore, and improve deed records and procedures.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Land Technology Solutions
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 9,700,000
- Implementers
- SSG Advisors
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- The purpose of the Land Technology Solutions (LTS) Project is to improve land and resources governance and strengthen property rights for all members of society in developing countries, through the use of the Mobile Applications to Support Tenure (MAST) mobile technology.
- Contact:
- Ioana Bouvier, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Colombia
Land Tenure and Land governance: Resolution of land tenure goverance disputes in the National Protected Areas System in Colombia
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 4,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO and WWF
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2016 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- Increasing tenure security and goverance in and around 9 national protected areas to reduce social conflicts and support sustainable development. The project aims to contribute to the recognition of informal land rights and restitution of land for displaced populations.
- Contact:
- Joachim KNOTH, European Commission
Brazil
Land Tenure Regularization - Terra Legal II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,890,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Mar 2020
- Summary:
- Allocation of public land and land titling wihtin Terra Legal become more effective.
Niger
Land Tenure Security Sub-Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 9,800,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Niger
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Jan 2023
- Summary:
- MCC’s compact with Niger is expected to increase rural incomes by increasing the production capacity and sustainability of natural resources, and by improving select links of key agricultural product value chains. The compact will invest in integrated water management; new infrastructure, including small- and large-scale irrigation systems, market platforms and improved roads; sustainable management of natural resources; and sustainable agricultural production. These activities will benefit rural producers whose livelihoods are derived from the agriculture and livestock sectors. Central to the compact is a land tenure security component to help farmers and pastoralists have reliable, inclusive and long-term access to land improved under the compact. A transparent, participatory and fair allocation strategy of lands improved under the compact is essential to reduce the risk of land conflict. Activities to reinforce local land governance include, (i) development of local land tenure profiles, including mapping of land rights, (ii) development by local stakeholders of criteria for land allocation, (iii) formalization of the allocated land rights by obtaining the appropriate land titling instruments, iv) building capacity of local land governance agencies, v) development of local land use plans, and vi) reinforcement of mechanisms to improve management and resolution of land conflicts.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, 202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Land Tenure Services Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 39,500,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Mozambique
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2008 Sep 2013
- Summary:
- The objective of the Land Tenure Services Project is to establish more efficient and secure access to land by improving the policy framework, upgrading land information systems and services, helping beneficiaries meet immediate needs for registered land rights, and supporting better access to land for investment. This project comprises three mutually reinforcing activity areas:
•Policy Monitoring Pillar: Improve the policy environment by addressing implementation problems with the existing land law, conducting regulatory reviews to improve upon it, and supporting training for predictable, speedy resolution of disputes;
•Capacity Building Pillar: Build the institutional capacity to implement policies and to provide quality public land-related services by investing in human and information resources; and
•Site-specific Pillar: Facilitate access to land by helping individuals and businesses with clear information on land rights and access and with registering their grants-of-land use.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Land Use and Economic Development of the Niayes Region
- Donors:
- Canada
- Funding:
- USD 17,740,000
- Implementers
- Government of Senegal- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The goal of the Program for Land Use and Economic Development of Niayes (PADEN) is to help to increase production and marketing of onions, garlic, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, cabbages, limes, watermelons, mangoes, papayas, and strawberries in the Niayes region. The purpose of the project is to increase the incomes of 9,000 producers (women and men), to make them true entrepreneurs, and to protect the region’s natural resources. At least half of these producers are women. The current program builds on the achievements of previous CIDA projects in the horticultural and forestry sectors, and in strengthening producers’ organizations (both women and men). However, this new activity takes the form of a program-based approach. Five government technical services and eight rural communities are the project’s key partners, with the Directorate of Horticulture of the Ministry of Agriculture as the sponsoring ministry.
This program makes it possible to consolidate past activities, especially those involving the filao strip. Support activities are also needed for the whole sector that aims to strengthen producers’ organizations and certain public institutions. Finally, the program considers water research, agricultural and forest production, supply chain storage and packaging infrastructures, access to inputs and loans, and the regulatory environment (land use).
Land-Potential Knowledge System
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 5,000,000
- Implementers
- USDA-ARS
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS) aims to increase access to global and local land potential knowledge. The program is developing innovative mobile data collection, analysis methods, and tools to be used by farmers, pastoralists, governments, and development workers to sustainably increase agricultural production, biodiversity conservation, and improve climate change adaptation efforts and other ecosystem services. LandPKS uses mobile phone and cloud computing technologies to: Globalize access to local and scientific knowledge and information about land potential, Identify and deliver the knowledge and information relevant to each type of land/soil to anyone with a mobile phone, and Connect people with similar types of lands and challenges with each other to share learning and experiences.
- Contact:
- Ioana Bouvier, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil,Colombia,Indonesia
Land-use planning and sustainable biomass production for climate protection
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,100,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2010 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- In conformance with the EU Renewable Energy Sources Directive on sustainable production of liquid biomass and biofuels, the purpose of the project is to mitigate the negative consequences of uncontrolled land-use change (greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, negative climate impacts and land-use conflicts) for the purpose of biomass cultivation in Indonesia, Colombia and Brazil. The affected regions will be mapped and methods developed for the identification of carbon-rich areas. The project goal is to provide support to decision-making processes in connection with the creation of new and the expansion of existing plantations, in the interests of climate protection and nature conservation. In addition, policy advisory services on land use (LUC/ILUC) will be provided and the results made available to decision-makers in the partner countries as well as at European level.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 64,500,000
- Implementers
- FAO, Transparancy International, KPMG, Oxford Policy Management, DAI Eurpe, Overseas Development Institute, IBRD, Columbia University, Cadasta Foundation, GIZ, Rights and Resources Institute, Namati, Landesa, Land Portal, Global Land Alliance
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- The project supports country offices to set up and implement new land programmes by funding programme scoping and design, and providing expert 3rd party advice during implementation; supporting a range of global level activities covering improved private sector land investment, land information and knowledge and land rights protection.
- Contact:
- Chris Penrose-Buckley, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil,Ethiopia,Indonesia,Mozambique,Netherlands,Uganda,South Africa
LANDac Land Forum
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 372,000
- Implementers
- LANDac Netherlands Academy on Land Governance
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2013 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- With the LANDac Land Forum we aim to discuss in a multi-stakeholder platform under what conditions foreign and domestic agribusiness can contribute to food security and inclusive and sustainable development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invite a small selection of policy makers, civil society representatives, researchers and private sector stakeholders for three Forums (to be held in 2013, 2014 and 2015) during which they address this issue based on their own experiences on the ground.
- Contact:
- Gemma Betsema, LANDac, +31655787023
- Website:
- Project weblink
Landesa
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 24,900,000
- Implementers
- Landesa
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2008 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- Landesa empowers the world's rural poor by providing them with opportunities to obtain secure property rights and achieve greater security, stability, and wealth.
With a team of experts in land law and policy, Landesa specializes in developing public-private collaborations to help rural families access land and gain legal literacy. It works with governments, foreign aid agencies, and other partners to reform land law and build the local legal capacity necessary to ensure that property rights are granted and protected.
Omidyar Network’s support of Landesa allows the organization to raise awareness about land rights issues, directly help marginalized populations in developing countries to obtain secure titles to their land, and enable legislation that protects property rights in these countries.
Laos
Landmanagement and Rural Economic Development
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 10,230,000
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2011 Oct 2014
- Summary:
- Implementation of cross-divisional strategies and actions for pro-poor rural development on national and regional level.
Landmapp
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 1,060,000
- Implementers
- Meridia
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Dec 2018
Landmapp
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 1,060,000
- Implementers
- Meridia
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Based in the Netherlands and Ghana, Meridia is an end-to-end solution for land and property documentation for individuals and communities in emerging markets, where accurate maps and effective land administration systems do not often exist.
Meridia’s platform combines widely available technology with a carefully trained workforce and clear understanding of local legal and administrative systems. Since launching in 2015, the company has worked with smallholder farmers, homeowners, commodity buyers, land investors, and governments to clarify land and property boundaries and leverage its economic potential. The company has developed an app that combines GPS-based survey data with basic administrative details and an oral history of how the land came to be acquired and owned.
Omidyar Network is funding Meridia to assist in developing the organization into a sustainable and replicable model and to demonstrate the value placed on property rights by the people who need them most. Learn more about why we invested in Meridia.
Nepal
Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme (LFLP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 6,500,000
- Implementers
- Department of Forests of the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2005 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme was to reduce poverty by allocating leasehold forestry plots to about 44,300 households in the mid-hills area of Nepal, thus enabling them to increase their income from forest products and livestock. Specifically the programme addresses leasehold forestry and group formation, livestock development, rural financial services, and programme management and coordination.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions intended to provide support for district planning and coordination; group formation and forest allocation; land and forest development; forest implementation support and social mobilisation, including women which receive trainings for group management and rural finance.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kyrgyzstan
Legal Assistance for Kyrgyz farmers
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 1,900,000
- Implementers
- Legal Assistance for Rural Citizens
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The NGO Legal Assistance for Rural Citizens (LARC) helps farmers and rural poor to claim and protect their tenure rights in rural Kyrgyzstan
- Contact:
- Website:
- Project weblink
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Leistung eines Beitrags zur Nahrungsmittelsicherheit in der DR Kongo
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,920,000
- Implementers
- HSS
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The fair access to land is secured. Strengthening of the agricultural conditions for the civil society in the areas of agricultural structures and innovations. National and local community structures are strengthened.
Cameroon
LGAF (Land Governance assessment framework)
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 32,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- to create the technical, legal and social conditions that give legal security with respect to land property within the framework of sustainable development
Liberia
Liberia Land Administration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 7,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2018 Oct 2022
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Liberia Land Authority and establish a land administration system.
- Contact:
- Linus Pott, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Lindi and Mtwara Agribusiness Support project LIMAS
- Donors:
- Finland
- Funding:
- USD 9,982,980
- Implementers
- Niras
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Lindi and Mtwara Agribusiness Support project ‘LIMAS’ is a bilateral development project, funded jointly by the Governments of Tanzania and Finland. The project is implemented in accordance with the development policies of the two Governments, MKUKUTA in Tanzania and Finnish Development Policy, which both target at poverty alleviation and include gender equity, sustainable use of natural resources, adaptation and resilience to climate change and reducing of inequalities and as central cross-cutting objectives.LIMAS is being implemented in Newala and Liwale and their neighbouring Districts in Mtwara and Lindi regions. The project started with an inception phase in late 2010. The implementation commenced in July 2011 will continue till December 2015. This includes a non-cost extension of 16.5 months.
- Contact:
- Mr. Matti Tervo, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, +358(0)295350000
- Website:
- Project weblink
Moldova
Line maps for development and flood risk areas
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,657,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- to produce terrain models and line maps for area of Moldova most at risk for floods, as the basis for emergency preparedness
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nigeria
LINKS - 'Powering Economic Growth in Northern Nigeria'
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- British High Commission (Nigeria), World Bank, IBRD
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2018 Mar 2026
- Summary:
- The project builds on GEMS (III) but focuses in specific geographic areas under more cross cutting models.In addition to inclusive economic growth, the programme will aim to include environmental benefits from renewable energy and improved agricultural land and water use planning, as well as easing the tensions that lead to conflict.
Ethiopia
Livelihood improvement through sustainable resource management in North Gondar
- Donors:
- Austria
- Funding:
- USD 923,260
- Implementers
- Amhara National Regional State Bureau of Finance and Economic Development
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Apr 2016
- Summary:
- The overall objective of the programme is the improvement of livelihood opportunities and resilience of selected rural communities in North Gondar through sustainable resource management. The programme promotes integrated watershed management, improved rural land administration and access to land for poor farmers and vulnerable groups, sustainable agricultural/livestock production and marketing, including diversification of livelihood opportunities.
India
Livelihoods and Access to Markets Project (LAMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 307,000
- Implementers
- Meghalaya Basin Management Agency (MBMA)
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve household incomes and the quality of life in rural areas through enterprise facilitation centres in all of Meghalaya's 39 subdistricts. These centres will support around 47,400 enterprises. With regard to land and NR governance, the project will collect information on current practices and create maps based on satellite data.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kyrgyzstan
Livestock and Market Development Programme (LMDP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,390,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Melioration
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2013 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- The programme aims to increase livestock productivity in the regions of Issyk-Kul, Naryn Oblasts, Batken, Jalal-abad to enhance climate resilience reflected in improved and equitable returns to livestock farmers, directly benefiting 154,075 households.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to support legal and regulatory reforms as well as sustainable pasture management. It provides support for the collection of pasture user fees and for boundary demarcation. The programme has been fruitful and thus is being expanded to more regions and more households in the LMDP II.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kyrgyzstan
Livestock and Market Development Programme II (LMDP II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 5,365,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Melioration
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- The programme is building on the positive experience of LMDP I and expanding the activities to increase livestock productivity in the regions of Issyk-Kul, Naryn Oblasts, Batken, Jalal-abad and Osh region of Osh to enhance climate resilience reflected in improved and equitable returns to livestock farmers, directly benefiting 304,000 households.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme provides support for legal and regulatory reforms as well as sustainable pasture management. It aims to collect pasture user fees and support boundary demarcation. One of the efforts was the support of the development of the new Pasture Law which provides the legal basis for community-based pasture management. The project supports the preparation of Community Pasture Management Plans (CPMPs) by Pasture Committees (PCs) which set out a five-year plan of pasture management, improvement and investment. The aim is to help achieve maximum pasture utilization rates based on improved methods of pasture health assessment and monitoring.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tajikistan
Livestock and Pasture Development Project - I
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,645,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2011 Sep 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims at increasing the nutritional status and incomes of targeted households by sustainably enhancing livestock productivity. In particular, the project will focus on: Institutional development, Livestock and pasture development. It works in selected districts of the Khatlon Oblast benefiting some 22,400 poor households from 100 villages, and targets smallholder livestock farmers, private veterinary service providers and small-scale entrepreneurs with the potential to provide services to smallholder farmers, woman-headed households and women belonging to poor households.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions focus on Pasture management and aim at establishing and strengthening Pasture User Associations (PUAs) and at developing Community Livestock and Pasture Development Plans (CLPDPs) to collect and analyse the information on land balance to ensure access to the legal pastureland use rights and to transfer legal rights for all types of pastures to the PUAs for at least 10 years.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tajikistan
Livestock and Pasture Development Project - II
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,687,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2015 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase the nutritional status and incomes of 22,400 poor households in four districts of the Khatlon region by sustainably enhancing livestock productivity and climate resilience in a sustainable matter. Special attention will be given to woman-headed households and women belonging to poor households. Land and natural resource governance related interventions aim at securing land tenure by strengthening Pasture Users’ Union and through the titling of land user right certificates. The goal is to issuing 160 land use rights agreements to the Pasture Users' Union. This should lead to the reduction of disputes regarding access to pastures by 50%. The programme will also support the implementation of Tajikistan’s Pasture Law on different levels.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sudan
Livestock Marketing and Resilience Programme (LMRP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rangelands
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2015 Mar 2022
- Summary:
- This programme aims to increase the food security, incomes and climate resilience of 100,000 poor households in livestock-based and pastoralist communities in selected localities in the five states of West Kordofan, North Kordofan, White Nile, Sennar and Blue Nile.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme intends to complete the stock route network through demarcation and restoration and to officially register the delineated/restored routes. Furthermore these routes are planned to be linked to the State Range and Pasture Administration, which would take on the responsibility to maintain/monitor the investments and respond appropriately in case of violation/damage. Capacity building activities for rural community institutions are planned to sensitize leaders at grassroots level, particularly concerning land tenure issues in relation to gender and youth. Another possible field of intervention for this programme could be the creation of "Hemas", a traditional system of resource tenure, to conserve and manage sustainably rehabilitated rangelands through community agreements of social fencing.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mali
Local Democratic Governance Phase 3, 2014-2017
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 11,000,000
- Implementers
- Diakonia, SNV, Norwegian Church Aid, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The intervention aims to improve inclusiveness and accountability of land governance and prevent conflict linked to land management in Mali. Expected results are:
1) Improved performance of local land management arrangements;
2) Improved ownership of local government authorities in land and natural resources management;
3) Improved performance of citizen control for accountability between stakeholders involved in land and natural resource management;
4) lmproved sustainable use of agricultural land and other natural resources (forests, grazing, water).
- Contact:
- Désiré Ballo, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida/Asdi)
West Bank / Gaza
Local Governance Reform Programme
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- May 2012 Jun 2018
Philippines
Local Institution Participation towards Livelihood Empowerment of the Mangyan Indigenous Peoples of Occidental Mindoro
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,340,000
- Implementers
- Plan International UK Ltd
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2009 Feb 2014
- Summary:
- Livelihoods development, community empowerment, building the capacity of local institutions, sustainable natural resources and ancestral domain management amongst Mangyans.
Indonesia
Locally appropriate mitigation actions in Indonesia (LAMA-I): strengthening district-level capacity for reducing land-based emissions and greening of economy within RAD-GRK (NAMA) policy coordinated by National Planning and Development Agency
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,300,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Nov 2017
- Summary:
- LAMA-I will support Indonesia’s global leadership in reducing land-based emissions through an integrated NAMA/REDD+ approach by strengthening capacity for local governments to combine development and spatial planning and to synergize climate-change mitigation and adaptation actions through multiple stakeholder negotiations. A recent Presidential Decree mandates all local government levels to develop plans as part of Indonesia's NAMA, but capacity to do so is unevenly distributed. Under the guidance of the National Planning and Development Agency (Bappenas), the project will improve the methods that can be used at local government level and support capacity strenghening in strategically selected districts and provinces.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
LSNSA – Land Election and Peace Bridging Programme, project support to Land Development and Governance Institute (LDGI)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 750,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Improving dialogue among new land institutions; capacity building; raising public awareness on land laws and policies; monitoring land reforms implementation prior to, during, and after the election
India
Madhya Pradesh Urban Infrastructure Investment Project (MPUIIP)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) who are the lead, The Urban Administration and Development Department (UADD), a Municipal Strengthening Unit (MSU) established under the UADD. The Madhya Pradesh Urban Infrastructure Fund will be responsible for catalysing private sector resources.
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project focuses on urban governance, green infrastructure growth, catalysing private capital for infrastructure delivery, and a technical and management support including a Safe Cities initiative. It aims to provide sustained and equitable basic services and infrastructure.
- Contact:
- Joy Assey, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Madhya Pradesh Urban Services for the Poor (MPUSP)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Government of Madhya Pradesh
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2006 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Strengthen governance at state and urban local government levels to enable affordable and sustainable access to basic services, especially by poor people.
- Contact:
- Abhijit ray, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guyana
Mainstreaming sustainable land manangement
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 15,100,000
- Implementers
- Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC); FAO
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2018 Apr 2022
- Summary:
- Support the development of a harmonized national land policy and legislative framework and strengthened capacity of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC), and partner Ministries and agencies through: the design and development of an integrated and robust spatial data infrastructure and open-data geospatial information system to support improved land administration, enhanced governance of tenure, as well as improved technical support services and mechanisms to encourage adoption of sustainable and climate-smart land use systems and management practices including application and enforcement of regulations, incentive measures, knowledge sharing as well as assessment and monitoring in line with the SDGs.
- Contact:
- Sally Bunning, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Fiji,Kiribati,Solomon Islands,Tonga,Tuvalu,Vanuatu
Managing marine and coastal biodiversity in Pacific island states and atolls
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 11,854,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Jul 2018
- Summary:
- The objective of this project is to improve the management of the marine and coastal biodiversity of high volcanic islands (Fiji, Solomons, Vanuatu) and flat atolls (Kiribati, Tonga, Tuvalu). The project will undertake economic analyses of marine and coastal ecosystems (TEEB) in six partner countries as well as regionally (Ocean – TEEB) and incorporate the results into national development planning. It will also spatially expand marine protected area systems, target them towards preserving ecosystems and demonstrate approaches to effective management in pilot areas, including payment for environmental ecosystem services. The project results will be applied in communities across the Pacific through regional organisations. Preserving marine and coastal biodiversity has positive impacts on climate change adaptation, carbon storage and the livelihoods of the population.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ukraine
Maps for good land governance
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 4,400,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- This project aims at establishing a public service for precise use of GPS technology for surveying and mapping, and a digital base map for the whole territory of Ukraine including occupied areas, with a data content and accuracy equivalent to scale 1:50 000. This corresponds to what exists in most other European countries.
Challenges and justification for project
Ukraine has a territory of 603.000 km2, of which as much as 2/3 are arable land. Sustainable land management is crucial to economic development. Maps are indispensable for land- and territorial management as well as for many other purposes in public and private sectors. Up-to-date maps are available for 20 % only, and these maps are not integrated into a user oriented electronic service. For the remaining 80 % there are only old maps from the Soviet time.
Maps are not easily available to users in Ukraine. As in most other European countries, basic maps should be made available on the Internet and harmonized with other thematic data, according to the concept of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Despite that Ukraine is not an EU member, the Government wants to implement their NSDI in accordance with the EU Inspire directive.
Activities
1.Preparation of digital map for the whole territory of Ukraine and a solution for distribution of the maps for good governance, land use planning and sustainable land management, as well as for implementation and reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
2.Establishing a network of ground stations needed for a public service supporting precise use of GPS technology for boundary surveys, etc. building on the previous project.
Components
1.Produce new maps using satellite images to update existing old maps. This will include making a product specification to ensure that the data is structured for optimal use, and will include verification and upgrading of the data model for the database, which will hold the maps.
2.The second component of the project is to integrate the existing digital maps and the updated old maps into a single seamless database.
3.The third component is to establish a solution for efficient access to the maps and satellite images for all users in Ukraine. This should be done in accordance with the concept of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure, in line with European standards outlined in the EU INSPIRE directive and adjacent standards and guidelines. This will lead to a more transparent and efficient land administration in Ukraine.
4.The fourth component of the project is to establish a network of ground stations and a related public service (Ukrainian Positioning System = UAPOS), supporting precise use of GPS technology. It is proposed to start the establishment of UAPOS with 90 reference stations, prioritizing areas with the most intensive development and active land market, and with a central control facility at the SALR premises in Kiev. A business plan for the service will also be developed to ensure sustainability. The system will improve the surveying and mapping of parcel boundaries, thus improving public services to the emerging markets in land and reduce conflicts over ownership, which is a massive problem after restitution of private ownership to land. This corresponds to the situation in Norway and in many other European countries, where the State operates a high quality and strictly controlled service in addition to private positioning services.
5.The fifth component of the project is training, capacity building and awareness raising. The training focuses on improving the capacity of the StateGeoCadastre to efficiently implement all activities of the project. Awareness campaigns will focus on informing public institutions and other users about the availability of maps and related terms for use. Such maps are an indispensable information resource for good governance, and are urgently needed for many purposes in Ukraine; inter alia, for land management, environmental planning and reporting, for improvements to infrastructure, for water management, for adaptation and mitigation of effects of climate change, as well as for a wide range of other usage at all levels of public sector, and in private sector.
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Georgia
Maps for sustainable land management
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,109,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Orthophotos for areas prone to flooding in Georgia
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in Zanzibar, ZAN-SDI (28235797 )
- Donors:
- Finland
- Funding:
- USD 781,000
- Implementers
- SYKE (Finnish Environment Institute)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The Overall Objective (intended long-term impact) of the Project is improved utilisation of geospatial information in spatial planning and management in Zanzibar. The Project will improve access to spatial information and thus possibilities for inter-agency cooperation and public participation in environmental and other spatial planning and management processes. Easy access to spatial information is a precondition for private sector involvement in economic development, participatory democracy, good governance (transparency), reduction of inequalities and fair sharing of benefits from natural resources, which all contribute to poverty reduction. More efficient data sharing will create savings by reducing duplication of work by various agencies. In particular, accurate coastal and marine spatial data also support the planning of adaptation to climate change, which is imperative for small islands communities like Zanzibar. The project lasts for 3 years from 2016-2018 and its budget is 719 000 €.
Results areas are:
1) Increased capacity for developing and maintaining the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
2) Increased capacity for ecosystem-based planning and management of coastal zones, maritime activities and the marine environment
3) Improved geospatial capacities at partner organisations
- Contact:
- Mr. Matti Tervo, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Market Strengthening and Livelihood Diversification in the Southern Highlands Project (SIERRA SUR)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Agro Rural (of the Ministry of Agriculture)
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2005 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- This project worked with 15,000 poor Quechua and Aymara families in Sierra Sur, the southern highlands of Peru, with the aim to help improve the quality of their products, preserve their traditional knowledge and improve natural resource management to diversify their sources of income.
On land and natural resource governance, the Project Implementation Unit coordinated with local authorities and institutions to establish and co-financing mechanisms, including complementary projects and programmes aimed at land titling and records. The project provided support for participatory territorial planning and for the preparation of maps, talking maps, cultural maps and models to represent the natural resource base in the project area.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Paraguay
Mejora de los procedimientos catastrales municipales
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 95,000
- Implementers
- geAm, Environmental Management for Sustainable Development of Paraguay
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2005 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims to promote the improvement of the institutional links between the National Cadastre and municipalities in the generation, processing, evaluation and integration of the cadastral system information.
- Contact:
- Eduardo Bogado, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cambodia,Laos,Burma,Vietnam
Mekong Region land governance
- Donors:
- Germany,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 12,790,000
- Implementers
- Land Equity International, GRET, GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2014 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- The Mekong region Land Governance programme aims at supporting farming families, especially those belonging to ethnic minorities, in securing their equitable access to, and control over agricultural land, forests and fisheries. The programme aims at strengthening the effectiveness of reform actors through learning, alliance building and regional cooperation with a view to assisting in the emergence of more equitable and sustainable policies and practices in the region.
- Contact:
Micro Aerial Projects LLC
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 747,000
- Implementers
- Micro Aerial Projects LLC
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2018 Feb 2019
- Summary:
- Micro Aerial Projects LLC’s mission is to identify sustainable and appropriate civilian geospatial applications of unmanned or remotely controlled aerial vehicles and to support and provide efficient, cost effective, safe and responsible geo-spatial solutions. Micro Aerial Projects has trained, advised and provided Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions for purposes of topographical and cadastral land surveys, high resolution mapping, resettlement action plans, and agricultural monitoring among many others. Micro Aerial Projects aims to establish a body of competence, promote policy reform, and increase awareness of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) mapping potential.
Omidyar Network is supporting Micro Aerial Projects to pioneer drone mapping for cadastral surveys in three markets – the Philippines, Colombia, and Ghana. Micro Aerial Projects will create localized capacity and build evidence in each country for the effective utilization of drones for property mapping. Micro Aerial Projects hopes to use evidence from pilot projects to demonstrate how drones can be deployed for cadastral surveying on a global scale.
Uzbekistan
Modernization of Real Property Registration and Cadastre
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 20,000,000
- Timeframe:
- May 2016 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The Project's Development Objective is to establish an efficient and accessible real property registration and cadastre system in the Republic of Uzbekistan as part of the national eGovernment structure and services. The project will achieve this by: (i) improving business processes and customer orientation in the real property registry and cadastre; (ii) creating a fully digital real property registry and cadastre system (i.e. IISRPRC) accessible online to the public; (iii) improving the regulatory and operational environment of the real property registry and cadastre; (iv) facilitating spatial data access, exchange and sharing at national level; and (v) raising awareness on the importance of real property rights.
- Contact:
- Anna Corsi, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Slovenia
Modernization of spatial data infrastructure to reduce risks and impacts of floods
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 241,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project’s long term goal is to facilitate water management and reduce flood risks and impacts with increased EC INSPIRE directive compliance of data and data services needed. It will be reached with establishment of vertical component of geodetic reference frame and combined vertical/horizontal geodetic network, improvement of quality of geodetic reference frame and it’s compliance with INSPIRE requirements on coordinate reference system (CRS), with INSPIRE compliance and extension of territorial coverage of topographic data, especially on hydrography and with establishment of INSPIRE network spatial data services to provide necessary data to the processes of flood risk assessment and spatial planning.
- Contact:
- Olaf Østensen, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zambia
Modernization of the agricultural sector in Zambia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 800,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Dec 2023
- Summary:
- The One World - No Hunger funds will be used to set up a leasing company for the agricultural sector in Zambia. The target group of this company are small farmers who want to modernize their cultivation method by purchasing equipment (eg tractors, cultivators or trailers).
Mozambique
MOLA (Mozambique Land Action)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 8,440,000
- Implementers
- Climate Technology Centre & Network
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2015 Oct 2019
- Summary:
- To build on previous DFID-supported programming on promoting land tenure security for Mozambicans, so that investors, State and communities can share the benefits of Mozambique’s natural resources.
The programme has a dual focus on: i) improving economic resilience of rural based livelihoods and ii) increasing public demand for better land administration at local level.
- Contact:
- Tiago d Valladares Pacheco, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Moldova
Moldova Cadastre System
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,768,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Property Registration system, coooperation with the national bureau for statistics
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority, +47 9843 5259
Morocco
Morocco Economic Competitiveness (MEC) project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- The Objective of the MEC Program is to provide technical assistance to improve Morocco Economic Enabling Environment. Economic growth in Morocco, and improved youth employment in particular, depends on the nation’s ability to be competitive in the global economy, which in turn requires that the barriers to productivity improvements as well as to trade and investment be reduced. Achieving this objective requires that the economic enabling environment in Morocco be improved, that the nation’s scarce water resources be sustainably used for agriculture, and that the workforce possesses the skills required by a modern economy. Improving capital and labor productivity is key to more accelerated economic growth in Morocco.
- Contact:
- Tamika Cameron, USAID
Mozambique
Mozambique Land Administration Project (Terra Segura)
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 100,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2018 Mar 2024
- Summary:
- The objective of the Land Administration Project is to strengthen land tenure security in selected districts and improve the efficiency and accessibility of land administration services.
- Contact:
- Anna Corsi, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Mozambique Support Program for Economic and Enterprise Development (SPEED)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 19,000,000
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- SPEED updated a legal framework manual on land, to ensure investor's rights over land and the returns of private investment: http://www.speed-program.com/our-work/by-topic/competitiveness/legal-framework-on-rural-land
- Website:
- Project weblink
South Africa
Mpumalanga Rural Development Programme (MRDP)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 7,760,000
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2009 Mar 2013
- Summary:
- The strategies for rural development and the mechanisms of cooperation of the sector authorities in the province of Mpumalanga have improved and are being implemented on the local level under the direction of the Ministry of Agriculture
Nepal
Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme
- Donors:
- Switzerland,United Kingdom,Finland
- Funding:
- USD 11,081,000
- Implementers
- Services Support Unit
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- The Multi Stakeholder Forestry Programme (MSFP) aims to improve livelihoods and resilience of poor and disadvantaged people in Nepal. It will also develop the contribution of Nepal’s forestry sector to inclusive economic growth, poverty reduction, and tackling climate change. The programme aims to bring an estimated 1.7 million people out of poverty by working with existing and new forestry groups of various kinds and creating an additional 80,000 jobs.
Four outcomes are anticipated by the end of the programme:
1. Government and non-state actors (civil society, NGOs, communities and the private sector) jointly and effectively implementing inclusive forest sector strategies, policies and plans
2. Private sector (farmers, entrepreneurs and financial institutions) increase investment and jobs in the forestry sector
3. Rural communities – especially poor, disadvantaged and climate vulnerable people and households - benefit from local forest management and other investments
4. Forest and trees sustainably managed and monitored by government, communities and private sector and climate resilient.
- Contact:
- Ms. Jetta Kuivalainen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Multi-Stakeholders Forestry Programme
- Donors:
- European Union,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 16,000,000
- Implementers
- TBC
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Ensuring good governance and policies regarding forestry and forest management. This programme is a stand-alone forestry programme. It is ongoing.
- Contact:
- Neil Scotland, DFID
Colombia
Multipurpose Cadaster Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 100,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2019 Jan 2025
- Summary:
- The objective of Multipurpose Cadaster Project for Colombia is to establish the multipurpose cadaster in the selected municipalities to strengthen tenure security and provide access to cadaster information.
- Contact:
- Ivonne Moreno, World Bank
Brazil
Municipal agreement for reduction of deforestation
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 6,579,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The project aims at supporting the efforts of the government to reduce deforestation and to provide local authorities and other stakeholders with adequate tools for effective environmental and territorial management.
Montenegro
Municipal Land Management
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,310,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2008 Oct 2013
- Summary:
- Communal planning and administration as well as legal security have improved, based on a well-functioning cadastral register
Kosovo
Municipal Spatial Planning Project , Kosovo, phase III
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 4,800,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Development of municipal development plans, capacity building of planners and other staff through training-on-the-job. Support to pilot investments to realize some prioritised activities (50% cost sharing). Smaller component, capacity building of the national ministry and the spatial planning institute.
Namibia
Namibian Water Sector Programme
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 490,000
- Implementers
- Stockholm International Water Institute SIWI/Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- contribute to an increased capacity within the Namibian water sector. This will be done through developing human and institutional capacity amongst the key agencies responsible for water management and service provision in Namibia, hereby represented by the Department of water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) and the Namibia Water Corporation (Namwater)
Gambia, The
National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project (NEMA)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 150,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to increase the incomes of rural women and young people, among 22,860 households, through improved productivity, based on sustainable land and water management practices in six regional agricultural directorates: Central River, North Central River South, West Coast, North Bank, Upper River and Lower River regions. It aims to support the commercialization of rice and vegetable production by incentivising private sector participation. Further it strives to improve productivity of scarce agricultural lands through investments in land and water resources, vegetable gardens and access roads, coupled with farmers' capacity to manage their productive assets.
Land and natural resource governance activities target especially women through kafos, as these institutions facilitate independent access to land, farm equipment, credit and training for their members.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Eritrea
National Agriculture Project (NAP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 350,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The goal of the project is to sustainably raise smallholder farmers' productivity through improved water resources and integrated agricultural production. The project is national in scope, targeting 81,292 poor and food-insecure households with particular attention to households headed by women, which will receive priority in land allocation in new irrigation zones. It supports the intensification of irrigated and rain-fed crop production through the provision of fertilizers, agrochemicals, improved seeds, conservation agriculture trials.
Land and natural resource governance related activities include the promotion of small livestock investments for the lowest-income earners and women with limited access to land. The project will set-out guidelines for agricultural development aiming at optimizing production and productivity through an integrated watersheds management.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Comoros
National Programme for Sustainable Human Development (PNDHD)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 690,000
- Implementers
- IFAD
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2007 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme was to fight against poverty in the poorest areas of the Comorian rural population (Ngazidja, Moheli, Anjouan) and establish a Community system management and sustainable exploitation of natural capital, while providing 10,000 beneficiary households with increased agricultural productivity, it will improve incomes, the food situation and living conditions of the households.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme goal was to strengthen governance at the local and community level and good land management. It introduced a pilot for land tenure security for the first three years of its operation, it supported the rehabilitation of land, sustainable land management at the local level including environmental conservation and agricultural production, livestock development and promotion of artisanal fisheries. Women's access to land was recognized as a priority. The political dialogue focused on women's access to land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guinea
National Programme to Support Agricultural Value Chain Actors (PNAAFA)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 850,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Breeding
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2004 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to improve the structure of federations, unions and other groupings of farmer organizations, to provide capacity building for members and extend financial assistance for the development of specific value chains. The programme gives particular attention to women and young people and will benefit 66,000 households in five of the seven prefectures of the region including those of forest: Beyla, Nzerekore, Macenta, Lola and Yomou, where there is a total 20 rural communities.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme supports the prioritization of girls and boys (including academics) and head of household women in the distribution of irrigated land; the institutionalization and implementation of regulations promoting the empowerment of women and youth in decision-making bodies and the negotiation with landowners to facilitate access to land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
National REDD+ system, Philippines
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 7,300,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Apr 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims at creating a national framework for reducing greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation. The target groups are those responsible for REDD+ in the environment ministry, national and local government authorities as well as the populations who are dependent on forests, primarily indigenous groups. Measures include the establishment of a national implementation and coordination system (REDD+ register, governance structures); the development of REDD+ financial and participation mechanisms; extensive forest-related land-use planning in selected regions as a prerequisite for zoning and establishing land-use rights; the integration of ecological and social standards in implementing REDD+ measures; and awareness-raising and information/knowledge management.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guatemala
National Rural Development Programme Central and Eastern Regions (ORIENTE)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,800,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Nutrition (MAGA)
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2008 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims to improve productivity and infrastructure to integrate 6,000 disadvantaged households into the country's social and economic mainstream in the central and eastern regions of Guatemala (El Progreso, Zacapa, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Santa Rosa, Cuilapa). It also builds up the role of rural grass-roots organizations, involving participants in planning and managing activities, to complement Guatemala's decentralization programme. Special attention is given to creating income-earning opportunities for women and to empowering women in general.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to empower rural poor populations and improve their self-esteem, so they may actively and systematically participate in planning. The programme provides support for land titling processes for rural women and for strengthening the decentralization process (in municipalities) through training in rural development, management, decentralization, participation and gender.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burma
Native Development in Southern Shan Townships Affected by Opi-um Poppy Cultivation
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,980,000
- Implementers
- UNODC, GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- The aim is to provide an alternative to the cultivation of breadseed poppy in the communities of the southern Shan state.
Belize,Guatemala,Mexico
Natural forest Maya (KfW)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 980,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The ecosystem functions and cultural values of the Selva Maya, which ensure the prosperity of their inhabitants and provide environmental services of global importance, are maintained.
Rwanda
Natural resources and environment project in Rwanda
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 13,720,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Support within the Country Strategy sector "Environment and Natural Resources" to land administration including a community based system of Land Tenure Registration. The program is mainly capacity building in nature seeking to enhance human, institutional and technical capacities.
Mauritania
Natural Resources Management Program
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,600,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Maintenance of biodiversity, sustainable management of natural resources as well as mitigation to climate change are improved in Mauritania.
Nepal
Nepal Community Land Rights Project
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 250,000
- Implementers
- Community Self Reliance Center (CSRC).
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- This project aims to increase land poor, women and small farmers' access to lands and promote sustainable use of such lands ultimately to improve livelihoods and food security of target groups. It plans to achieve this aim by enhancing knowledge, skills and capacity of community members on land rights and land reform; improving participation in and effectiveness of community land governance; ensuring and increase land poor, women and small farmers' access to land (particularly fallow public and private lands) and promote their sustainable use; developing and implementing land and agrarian reform plan at community level.
- Website:
- Project weblink
New Forset Markets Programme
- Donors:
- European Union,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 97,400,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- This programme will combine “demand-side” actions in European and other consumer countries, and “supply-side” actions in producer countries to support governance and market reforms that reduce the illegal use of forest resources and benefit the poor. Land is one component of this programme. It is ongoing.
- Contact:
- Neil Scotland, DFID
Nicaragua
Nicaragua Property Rights Strengthening Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 50,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2018 Mar 2024
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to provide beneficiaries in selected municipalities with: (a) updated and integrated cadastral and property registry information; and (b) improved land administration services.
India
North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project for Uplands Areas (NERCORMP II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- North East Council (NEC)
- Timeframe:
- Apr 1997 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The project, built on the first phase, has the goal to improve the livelihood of vulnerable groups in a sustainable manner through improved management of their natural resource base. It aims to address the existing issues of inefficient government service mechanism in the livelihood sector and the absence of ideal development projects in the north-east region of India benefiting 23,000 households.
Land related activities describe the bottom-up model as the project emphasizes on active community participation in the planning and implementation processes. The formation of community building organisations are a key to implementation - Natural Resource Management Groups and Self Help Groups, predominantly of women members, are formed in the project villages for this purpose.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mali
Northern Regions Investment and Rural Development Programme (PIDRN)
- Donors:
- Belgium,Sweden,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,185,000
- Implementers
- Commissariat on Food Security
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2006 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The programme goal was to reduce poverty and vulnerability among the rural people of 14 communes along the Niger River in North Mali. To this end, it helped to build the capacity of local governance bodies (particularly at the community level) to lead a participatory development process benefiting the most vulnerable groups; it strengthened grass-roots organizations’ capacity to manage programme-financed investments in an efficient manner; it improved access to basic services and supported the promotion of policies for rural poverty reduction. Further it realized 1400 ha of Village Irrigated Perimeters (PIV).
With regard to land natural resource governance the project supported the prevention of conflicts related to the exploitation of natural resources. Landowners were committed to develop the land available to their community. The town refereed the equitable allocation of developed land, particularly the inclusion of women, youth and the most disadvantaged groups.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Laos
Northern Uplands Development Programme (NUDP)
- Donors:
- European Union,France,Germany,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 10,720,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Planning and Investment
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The programme support participatory land use planning, registration of land at community and family levels, land use zoning and suitability mapping, legal awareness of populations, improvement of land concessions approval and management systems, improvement of land conflict resolution mechanisms, and establishment of a land information management system.
another composant of the programme aims at enhancing local governance and planning, support integrated planning procedures as well as the development of tools enabling GoL officers to deal with local private investments and to align project interventions
- Contact:
West Bank / Gaza
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC): Legal Assistance to prevent demolitions and displacement in the OPTs
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 8,400,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- To provide legal aid to Palestinians in Area C, East Jerusalem and Gaza so that they are better able to uphold their Housing, Land and Property rights. This will benefit some 14,600 people and reduce the number of demolitions of Palestinian property and displacement from East Jerusalem and Area C. This contributes towards our goals of maintaining the viability of a two state solution and reducing poverty and vulnerability of Palestinians.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
NUFFIC: Development of Geographic Information Sciences based Education and Research Program (NPT and NICHE)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 5,050,000
- Implementers
- National University of Rwanda and ITC
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2005 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Strengthen the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to serve as a training and research centre in the field of Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing, in order to address the issues of rural economic transformation and poverty reduction in Rwanda.
- Contact:
- , NUFFIC, +31 (0)70 - 426 02 60
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guatemala
NUFFIC: Fortalecimiento de la Formación de Recursos Humanos en Administración de Tierras en Guatemala (Strengthening/capacity building of human resources in land administration in Guatemala) (NICHE)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 2,020,000
- Implementers
- Universidad de San Carlos and ITC and Kadaster
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- Capacity building and strengthening of human resources in land administration (follow-up of the 2004-2009 NUFFIC project in Guatemala).
- Contact:
- , NUFFIC, +31 (0)70 - 426 02 60
- Website:
- Project weblink
South Africa
NUFFIC: Improving the capacity of Buhle Famers’ Academy for skills development of emerging farmers in South Africa (NPT)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 1,290,000
- Implementers
- Buhle Farmer’ Academy (BFA), PTC+, Food Health Hope Foundation and others
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2008 Dec 2012
- Summary:
- Developing capacity of emerging farmers who gained access to land; capacity development of tenure right holders.
- Contact:
- , NUFFIC, +31 (0)70 - 426 02 60
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guinea-Bissau
N`Tene Terra - Pour une Gouvernance foncière responsable: Appui à la mise en oeuvre de la loi foncière en Guinée-Bissau
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 3,450,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2015 Aug 2021
- Summary:
- L'application de la loi foncière se heurte à quatre principales difficultés internes: a) l'inexistence des organismes d'exécution prévus par la loi, b) la délimitation inadéquate des territoires, c) l'implémentation de l'impôt foncier et d) le «couplage» entre les institutions coutumières et l'État. Enfin, la fragilité et la méconnaissance du droit coutumier ainsi que la vulnérabilité structurelle des communautés locales contribuent à la faiblesse de la gouvernance foncière en Guinée Bissau où la problématique foncière est caractérisée par l'absence de gouvernance depuis l'indépendance. L'absence d?une gouvernance des terres coordonnée entre les différents acteurs (Etat, communautés locales) est un facteur d'insécurité foncière, de violation des droits fonciers (accès, sécurité, stabilité et protection), de manque de protection juridique, de fragilité des institutions.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guinea-Bissau
N´Tene Terra - Pour une Gouvernance responsable: Appui à la mise en œuvre de la loi foncière en Guinée-Bissau
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,700,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2016 Oct 2020
- Summary:
- The objective is to contribute to the promotion of responsible governance of land tenure systems (public, private, communal, customary and informal systems). Specifically, the project supports the implementation of the land law and its regulations. The project has two cluster of activities: 1) improvement of the capacity of local land administrations (cadastre)and of customary tenure institutions 2) support for the allocation and delimitation of community lands.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EU Commission, DEVCO C1
ODI - Property Rights Index
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- Overseas Development Institute
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2017 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI has partnered with Land Alliance to scale up PRIndex, the first global index that measures perceptions of property rights among communities. The aim of this index is to provide a global and national-level baseline of perceptions of property rights, that is comparable, cost-effective, and widely accessible. This baseline will provide the grounding for a global conversation and movement around securing the property rights of an estimated 2 billion people who currently lack them.
Omidyar Network is funding ODI to scale PRIndex to reach an initial tranche of 35 countries, with aspirations to reach 140 countries in the years to come.
- Contact:
- Amy Regas, Omidyar Network
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Odisha Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Gropus Empowerment and Livelihoods Improvement Programme (OPELIP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,359,000
- Implementers
- Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development Department, Government of Odisha
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2016 Mar 2024
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme is to improve the livelihoods and food and nutrition security for 32,090 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, including 14,000 tribal households and 16,356 poor households in the regions of Eastern Ghats and Northern Plateau, through capacity building and by improving agricultural practices and community infrastructure. Support for land and natural resource governance will include measures for securing land to programme beneficiaries and providing them with land and forest titles that will be issued in the names of both husband and wife engaging the services of a specialist NGO (LANDESA). The programme will facilitate granting of community rights under the Forest Rights Act.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin,Burkina Faso,Malawi,Namibia,Togo,Zimbabwe
One World-No Hunger: Strengthening Women’s Land Use and Land Ownership rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,700,000
- Implementers
- KAS, Malawi: National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE), Farmers Union of Malawi (FUMU), National Association of Farmers in Malawi (NASFAM)
Namibia: Women’s Action for Development (WAD)
Zimbabwe: Self-Help Development Foundation (SHDF)
Benin and Togo: Women in Law and Development
Burkina Faso: Centre Africa Obota, SOS Civisme
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The safe and just access to resources and land for women is strengthened.
Tunisia
Operational funds for rural water infrastructure
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,608,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2016 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The overarching goal of this innovative pilot project is to contribute to improved living conditions of the rural population of Central Tunisia through the sustainable management and efficient use of water resources.
India
Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme (OTELP)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 5,665,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MTA) and Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development Department (ST/SCDD), Government of Orissa
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2003 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims to build the capacity of 75,000 poor households and their institutions, in the region of South-western Orissa, so that vulnerable groups, particularly women, can plan and manage their own development and negotiate improved entitlements.
With regard to land and natural resource governance the key objectives of the programme include the promotion of a more efficient, equitable, self-managed and sustainable exploitation of natural resources at people's disposal and the development of non-farm enterprises for landless people. The programme supports the allocation of 0.10 acre of revenue land and titles for homestead to households and the recording of rights for all ST households up to 4 ha per household of forest land occupied by them under the Forest Rights Act.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Fiji,Solomon Islands,Tonga,Vanuatu,Samoa,Samoa
Pacific Mangroves Initiative for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,700,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2009 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- Objectives and measures of the project include the efforts to increase resilience to climate change and improve livelihoods of the people of the Pacific Islands through targeted strengthening of capacity in adaptive co-management and restoration of mangroves and associated ecosystems in each of the selected countries.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Pakistan
PAK3004 Institutional cooperation
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,928,000
- Implementers
- The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Sep 2017
- Summary:
- This project aims to enhance capacity for dealing with the risk for floods and other natural hazards in Pakistan by producing test data for a small pilot area. The project consists of three components:
1. Procurement of airborne laser scanning and aerial photography, as well as high-resolution satellite images for a pilot area;
2. Establish capacity at SoP for efficient distribution of geographic information;
3. Enhance the capacity at SoP to provide training in modern surveying, mapping and geographic information, to its own employees as well as to students from outside
- Contact:
- Helge Onsrud, The Norwegian Mapping Authority, +47 9139 8055
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
Parana Multi Sector Development Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Nov 2017
- Summary:
- The project objective is to make access to economic and human development opportunities more equitable and environmentally sustainable in the Borrower's territory through the modernization of the public sector and revenue management in the State of Parana, Brazil.
On land tenure, the project would support the Government of Parana's rural development strategy particularly in assisting small rural producers to engage more effectively in profitable businesses, while also fostering a transition towards more sustainable agricultural practices. The project would financed the provision of public support services, including land regularization.
- Contact:
- Fanny Weiner, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guatemala
Part of the GCP/GLO/347/UK
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 16,000
- Implementers
- Asociación de Forestería Comunitaria de Guatemala Ut’z Che’ Escuintla
- Timeframe:
- May 2016 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- A workshop in Guatemala, entitled “Taller Mesoamericano sobre Gestión Territorial y el uso de Herramientas Tecnológicas en Tierras Comunales Indígenas y Campesinas”, facilitated the exchange of experiences on the management of tenure rights on natural resources and territories by indigenous communities in different countries in Central America. Different practical examples of mapping of communal land rights were shared, including success stories and challenges, and training on the use of Open Tenure was provided, using the instrument as an innovative catalyser of discussion around the management of indigenous peoples’ lands rights. The participants represented territorial indigenous organizations, indigenous leaders from different communities, network of indigenous and farmers’ communities, CSOs and universities, and representatives from government institutions.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin,Burkina Faso,Cote d'Ivoire,Guinea,Mali,Niger,Senegal,Togo
Partenariat pour la Gouvernance Environnementale en Afrique de l'Ouest (PAGE)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 7,000,000
- Implementers
- IUCN PACO (Office for Central and West Africa), Ouagadougou
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Support to the implementation of UEMOA and ECOWAS environmental policies through support to the river basin authorities for the Niger and the Volta rivers in the following components:
1 Regional policy and legislation application and shared governance
2 Improvement of ecosystems for climate change adaptation and poverty reduction
3 Mobilisation of environmental knowledge and stakeholder capacity building
4 Coordination and management
- Contact:
- Brigitte Junker, Embassy of Sweden, Addis Abeba
Cote d'Ivoire
Partenariat Public Privé pour l'accélération de la mise en œuvre de la loi sur le foncier rural
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 6,000,000
- Implementers
- Government of Ivory Coast; ASSOCIATION INTERPROFESSIONNELLE DE LA FILIERE COTON (INTER COTON)
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2014 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The overall objective of the project is to guarantee land tenure security and access to land for all citizens, in particular for smallholder producers. The specific objective of the project is to accelerate the implementation of land laws and ensure their applicability for all layers of society. The project aims particularly to mitigate conflicts by clarifying and issuing land rights to beneficiaries.. The project is structured around three components:
- Component 1 is to strengthen the capacities of the Central Administration, the Regional Directorates of Agriculture and the Districts and Sub-districts,
- Component 2 concerns the devolution of responsibilities to local administrations including (awareness of the villages, organization of land delimitation, etc.) by an inter-professional agricultural organization well established in the field,
- Component 3 seeks to strengthen inter-ministerial monitoring capacity, coordination and synergy, in particular between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of interior Affaires.
- Contact:
- Brossard Stephane
Tunisia
Participation of the rural population in water and soil management up-stream of the Nehana Dam
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 440,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2015 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- The goal is that the society in the area of the Nebhana dam is integrated in a sustainable management of the natural resources water and soil.
Bhutan
Participatory Forest Management (Phase III)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 2,100,000
- Implementers
- Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2013 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- Community forestry contributes to improved livelihoods, sustainably managed ecosystems and democratic governance
- Contact:
Gambia, The
Participatory Integrated-Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 350,000
- Implementers
- Department of State for Agriculture (DOSA)
- Timeframe:
- May 2006 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The aim of the project was to increase agricultural productivity of 12,000 poor rural households nationwide by empowering them to undertake and maintain integrated watershed management activities that enhance their livelihoods and protect their natural resources. Activities gave priority to the inclusion of women in training for rice and livestock production and vegetable cultivation, and in the improvement of their access to financial services.
As with all other project activities, interventions related to land and natural resource governance specifically targeted women and enhanced their access to land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso
Participatory Natural Resource Management and Rural Development Project in the North, Centre-North and East Regions (Neer Tamba)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 9,920,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2013 Sep 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the living conditions and boost the incomes of 40,000 rural households in the area of Neer Tamba by assisting them in developing and strengthening their autonomy and ability to play an increasingly proactive role in creating a sustainable economic and social fabric.
On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to strengthen land tenure security, especially for women, youth and rural landless. Land tenure security has been given critical importance in the project area, thus related interventions cut across all of the project's components. The strategy with regard to this is based on a general principle of securing user rights among the target populations, and a proactive approach to facilitating access to the developed plots. To this extent the project will contribute to the dissemination of legal and administrative texts among the key actors of the project. Further the project will support the establishment of village committees dealing with land tenure issues, in target villages. The project will organize trainings of young professionals in this area to overcome the obstacle for the construction and maintenance of facilities to secure access to land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Participatory Small-Scale Irrigation Development Programme (PASIDP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 275,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the state governments of Amhara and Oromia Southern Nations, Peoples and Tigray
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2008 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- The aim of the programme is to improve food security, family nutrition and by developing about 12,000 hectares in irrigation schemes for 62,000 farmers households, in four states of Ethiopia: Tigray, Amhara, SNNP and Oromia. The irrigation schemes developed will provide a model to be scaled up and replicated across the country. To ensure sustainability and the full participation of local community members, farmers will own and manage the irrigation systems through their own Water Users' Associations (WUAs). Specific targets include households headed by women, unemployed young people and people without land.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to issue land title certificates to small scale farmers and to ensure equitable access to land for women in these schemes. It will also support the formation and empowerment of WUAs for effective operations and maintenance and to empower women by increasing their participation in decision making bodies of WUAs and enhancing their skills in irrigated farming among other things.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mali
Passage à l'approche sectorielle pour le Développement Rural (PASDR)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 6,980,000
- Implementers
- Cellule de la Planifcatione et de la Statistique du Secteur Développement Rural (CPS/SDR)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Support the development of a coherent sector approach within agriculture which contributes to the realization of the Strategic Framework for Growth and Poverty Reduction, the MDGs and the operationalization of the Loi d'Orientation Agricole. One budget line of the PASDR is aimed at land rights and technical assistance
- Contact:
- , Netherlands Embassy in Mali, (+223) 20 21 56 11
Ethiopia
Pastoral Community Development Project (PCDP III)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 6,757,000
- Implementers
- Government of Ethiopia structures
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The aim of this project is to support community sub-projects in targeted pastoral and agro-pastoral sub-districts to build demand-driven social and economic infrastructure, to build community institutions, to develop a community level monitoring and learning system, and to assist pastoralist/agro-pastoralist households to improve their livelihood by promoting access to financial services and supporting improved advisory services. The project benefits approximately 2,6 million pastoralists.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Pastoral Community Development Project Phase II (PCDP II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Federal Affairs; Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; the National Regional State Governments of Afar, Oromia, Somali and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State; NGOs; and pastoral communities
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2010 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- The project builds on successes of the first phase and aims to deliver basic social services, reduce rural poverty and enhance economic growth to 600,000 households in 57 districts in the Afar, Oromia, Somali and Southern regions. It also builds the institutional capacity of pastoral community organizations and local governments, moreover it will strengthen the resilience of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists to external shocks while improving their livelihoods.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project supports land use planning, it promotes participatory approaches enhancing access to land by the rural poor, water and financial services and strengthening traditional institutions at the community level in pastoral areas. Women and men in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities designed and implemented Community Action Plans (CAPs) according to their own development priorities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Chad
Pastoral Water and Resource Management Project in Sahelian Areas (PROHYPA)
- Donors:
- Switzerland,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,935,000
- Implementers
- Ministry in charge of Water
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The project aim was to reduce vulnerability and poverty in both pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in the regions Lac, Kanem, Barl El Gazal, Batha Ouest, Batha Est, Guera, Baguirmi, Dababa and Hadjer Lamis. It aimed to improve the access of mobile livestock systems to water and pastoral resources through improved infrastructure and to strengthen the capacity of the groups and institutions involved in planning and managing these natural resources. The targeted beneficiaries were included in 32,000 households.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project supported the mapping of existing wells and of livestock migration routes to secure the mobility of farmers and facilitated the settlement of conflicts related to livestock wandering in the fields.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mongolia
Pasture ecosystem management
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 24,210,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2004 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Capacity creation with actors for sound pasture management; effective coordination among actors for good pasture governance; community organisation to reduce open-access problems in pasture management; skill development of herders
- Contact:
Colombia
PCIM: Plan de Consodilacion Integral de la Macarena, Fase II
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 4,050,000
- Implementers
- Fundación Panamericana de Desarrollo, FUPAD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Contributing to stability and security in the Macarena region by a combination of interventions in the area of strengthening local governance, improving participation of citizens, stimulating economic growth and developing local spatial (and environmental) planning and land titling.
- Contact:
- , Netherlands Embassy in Colombia, (+57) (1) 638 4200
- Website:
- Project weblink
Namibia
PCLD - Programme for Communal Land Development III (BMZ/KfW)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,550,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- The current land reform project depicts the third phase of financial cooperation to support the Namibian Government to implement an ambitious land reform program that aims at fighting against poverty, inequitable land distribution and social tensions. The project purpose is to improve tenure security and registration of communal land rights in communal areas as well as developing integrated regional land use plans and infrastructure investments in the small scale communal farming sector.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Djibouti
PDUI (integrated urban development project)
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2008 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Awareness raising and capacity building for improved land management in the municipalities of Camotan, Jocotan, Olopa and San Juan Ermita, in the department of Chiquimula
Liberia
People, Rules and Organizations Supporting the Protection of Ecosystem Resources (PROSPER )
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 9,000,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- PROSPER introduces, operationalizes and refines appropriate models for community management of forest resources for local self-governance and enterprise development.
- Contact:
- Alexis Jones, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sierra Leone
Piloting Community based forestry in Sierra Leone, Technical Cooperation Programme
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 187,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- The TCP is facilitating the implementation of the CBF Concept at a pilot scale, drawing lessons and using it to leverage funding for future scale-up. Implementation of the CBF Concept in Sierra Leone will lead to improved security of tenure, clear incentive mechanisms, improved food security and strong community institutions which will go a long way in securing and increasing the forest resources and hence enhancing the environmental services they provide. While FAO is taking the lead in providing technical guidance and advice, the implementation of the project is the responsibility of forestry department staff at national and decentralized levels.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya,Tanzania
Piloting the use of Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Tanzania and Kenya
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,850,000
- Implementers
- IFAD/ILC
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The general objective of the project is to attain secure and better use of rangelands and expand the role of women in selected pastoral communities in Kenya and Tanzania. This will be done by developing and testing a Participatory Rangeland Management system, working under the umbrella of the ILC Rangelands Initiative.
The project will be developed around three clusters of activities:
- development of the Participatory Rangeland Managementsystem;
- development of local and national guidelines and strategies on Participatory Rangeland Management;
- capacity building of local and national governments, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and communities to implement the system.
- Contact:
- Mwangi NJURU, EU Delegation to Kenya
Brazil
Policy Coordination and Dialogue for Reducing Poverty and Inequalities in Semi-Arid North-east Brazil (Dom Helder Camara Phase II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 415,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), through the Secretariat of Territorial Development (SDT)
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Sep 2020
- Summary:
- The project aims to reduce rural poverty and inequality in the semi-arid north-east of Brazil through improving policy dialogue, territorial planning and coordination of public policies and programmes, directly benefitting 74,000 households. The core project area includes 129 municipalities in nine Territories of Citizenship in seven states of Brazil’s north-eastern semi-arid region. Participants in state-level projects co-funded by IFAD in the states of Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Piaui and Sergipe will also benefit from innovations and successful experiences tested by the project.
On land and natural resource governance, the project intends to encourage and support the creation of young people' groups who want to settle as agricultural producers through the National Land Credit Programme (Programa Nacional de Crédito Fundiário, PNCF) or other land access policies. The project will support the access of the youth to the land programmes.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Policy Development Fund, Tanzania
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Government of Tanzania, World Bank Group, Overseas Development Institute
- Timeframe:
- May 2012 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- Provides support to both the Government of Tanzania and development partners to deliver high quality policies, strategies and analysis in critical areas, including land. The programme responds to a direct request from the Minister of Lands for expert advice on Land for Equity. It funds a three person team including a National Legal Specialist on Land Issues (policy, regulatory reform, titling and registration), an International Legal Specialist on land issues and an economist with expertise on land issues.
- Contact:
- Mariana Dawi, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme II
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Christian Aid
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2009 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to help 9 million women and members of socially excluded groups to claim their rights and entitlements (including over land) more effectively, in 90 districts or seven states with low human development and economic indicators.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Haiti
Port au Prince reconstruction project
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
South Africa
Post Settlment and Development Support to Restitution beneficiaries for the Commission on Restitution of land Rights
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 7,865,000
- Implementers
- BTC (Belgian Technical Cooperation)
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2010 Jun 2015
- Website:
- Project weblink
Eritrea
Post-Crisis Rural Recovery and Development (PCRRDP) / Catchments and Landscapes Management Project (CLMP)
- Donors:
- European Union,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 225,000
- Implementers
- Regional administrations of Debub and Gash Barka
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2007 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims to improve the incomes, food security and nutrition of 171,650 households of the most disadvantaged communities in the regions of Debub and Gash Barka. It provides sustainable natural resource management to help raise agricultural productivity, and it also ensures the rehabilitation of degraded rangelands and watersheds.
Land and natural resource governance interventions included in the Catchments and Landscape Management Project (CLMP) which emerged from the PCRRDP (completed in 2013) seek to halt land degradation in the two Zobas (districts) of Debub and zoba Gash Barka through the promotion of sustainable land management approaches, and the generation of best Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices, while at the national level it supports the GoE in the formulation of a policy and institutional framework for upscaling successful SLM technologies and approaches.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mauritania
Poverty Reduction Project in Aftout South and Karakoro - Phase II (PASK II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 9,610,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Rural Development
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2012 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve incomes and living conditions for 21,000 households in the areas of Aftout South and Karakoro. The specific objective is to help build an economic and social fabric based on sustainable natural resource management that is inclusive of poor rural households, particularly women and young people.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions include land agreements to guarantee equitable access to land which will be indispensable for any irrigation scheme and the adoption of an integrated watershed management approach. Land Tenure Arrangements, both large scale or on smaller areas, help stabilize use rights, to make them more fair and accessible for the target population.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Portugal
Preparation of Integrated Geographic Information for Marine and Coastal Water Management
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,857,000
- Implementers
- The Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Apr 2017
- Summary:
- Establishing a National Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure as a basis for the Portuguese UNCLOS claim to extend the continental shelf
- Contact:
- Roy Mellum, The Norwegian Mapping Authority, +47 9773 7089
- Website:
- Project weblink
PRIndex
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 977,000
- Implementers
- OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2017 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Overseas Development Institute is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI has partnered with Land Alliance to scale up PRIndex, the first global index that measures perceptions of property rights among communities. The aim of this index is to provide a global and national-level baseline of perceptions of property rights, that is comparable, cost-effective, and widely accessible. This baseline will provide the grounding for a global conversation and movement around securing the property rights of an estimated 2 billion people who currently lack them.
Omidyar Network is funding ODI to scale PRIndex to reach an initial tranche of 35 countries, with aspirations to reach 140 countries in the years to come.
- Contact:
- PETER RABLEY
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kosovo
Private and Decentralised Forestry in Kosovo
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 5,510,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The project's main aim is to support private and decentralised forestry development in Kosovo and, for relevant issues, also at regional level. The Dutch organisation SNV will implement the programme by providing advisory services and working closely with the actors involved in private and decentralised forestry.
Mozambique
Private Sector Development Program
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
Lesotho
Private Sector Development Project/Land Administration Reform Activity
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 21,000,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Lesotho; Land Administration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2008 Sep 2013
- Summary:
- Implement a systematic land regularization program for urban and peri-urban areas and establish a new land administration authority.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Togo
Private Sector Development Support Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 900,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve investment climate in Togo, including in a New Free Zone, and to an improved performance of targeted micro and small businesses.
To achieve these outcomes, the project will support the Land Registry by providing technical assistance to help simplify and shorten the time required to register property. In particular, it will finance the following activities: Organizational diagnostic of the Direction des Affaires Domaniales et Cadastrales; Support to the implementation of the recommendations of the organizational diagnostic (technical assistance, capacity building, equipments); Review of laws and regulations governing the registration of property.
- Contact:
- Magueye Dia, World Bank
Tanzania
Private Sector/MSME Competitiveness
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 42,100,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2005 Jul 2018
- Summary:
- The project objective is to create sustainable conditions for enterprise creation and growth.
land tenure activities include: (i) Convert old survey and mapping data to fit the new geodetic surveying infrastructure, and awareness-raising of the professionals about using the new system; (ii) Implement a new surveying and mapping policy in line with the modernized infrastructure; (iii) Strengthen the collection, storage and dissemination of geospatial data and improving the use of land and resource data for land use planning; (iv) Review, prepare, and process legislative pieces (e.g., a Land Acquisition and Compensation Bill, a Property Valuation Bill, and Regulations for the above), and strengthen land tribunals; (v) Support the implementation of participatory land use planning approaches in urban areas and regularization of land tenure in urban informal settlements including in Mwanza and Dar es Salaam where initial work has already been done; (vi) Review past experiences in undertaking government land inventories including in Ghana and Botswana and draw lessons and good practices that could guide preparation of guidelines for similar exercises in Tanzania; (vii) Implement regulatory changes (such as elimination of the requirement to obtain a Tax Clearance Certificate, streamlining of the procedure of notarization and execution of the sale agreement and preparation of the transfer deed, elimination of the inspection to value the property, etc.); (viii) Reorganize workflow processes of the land registry to improve the efficiency of the process to register and transfer a property.
- Contact:
- Moses Kibirige, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Vietnam
Pro-Poor Partnership for Agroforestry Development Project (3PAD)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,115,000
- Implementers
- Provincial People’s Committee of Bac Kan Province
- Timeframe:
- May 2009 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to achieve poverty reduction and improved livelihoods of 11,300 rural poor households in the region of Bac Kan, by building the capacity and coordinate five provincial departments and district sections to deliver project outcomes, underpinned by strong farmer organisations, stakeholders and the private sector.
Land and natural resource governance activities have the aim to provide support for sustainable and equitable forest land management. The programme pays particular attention to improving women's participation in community decision making and resource allocation. It supports the consultation with land users regarding forest land boundaries; the classification of forest land use and forest type to be allocated; the preparation of cadastral maps for the forest land allocation and the documentation required for the issuance of Forest and Land Use Rights Certificates (LURs).
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso,Bangladesh,Bolivia,Brazil,Ecuador,India
Pro-poor Resource Governance under Changing Climates
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 400,000
- Implementers
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2012 Sep 2013
- Summary:
- Given the focus of the research project in understanding how climate change aggravates the vulnerability of poor rural people, the main objective of the research was to identify the fundamental social and environmental causes that put poor rural people in a vulnerable position with view to climate change and to identify their strategies of resilience.
Under the umbrella of a common analytical framework, IFAD and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) collaborated with local civil society organisations involved in establishing and maintaining resource governance regimes contributing to pro-poor adaptation. Target groups explicitly included women groups and in many cases women were the main group concerned, both as subjects in the research and in the knowledge sharing activities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Mozambique
Pro-poor Value Chain Development Project in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridor (PROSUL)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 895,000
- Implementers
- Center for the Promotion of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2012 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- This aim of the project is to improve the climate-smart livelihoods of 20,350 smallholder farmers households in the Maputo and Limpopo corridors, comprising 19 selected districts in Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo provinces. Its expected outcome is a sustainable increase in the incomes of farmers producing irrigated vegetables, cassava and livestock including cattle, goats and sheep.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project supports measures aimed at strengthening land rights of the project’s target groups and at improving the management of land use by Farmers Organisations (FOs) and communities. It supports FO-based analysis of land access and tenure security issues, with special attention given to identifying measures for strengthening land/natural resource rights of poor and vulnerable groups, especially women and youth.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
Productive Development and Capacity Building Project (Paulo Freire)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 4,725,000
- Implementers
- Secretariat of State of Agrarian Development
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2013 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The goal of the project is to strengthen the organisational and individual capacities of 60,000 poor rural households, with priority to young people and women, in the State of Ceará, and increase their income through improved and increased production and enhanced access to markets and to public policies.
Land and natural resource governance related activities include the participatory formulation and implementation of commercially viable business plans for agricultural and non-agricultural rural enterprises – including activities aimed at land regeneration and the adoption of good agro-ecological practices.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin
Program for the promotion of agriculture - Investment Fund III
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 11,930,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2017 Sep 2020
- Summary:
- The establishment of a rural cadastre registry contributes to the clarification of property and usage rights for natural ressources. This constitues the legal framework which is necessary for investments in Benin's agriculture sector.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin
Program for the promotion of agriculture I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,450,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2011 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- Support to Benin’s agricultural strategy
PSRSA: - support and promotion of the
private sector in the field of agriculture; -
enhancement of competitiveness of the
agricultural sector through development of
value chains; support to land use planning.
Benin
Program for the promotion of agriculture II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,910,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 Jun 2017
- Summary:
- Support to Benin’s agricultural strategy PSRSA: - support and promotion of the private sector in the field of agriculture; - enhancement of competitiveness of the agricultural sector through development of value chains; support to land use planning
Ethiopia
Program sustainable land management I
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany,Canada
- Funding:
- USD 4,230,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2011 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- Food security has increased and land degradation has decreased in the targeted rural highlands of Tigray, Amhara and Oromia.
Ethiopia
Program sustainable land management II
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany,Canada
- Funding:
- USD 3,650,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- Promotion of sustainable land management practices. Reduction of land degradation in selected agricultural landscapes. Improvement of agricultural productivity and income of smallholder farmers and selected user gropus.
Philippines
Program Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 26,170,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2009 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- Responsible governmental institutions and selected local authorities as well as relevant population groups manage natural resources more sustainably and avoiding conflicts
Indonesia
Program to Accelerate Agrarian Reform (One Map Project)
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 200,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2018 Oct 2023
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective is to establish clarity on actual land rights and land use at the village level in the target areas.
- Contact:
- Iwan Gunawan, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Program to support decentralization
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,690,000
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2009 Jun 2013
- Summary:
- The structures and processes for an advantageous and demand- oriented as well as inclusive governance have improved at all state levels
Argentina
Programa de Inserción Económica de los
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 325,000
- Implementers
- Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) from the Ministry of Agriculture, stock farming and fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Jan 2022
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to contribute to the sustainable reduction of rural poverty in the Norte Grande region of Argentina. This goal will be achieved by the beneficiary and sustainable integration of small producers into value chains, through the formation of groups and organisations. 8,000 households will benefit from this five-year project, with the creation of 900 jobs.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Programm Conservation and sustainable use of natural resources II
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 29,190,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- Improvement of the conditions of the population and conservation of biodiversity trough a sustainable management of natural resources.
Madagascar
Programme Conservation and sustainable use of natural resources I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 23,710,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2008 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Capacity building for CSOs and NGOs
Burundi,Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Programme d'appui a la gestion fonciere au Burundi et au Sud Kivu/RDC
- Donors:
- Netherlands,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 11,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2007 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims at preventing land related conflict and at supporting rural development. This is done through re-enforcing institutional capacity in combination with more effective coordination of land governance at the level of land users. A model for land governance is being tested and replicated
- Contact:
Cote d'Ivoire
Programme d'Appui au Foncier Rural- Côte d'Ivoire
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 45,200,000
- Implementers
- Government of Ivory Coast
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- Le programme a pour objectif d’appuyer le Gouvernement dans ses efforts de lutte contre la pauvreté et de promotion de la paix, par un soutien direct à la mise en oeuvre de la politique foncière ivoirienne. Pour cela, il vise à (i) accroître les capacités financières et opérationnelles du Gouvernement, (ii) assurer la délimitation formelle des villages, préalable à la sécurisation foncière des droits coutumiers collectifs ou individuels, (iii) améliorer la gouvernance, notamment le cadre stratégique, institutionnel et juridique du secteur foncier et (iv) à renforcer la paix et la cohésion sociales en prévenant les risques de tensions intercommunautaires.
The program’s objective is to support the Government in its fight against poverty and promotion of peace via a direct support to the implementation of the Ivorian land policy. In this regard the program aims at (i) increasing the financial and operational capacity of the Government, (ii) ensuring the formal delimitation of the villages as a prerequisite to collective and individual secure costumary rights, (iii) improving governance, including land strategic, institutional and legal framework, and (iv) strengthening peace and social cohesion by preventing the risks of inter-community tensions.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Burkina Faso
Programme d'Appui au Secteur Forestier (PASF)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 20,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD), Burkina Faso
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2012 Jun 2018
- Summary:
- PASF supports the rural sector program PNSR through the Ministry of Environment. Focus is on forestry, climate change adaptation, institutional reform, institutional capacity building, capacity building of non-governmental actors as well as the set-up of the national fund "Fonds d'Intervention pour l'Environnement (FIE)".
- Contact:
- Richard Bomboma, Embassy of Sweden, Ouagadougou
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Programme de Bonne Gouvernance (PBG)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Advocate for better protection of small farmers against illegal taxation and land tenure insecurity, for better fiscal management, for action on health issues, and against corruption
- Website:
- Project weblink
Haiti
Programme de préservation et de valorisation de la biodiversité (PVB)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 5,600,000
- Implementers
- Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- Dans le Massif de la Selle - situé au sud-est d'Haïti - se trouve une des dernières forêts natives du pays. Malgré son statut d'Air protégée, la préservation de la Forêt des pins est menacée par l'instalation autour et dans celle-ci de population à la recherche de revenus. Ainsi, le projet vise à renforcer l'Agence Nationale des Aires protégée du Ministère de l'Environnment dans ses efforts de prise en charge de la gestion participative de l'Aire protégée en incluant les acteurs locaux et en soutenant la population locale dans la création de revenus alternatifs.
- Contact:
Niger
Programme d’appui au secteur de l’elevage (PASEL)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 20,850,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 1998 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Reinforcement of capacity for mobility and promotion of limited intensification of pastoralist production
- Contact:
Malawi
Programme for Rural Irrigation Development (PRIDE)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,311,000
- Implementers
- Department of Irrigation, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Dec 2023
- Summary:
- The programme, which draws lessons from IRLADP, aims to enable 17,500 smallholder households to enhance their production levels to such a degree that they can provide for their household nutritional demands and deliver produce to viable markets by providing smallholder farm households a combination of 5,200 ha of irrigated land and soil- and water conservation infrastructure; promotion of good agricultural practices; and linkage to improved value chains. Land and natural resource governance interventions aim to develop resilient land and water management systems for smallholder households on both rain-fed and irrigated lands; to develop agreements on equitable access to irrigate. Water Users’ Associations will be given long-term access to the irrigated land, and will be charged with sub-letting land to their members. Measures will be introduced for ensuring equitable access for women and youth.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Programme for Sustainable Rural Development
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 22,240,000
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- political consulting, capacity building for conservation areas
Ecuador
Programme for the protection of biodiversity, forests and climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 780,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2013 May 2017
- Summary:
- The rural society in selected landscapes in northern Amazonas regions participates in the implementation and preservation of sustainable usage of biodiversity including climate sensitive approaches.
Haiti
Project "Pre- Cadaster and land tenure security"
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 4,585,000
- Implementers
- CIAT, Expertise France, CSN, FIEF
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Feb 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims at 1/ implementing cartographic facilities for 5 pilot zone of Port au Prince; 2/ develop a methology to identify and secure land rights; 3/ support the development of surveyors and public notaries organizations; 4/ support the definition of a new land governance policy. This project is linked with the IDB rural land project
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Project for Capacity Development for Land Acquisition System Improvement in Indonesia
- Donors:
- Japan
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Social Planning / National Land Agency - Indonesia
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2018 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims at strengthening capacity of Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Social Planning / National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) - Indonesia in implementing smooth land acquisition through:
1) strengthening systems and technologies for smooth land acquisition;
2) enhancing skills/knowledge of staffs in charge of land acquisition; and
3) strengthening ATR/BPN's function to coordinate relevant organization in charge of land acquisition.
- Contact:
- Yuko Morita, JICA, +81-3-5226-3161
- Website:
- Project weblink
Vietnam
Project for Improved Land Governance and Databases
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 150,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2016 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The project will develop a national Multi-Purpose Land Information System (MPLIS) and make a National Land Database available to both the government and the public. The project is designed with an emphasis on building sustainable databases that are accurate, user-friendly, and accessible through a gradual approach to developing Land Information Systems and land databases.
The project will also help the government simplify procedures and business processes for Land Registration Offices operating at sub-national levels, provide better-quality land services, and increase public awareness of land information and land services.
- Contact:
- Hoa Thi Mong Pham, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mongolia
Project for Market and Pasture Management Development (PMPMD)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,385,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2011 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The purpose of the project is to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods of nomadic herder households and households living in permanent settlements, strengthening the position of the pasture users among 3,940 households in 15 Soums or Districts of 5 Aimags or Provinces, namely: Hovsgol, Bulgan, Hentii, Arhangai and Govi-Altai. It will incorporate climate change adaptation activities and improve skills for value addition to livestock products.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions intend to improve access to and management of pasture lands; to provide support for training for Soum government officials on project approach on pasture management and to build sustainable community organisations that promote sustainable pasture use and equity through inclusive approaches and socially responsible practices, through Pasture Herders' Groups.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
Project for Rural Income through Exports (PRICE)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 255,000
- Implementers
- Single Project Implementation Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to raise the income of 128,700 smallholder farmers households by assisting them in taking advantage of concrete income opportunities in pro-poor cash crop value chains in partnership with private operators. It will achieve sustainable increased returns to farmers from key export-driven agricultural value chains, through increased volumes and quality of production, improved marketing and effective farmer organisations. The project targets households involved in the production of coffee and tea, in sericulture and horticulture. It has a national scope, and shall comprise the Southern and Western Provinces of Rwanda for tea activities.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project aims at participating in the implementation of the National Policy aiming at providing farmers with land titles by financing the registration and titling costs of farmers’ plots in project-supported tea plantations.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Project for Strenthening Assets, Markets and Rural Development Policies in the Northern Highlands (Sierra Norte)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 145,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2009 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to strengthen community organizations in rural areas, open new markets for entrepreneurial activities and increase financial assets of rural, poor, small-scale producers and entrepreneurs in the northern highlands of Peru focusing on women and young people in 20,000 households.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, project beneficiaries are supported in obtaining land titles through the provision of improved technical assistance, through financial services and land and labour markets in rural areas.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger
Project for the Promotion of Local Initiative for Development (PPILDA) - ILC grant "Collaborative Action on Land Issues (CALI)"
- Donors:
- Belgium,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 215,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agricultural Development
- Timeframe:
- May 2005 Jun 2013
- Summary:
- The goal of the project was to improve incomes, food security and living conditions for 30,000 poor rural households in Aguié Department and the neighbouring communes of Saé Saboua and Giratawa. To that end, the project has introduced cereal and food banks run by local women to help ensure availability of food year-round. It also supported the adoption of new technologies to raise the productivity of staple crops.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions provided training for local youth in the use of GPS systems, and support for mapping and demarcation exercises, land market analysis and the analysis of the legislative framework. All small properties were delimited and represented on a community map updated on a regularly basis. and maintained by the local representatives who manage the communal and individual land registers. Through the project's support 1270 land titles (2600 ha) were issued to 880 small farmers (of which 15% women), six local land commissions and three communal committees were set up and equipped and transhumance corridors have been delineated. Workshops with the religious authorities at village level address the issue of access to land by women and the question of women's rights under Islamic law.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Project to Support Development in the Manebe and Melaky Regions (AD2M)
- Donors:
- European Union,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,370,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2006 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to improve the access of 40,000 rural poor households to land and water resources in the Menabe and Melaky regions to optimize agricultural production and ensure sustainable growth of their income, while limiting migration to urban centres.
Land and natural resource governance activities included supporting the establishment of 10 local land administration offices, the strengthening of regional land administration offices, and civic education and capacity building of farmers' organizations; supporting regional and commune level land use planning processes and the issuing of land certificates; and strengthening national institutions (Technical Unit of the National Land Policy Programme and the National Land Observatory).
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Project to Support Development in the Menabe and Melaky Regions - Phase II (AD2M II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,350,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2015 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The project aims to help ensure that farms and regions of Menabe and Melaky sustainably improve their income and food security through efficient production systems resilient to climate change and through improved producer access to remunerative markets within prioritized sectors. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim at improving water control on arable areas
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burundi
Projet d'Amélioration de la Gouvernance Foncière au Burundi
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 7,200,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- Contribuer à une meilleure gestion et gouvernance foncière des terres domaniales.Il a été convenu avec les parties prenantes, de focaliser cette intervention sur le cadastrage des terres domaniales en se basant sur les orthophotoplans produits dans le cadre du PPCDR. Cette méthodologie, qui utilise le Système d'Information Géographique (SIG), a été utilisée au Rwanda pour réaliser la certification systématique des terres au niveau national. Elle sera bientôt adaptée au Burundi dans le cadre d'un projet pilote financé par le PPCDR dans deux communes de la province de Cankuzo, visant à exploiter les orthophotos dans le cadre des reconnaissances parcellaires. Le but recherché du présent projet est d'ouvrir la porte à une reconnaissance systématique ultérieure du territoire national, c'est pourquoi le projet va mettre l'accent sur l'appropriation du projet par les ministères techniques concernés et, surtout, les services du Cadastre National, qui seront équipés et dont les compétences seront renforcées. En outre, la nature complexe des conflits fonciers au Burundi nécessite que l'enregistrement des terres domaniales s'accompagne de mesures visant en parallèle la résolution des éventuels conflits fonciers. Cet aspect sera pris en compte de manière plus importante dans le cadre de l'action.
The project aims at contributing to a better management of public lands, mitigating the risk of conflict, enhancing the access to land for vulnerable parts of the population and improving production and economic development in Burundi. As agreed with various stakeholders, the project will focus its activities on creating a state-owned land cadastre system based on the orthophotoplan products in the PPCDR. With the help of Geographic Information System (GIS) methodology, systematic registration of state-owned lands will be achieved. The systematic recording of public lands is especially necessary with regards to the complex nature of land conflicts in Burundi and will be accompanied by parallel measures of conflict resolution for potential conflicts over land.
- Contact:
- Florent Lasry, GIZ Burundi
Sao Tome and Principe
Projet d'Appui à la petite agriculture commerciale (LOT) (PAPAC) - Smallholder Commercial Agriculture Project
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 400,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2014 Sep 2020
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to continue the work undertaken by the National Family Farming Promotion Programme (PNAPAF), then by PAPAFPA, in reducing rural poverty and food insecurity. The specific objective is to provide 4,750 of the country’s most vulnerable rural households, with opportunities to access income from fair trade of their plant and animal products in niche export markets and domestic market. The project operates nationwide, specifically targeting single-parent households headed by women and households with young people.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project will contribute to further strengthen land tenure security - which already is at a fairly satisfactory level in the country,- and focus particularly on women and youth. The project will also support the redistribution of abandoned land to poor young families from rural areas.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Projet d'appui aux OP pour un développement durable de l'agriculture
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,105,000
- Implementers
- RCN JUSTICE & DEMOCRATIE ASBL
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- Le projet vise à promouvoir l'agriculture paysanne comme moteur économique majeur en RD Congo pour renforcer le rôle des organisations paysannes dans la formulation, la mise en œuvre et le suivi des stratégies nationales de développement agricole et de sécurisation foncière des paysans sur leurs terres.
Senegal
Projet de developpement touhstiques de Saint-Louis et sa region
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2013
Thailand,Vietnam
Promoting Ecosystem-based Adaptation through Mangrove Restoration and Sustainable Use in Thailand and Vietnam
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,500,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2012 Feb 2016
- Summary:
- Promote ecosystem based-adaptation (EbA) and mitigation by providing economic incentives for mangrove restoration and sustainable use by piloting projects and integrating results into provincial and national policies. EbA pilot projects in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam and Surat Thani Province, Thailand will test innovative financing that links climate change adaptation and mitigation, and sustainable aquaculture in mangrove ecosystems. Results will be fed into national and provincial laws, regional learning and global REDD dialogue.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
Promoting Peace through Land Dispute Management
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 1,160,000
- Implementers
- Landesa
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2013 Feb 2016
- Summary:
- The Promoting Peace through Land Dispute Management project aims to manage and mitigate land-related conflict by improving the capacity and effectiveness of local institutions in managing land disputes. The project will also create a safe space for communities to discuss issues before they escalate into conflict. Applying a people-to-people approach, this program builds on the success of existing programs and local institutions to facilitate the handling of land disputes.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Promoting People-Centred Land Governance with ILC Members
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- ILC
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2015 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The grant aims to enable smallholder and marginalized farmers, especially women to achieve secure and equitable access to land with IFAD support to the implementation of VGGT. The grant aligns with IFAD's first strategic Objective of "a natural resource and economic asset base for poor rural women and men that is more resilient to climate change, environmental degradation and market transformation. It contributes to three objectives of the grant policy of IFAD: (i) strengthen partners' institutional and policy capacities; (ii) enhance advocacy and policy engagement; and (iii) generate and share knowledge for development impact.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Sierra Leone
Promoting strategic intervention to achieve long term implementation of the VGGT
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 500,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2017 Nov 2018
- Summary:
- The strategic objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of rural women to understand their land rights and to self-advocate for the protection of their customary land rights and the elimination of discriminatory barriers through improved land rights administration reforms. The project will have two specific components: 1. Context analysis of the critical aspects influencing and hindering women´s land rights in three ethnically diverse customary tenure communities (Temne, Limba and Mende); 2. Training and Capacity Development - women and men as community women’s land rights leaders, advocates and trainers with the appropriate skills and technical competence to participate in land rights clarification decisions; 3. Pilot Customary land rights ascertainment, demarcation and recording pilot using SOLA Open Tenure in three ethnically different customary tenure communities.
- Contact:
- Samuel Mabikke, FAO
Liberia,Mongolia,Sierra Leone
Promoting strategic intervention to achieve long term implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
- Donors:
- FAO,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 600,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 May 2019
- Summary:
- Over a period of 24 months, the project aims to capitalize on the successes of Phase 1 and take the VGGT implementation process one step further deepening its reach, direct impact on citizens and sustainability through strategic interventions. In each of the three countries activities will focus on two areas: i) support to the institutional setting for VGGT implementation and developing capacity for improved tenure governance, and ii) support the implementation of the prioritized VGGT recommendations through strategic interventions with a specific focus on innovation, replicability and long term sustainability. In particular in SIerra Leone the project supports the implementation of the National Land Policy through the formal recognition of customary rights, in Liberia it aims at increasing general public capacity to participate in tenure governance while in Mongolia it aims at supporting to the development of the Pastoral Land Law in Mongolia.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
Promoting the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 36,000
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2013 May 2014
- Summary:
- The FAO country office in Brazil has promoted the use and dissemination of the Voluntary Guidelines at the national level. Among one of the first activities will be to translate the Voluntary Guidelines into Portuguese. This will prove extremely useful for work in other Portuguese-speaking countries and regions.
The Voluntary Guidelines are being used as a reference document to enrich discussion and feed into policy and framework development in government conferences and committees (including II Conferência Nacional de Solidariedade e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável – CONDRAF). Discussions with all stakeholders are also being facilitated on implementation strategies for the Voluntary Guidelines in Brazil.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sudan
Promoting the provision of legitimate land tenure rights using VGGT Guidelines for conflict-displaced communities in Darfur
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,300,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2016 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The objective of the proposed project is to facilitate reform of Sudan’s land tenure system by providing practical solutions to the existing challenges of access to land and ownership rights for natural resources through VGGT guidelines.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Philippines
Promoting the use of drone and mobile technologies to improve cost and efficiency of land titling in The Philippines
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 400,000
- Implementers
- Asia Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2018 Aug 2020
- Summary:
- Follow-on support to continue to build on the existing work of promoting the use of technology, such as drones and mobile applications, to improve the cost and efficiency of applying and processing land titles in Philippines. Goals include: (1) Incorporate mobile application into national Land Administration and Management System (LAMS) and support the government in smooth integration of the app for improved efficiency in the pre-titling process; (2) Promote drone-assisted surveys for titling through developing training modules and scaling the use of drones through pilots covering 1500 titles in both urban and rural areas; and (3) Conduct background research on key tenure related challenges in the Philippines, with particular reference to agriculture and forest tenure.
- Contact:
- Sam Chittick, The Asia Foundation
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
Promoting trust-based dialogue on land and resource management in Oromia region, Ethiopia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,860,000
- Implementers
- ZFD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- Prevention of violence within conflicts regarding land and resources through the implementation of communication structures between local communities, traditional authorities, the state and NGOs.
Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Congo, Republic of the,Gabon
Promotion of certified forest management
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,230,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2017 Sep 2021
- Summary:
- The objective is: "Industrial forest use in the Congo Basin is increasingly based on the principles of sustainable management". The target group is the largely poor population in the outskirts of industrial forestry concessions and in a broader sense the world population due to the effects of the project on the global goods "biodiversity" and "climate".
The measures primarily concern the improvement of the socio-economic and ecological sustainability of industrial management and the improvement of the framework conditions for their certification. The support measures are mainly carried out in the central African countries with industrial forest management (Cameroon, DRC, Congo, ZAR and Gabon).
Malawi
Promotion of Land Rights for Women and Other Vulnerable Groups
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 452,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- The project contributes to reducing rural poverty, which requires a multifaceted approach with multi-stakeholders including national and local institutions. Land, being one of the factors of production, plays a center role in rural development as it is available to the poor in Malawi. The project, by promoting secure tenure of land for both men and women will ensure rural development. To achieve this, the project will work with various national and local institutions to promote responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources by raising the awareness of the VGGT.
- Contact:
- Tea Dabrundashvili, FAO
Peru
Promotion of protected areas PROFONANPE III
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,230,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- May 2017 May 2022
- Summary:
- The third phase of the financial cooperation project intends to contribute to the consolidation of the Peruvian protected area system. The project promotes effective management of the three coastal and marine reserves Zona Reservada Illescas (ZRI), Reserva Nacional Sistema Islas, Islotes y Puntas Guaneras (RNSIIPG) and Reserva Nacional San Fernando (RNSF), thus placing the emphasis on marine and near-shore biodiversity for the first time.
Honduras
Promotion of sustainable use of natural resources and local economic development
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,550,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2011 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Political consultationg and capacity builiding for natural resource management and climate change mitigation and adaption measures
Honduras
ProParque
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 29,500,000
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- USAID ProParque and protected area co-manager, MAPANCE PROCELAQUE, are in the initial stages of a project to conduct the firstcadastral survey of the communities living inside the nucleus zone of Celaque National Park. This project will identify and register established individuals and families who are making use of land inside the park but do not have legal documents to support their tenure. he cadastral survey, which will be finalizedon December 2013, will involve the following steps: conducting a census of the communities established inside the nucleus zone of Celaque National Park, mapping and georeferencing the plots of land currently used by the communities, and elaborating a database of land use and occupancy. To execute this project, MAPANCE PROCELAQUE and USAID ProParque will work closely with the municipalities of Belén Gualcho and San Manuel Colohete, whose jurisdictions include the communities to be surveyed, as well as the Institute of Forestry Conservation and Development (ICF), the Honduras Property Institute (IP) and the National Agrarian Institute (INA). These institutions will collaborate to determine the validity of each family’s land claim and when they got established in those lands. While only ICF can issue legal land tenancy inside a protected area, in the past the INA also inadvertently issued land titles for agricultural activities.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Central African Republic,Cote d'Ivoire,Guinea
Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development (PRADD II)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 18,900,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development (PRADD) II program will build on the successes of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) predecessor “PRADD” project that was implemented under the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment’s (E3) Property Rights and Resource Governance Task Order. PRADD and PRADD II were developed to support country compliance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). The overarching goal of PRADD and PRADD II are to increase the percentage of diamonds entering the legal chain of custody, while improving the livelihoods of artisanal diamond mining communities. PRADD II is financed through a Congressional Earmark in support of the Clean Diamond Trade Act and managed by USAID’s Land Tenure and Property Rights Division within the E3 Bureau. The LTPR Division closely coordinates with the US Department of State and US Geological Survey who also provide support to the KPCS.
PRADD II will continue to be a landmark program for the United States Government (USG), the Kimberley Process and the development community at large. PRADD was one of the first and largest development projects concentrated on the Kimberley Process and artisanal diamond mining challenges. Significantly, PRADD has been instrumental in helping the KPCS modify its goals from a narrow focus on traceability, regulation and enforcement systems to a broader focus recognizing the role of economic development in bringing rough diamonds into legitimate chains of custody, and consequently better addressing the challenges of conflict diamonds. This transition is demonstrated by the recent adoption of the Washington Declaration (http://usaidlandtenure.net/pradd/washington-declaration) at the 2012 Kimberley Process Plenary meetings that occurred in November in Washington, DC. Due to the limited number of development institutions and experiences in the artisanal mining sector, PRADD II will continue to test and evaluate approaches to achieving its objectives while also consolidating program successes, to encourage other donors and governments to implement PRADD-type programs to achieve KPCS objectives.
- Contact:
- Anthony Piaskowy, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kosovo
Property Rights Program (PRP)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 10,000,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- Working closely with the EU, the Kosovo Property Rights Program (PRP) will assist the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to develop a property reform strategy and new property law. PRP is the only donor-funded project in Kosovo working to improve court procedures related to property claims, with an emphasis on improving court practices that prevent women from inheriting property in practice. The project supports implementation of USAID Forward and Local Solutions by building the capacity of Kosovo Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and municipal governments to manage and administer USAID direct awards through grants and Government to Government (G2G) agreements. PRP supports local CSOs to develop and implement public information, awareness, and advocacy campaigns to inform women and men about women’s rights to property and change attitudes and behaviors that prevent women from inheriting property. The project also builds municipal capacity to improve delivery of property related services, enabling citizens to more efficiently engage in property related transactions.
- Contact:
- Gresa Caka, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mongolia
Property Rights Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 28,500,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Mongolia
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2008 Sep 2013
- Summary:
- This project focuses on improving the accuracy, accessibility and efficiency of Mongolia’s land titling and registration system to enable Mongolians to capitalize their land assets, make longer-term investments in their homes and businesses, and expand opportunities for generating income. The project’s main activities are:
•Improving the formal system for privatizing and registering land rights;
•Helping residents of lower income ger district areas privatize and register their land plots; and
•Supporting leasing of pasture land to groups of herders in peri-urban areas, and providing key infrastructure and training to improve livestock productivity and sustainable use of rangeland resource.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Togo
ProREDD
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,860,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 Jul 2019
- Summary:
- Forest Management Planning, define land and user rights over forest areas
Philippines
Protected Area Management Enhancement in the Philippines (PAME-PH)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 12,160,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2012 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- Capacity building, consultation , training and knowledge management for minitries responsibel for environmental protectione and management
Brazil,Guyana,Suriname
Protecting Tropical Forests in the Guiana Shield Ecological Region
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,200,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2009 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The project targets efforts to preserve the largest contiguous tropical forest complex in the world in three countries with areas located within the so-called Guiana Shield (Guyana, Surinam and Brazil). To this end, the project supports comprehensive conservation area management in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará. In Guyana and Surinam, inventory analyses are being conducted to quantify carbon, biodiversity and deforestation factors to provide a foundation for developing national REDD demonstration projects.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems for improved adaptation to climate change in the Philippines and the Coral Triangle
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 8,838,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- GIZ and its partner Rare Conservation are supporting the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and selected coastal Local Governments Units with the aim of improving the governance of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), not only to increase climate change adaptation but also to conserve the countries unique marine biodiversity as a contribution to the regional Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI). Based on proven concepts, this will be achieved through capacity building and financial support. For securing sustainability, special emphasis will be laid on community involvement and awareness creation.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
Protection and sustainable management in indigenous areas (FUNAI)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 980,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- The protection and sustainable management in Indian areas will be improved.
Brazil
Protection and sustainable management of indigenous lands in Amazonia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,380,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the structure of governance regarding land- and environmental management in indigenous regions (PNGATI) on all levels (national/regional).
Turkey
Protection and sustainable use of natural resources for adaptation to climate change and biodiversity
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,560,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Creation and testing of a concept for the protection and sustainable use of wetlands which accounts for the multifunctionality of this habitat
Belize,Guatemala,Mexico
Protection and sustainable use of Selva Maya in Belice, Guatemala and Mexico
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 7,140,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- Governmental and non-governmental actors of all three countries have implemented coordinated measures to protect and sustainably use the biodiversity and natural resources of the Selva Maya.
Panama
Protection of carbon pool and sinks within wetlands and protected areas of Panama
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,373,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2013 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- Wetlands perform a great number of socio-economic and ecological functions. Nonetheless, only few wetlands are under effective protection in Panama. UNDP envisages an array of measures designed to manage protected mangroves and other wetlands over an area of 13,800 ha. The measures are to be monitored and assessed with regard to their carbon dynamics. The project shall give greater priority to wetlands within Panama's national protected area system and will improve the capacity of the national environmental authority to manage protected areas.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mexico
Protection of the biodiversity Sierra Madre Oriental and Golfo de Mexico I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 9,470,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- May 2012 Apr 2017
- Summary:
- Demarcation and titling of state land within protected areas as a basis for demarcation and strict conservation/restoration regimes
Mexico
Protection of the biodiversity Sierra Madre Oriental and Golfo de Mexico II (Investments & Fund)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,845,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2023
- Summary:
- The FC project plans to strengthen ten terrestrial and two marine reserves as well as an eco-corridor (Corredor Ecológico Sierra Madre Oriental - CESMO) by investing in infrastructure, equipment and institutional capacities.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public services for the real estate market and European integration
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,490,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- Assistance with procurement of diverse hardware and software needed for establishing a modern National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority, +47 4889 8959
PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 995,000
- Implementers
- PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Oct 2019
- Summary:
- The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting supports a large network of independent journalists who cover under-reported global issues, such as property rights, and disseminates their stories across top-tier news media partners. The Center aims to raise awareness and to increase public dialogue on the current barriers to property rights around the world.Through written content, video, data visualization, and photography, the Center promotes high-quality international reporting and innovative platforms for the public to engage on key issues. It also provides in-person and online programs for secondary and university students, including those enrolled in public policy, business, and environmental programs.
Omidyar Network is funding The Pulitzer Center to launch a three-year program to advance property rights awareness through investigative journalism reporting and workshops, micro-grants, and education activities.
- Contact:
- PETER RABLEY
Pakistan
Punjab Land Records Management and Information Systems Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 75,030,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2007 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the land records service delivery of the Province of Punjab, contributing to long-lasting tenure security and more efficient operation of land markets.
The project focuses on:(i) setting the foundations of a modernized, more accessible and conclusive land records system by generating and strengthening the capacity of relevant entities to effectively manage and administer such a system; (ii) developing and deploying an accountability-prone land records system and all other pre-service delivery tasks; (iii) providing cost-effective land records services at all levels, including operations and maintenance of the Land Records Management Information Systems (LRMIS), with the objective of managing, operating, and making accessible timely land-related information; and (iv) monitoring the quality and efficiency of the services provided, and assessing its impacts.
- Contact:
- Linus Pott, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Putting a Pro-poor Land Agenda into Practice: Ensuring Access to and Control over Natural Resources Helps Achieve Food Security
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,953,000
- Implementers
- ILC (IFAD)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Dec 2012
- Summary:
- Support to ILC Strategic Framework: Enhance the capacities of ILC secretariat members and partners for pro-poor policy dialogue and influence to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land and other natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Radiant
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 3,100,000
- Implementers
- Microbuild Fund
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2016 Aug 2019
- Summary:
- Radiant provides a shared infrastructure for open access to remotely sensed imagery, spatial data, and technology tools to support global development. The platform aspires to fuel innovation by organizations and entrepreneurs in location-based analytics across the globe for property rights as well as adjacent issue areas, such as land use, agriculture and food security, and health.
Omidyar Network co-funded Radiant’s launch with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide the world with open access to geospatial data. Learn more about why we invested in Radiant.
Kosovo
REAL ESTATE & GEOSPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 16,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2018 Jul 2023
- Summary:
- The Project Development Objective is to increase the quality and availability of land administration and geospatial data and services.
- Contact:
- Aanchal Anand, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Macedonia
Real Estate Cadastre & Registration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 25,160,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2005 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- The objective of the project is to build an efficient and effective real estate cadastre and registration system, contributing to the development of efficient land and real estate markets.
The project will: (i) support the completion of real estate cadastre and registration of rights in all urban and peri-urban areas in the country, (ii) transform the State Authority for Geodetic Works (SAGW) into a modern and efficient national cadastre and registration agency, and improve service delivery of all local and regional offices with a goal to complete the registration of transactions in 1 day, and (iii) support the government’s capacity to formulate and develop policies that are needed to ensure the completion of the real estate cadastre and the full functioning of the land and real estate markets.
- Contact:
- Victoria Stanley, The World Bank, +1 (202) 458-7811
Kosovo
Real Estate Cadastre and Registration
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 7,800,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2010 Jun 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to help develop Kosovo's land and property markets and enhance security of tenure, by (i) supporting the improvement of the capacity of the Municipal Cadastre Offices (MCOs) to deliver services, (ii) strengthening the Kosovo Cadastre Agency (KCA) through institutional reform and technical infrastructure upgrading, and (iii) supporting the design and implementation of a comprehensive training program for KCA and MCO managers and staff, private surveyors and other key stakeholders in management, planning, legal, technical and administrative subjects.
- Contact:
- Kathrine Kelm, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Serbia
Real Estate Management Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 44,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2015 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the efficiency, transparency, accessibility and reliability of Serbia’s real property management systems. It consists of four components: (A) Valuation and Property Taxation; (B) Egovernance for Enabling Access to Real Estate Information; (C) Institutional Development of the Republic Geodetic Authority; and (D) Project Management and Support Activities.
- Contact:
- Olivera Jordanovic, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Moldova
Real estate orthophotos for Moldova ('Moldphoto')
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Orthophotos with 20 cm resolution for the entire country, as well as aerial photography.
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Azerbaijan
Real Estate Registration
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 30,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2007 Oct 2015
- Summary:
- The project objective is to ensure that there is a reliable, transparent and efficient real estate registration system supporting the real property markets and suitable systems for the management and use of State-owned immovable property.
To achieve this, the project will: 1) improve the physical condition of the registration office premises and installation of automated systems and on-line services to provide more effective and efficient customer services in the registration of property rights (Activities include:(i) the development of new buildings and renovation of existing buildings; (ii)the supply of office equipment, furniture and computer systems; (iii) the development of a unified registration and cadastre system providing improved service provision, archiving and on-line access to notaries and other professionals; (iv) providing a complete real estate cadastre and building inventory; (v) improvement in the property valuation system; (vi) improving public awareness; (vii) improving the ongoing sustainability of the registration services through strategic and business planning; and (viii) pilot activities to analyze the scope and inventory illegal and unplanned development and the preparation of a Formalization Strategy for resolving these issues); 2) support improvements in the management of state property (Activities include: (i) improving the administrative systems and service delivery; and (ii) improving the automated State Property Management System); 3) provide the basic geodetic, mapping and cadastral data for the automated property registration and state property management systems (Activities include: (i) Establishing a series of 30-40 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) to be used for current and future survey work in all disciplines; (ii) the production of a complete set of digital orthophotomaps through new satellite and aerial imagery; (iii)development of land parcel maps; and (iv) improving the ongoing sustainability of these services through strategic and business planning); and 4) coordinate joint activities relating to: (i) training; (ii) developing a joint information technology/ information management strategy; and (iii)policy and legislative development.
- Contact:
- Victoria Stanley, The World Bank, +1 (202) 458-7811
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Real Estate Registration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 34,100,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2012 Jul 2022
- Summary:
- The project aims to support development of a sustainable real estate registration system with harmonized land register and cadastre records in urban areas of both the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska.
Through real estate registration data development, the project will support land register and cadastre data harmonization on land, buildings and rights based on the actual situation in the field. The objective is to establish up-to-date and interlinked land register and cadastre databases, or integrated databases of real estate cadastre. The project will encourage and support the registration of legal rights in the land register (in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina [FBH]) or the real estate cadastre (in the Republika Srpska [RS]) using project produced data.
Through real estate registration infrastructure development, the project will continue the Land Registration Project (LRP) work in improving working conditions and infrastructure in the cadastre offices across the country and in those few land registration offices in the FBH that were not targeted by LRP. The objective is to improve working conditions, which will help to improve the quality of customer services, the adherence to service standards developed during LRP, and staff morale. Access to basic surveying technologies will be provided to areas and offices that still rely on conventional methodologies, and sustainability of the recently installed Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) network will be assured. Information technology investments will lead to further interlinking between real estate registers and other public datasets making the data accessible online to a wide audience and in support of multiple uses. This will lead to the incremental provision of electronic online services and eventually to electronic conveyancing.
Finally, the project will support policy and legal development to enhance sustainability of the real estate registration.
- Contact:
- Camille Bourguignon, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tajikistan
Real Estate Registration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 7,300,000
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2016 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The development objective of the Project is: to support the implementation of a reliable, transparent and efficient real estate registration system nationwide.
- Contact:
- Victoria Stanley, World Bank, +1 (202)-458-7811
West Bank / Gaza
REAL ESTATE REGISTRATION PROJECT
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 12,600,000
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2019 Nov 2023
- Summary:
- The project development objective is to enhance tenure security and improve real estate registration services.
Please note that this is a trust funded project.
- Contact:
- Anna Corsi, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Moldova
Real estate registration system for Moldova
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project consists of three main activities:
•Support from the Norwegian Mapping Authority: The Norwegian Mapping Authority provides project supervision and technical assistance to the system design, development of ICT strategy, technical requirements and specification for procurements, and quality control and assurance of deliveries and installations.
•Preparation of an overall ICT strategy for real estate registration (CADASTRU): The ICT strategy will facilitate the design and development of the system requirements, technical specifications and tender documents for the System procurements.
•Development and implementation of a new Real Estate Registration System: Real estate information is an important component of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure, which Moldova will establish in conformity with the EU Inspire program for sharing and exchange of geographic data nationally and across national borders. The new IT solution for real estate registration will facilitate integrated access to a wide range of geographic information from various sources using web service; it will also be centralized. Local registration offices and external users will access the Central Database via Internet.
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Moldova
Real Estate Registration System for Moldova - Maps
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,613,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- New reliable nationwide digital line maps aligned with EU standards – as a basis of the national spatial data infrastructure, for multi-purpose use by the central and local governments, public and private sector, for economic growth and poverty reduction
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Somalia
Rebuilding Confidence on Land Issues in Somalia
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 2,900,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- May 2014 Nov 2016
- Summary:
- The project is to increase inclusive and gender-equitable secure access and sustainable use/management of land and other natural resources in order to facilitate productive investments as well as social and economic development. In-depth assessments carried out on territorial rights and conflict dynamics will help to provide a clear understanding of the context and facilitate the formulation of effective strategies towards sustainable natural resource management (access and use). The project will also enhance institutional and community capacities to engage in land management/governance (use, access, and ownership) and related strategic dialogue.
- Contact:
- Susanne Martin, European External Action Service (EEAS) Somalia
Ghana,Mexico,Peru
REDD-Plus Benefits: Facilitating countries and communities in designing pro-poor REDD-Plus benefit-sharing schemes
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,800,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Nov 2015
- Summary:
- Pro-poor REDD benefit-sharing schemes incentivize reduction of forest emissions by safeguarding livelihoods of forest communities. This project fills a gap by building capacity and modeling benefit-sharing schemes for REDD activities. Aligned with the workplan of the REDD-Plus Partnership, it scales up actions needed for national REDD strategies under the Cancun Agreement.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Reducing Deforestation Through Improved Spatial Planning in Papua Provinces, Indonesia
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2018 Dec 2022
- Summary:
- To improve spatial plan processes and implementation in order to prevent deforestation and reduce GHG emissions by providing technical assistance, improving transparency and build constituency in spatial planning at provincial level.
Russia
Reduction of CO2 emissions through protection and sustainable management of the autochthonous mixed forests in the Russian Far East (RFE)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,470,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2011 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- Using a variety of instruments (forest protection, sustainable forest management, reforestation), the purpose of the planned project is to sustainably protect an entire forest ecosystem in the Russian Far East on a model basis. A further goal is to examine to what extent emission permits can be earned with these measures. The regionally collected findings and approaches will subsequently be integrated into the forestry sector at national level and, as far as possible, the generation of emission reduction units will be established as a model for financing improved forest management.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso
Regional development programme Boucle de Mouhoun
- Donors:
- Austria
- Funding:
- USD 395,683
- Implementers
- Conseil Régional de la Région Boucle de Mouhoun
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The regional programme promotes a participative approach and aims to empower local communities to ensure full ownership of their development. It supports initiatives by local communities in respect to capacity development, natural resource management, agriculture, livestock and forestry production and marketing as well as handicrafts. Land management is supperted in order to provide sustainable access to land as well as mitigate possible conflicts over land.
Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Macedonia,Montenegro,Serbia,Kosovo
Regional Geoid for the Balkans
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 5,600,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2017 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- Since a geoid is the ratified framework on which mapping and measuring work in each country is based, creating a common geodetic reference frame for neighbouring Balkan countries will facilitate seamless combination of geographic data across borders. As we know, the effects of climate change and mitigation of the effects are not confined to national borders and increasing regional cooperation among the actors involved in managing these issues would only be beneficial.
Background
Through the Norwegian Mapping Authority, the Government of Norway has for many years assisted countries in the Western Balkan region in preparing geographic information and in establishing services ensuring access to the information.
The partner institutions are (with some variation) functioning satisfactorily, but lack funds to prepare up-to-date geographic information, and access to this type of information for their respective land and sea territories is limited. Data to deal with the effects of climate change is a special challenge, and partner institutions are also challenged with meeting European standards on access to geographic information. Because of the socialist legacy, partner institutions still need to improve their register services for the emerging land markets in privatised properties.
The overall goal of this regional project is improved governance on central, regional and local levels; sustainable land use; secure land markets; and safe navigation at sea.
Activities
•For Bosnia and Herzegovina, activities will focus on 1) Roll-out of a digital archive system, and 2) Improvments to the system for efficient use of GPS technology.
•For Montenegro, activities will focus on 1) Establishment of an address register, 2) Improving production of topographic maps, and 3) Improving capacity for preparing sea maps of coastal areas
•For Serbia, activities will focus on 1) Establishing a Condominium register, and 2) Improving solutions for data distribution and exchange
•For Kosovo, activities will focus on 1) Establishing addresses in more municipalities, 2) Completing the cadastre map database, 3) Rolling out a property register to three municipalities in the north of Serbia, and 4) Upgrading of IT systems at KCA.
•For Albania, activities will be focused on 1) Enhancing the capacity of ASIG to provide geographical information to users, 2) Ensuring efficient and professional production of sea maps, 3) Development of a first version og an integrated information system for coastal areas with testing in one area, and 4) Enhancing education in mapping and cadastre at University level.
•For Macedonia, activities will be focused on 1) Establishing a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for 1/3 of the country, and 2) Establishing capacity for storage and distribution of electronic terrain data.
In common for all six partner countries, there is a focus on
1.Establishing a plan for improving the vertical component of their geodetic framework, through a regional working group and calculating the vertical reference frame for the region; and
2.Procurement of gravimetric instruments.
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Brazil
Regional planning and development in Acre, Amazonas and Para (BMZ/GIZ)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The requirements of land use planning. Environmental management and local sustainable development guide the decisions of public and private stakeholders in regions that are crucial for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest
Brazil
Regional Planning and Development in the Amazon Region
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 8,580,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2007 Jul 2015
- Summary:
- provision of climate and environment friendly approaches (green economy), promotion policy regarding controlling deforestation
Regional programme to improve governance of tenure in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 3,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Jan 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims at improving governance of tenure in the region by promoting research and policy dialogue on (i) access to land; (ii) monitoring governance; (iii) improving land administration; (iv) articulating public policies to ensure territorial development.
- Contact:
- Rolf Hackbart, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Belize,Costa Rica,Dominican Republic,Guatemala,Honduras,Nicaragua,Panama,El Salvador
Regional sustainable Development (Proyecto de Ordenamiento Territorial y Desarrollo Sostenible en Centroamerica)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,200,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2011 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- political consulting, capacity building for agencies responsible for sustainable land use planning and landmanagement
Russia
Registration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 32,190,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2006 Feb 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve the system of registration of legal rights to immovable property by developing standardized, clear and more efficient registration procedures, and by introducing an improved information management system for the registration offices.
- Contact:
- Juan Navas-Sabater, The World Bank, 32-2-552-0062
Sierra Leone
Rehabilitation and Community-Based Poverty Reduction Project (RCBPRP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 750,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2006 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to reduce post-conflict poverty and food insecurity and to improve the livelihoods and living conditions of 20,000 rural households, particularly those headed by women, in the districts of Kono and Kailahun. This will be achieved through the support to short-term recovery of rural communities and farming activities development, while laying the basis for long-term rehabilitation and participatory development.
On land and natural resource governance, the project supports the provision of skill training and equipment to generate income and employment for youth with limited access to land and disabled people or other vulnerable groups. It supports the rehabilitation of rural infrastructure to improve production conditions and supports youth concessions for plantations.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Ethiopia
REILA - Responsible and Innovative Land Administration
- Donors:
- Finland
- Funding:
- USD 13,905,000
- Implementers
- Niras
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2011 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- New phase under preparation for 2017- 20.
The overall objective of the Finnish support, which is adopted directly from ESIF (Ethiopia Sustainable Land Management Investment Framework), is to improve livelihoods and economic well-being of rural population promoting sustainable land management practises. The project promotes enabling policy, legal, institutional and financial framework for land administration, builds capacity for an entry-level land administration in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, supports sustainable 1st and 2nd level land certification in areas with high potential for investments, and enhances responsible land delivery for investments.
- Contact:
- Ms. Anu Eskonheimo, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, +358 (0)295 350 000
Burkina Faso,Niger
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel - Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- National Cooperative Business Association’s (NCBA) Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- "USAID’s Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel - Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER) program works to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable people, households, communities and systems in targeted agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture livelihood zones in Niger and Burkina Faso. This will be achieved through three interwoven objectives: increased and sustainable well-being, strengthened institutions and governance, and improved nutrition and health. Each of these objectives constitutes a core component of the REGIS-ER program.
Given its importance to incentivizing intensification, facilitating diversification and mitigating conflict, one component of REGIS-ER will actively facilitate land tenure policy reform, as well as effective land tenure policy implementation. REGIS-ER also works directly with women’s groups to improve women’s access and rights to land.
"
- Contact:
- Ioana Bouvier, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger
Responsible Governance of Tenure through regional Guidelines (AU LPG&F)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 530,000
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2012 Nov 2014
- Summary:
- The project aims at tracking progress achieved, notably in securing customary based land rights, in Niger through implementation of the Code Rural since 1993
- Contact:
Responsible Governance of Tenure through Voluntary Guidelines (Tenure Guidelines)
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 4,560,000
- Implementers
- FAO (global through Multidonor Trust Fund) ; LPI Secretariat (Africa)
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2010 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims at building the support system to facilitate the implementation of the VGGT and that of the AU Land Policy G&F on the African continent respectively. Synergies to facilitate the implementation of both frameworks are actively promoted in liaison with a dedicated EU-Programme
- Contact:
Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Ghana,Kenya,Liberia,Mozambique,Nigeria,Senegal,South Sudan,Tanzania,South Africa
Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 4,500,000
- Implementers
- IUCN, Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), University of Illionis
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The purpose of the RFGI is to have representative local forest governance and responsible natural resource management improved in at least 10 country-based landscapes in Africa, supported with handbooks for the design and improvement of accountable and responsive local forest-governance processes. The expected results from phase I are mainly new knowledge, a set of forest governance handbooks, and increased analytical capacity in forest (environmental) governance in the region
Russia
Restoring Peatlands in Russia - for fire prevention and climate change mitigation
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 7,430,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2011 Jul 2015
- Summary:
- Within the framework of the bilateral Russian-German environmental cooperation, a major peatland rewetting project will be implemented involving substantial Russian and German techhnical and scientific expertise, piloting of peatland rewetting in over 45,000 ha for fire prevention and GHG emission reductions, involving also knowledge base development involving exchange of experiences and expertise with IKI projects in Belarus and Ukraine and other relevant projects, review and improvement of relevant policy and legislation, capacity building, awareness raising, development of sustainability measures including cooperation with private sector and local landowners, establishment of methodologies and protocols for peatland rewetting, and upscaling by the Russian authorities to priority sites in European Russia.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso,Bolivia,China,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Colombia,Guatemala,Indonesia,Laos,Liberia,Mali,Nepal,Peru
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Framework Project
- Donors:
- Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 7,600,000
- Implementers
- Rights and Resources Initiative
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- Framework support to RRI, a global coalition of international, regional and community organizations dedicated to raising global awareness on forest policy and tenure reforms to achieve goals of poverty alleviation, biodiversity and forest-based economic growth. The overall objective of the project is to reduce poverty, enhance well-being and strengthen democratic governance and development in forest areas of developing countries.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Laos
Rights Link Project
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 3,750,000
- Implementers
- Village Focus International
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2008 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Communication and cooperation between actors for improving participation in governance and natural resources; Access to legal advise on land rights; knowledge and capacity of government agencies in land- and natural resource management
- Contact:
Togo
Rural development and agriculture
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,019,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 May 2022
- Summary:
- The planned FC measure, as part of the joint development program "Rural Development and Agriculture", improves the connectivity of rural enterprises and households in the cotton, coffee and cocoa-growing regions with equipment and sales markets, thereby increasing their economic performance. Households' access to health and education services is also increasing.
El Salvador
Rural Development and Modernization Project for the Central and Paracentral Region (PRODEMOR-CENTRAL)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2009 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims to reduce significantly the current levels of poverty and extreme poverty of 6,600 households in 66 municipalities of the Central and Paracentral region through participative, community-driven, micro-watershed-centred, social and economic processes, following a deliberate action strategy of gender and intercultural equity, environmental sustainability and organisational and institutional strengthening.
Land and natural resource governance interventions aim to support the achievement of cooperation agreements between land owners and land tenants, and territorial consolidation of indigenous communities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger
Rural development and productive agriculture Niger
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 15,000,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The goal is that the economic potential of small scale irrigation has sustainably improved.
Niger
Rural development and productive farming – supporting small-scale irrigated agriculture
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 15,500,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Niger
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The goal is that the economic potential of small scale irrigation is sustainably improved.
Morocco
Rural Development Project in the Eastern Middle Atlas Mountain (PDRMO)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,250,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Marine Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2007 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to improve the living conditions of 10,000 rural households in the Boulemane province. Small-scale farmers, women, unemployed young people and landless labourers are among the project participants. A number of different development activities are being pursued: improved natural resource management, rational water use, improved farming techniques, soil and water conservation, rehabilitation of rural tracks, access to rural financial services and the promotion of microenterprises.
On land and natural resource governance, the project intends to provide support for the formation and training of WUAs and for rangeland management through participatory rotational resting/grazing. It implemented a GIS and facilitated the monitoring of natural and water resources.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Morocco
Rural Development Project in the Mountain Zones (PDRZM)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 600,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Ocean Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2014 Mar 2020
- Summary:
- The project aims to contribute to a reduction in poverty and to improve living conditions for 30,000 rural households in the mountain zones of the provinces of Séfrou and d'Azilal. Specifically it aims to strengthen their capacities in order to improve their incomes and resilience to the effects of climate change, by developing value chains based on sustainable natural resource use and diversification of the local economy. Direct project beneficiaries will mostly be women and their associations and groups, as well as youth lacking access to land.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project intends to provide support for the formation and training of WUAs to manage the infrastructure improved by project activities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia
Rural Empowerment for Agricultural Development Programme in Central Sulawesi (READ)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 4,315,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2008 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The aim of the programme was to raise incomes and provide livelihoods for poor rural people living in disadvantaged communities in the province of Central Sulawesi, benefiting about 48,500 households. The programme specifically intended to achieve sustained growth of rural economic activity for male and female residents by building capacity and quality of local institutions and building human and social capitals.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme intended to provide support for community planning and mapping approaches by using GIS products and intended to support the identification of land tenure issues to present to government and stakeholders for policy issuing certificates of land use rights on common lands.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Rural Income Promotion Programme (PPRR)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 300,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2004 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme was to reduce rural poverty by increasing incomes through better market access and improving the grassroots of 30,000 households to support their development in the province of Toamasina.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme supported the improvement of local governance and decentralization through activities related to the local land planning and supported the establishment of offices dealing with land issues and the issuance of 1736 small-land producers certificates. Collective titles were allotted to villages to strengthen land tenure security of target groups in the context of increased land values following the improvements funded by the project.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso
Rural Land Governance Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 58,300,000
- Implementers
- Millennium Challenge Account - Burkina Faso
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2009 Jul 2014
- Summary:
- This project aims to increase investment in land and rural productivity through improved land tenure security and land management. Expected results include greater security of land rights and improved access to more efficient land institutions, which together contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction in rural areas.
Specific activities include:
- Legal and Procedural Change and Communication, to support the Government of Burkina Faso’s efforts to develop and implement improved rural land legislation and other legal and procedural frameworks;
- Institutional Development and Capacity Building, to improve institutional capacity to deliver land services in rural area;
- Site-Specific Land Tenure Interventions, including participatory land use management planning and clarifying and securing land rights, to ensure that the institutional development and legal and procedural change activities yield their intended benefits across targeted municipalities and agricultural development zones.
- Contact:
- Eric Trachtenberg, MCC, +1-202-521-7243
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rural land policy support project
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- GRET, E-Sud
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2007 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- This project finance the activities of the French technical committee on "land tenure and development":
1/ Supporting and promoting new knowledge on land governance
2/Guiding policy choices and contributing to international debates
3/ Supporting land policy actors
- Contact:
- Vatché Papazian, AFD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cambodia
Rural Livelihoods Improvement Project for Kratie, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,870,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2007 Sep 2014
- Summary:
- The project aimed to improve agricultural techniques targeting poor people in 84 poor communes in the provinces of Kratie, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri. About 22,600 poor households were expected to benefit from the project’s activities.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions supported awareness raising on law related to land, running public meeting on legal implication of land law, and organizing workshop with key stakeholders including civil society on land law at provincial and district level.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger
Ruwanmu Small-Scale Irrigation Project (RUWANMU)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- The goal of this project is to raise the incomes and improve the food security of 65,000 poor rural households in 30 communes within the Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder regions of Niger. The project stipulates that at least 30% of direct beneficiaries should be women and 30% young people involved in production or a related area, such as handicrafts, processing or marketing. The project reinforced 1800 ha of irrigated areas, the development of irrigation systems for an additional 5000 ha of land, and the rehabilitation of 3300 ha of watershed areas.
To manage the above mentioned areas in a sustainable way, the project supports land commissions involved in the process of securing land plots and the establishment of 30 WUAs. Special attention is being given to women's and youth's equitable access to the developed resources.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
Rwanda Land Tenure Regularisation Programme
- Donors:
- European Union,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 37,762,000
- Implementers
- Rwanda Natural Resource Authority, IBRD, Landesa, Crown Agents Bank, PwC Rwanda, Mott MacDonald, DAI Europe, Coffey International Development
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2009 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- Support to the National Land Centre to demarcate, adjudicate and issue title deeds for approximately 10m plots of land across the country, including promoting joint ownership of women. The programme supports a participatory mechanism for land adjudication and disputes resolution, has invested in mapping technology and is strengthening the land administration system.
- Contact:
- Simone Banister, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
Rwanda lnitiative for Sustainable Development (RlSD)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- RlSD is dealing with local and international issues in land policy, land law and land management, involved in the development and implementation of a monitoring instrument (ALPFG Scorecard in cooperation with and ILC and ALPI)
Mali
Sahelian Areas Development Fund Programme (FODESA)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 8,195,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Rural Development and Water (MDRE)
- Timeframe:
- Oct 1999 Jul 2013
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme was to reduce the incidence of poverty among 72,000 rural households in the Sahelian zone (in the four regions of Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou and Mopti) through better incomes and living conditions. To this end, the programme helped village communities in these areas to assess needs and identify micro-projects to which they would have contribute to in cash or in kind.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme has provided support for the formalisation of land transaction and schemes to negotiate and formalize collective rights to land and water. The programme created informal land property rights used to ensure access to land and water in rural areas, where property titles are virtually non-existent. To secure the long-term individual land rights of vulnerable groups, particularly women and young people, the programme supported the Land Use Plan to negotiate and formalize rights on water and land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mali
Sanitation and urban development project - Bamako
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2017
Brazil
Santa Catarina Rural Competitiveness
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2010 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The objective of the Project is to increase the competitiveness of Family Agriculture Producer Organizations while providing support for an improved framework of structural competitiveness inducing public services activities.
The project will support Family Agriculture Farms (FAFs) land tenure regularization. 3,000 FAFs will obtain land titles, which will facilitate creditworthiness and compliance with environmental legislation which requires land regularization to demarcate and establish –through notarization– a “legal reserve” in 20% of their farmland (“legal reserve” is a pre-requisite to credit). It will include: (i) qualification, quantification and georeferencing of target small farms; (ii) promotion of legal assistance to obtain land titling; and (ii) assistance to demarcate and notarize legal reserves.
- Contact:
- Diego Arias Carballo, World Bank, 55-61-3329-8603
Peru
Saweto Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 2,600,000
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2015 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- The project supports the registering of indigenous peoples and native communities (IPNCs), located in selected Communities, in the National Registry of Native Communities. The project also finances the demarcation and titling process which establishes the geographic location and physical boundary for a native community’s land and formally registers titles.
- Contact:
- Kristyna Bishop, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Laos
Scaling Up Participatory Sustainable Forest Management Program, SUFORD-SU
- Donors:
- World Bank,Finland
- Funding:
- USD 11,885,000
- Implementers
- Department of Forestry at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- (The funding amount only reflects the support from Finland= all of Finland's funding, as, if widely understood, it could be included in the support of land tenure)
The major focus – and added value - of the Lao PDR Forest Investment Plan (Lao FIP) is to promote participatory sustainable forest management (PSFM) of all types of forests, with a major emphasis on promoting the capacities of villagers and other grassroots managers. SUFORD-SU is the fourth in a series of projects promoting participatory sustainable forest management. The current project covers 13 provinces, 41 of the country’s 51 PFAs, comprising 2.3 million ha and more than 1000 villages.
The current project is also piloting an approach to forest landscape management in four provinces, and piloting village forestry in at least 30 villages in this area. It is supporting work on payment for environmental services (PES) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Forest and wildlife law enforcement activities continued to be supported, as well as work on key relevant policy, legislative, and regulatory issues. The project also disseminates information on project issues, and aims to raise awareness regarding climate change and REDD+.
SUFORD-SU is not only developing its own monitoring and evaluation systems for the project, but working to develop and strengthen government monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and analysis capabilities. A PFA Monitoring System (PFAMS) will be built, to complement other ongoing work such as the National Forest Information System (NFIS) under development.
- Contact:
- Ms. Minna Hares, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP II)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 4,555,000
- Implementers
- Department of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2008 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase farm family income through agricultural development and enhance quality of life of 12,530 rural poor households through the improvement of land tenure security, food security and watershed conservation in the upland area of the Cordillera Administrative region.
On land and natural resource governance, the main focus of the project is to ensure the utilization on ancestral domains through indigenous practices and through the issuance of Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title and Certificate of Ancestral Land Title.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 165,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2020 Jul 2025
- Summary:
- The development objective is to \improve access to basic services and tenure security of residents in participating urban informal settlements and strengthen institutional capacity for slum upgrading in Kenya.
- Contact:
- Sheila Kamunyori, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nigeria
Second Lagos State Development Policy Operations
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2014 May 2015
- Summary:
- The project supports Lagos State's for reforms in budgetary planning, budgetary execution, and improving the business climate in the areas of lands and building permits. It will reduce the cost and time for obtaining land titles by supporting the introduction of an electronic system that will issue Certificates of Occupancy, and streamline the processes for receiving land titles and regularizing illegal settlements.
- Contact:
- John Litwack, The World Bank, +1 (202) 473-6569
Nicaragua
Second Land Administration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 40,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2013 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The project aims to strengthen the property rights of the population in the project areas (Departments of Nueva Segovia, Jinotega, Madriz, Chinandega, Esteli and Leon) through improved regularization, titling, and registry services, and to improve Nicaragua's capacity to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible emergency.
On land tenure specifically, the project will support the strengthening of key land administration agencies, land regularization, the strengthening of indigenous peoples' land rights, and the demarcation of protected areas.
- Contact:
- Enrique Pantoja, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
West Bank / Gaza
Second Land administration Project
- Donors:
- World Bank,Finland
- Funding:
- USD 5,758,000
- Implementers
- Palestine Land Authority, Niras
- Timeframe:
- May 2012 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- (The funding amount only reflects the support from Finland)
The development objective of the Second Land Administration Project is to improve the design and implementation of the land registration system in the project area. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is systematic land registration in the project area. This component will provide resources to the Palestinian Land Authority (PLA) to complete Systematic Land Registration (SLR) of at least 180,000 dunums of land in the West Bank to be implemented in two phases, and to develop their capacity to further implement SLR in the rest of the West Bank. The second component of the project is institutional strengthening of the PLA. This component will assist the PLA in implementing its mandate and, in particular, managing systematic land registration through institutional strengthening including provision of enabling technology and office modernization. The third component of the project is project management, monitoring and evaluation. This component supports the consultants for the Project Management Unit (PMU); incremental operating costs for the PMU; and project monitoring and evaluation.
Remarks: Both Finland and World Bank will withdraw their support prematurely due to lack of results. The project was supposed to end in May 2017.
- Contact:
- Ms. Jenny Sjöberg, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Germany
Sector Programm Soil Protection, Desertification and Sustainable Landmanagement
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,590,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2017 May 2020
- Summary:
- The German development assistance contributes to the inclusion of sustainable land management in national and international policies.
Germany
Sector Project "Land Governance"
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,530,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- Poverty and conflict reducing land policy and land division are increasingly accounted for in development strategies and activities of the partner countries in Africa, Asia, Southeastern Europe and Latin America as well as in international cooperation.
Germany
Sector Project "Land Policy and Land Management" II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,530,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Poverty and conflict reducing land policy and land division are increasingly accounted for in development strategies and activities of the partner countries in Africa, Asia, Southeastern Europe and Latin America as well as in international cooperation.
Germany
Sector Project "Land Policy and Land Management" I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,700,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2011 May 2014
- Summary:
- Poverty and conflict reducing land policy and land division are increasingly accounted for in development strategies and activities of the partner countries in Africa, Asia, Southeastern Europe and Latin America as well as in international cooperation
Germany
Sector Project to Combat Desertification I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,730,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 May 2014
- Summary:
- The project aims to contribute to the achievement of the UNCCD goals.
Germany
Sector Project to Combat Desertification II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 7,460,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 May 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to contribute to the achievement the UNCCD goals.
Brazil
Secure land tenure for women and vulnerable groups in Brazil
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 700,000
- Implementers
- Habitat for Humanity Brazil, Habitat for Humanity International
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- This project will develop the capacity of civil society organisations and excluded women to advocate for their rights to secure tenure and property through changes in law and practice. Part of the project will involve working with the local authorities to make their process more transparent and responsive to the needs of women and vulnerable groups on tenure issues. The project will benefit 2,500 families directly and 800,000 families indirectly
- Website:
- Project weblink
Securing Access to Land for the Rural Poor with the International Land Coalition (ILC)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 15,390,000
- Implementers
- ILC
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- The overall goal of the grant is to enable smallholder and marginalized farmers, especially women, to achieve secure and equitable access to land. The programme’s objectives are aligned with the pillars of the 2011-2015 ILC Strategic Framework: (i) influence the formulation and implementation of national land policy for the benefit of poor rural women and men; (ii) influence global and regional land-related processes and systems in favour of pro-poor land policies and governance; and (iii) build a leading knowledge network on land governance, contributing to substantive improvements in the monitoring, sharing and uptake of land-related knowledge.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Cameroon
Securing land and resource rights and improving governance in forest areas of Cameroon
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,900,000
- Implementers
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIEP), Centre pour l'environnement et le developpement (CED), Reseau de lutte contre la faim au Cameroun (RELUFA)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jan 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims to (i) strengthen capacities of key stakeholders in establishing recognition of claims to land access and to (ii) establish legitimate and sustainable mechanisms of multi-stakeholder consultation for decision-making concerning the revision of legal frameworks, policy strategies and administrative regulations which influence the rights of access to and use of land and natural resources for rural actors in Cameroon
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Kyrgyzstan
Securing ownership to land
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,964,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project consists of three main components:
•Establishing of six permanent reference stations for positioning services. These will complete the reference framework for the entire country and provide more accurate positioing. In addition, 30 GPS receivers will be acquired for surveying of property boundaries
•Improvement of the IT-system for property registration. Today, this system is spread over several different components. This project will seek to harmonise the components and create one system.
•Updating of property maps and register for 20% of the country where maps and register are still not up to date with new private properties
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia,Peru,Uganda
Securing tenure rights of forest dependent communities
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- CIFOR, FAO
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2015 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- This research is exploring the relationships between statutory and customary land tenure and how these relationships affect the tenure security of forest dependent communities, including women and other marginalized groups. Through the use of a global comparative approach and standardized methodologies, this research programme is analyzing differential success or failure of policy and institutional innovations intended to enhance secure tenure rights for forest and trees, and identify strategies that are likely to lead to desired outcomes.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Indonesia,Peru,Uganda
Securing tenure rights of forest dependent communities
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- FAO and CIFOR
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2015 Sep 2018
- Summary:
- This research is exploring the relationships between statutory and customary land tenure and how these relationships affect the tenure security of forest dependent communities, including women and other marginalized groups. Through the use of a global comparative approach and standardized methodologies, this research programme is analyzing differential success or failure of policy and institutional innovations intended to enhance secure tenure rights for forest and trees, and identify strategies that are likely to lead to desired outcomes.
- Contact:
- Safia Aggarwal, FAO
Niger
Sécurisation des systèmes fonciers pastoraux au Niger par le renforcement de la gouvernance foncière
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,400,000
- Implementers
- Government of the Republic of Niger
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Nov 2018
- Summary:
- Le projet vise à mettre en œuvre une partie des directives volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers applicables aux terres, aux pêches et aux forêts dans le contexte de la sécurité alimentaire de la FAO. Il s’inscrit aussi parfaitement dans le cadre et lignes directrices pour les politiques foncières en Afrique de la Land Policy Initiative (LPI).
Ce projet est conçu pour réaliser l’inventaire national des espaces pastoraux et des ressources pastorales et renforcer les structures du Code Rural et la réalisation du schéma d’aménagement foncier dans deux régions, à savoir Dosso et Zinder qui bénéficient des appuis du Projet d’Appui au Developpement du Secteur (PADSR) sous financement de l’Union Euuropéenne dans le cadre du 10ème FED.
Within the context of improving food security, the project aims to implement parts of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT). It is further aligned with the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa (F&G) by the Land Policy Initiative (LPI). In particular, the project aims at securing pastoral land systems in Niger. It sets out to create a national inventory of rangelands and pastoral resources. Further, the project will strengthen the structures under the Rural Code and implement land development schemes in two areas, namely the Dosso and Zinder regions that benefit from the support of the 'Projet d’Appui au Developpement du Secteur (PADSR)' under EU funding from the 10th EDF.
- Contact:
- Moussa Bouda-Maja-Chardi, European External Action Service (EEAS) Niger
India
Services in the context of supporting the use of the Forests Rights Act and the VGGT among Indigenous Peoples' organizations in India
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 25,000
- Implementers
- Prayog Samaj Sevi Sanstha
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Feb 2017
- Summary:
- A series of awareness-raising and capacity development material on the VGGT and the Indian Forestry Rights Act (FRA) with a specific focus on indigenous peoples (Adivasi in India) were developed. The materials include a kit targeting community leaders and local authorities, including posters, leaflets, cartoon booklets and videos. The materials were developed with the objective of giving simple information on the relevant legislation and applicable procedures to secure Adivasi’ lands and forests at local level. At the same time, the VGGT have been translated and disseminated in four indigenous languages used in India. in January 2017, a meeting was organized at the Nalsar University of Law to discuss the establishment of a network of lawyers, lawmakers, judges, universities, and organizations working in supporting the rights of Adivasi and other marginalized communities. The network, which is currently being established, will support the recognition of tenure rights of indigenous peoples in India in collaboration with NALSAR University, PRAYOG and other organizations working with Adivasi and indigenous peoples.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Sir Ratan Tata Trust
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 1,700,000
- Implementers
- Sir Ratan Tata Trust
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2018 Apr 2019
- Summary:
- Omidyar Network partnered with Tata Trusts to map the Odisha slum’s informal settlements and to identify 100,0000 households eligible to benefit from the recent Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, which aims to identify, map, and issue titles for parcels of land currently occupied by slum households. The urban slum titling project utilizes specialized resources in drone technology, geospatial mapping and machine learning.
Odisha is the second largest slum in India and the partnership provided households with property titles, otherwise known as “patta”. With patta, individuals can have access to secure benefits like education and bank accounts.
Learn more about why we partnered with Tata Trusts on this project
Haiti
Small Irrigation and Market Access Development Project in the Nippes and Goavienne Region (PPI-3)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 590,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2012 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims to support local organizations working on irrigation schemes and watershed management in the Nippes and Goavienne region, benefiting 28,000 poor rural households. The specific objectives include: (i) Increasing agricultural production sustainably through efficient water management and the consolidation of both collective and individual irrigated agriculture; (ii) Improving the value of irrigated agriculture production, and increasing farmers' access to markets and financial services; (iii) Strengthening the planning, organizational and management capacities of grassroots organizations to increase their access to markets and financial services.
Regarding land and natural resource governance the project, similar to the Small-scale Irrigation Development Project (PPI-2) completed in 2015, aims at ensuring tenure security for the beneficiaries of rehabilitated or newly constructed irrigation schemes. The activities included the mapping of the irrigated area, the setting-up of a database listing all identified irrigation scheme users and when possible the issuance of a land title for the parcels used. Further capacity-building activities for WUAs are being undertaken and user fees for the irrigation schemes collected.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Haiti
Small-scale Irrigation Development Project (PPI-2)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,300,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2008 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project aimed to reduce rural poverty by improving the livelihoods and incomes of 21,000 poor rural households in the in a sustainable manner in the North East, North West and Centre department. A specific goal is to bring about key policy and institutional changes, including a national water management programme.
Regarding land and natural resource governance the project aimed at ensuring tenure security for the beneficiaries of rehabilitated or newly constructed irrigation schemes. The activities included the mapping of the irrigated area, the setting-up of a database listing all identified irrigation scheme users and when possible the issuance of a land title for the parcels used.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Lesotho
Smallholder Agricultural Development Project (SADP)
- Donors:
- World Bank,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims to support 15,000 smallholder farmers' households to exploit opportunities to increase their productivity and diversify into market-oriented agriculture. The project area covers four of Lesotho’s 10 districts: Berea, Leribe, Butha Buthe and Mafeteng. Emphasis is placed on identifying commercially viable activities that can be replicated and successfully scaled up.
Land and natural resource governance activities include the preparation and implementation of three year Agricultural Investment Plans and the formulation of land use and settlement plans.
- Contact:
- Pedro Arlindo, World Bank, 258-21-482-329
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sierra Leone
Smallholder Commercialization Programme - under the Global Agricultural Food Security Programme (SCP-GAFSP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 850,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (Implementation support agency: FAO)
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2011 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims to empower the rural poor to increase their food security and incomes on a sustainable basis with a view to achieving long-term economic development and poverty reduction. Specifically it aims to reduce the gap between national rice production and demand (70,000 metric tons) and to increase farm incomes by 10% for the 100,000 direct beneficiaries.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme, through the Land and Water Development Division (LWDD), carries out topographic, soil, hydrological, social and economic surveys to plan the rehabilitation of the Inland Valley Swamp (IVS). With the prospect of the rehabilitation of the swamp, LWDD is training youth contractors and communities in rehabilitation works and water management.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2006 Sep 2015
- Summary:
- The programme goal is to foster market-driven development of Kenya's informal dairy industry, working with poor smallholder dairy producers and traders to strengthen their capacity to respond to market opportunities. It builds understanding of the market and technical knowledge of production processes, and improves organizational and enterprise skills. Dairy production improves household nutrition and provides extra income. The programme will benefit 24,000 households in the areas of Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, Kakamega, Uasin Gishu, Nandi, Nakuru, Nyamira, Kisii and Bomet.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme provides support for community mobilization and capacity building for a participatory analysis and mapping with dairy groups and land access for the groups and their communities. These activities also include documenting and mapping of existing land ownership and using practices and records and sharing experiences with others.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Swaziland
Smallholder Market-led Project (SMLP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,300,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2016 Mar 2022
- Summary:
- The purpose of the project is to enhance food and nutrition security and incomes among smallholder producer families of 10,355 households through diversified agricultural production and market linkages in the rain-fed Middleveld and Lowveld areas of the Lubombo and Shiselweni regions. On land and natural resource governance, the Chief's Letter of Consent will be used as means to transform communal grazing land in land for commercial agriculture and as a means to give specific groups of smallholders the usufruct of such land in return for guarantees on sustainable use. In parallel to the CDC-led appraisals, the Project will prepare GIS base maps recording land use and land resources from available remote sensing information and other existing secondary sources.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sri Lanka
Smallholder Plantations Entrepreneurship Development Programme (SPEnDP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 200,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Plantation Industries
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2007 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to improve the livelihoods of 8,700 marginalized smallholder tea producers households of Hadabima and Mahaweli resettlements in the intermediate zone of Moneragala willing to take up rubber. It intends to improve the productivity of the old tea plantation lands and new rubber-based cultivations by improving access rights to the land under out-grower schemes, and by supporting diversification and development of out-grower systems for tea and rubber.
Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to ensure land tenure security and land access to the targeted people, which 35% will be women, by applying sustainable land use systems. It intends to provide support for mapping and surveying of smallholder lots to verify official ownership and to support community mobilization and capacity building. The programme implemented the initiative of MPI and MC S-PMU, Land Reform Commission to reduce the land utilization fee on a 3-tier formula.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zambia
Smallholder Productivity Promotion Programme (S3P)
- Donors:
- IFAD,Finland
- Funding:
- USD 355,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme is to improve income levels and food and nutrition security of 60,000 poor rural households, in three provinces of Zambia: Kasama, Mansa and Lusaka, who depend on agriculture and/or agricultural related activities. The programme will complement the Smallholder Agribusiness Promotion Programme (SAPP) and will support the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MACO) by enhancing on-farm productivity of smallholder farmers thus enabling them to respond to emerging market opportunities.
Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to strengthen the participatory community-level land use planning, management processes land tenure security through the provision of technical support for training and the development of guidelines, these activities will be gender sensitive and include boundary demarcation of female-headed households and women’s fields according to households as appropriate.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sri Lanka
Smallholder Tea and Rubber Revitalization Project (STaRR)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 900,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Plantation Industry
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jan 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase resilience and strengthen the natural resource and economic asset base for poor rural women and men by helping smallholder tea producers increase their yields through replantation and therefore providing a source of income through new rubber plantations. The programme works with 35,000 existing tea smallholders and 15, 000 poor households involved in rubber production and processing. On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to improve tenure security and land access as the benefits will increase the role of women in the plantation sector, increase capacity building and training opportunities and increase access to on and off-farm activities. The project activities include participatory mapping and analysis.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Liberia
Smallholder Tree Crop Revitalization Support Project (STCRSP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 235,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2012 Sep 2017
- Summary:
- The project includes poor smallholders who cultivate less than two ha of land and rely on subsistence farming, as well as households headed by women, young people, war-wounded and disabled people among 15,000 households in the Lofa county. It aims to increase the quantity sold and the price received by poor farmers for cocoa and coffee by rehabilitating plantations, improving access to markets and by strengthening the Ministry of Agriculture and/or private extension services as well as Farmers-based Organisations. The rehabilitation of 315 km of farm-to-market roads and 15,000 ha of cocoa/coffee plantations, using a value chain model, aim at generating employment opportunities, mainly benefitting youth and women.
The project aims at improving land tenure security, as the two partners for tree crop rehabilitation (Bio United and cooperatives) will be in charge of formalizing the farmers’ ownership over their plots. A memorandum of understanding with the project coordination unit (PCU) will be approved and signed by the farmer, the traditional authorities, and the district agricultural officers (DAOs) and county agricultural coordinator (CAC).
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Malawi
Social and Economic Empowerment of Smallholder Producers in Rural Malawi
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 580,000
- Implementers
- Oxfam, Oxfam partners
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- 1. Advocate for the enactment of the land related Laws to support government implementation of the national Land Policy 2. Monitor implementation of the National Land Policy - specifically Landnet is interested in monitoring the land transactions and how they are affecting the livelihoods of rural people more especially women; compensation and resettlement of people due to large scale land investments or grabbing; the Land Governance Assessment Framework will be used 3. Awareness building on the land policy and land related laws 4. Strengthen coordination and collaboration amongst partners in the land policy reform process
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin,Burkina Faso,Ethiopia,India,Kenya
Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 59,010,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2014 Jun 2022
- Summary:
- The aim is to provide a large-scale support for soil conservation and the rehabilitation of degraded soil in selected partner countries.
Laos
Soum Son Seun Jai - Community-based Food Security and Economic Opportunities Programme
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 540,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The programme aims to ensure food security and income for 17,000 rural poor households in 225 villages among nine districts in the Sayabouly and Oudomxay. Specifically by strengthening farmer's organisations to be able to promote the community-based natural resource management and through the adoption of the proposed technologies and improved access to water.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme intended to provide support for increasing ethic villagers' entitlements, for the management of communal lands and to help in implementing secure tenure rights for the communities to protect them against land grabbing.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Southern Nyanza Community Development Project (SNCDP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 755,000
- Implementers
- IFAD
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2004 Sep 2013
- Summary:
- The project intended to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of 100,000 households in six districts: Homa Bay, Kuria, Migori, Nyamira, Rachuonyo and Suba, that are among the poorest districts in the relatively high-potential agricultural area around Lake Victoria. The project’s intermediate objective was to enhance gendered empowerment of the rural communities through improved health and more rational use and management of natural resources for sustainable livelihood activities.
On land and natural resource governance, the project intended to enable in particular the poor and vulnerable groups to analyse their land tenure security situations and to establish contact with the District Land Office, Land Control Boards and Tribunals, chiefs and elders; it assisted the communities in installing a water supply scheme or rehabilitating their own scheme to meet the national standard set for per capita supply of water. 56 Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) processes were undertaken and community action plans developed through active community participation.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Belize,Costa Rica,Guatemala,Nicaragua,Panama,El Salvador
Spatial Planning and sustainable Developement in Central America
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,380,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Mar 2016
- Summary:
- The programme supports national institutions responsible for spatial/regional development and planning to develop improved frameworks, strategies and instruments for sustainable spatial development.
- Contact:
- Matthias Hack, GIZ
Spruce
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 2,500,000
- Implementers
- Spruce
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2017 Apr 2019
- Summary:
- Spruce is the first title insurance, escrow, and closing company that uses technology to enable fast, frictionless, and secure real estate transactions.
This approach allows Spruce to offer its customers a fully digital experience providing a user-friendly way to access titling insurance and reach settlement quickly and easily. Spruce guarantees that borrowers receive lower overall costs, faster, more confident closing times, and protection of money and identity by utilizing encryption technology.
Omidyar Network’s funding helps Spruce expand its technology offering, grow the team and accelerate growth.
United States
Spruce
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 2,500,000
- Implementers
- Spruce
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2018 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- Spruce is the first title insurance, escrow, and closing company that uses technology to enable fast, frictionless, and secure real estate transactions. This approach allows Spruce to offer its customers a fully digital experience providing a user-friendly way to access titling insurance and reach settlement quickly and easily. Spruce guarantees that borrowers receive lower overall costs, faster, more confident closing times, and protection of money and identity by utilizing encryption technology.
- Contact:
- Patrick Burns, Spruce
- Website:
- Project weblink
Laos
Stenthening National Geographic Services in Lao PDR
- Donors:
- Finland
- Funding:
- USD 7,605,000
- Implementers
- National Geographic Department
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The programme purpose is to assist the National Geographic Department (NGD) in creating, managing and distributing reliable modern national spatial data services to public and private stakeholders and clients. The services include database for digital topographic maps at 1:50,000 and digital orthophoto maps based on fresh digital aerial photography which is part of the programme implementation. The programme also includes densification of the horizontal and vertical control point networks over entire country.
SNGS project ended in August 2014. In general, the objectives of SNGS have been achieved rather well. Orthophoto coverage at the end of the SNGS will be twice the original project area, i.e. approx. 2/3 of the country. It has substantially increased technical and institutional capacity of the partner organizations (National Geographic Department, NGD, and surveying and Mapping Centre, SMC). High resolution digital orthopohoto (1:5,000) and topographic (1:50,000) maps are unique products in Lao PDR.
The SNGS extension is planned to last from August 2014 until December 2015 and it serves as an implementation of exit strategy of SNGS project. The extension will focus especially on ensuring the institutional sustainability. The project purpose is to ensure that the NGD and the SMC have long term capability and financial means to produce and distribute good quality and up-to-date geospatial data.
- Contact:
- Ms. Eeva Lehtinen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, +358(0)295 350 000
Philippines
Strategic Partnership to strengthen local Governance in land and water management
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 520,000
- Implementers
- CIUF (Universités francophones)
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2010 Mar 2014
Laos
Strategic Support for Food Security and Nutrition Project (SSFSNP-GAFSP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,187,000
- Implementers
- WFP
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2016 Jun 2022
- Summary:
- The project aims to reduce extreme poverty and malnutrition for 34,000 poor rural households in Northern Laos. The objective is to increase the quality of health and life by improving agricultural production and overall household nutrition and food security.
The project will address food and nutrition security needs and will include profitable investment in nutrient-sensitive, climate adapted agricultural development. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim at guaranteeing equitable access to and sustainable management of forest land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Chad
Strenghthening of the planning and management skills of local basis groups to support the sustainable cultivation of natural res
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2006 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Local agreements for sustainable management of natural resources are reached in a participatory manner and implemented accordingly
Colombia
Strenghthening of the policy of restitution of land and territories
- Donors:
- FAO,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 5,700,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Nov 2019
- Contact:
- Rolf Hackbart, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bangladesh
Strengthening Access to Land and Property Rights to All Citizens of Bangladesh.
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 13,400,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Finance
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2009 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The objective is to strengthen access to land and property rights for all sections of the community. The specific purpose is the modernisation of land records management. Activities include: policy review in a particpatory approach, creation of land record, record of traditional and customary land rights, simplified litigation mecanisms, establishment of land tribunals, simplification and dissemination of land law, assessment of institutional roles, training in land management, public awareness.
Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in Africa
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 25,080,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2014 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The program is part of the BMZ special initiative ‘One World, No Hunger’ and contributes directly to achieving the objectives under its Action Area 6 (promoting responsible land use and improving access to land). The program is providing support in the following areas: providing institutional and specialized support to establish an African Network of Excellence for land governance with a view to enhancing educational capacities within the land management and land policy sector in Africa; promote demand driven research in Africa, and monitoring, evaluation and knowledge exchange regarding land policies. The program facilitates policy dialogue, South-South and North-South exchanges.
Mozambique
Strengthening Artisanal Fishers' Resource Rights Project (PRODIPRA)
- Donors:
- Belgium,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 845,000
- Implementers
- Institute for Development of Small-scale Fisheries (IDDPE)
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- This grant, which complements the Artisanal Fisheries Promotion Project (ProPESCA) aims to improve the livelihoods of artisanal fishing communities along the whole coastline of Mozambique by strengthening their land tenure security and the management of natural resources. This will be achieved through the promotion of activities and approaches for securing land and natural resource rights, the promotion of awareness, advocacy and policy dialogue on land and natural resource tenure issues by, and on behalf of, the target group, strengthening the capacity of partner institutions, and the promotion of lesson learning, knowledge management and dissemination of information on land and natural resource tenure security issues among stakeholders within Eastern and Southern Africa, other regions in Africa and globally.
The activities include the recognition of community-based NRM structures, community land use planning and community land delimitation, forestry co-management and the recognition of community land and natural resource use management plans; the documentation and mapping of natural resource use and the registration of communities’ rights; the documentation of local natural resource management practices and conflict management and resolution.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Andorra
Strengthening capacities and tools to scale up and disseminate innovations
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 500,000
- Implementers
- PROCASUR
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2015 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- The grant to PROCASUR provides support for poverty reduction in the rural areas of Latin American and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa and West and Central Africa by increased access to knowledge, capacity building and scaling up of good practices of farmers and indigenous peoples. The activities planned aim to engage in the knowledge mapping and systematization of good practices and innovations. It aims to strengthen human and institutional capacities to manage sustainable innovation processes and provide support for the adoption and scaling-up of innovations, and knowledge dissemination.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Strengthening capacity for assessing the impact of tenure security measures on IFAD supported and other projects within the SDG framework
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 440,000
- Implementers
- GLTN
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Mar 2019
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Ethiopia
Strengthening Drought Resilience of Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Livelihoods in Ethiopian Lowlands
- Donors:
- Germany,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 2,100,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- Strengthening Drought Resilience of Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Livelihoods, securing of production basis for agriculture and its valorization.
Zambia
Strengthening Environmental and Agricultural Research (SEAP)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 9,500,000
- Implementers
- Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- The goal of the program is to positively impact the development and implementation of favorable agricultural and environmental policy that promotes agricultural-led, broad-based economic growth leading to a decrease in poverty and hunger, incorporating cross-cutting factors such as sustainable natural resource management, land tenure, gender, resilience, adaptation and mitigation to climate change, research and technology, and nutrition, through institutionalizing and indigenizing evidence-based policy discussion, formulation and implementation by and among broad stakeholders and government actors.
- Contact:
- Anna Toness, USAID
Burma
Strengthening Land Governance
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 3,939,000
- Implementers
- CDE Bern, Land Core Group, Transnational Institute
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 May 2017
- Summary:
- The recent transition to market economy and
creation of land market has led to increased land
speculation. In the face of weak legal frameworks
and institutions for their protection, the land access
of women and men farmers, especially those
(mostly ethnic minorities) living in upland shifting
cultivation areas, is at risk. Land governance will
be a central issue in any political dialogue with
ethnic leaders. The rapidly evolving political
environment presents both opportunities and risks
for equitable land governance.
Malawi
Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,340,000
- Implementers
- OXFAM GB
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2015 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- The overall objective is to increase land tenure security for improved and sustainable agricultural production. The specific objective is to pilot, test and recommend for scale up an gender sensitive land governance system in customary estates.
The project is developed around three clusters of activities: 1) awareness raising for district and local level structures on land governance instruments and frameworks (development and testing of gender sensitive guidelines and procedures to be used in customary estates);2) development of a system to monitor the implementation of customary land governance frameworks (monitoring the application of the gender-sensitive guidelines); 3) development of explanatory, visibility and promotional materials on the land governance project.
- Contact:
- Mutemwe KAVALO, EU Delegation to the Republic of Malawi
Bolivia
Strengthening management and consolidation of the Protected Areas System
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 660,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2011 Feb 2014
- Summary:
- The project aims to strengthen and support the management of protected areas in the Municipio de La Paz. It is mainly advising the municipality on drafting and implementing management plans for the 27 protected areas. Furthermore, adaptation measures are being designed that consider the impact of glacial retreat and the associated reduction in the amount of water available to La Paz and neighbouring communities as well as the spread of agricultural activities into local forests. At the end of the project, all protected areas should have management plans that cover specific activities. These will include reforestation using native tree species, studies on aquatic animals and plants, environmental education programmes for civil society, the management of water catchment areas and environmental services.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Serbia
Strengthening of Municipal Land Management II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,770,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The capacities of local authorities to manage land use in an ecologically sustainable, socially balancing and efficient way are strengthened.
Serbia
Strengthening of Municipal Land Management in Serbia III
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,670,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The capacities of local authorities to manage land use in an ecologically sustainable, socially balancing and efficient way are strengthened.
Rwanda
Strengthening of the rights based approach - Civil society contribution to land reform in Rwanda
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 520,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- The goal is that civil society partner organizations are able to promote their interests on the state level (e. g. in the area of land).
Rwanda
Strengthening Proximity Justice in Rwanda (SPJR)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 5,900,000
- Implementers
- RCN, Justice & Démocratie
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2015 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The aim of the programme is through the work of RCN Justice et Democratie to enable citizen participation in proximity justice; facilitate constructive dialogue and raise awareness about the rights and duties of the population, the law and the functioning of proximity justice; seek to safeguard the rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups in particular women’s access to justice and participation in decision making; promote the role of civil society and reinforce the capacity of CSOs to fulfil their mandate; provide support to local authorities to enable them to discharge their duties, including capacity building, knowledge transfer, coaching and materials; conduct and disseminate original research and engage decision makers with evidence-based advocacy; and support exchanges at local and national level between proximity justice and civil society actors.
Kosovo
Strengthening Spatial Planning and Land Management
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,350,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The aim is that communal and national institutions work better in the area of spatial planning.
Albania
Strengthening sustainable communal forestry (with SNV)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 4,230,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- SNV-Sida co-financed project to promote pro-poor economic development through capacity building in farmer based forest management.
Colombia
Strengthening the sustainability of land restitution process-Phase II
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 6,027,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Nov 2019
- Summary:
- The outcomes of the project are: 1) Ethnic Communities victims of dispossession or forced abandon, in areas prioritized by the Land Restitution Unit (URT), have access to the land restitution process; 2) Families of settled peasant communities in prioritized areas affected by armed conflict, improve their sustainable livelihoods (social, environmental and economic conditions); and 3) Land Restitution Unit (URT) and public and private entities strengthen their intervention and coordination to offer an integral response to the rural population and its territories. Support of 49 000 000 SEK.
- Contact:
- Catalina Hoyos, Embassy of Sweden in Bogota
Philippines
Strengthening Urban Growth for Economic Development (SURGE) Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 10,000,000
- Implementers
- ICMA
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- A key objective of SURGE is improving local urban development, which includes 1)strengthening local capacity in urban development, 2) Improve land-use planning and development following international best practice, and 3) Improve local infrastructure planning and implementation.
- Contact:
- Gil Dy-Liacco, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Germany
Study and Expert Fund Special Initiative "ONE WORLD - No Hunger"
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,120,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2014 Sep 2017
- Summary:
- The fund shall primarily be used to prepare and examine new projects of the special initiative “Eine Welt ohne Hunger” ("One world - no hunger").
Cameroon,Egypt,Ghana,India,Kenya,Kyrgyzstan
Study on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP)
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 350,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2013
South Sudan
Sudan Rural Land Governance Project
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 9,890,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2011 Feb 2014
- Summary:
- The goal of the USAID Sudan Rural Land Governance project (SRLG Project) will be to define and establish rural land governance institutions and processes so as to promote property rights, encourage sound land use management, mitigate conflict, reduce the potential for rural landowners to be divested of their land, and to encourage broad-based participation in future land allocation, management, and investment decisions. To achieve these objectives, the SRLG Project will: 1) Provide ongoing technical assistance at the National level to the south Sudan Land Commission to refine the Land Act 2009 and other related legislation as a result of the final policy outcomes; 2) Develop draft implementing regulations at the State-level to stipulate land governance processes and related institutions in rural areas; 3) Pilot these regulations through establishment and operationalization of at least two County Land Authorities (CLAs); 4) Build capacity of State and County level land authorities through site specific actions to secure land tenure and improve land use planning in each of the two counties, and; 5) Promote investment opportunities and mitigate conflict
- Contact:
- Lokosang Lemi, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bangladesh
Sunamganj Community-Based Resource Management Project (SCBRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,370,000
- Implementers
- Rural Development and Cooperatives Division (RDCD) of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2003 Mar 2014
- Summary:
- The aim of the project was to increasing assets and income of 90.000 households in Sunamganj district by diversifying livelihood and employment opportunities. The objectives were to improve access to essential services and resources, including credit and to support the development of a viable national institution to replicate the project approach in other areas of Bangladesh.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project intended to demarcate wetland and conservation areas, support reforestation measures and grant leases to 293 Beels (wetland) and other user groups.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kazakhstan
Support in the Administration of state owned agricultural land in Kazakhstan (BMELV/BVVG)
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2013 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims at supporting government institutions dealing with land management assignments with a special focus on the management of state owned agricultural land, analysis of the current situation, review of legal framework advisory support in organizing lease valuation of agricultural land, management of lease and sales contracts, privatization strategies, land market development
Colombia
Support for "Victims and Land Restitution" Act of June 2011
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 262,000
- Implementers
- French MOFA, Adecia, CSN, FIEF
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2014
Liberia,Mongolia,Sierra Leone
Support for Country Level Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Component 1)
- Donors:
- FAO,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 300,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2014 Aug 2016
- Summary:
- This project is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) at country level over a period of 30 months. Relevant components under this proposal focus on i) building awareness and supporting the development of multi-stakeholder national forums in selected countries.
Component 1, which focuses on Liberia, Mongolia and Sierra Leone will focus on delivering country level workshops for a total of USD 300.000 to raise awareness on the Voluntary Guidelines, increasing the ability of governments and citizens to understand and administer tenure rights and the processes involved in providing access to and transferring such rights, supporting multi-stakeholder national forums and the development of plans for mainstreaming the Voluntary Guidelines in participating countries.
- Contact:
- Francesca Romano, Francesca.Romano@fao.org, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sierra Leone
Support for Country Level Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Component 3)
- Donors:
- FAO,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 930,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2014 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- This project is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) at country level over a period of 30 months. Relevant components under this proposal focus on i) building awareness and supporting the development of multi-stakeholder national forums in selected countries; and iii) supporting the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines in Sierra Leone through a multi-sectoral intervention.
Component 3 will focus on providing technical support to Sierra Leone in the following five thematic areas: Legal Framework Assessment, Land Administration and Enabling Technologies, Fisheries Tenure, Forestry Tenure and Right to Food.
- Contact:
- Francesca Romano, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger,Senegal
Support for Country Level Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines, Component 1
- Donors:
- FAO,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 399,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Italy is providing financial support over three years for the dissemination and effective and high quality implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines).
Component 1 of the project focuses on providing a series of 3 country level workshops in each participating country (Senegal and Niger).
The overall objective of the national workshops will be to increase the ability of governments and citizens to understand and administer tenure rights and the processes involved in providing access to and transferring such rights by developing a critical mass of informed stakeholders.
The aim of the workshop series (three per country) is to promote the following: a) assist participants to contribute to the improvement and development of the national policy, legal and organizational frameworks regulating the range of tenure rights and to develop concrete plans for implementing the VGGT in their countries; b) create informed communities that are able to contribute to the reform process and monitor progress over time; and c) create learning cadres that will receive further training through e-learning and blended learning planned for the future.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Support for Country Level Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines,Component 3 Strengthening the Dissemination and Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 1,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2016 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The purpose of the project is to support the dissemination and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines, through a multi-stakeholder platform bringing together representatives from the public and private sector, research, civil society and farmers' organizations, with the aim to support the ongoing process of improving land governance. The project aims to further strengthen ownership of the Voluntary Guidelines in Senegal through: capacity building of all stakeholders in land governance; support for the ongoing reforms process;support to the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines locally.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin
Support for decentralization and decontralization in Benin
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 655,000
- Implementers
- MGDPAAT (Adressing national committee), French Embassy in Cotonou
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 May 2016
- Summary:
- 1/ Development of the Cotonou urban land register; 2/implementation of the Cellule Nationale d'adressage; 3/ support to the decentralized cooperation
- Contact:
- Emilie Pélerin, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nigeria
Support for Implementation of SOLA Open Source Software in Nigeria
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 690,000
- Implementers
- Adam Smith International (ASI)
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2012 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The objective of the project is to develop an open source enterprise software application that supports core cadastre and registration functions. The project will provide support for the customization of the initial SOLA software and its implementation in Nigeria.
The project will establish an open source community of users and developers around the SOLA software and improve sustainability, efficiency and transparency.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Madagascar
Support for National Land Policy Programme (PNF)
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 2,650,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2013
Kenya
Support for Responsible Land and Natural Resource Governance in Communal Lands of Kenya
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 3,200,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- The main objective of the project is to support the government’s efforts to secure and improve equitable access to land and natural resources for food security and socio-economic development of agro-pastoral communities in the ASALs of Kenya. The project will adopt mainstreaming of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security and the Framework and Guidelines (F&G) on Land Policy in Africa.
- Contact:
- Mwangi Njuru, European External Action Service (EEAS) Nairobi
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zimbabwe
Support for the clarification of land management issues
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 30,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2014 Apr 2015
- Summary:
- The analysis of the land reform in Zimbabwe is supported through the experiences of the German development assistance.
Madagascar
Support for the consolidation process of the Malagasy Land Policy
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 90,000
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2015 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- In 2005, following a participatory and consultative process, the Malagasy Government adopted a Letter of Land Policy setting the strategic directions of the Malagasy Land Policy, which revolves around four strategic axes: the restructuring, modernization and computerization of land services; improving the implementation of decentralized land management; updating the national and land regulations;the implementation of a national training plan for careers in land, new skills and communication.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burma,Nepal,South Africa
Support for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (Component 1)
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 400,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The United Kingdom will provide financial support totalling GBP 3 922 159 over three years for the dissemination and effective and high quality implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) which were globally endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012 and whose implementation has been encouraged by the UK. Effective implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines is also the overarching purpose of the new G8 land partnerships negotiated in 2013 under the UK G8 Presidency.
Component 1, which focuses on Myanmar, Nepal, and South Africa will focus on delivering country level workshops to raise awareness on the Voluntary Guidelines, increasing the ability of governments and citizens to understand and administer tenure rights and the processes involved in providing access to and transferring such rights, supporting multi-stakeholder national forums and the development of plans for mainstreaming the Voluntary Guidelines in participating countries.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nigeria
Support for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (Component 2)
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 988,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The United Kingdom will provide financial support totalling the amount of GBP 3 922 159 over three years for the dissemination and effective and high quality implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security.
Component 2.3 (1.444 USD) includes piloting of the Open Tenure Crowd Sourcing setup (mobile phone and cloud server host) in Nigeria. FAO has worked with community groups in a number of Nigerian states, including Kaduna, on forestry and agriculture. Kaduna has the added advantage of being one of three states where the FAO’s open source land administration (SOLA) software has been implemented in support of systematic land titling and registration (SLTR) pilots undertaken through the DFID-funded GEMS3 project. Another three to five states are expected to implement SLTR pilots using SOLA by early 2014. The proposed Open Tenure Crowd Sourcing software will be highly relevant to the SLTR work and especially for scaling-up activities when GEMS3 ends. Community based activities to strengthen their tenure rights using Open Tenure Crowd Sourcing tools that have common components and similar processes such as used in SLTR will be more easily aligned. They will facilitate the transition of community recorded tenure rights to more formal mechanisms, thus improving the security of those rights and access to credit.
- Contact:
- Mackay Rigava, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
China,India,South Africa
Support for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (Component 3, China, India and South Africa)
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 388,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The project comprises workshops and activities to increase the awareness of Chinese, Indian and South-African investors involved in extraterritorial (i.e. overseas or outbound) investments. The scope of the study draws upon wider international experience of several BRICS countries.
In China, the original target country for this activity, it has proven to be particularly difficult to identify and contact suitable institutions. Efforts to find an appropriate institution will continue, with the help of colleagues in the Trade and Markets Division.
In September 2015, the study started in India under a consultancy agreement with Professor Praveen Kumar Jha of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. A first draft was delivered in late December 2015 that is currently under review. The study focusses on the extraterritorial investments of India in African countries (e.g., in Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda).
A contract under Letter of Agreement is also underway with the NEPAD Business Foundation in South Africa. The NEPAD Business Foundation provided a detailed work plan for the study. It is expected that they will start the study in 2016. They will also concentrate on investments in African countries.
- Contact:
- Louisa Jansen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nigeria,Uganda
Support for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (Component 3, Nigeria and Uganda)
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 879,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The United Kingdom is providing financial support totalling GBP 3 922 159 over three years for the dissemination and effective and high quality implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) which were globally endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012 and whose implementation has been encouraged by the UK.
Component 3.1 of the project includes funding for country level activities in Uganda and Nigeria. Both countries have undergone a participatory land governance assessment.
The in-depth work will build on the insights of these assessments and on the dynamics generated through the awareness raising workshops and related process that the FAO will start with.
Technical assistance will be provided to address specific issues raised as priorities. In Uganda, these include a review of the land use policy to address challenges caused by pressure on land in the agricultural sector; targeted studies into tenure issues relating to the rural poor; institutional capacity development and training; development of innovative approaches for recording informal, customary, and user rights.
In Nigeria work will focus on issues raised in the LGAF, the workshops and the subsequently provided technical assistance will be linked to the work undertaken by the G8 Land Partnership, namely for improving transparency in the land sector, securing tenure for the population and strengthening capacities of key stakeholders. The programme will also carry out a study into the regulatory provisions and guideline requirements to establish and manage grazing reserves and stock routes.
- Contact:
- Louisa Jansen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Support for the VGGT fiduciary fund FAO
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 135,000
- Implementers
- Financial support to the FAO VGGT fiduciary fund
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- This support helped to finance workshops for the promotion/dissemination of the VGGT in Niger, Senegal and Madagascar
Peru
Support in Establishing the Ministry of Environment in Peru
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 50,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2009 May 2014
- Summary:
- The instutional capacities of MINAM are strengthened for the implementation of national environmental policy and strategical environmental concerns.
Mongolia
Support in the development of a pasture land law and forest tenure assessment (Mongolia)
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 170,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Jul 2016
- Summary:
- FAO with funding of a sister project conducted two multi-stakeholder workshops in Mongolia, in October 2014 and November 2015. The workshops re-launched dialogue on tenure in the country, raised awareness on the VGGT and served to develop an action plan and assess progress made in the implementation of the VGGT. As a result, a National Multi-stakeholder Platform (advisory role) and a Working Group (coordination and conduct of activities) were established in support of national VGGT implementation. The groups serve as a foundation for collectively addressing a broad range of activities to implement the VGGT and are coordinated by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the People Centered Conservation in Mongolia (PCC), a local NGO. The VGGT Working Group was formalized through an Order of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which collectively reviewed the translation of the VGGT and officially presented it during the second workshop in November 2015.
Resulting from the momentum created through these activities, and the priority areas for action identified during the first workshop, the Government of Mongolia requested FAO technical support in work related to the drafting of a pasture land law and a forest tenure assessment. Project funding offered the opportunity to respond to both requests.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Namibia
Support of land reform I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 18,990,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2010 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- Access to land gets improved as well as productive and sustainable land use.
Namibia
Support of land reform II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 12,100,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2014 Apr 2017
- Summary:
- Access to land gets improved as well as productive and sustainable land use.
Namibia
Support of land reform III
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,270,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2017 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- Access to land gets improved as well as productive and sustainable land use.
Vietnam
Support of PDC co-operation grant in the “Institutional partnership for strengthening of land administration” during 2010-2013
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 1,580,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- A PDC Cooperation between Lantmäteriet and Vietnam Land Administration. The expected short-term result is a new strategy and tools in form of new legislation and methodology for handling cadastral information. The expected long-term result of this project is a more efficient and modern land administration system in Vietnam including all aspects.
Mali
Support of the national programme for small-scale irrigation I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 40,360,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2008 Mar 2014
- Summary:
- The rural population in Mali uses the potential of small-scale irrigation for a self-supporting and sustainable agriculture
Mali
Support of the national programme for small-scale irrigation II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,046,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2017 Feb 2021
- Summary:
- The rural population in Mali uses the potential of small-scale irrigation for a self-supporting and sustainable agriculture
Madagascar
Support Programme for Rural Microenterprise Poles and Regional Economies (PROSPERER)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 575,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2008 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims to increase the incomes of poor rural people among 51,000 households in five of the country's poorest and most densely populated regions: Sofia, Analamanga, Itasy, Vatovavy Fitovinany, Haute Matsiatra. It aims to promote increased revenues by consolidating rural micro enterprises at local and regional levels and improve their competitiveness; to contribute to the development of an institutional framework and national policy support to rural microenterprises; and to create a structured environment fostering the modernization of rural industries.
Land and natural resource governance related activities include the opening of 22 land offices to obtain land ownership certificates and the establishment of 19 Single Windows Multi-Services / Ivo Fanoitra (GUMS / IF) at the district level, which will be led by two management consultants. These unique windows are also a key operational tool to make contact with professional organizations and federations, identify support service providers to SEA and supervise the services provided.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Support Programme for Urban Reforms in Bihar
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- The Urban Development and Housing Department headed by a Principle Secretary to the Government of Bihar. Implementation will be supported by an urban and technical support team contracted by DFID.
- Timeframe:
- May 2009 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- SPUR aims to support Government of Bihar strengthen governance at state and urban local government levels to enable affordable and sustainable access to basic services, especially by poor people. Working with Bihar's Urban Development Department and Urban Local Bodies will sustain urban services and attract private investment.
- Contact:
- Sandeepa Sahay, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Support Programme to Agricultural Development and Rural Entrepreneurship (PADAER)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,440,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2011 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The programme's goal is to contribute to rural poverty reduction and stimulate economic growth of 50,000 households in the regions of Matam, Tambacounda, Kedougou and Kolda, focusing on enhancing supply of agricultural production; on value addition and marketing.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme intends to provide support for collective rangeland management and the capacity building of breeder organizations.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Rwanda
Support Project for the Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PAPSTA)
- Donors:
- Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,805,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2006 Mar 2013
- Summary:
- The goal of the project was to contribute to the poverty reduction process by providing implementation support to the Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PSTA) which aims to effect a gradual shift from prevailing subsistence agriculture to market-based farming. The project helped the government address the main development constraints and challenges identified within the PSTA. It aimed to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders to implement agricultural development plans in potential growth areas within the PSTA framework. The project aimed to benefit 10,000 households, giving priority to households headed by women, as well as young people, landless people, orphans and families affected by HIV/AIDS and civil war, in the districts of Budaha, Bukonya, Karaba, Ngenda, Nyamure and Rusumo. It intended to undertake actions to overcome the main constraints related to soil fertility and watershed protection, livestock improvement, increasing rice production and intensifying research and extension.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project intended to provide support for a sustainable and productive water and land management system, it used watershed management plans and linked them to value chain plans undertaking participatory planning exercises addressing land tenure issues.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Niger,Senegal
Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure
- Donors:
- FAO,France
- Funding:
- USD 135,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The project aims to increase stakeholders knowledge on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) and promote the development, implementation and monitoring of policies, laws and practices that improve the governance of tenure. Responsible governance of tenure influence the way in which people, communities and others gain access to land, fisheries and forests. The livelihoods of people are based on secure and equitable access to and control over these resources. The project aims to promote responsible practices that will improve food security and the sustainable management of natural resources.
Two workshops have been organized - one in Niger (28-30 January 2014) and one in Senegal (12-14 March 2014). These workshops have been the occasion to raise awareness on the VGGT and to participatorily realize a first assessment of the governance of tenure in the country (tacking stock study of the 20 years of existence of the Code Rural in Niger and results of the LGAF in Senegal). The workshops have been a unique occasion to gather land governance stakeholders who rarely met. Presentations on initiatives by civil society, farmers’organizations and governments enabled synergies to be found.
In addition, the workshops have helped to launch partnerships (Code Rural in Niger and IPAR in Senegal) necessary to drive the process of dialogue that will be continued with the three up-coming workshops in each country under Italian funds.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Central African Republic
Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 70,000
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- A national workshop on harmonizing legal instruments of tenure took place in Bangui in July 2015, where 75 participants discussed the value and use of the Voluntary Guidelines in Central African Republic and identified legal actions to improve governance of tenure. The participants included representatives from academia, civil society, indigenous peoples and the private sector. A comprehensive legal review served as a base to establish principles for future legal reforms and from which to propose a framework law on tenure rights. Wide consultation with local communities and civil society was recommended as a next step towards the adoption of a framework law by government institutions. The workshop closing was chaired by the Prime Minister accompanied by seven ministers.
The workshop was organized by the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing with the technical and financial support of FAO.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Gabon
Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 70,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Jun 2016
- Summary:
- A national workshop on the Voluntary Guidelines was held in Libreville during 14-16 January to help to strengthen the national dialogue on the most pressing tenure challenges and opportunities in Gabon and the use of the Voluntary Guidelines in light of ongoing reforms. The participants agreed to create a multi-sectoral committee to continue striving for improved governance of tenure and to formulate a cross-sectoral strategy for implementing the Voluntary Guidelines in Gabon at all levels. The workshop was co-organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the General Secretariat of the Government of Gabon and FAO. It brought together 75 representatives from the national tenure administration, farmers' organizations, civil society, international organizations, the private sector, NGOs and academia.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Congo, Republic of the
Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure (Congo)
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 70,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2015 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Te Ministry of Land Affairs and Public Domain hosted a national workshop in Brazzaville during 5-7 October 2015 that brought together 64 people from various sectors to discuss the relevance of the Voluntary Guidelines. As forests cover about 70 percent of the country, the workshop was an opportunity to improve the understanding of linkages between tenure and forestry. The participants endorsed recommendations, including the establishment of a multi-stakeholder committee and the dissemination of the Voluntary Guidelines at decentralized levels. The actions proposed include integrating the Voluntary Guidelines in national processes by improving the normative framework, conducting reforms to improve tenure governance and launching a consultation process for the development of a national land use plan. The workshop was organized with the technical and financial support of FAO.
- Contact:
- Jean Maurice Durand, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Malawi
Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure in Malawi
- Donors:
- FAO,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 50,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Sweden identified itself as a resource partner to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). In 2014, Sweden financed a technical workshop in Malawi, which took place during 14-16 July, 2014 in collaboration with the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Malawi. The workshop brought together a wide range of participants from land, agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors from governments, district administration officials, civil society organizations and the private sector. A multi-stakeholder national platform was created to support and track VGGT implementation in Malawi.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cote d'Ivoire
Support to Agricultural Production and Marketing Project - Western Extension (PROPACOM WNW)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2014 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- The project will complements the ongoing PROPACOM project in the centre-north, north and northeast of the country. It aims to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth in the regions of Bafing, Béré, Folon, Kabadougou, Tonpki and Worodougou. The project will focus on increasing agricultural productivity of rice, maize, cassava and the vegetable value chain. It will improve food security by increasing 30,000 smallholder farmers households' access to services, rural financial services, technologies and markets. The project targets particularly women and young people who are involved in food production, processing and marketing in an effort to improve their incomes and livelihoods.
On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to conduct population awareness campaigns in the local language for land registration. Further it will fund the cost of the bundle (document to be filled for requesting registration) for owners of lowlands and it will establish a device for land ownership clarification to rehabilitate and develop 2,300 ha of lowland.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Angola,Burundi,Cote d'Ivoire,Ethiopia,Kenya,Malawi,Niger,Somalia,Swaziland
Support to and capitalization on the EU Land Governance Programme in Africa (Phase I)
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 2,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- May 2014 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- This programme funded by the European Union (EU) aims at enhancing the joint implementation of the VGGT (Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land , Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security) and the F&G (Framework and Guidelines of the Land Policy Initiative (LPI)) at Pan African level and at supporting and consolidating the implementation of the EU Land governance in 10 African countries (Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan*, Angola, Malawi, Eswatini). The systematization of the knowledge sharing and aggregation of the lessons learnt amongst the 10 In–country projects will feed the support for integrated implementation at pan African level. On the other hand the Pan-African level component will focus on fostering political leadership on land governance, elaborating the monitoring and evaluation core system, preparing tailor made tools for joint implementation. The project will be handled by two FAO officers (P5& P4) based in the LPI’s premises in Addis Ababa to ensure an optimal synergy for the integrated implementation. the programme aims at enhancing the land governance in Africa.
South Sudan* project formally cancelled by EUD as per email, due to force majeure, on December 2016, operationally closed in July 2017.
- Contact:
- Maria Paola Rizzo, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil,Cameroon,Colombia,Ghana,Guinea-Bissau,Pakistan,Sudan,Uganda
Support to and Capitalization on the EU Land Governance Programme Phase II
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 2,700,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Dec 2020
- Summary:
- This project complements the project 'Support to and Capitalization on the EU Land Governance Programme in Africa' and is aimed at facilitating the integration of eigtht new in-country projects (Brazil, Cameroon, Columbia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda) into the existing mechanisms for transversal support under Phase I and enhances support by building on lessons learnt and additional needs particularly in the area of capacity development. All activities under Phase II will be interlinked, jointly implemented and mutually supportive of each other and of activities planned under Phase I. The following areas of work are addressed under this phase: (i) VGGT are mainstreamed in project during the project start-up phase; (ii) Activities of the in-country projects are capitalized and coordinated; (iii) Capacities of project staff, national counterparts and other stakeholders are developed; (iv) In-country projects receive direct support from FAO; (v) Monitoring is enhanced and lessons learnt are documented and disseminated.
- Contact:
- Maria Paola Rizzo, FAO, +39 0657054526
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cambodia
Support to Community Forestry and Fishery
- Donors:
- Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 2,200,000
- Implementers
- NTFP-EP (Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme)
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2014 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The program strengthens local communities to secure access to natural resources to improve food security and increase their in-come. It focuses on Kratié and Stung Treng provinces, which are rich in natural resources but where people suffer from high poverty rates. Target communities in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces shall have secure access to their natural resources and biodiversity through secured community forest (CF) and community fishery (CFi) agreements and sustainable CF and CFi practices.
- Contact:
Namibia
Support to Debushing
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,760,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Improved strategies, measures and instruments are implemented to support debushing and sustainable pasture farming.
Benin
Support to decentralized land governance in Benin
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 332,000,000
- Implementers
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2015 Nov 2017
- Summary:
- 1 technical assistants ministry of decentralisation
Coordination of an urban land register project and coordination of the Cellule Nationale d'Adressage.
- Contact:
- Emilie Pélerin
Lesotho
Support to decentralized Rural Development
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 11,850,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2009 Jun 2017
- Summary:
- Capacity building
Belarus
Support to Development of Complementary Functions to the Belarusian Real Property Administrative System
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 1,860,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Support to NGO Land Reform making it possible for NGO Land Reform to continue its strategic work.
Support to EU FLEGT Facility
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 41,000,000
- Implementers
- Eoropean Forest Institute
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Contribution to the EU FLEGT Facility for additional work on regional ownership and cooperation;Support to SMEs to comply with trade regulations/certifications; Poverty reduction and gender aspects.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cameroon
Support to implementation of national forest and environmental program I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 25,950,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2010 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Policy advice, improving of financial services, land management, climate change mitigation and adaption.
Cameroon
Support to implementation of national forest and environmental program II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 24,470,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The ministries of land and forests including their decentralized structures execute their mandates.
Support to Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Addendum)
- Donors:
- FAO,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 550,000
- Implementers
- FAO, African Land Policy Centre (ALPC)
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2016 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The Addendum to the project "Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests" is aimed at (i) facilitating mainstreaming of VGGT and sharing of lessons across multiple countries and regions at Pan-African level and within the Sahel region. The expected output of the intervention includes integrated ALPC-FAO approach to land policy change at continental level, coordinated contextualization of FAO capacity development materials and learning programmes and a strategy for institutionalized integrated implementation of VGGT and F&G; (ii) improving governance of tenure in pastoralism in selected countries in West Africa within the Sahel region. This intervention is expected to result in improved governance of tenure in pastoralist communities through support to ECOWAS, awareness raising, contextualization of capacity development of ECOWAS and CSOs, compilation of best practices on mitigation, prevention and managing pastoralist conflicts and piloting the FAO Technical Guide on Governance of Pastoral Lands.
- Contact:
- Mackay Rigava, FAO
Madagascar
Support to improved land governance
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 367,000
- Implementers
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2015 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- Technical assistancy at the MEPATE for the implementation of the Programme National Foncier (PNF)
The technical expert supports the Programme National Foncier. He works in close collaboration with the Cellule de Coordination de la réforme foncière.
- Contact:
- Olivier Solari, French Embassy in Madagascar
Niger
Support to improved land governance in Niger
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 780,000,000
- Implementers
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Aug 2015
- Summary:
- 1 technical assistant seconded by the Code Rural. Its mission were to:
- Provide capacity building activities to the Secretariat of Code Rural and its members
- Monitor and evaluate the activities developed by the Code Rural
- Strenghten land and natural resources management
- Develop mechanisms to prevent conflicts
Support to improved land governance in Niger
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 200,000
- Implementers
- Expertise France
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2015 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- Support the "Réseau des Chambres d'Agriculture" to promote:
- sustainable soil management
- inclusive land governance
- support pastoralism
Support to improved land governance in Western and Central Africa
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 600,000
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2014 Aug 2018
- Summary:
- French MOFA finance a technical assistant, seconded at the World Bank, to work on land governance projects in Western and Central Africa.
This secondment pursuie 3 main objectives: 1) follow international initiative on land governance, 2) facilitate the development of joint activities between the World Bank and the French Development Agency; and 3) development land governance programs in Western and Central Africa.
- Contact:
- Caroline Plançon
Namibia
Support to Land Reform Beneficiaries
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,330,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2017 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The aim is that the resources which were secured respectively supplied by the land reforms are used in a sustainable and economic manner.
Colombia
Support to land restitution and rural development institutional reforms
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 4,020,000
- Implementers
- Gestión Centralizada
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2013 Dec 2014
- Summary:
- The Action will provide the GoC, in particular de Ministry of Agriculture, with the support needed both political and technically (in the form of case studies, technical assistance, legal inputs, international experiences, etc) for the general implementation of its policies, the promotion of public debate at both national and regional level, the strengthening of the institutional offer and the social fabric.
Cameroon
Support to MINEPAT in Spatial Planning
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 290,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Oct 2017
- Summary:
- Strengthening the capacities of MINEPAT to use the results of data collection and assessment in the area of land usage.
India
Support to National Policies for Urban Poverty Reduction (SNPUPR)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- Ministry of Housing Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA), Government of India (GoI)
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2008 Jun 2015
- Summary:
- Supporting the provision of infrastructure and the regulatory environment to provide tenure security to slum dwellers. The project should improve central, state and local government capacity for ensuring the effective implementation of centrally sponsored schemes and reforms that directly benefit the urban poor.
- Contact:
- Radhika Singh, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Philippines
SUPPORT TO PARCELIZATION OF LANDS FOR INDIVIDUAL TITLING (SPLIT) PROJECT
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 370,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2020 Dec 2024
- Summary:
- The development objective is to improve land tenure security and stabilize property rights of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).
- Contact:
- Kathrine Kelm, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Macedonia
Support to privatization of State agricultural land
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 72,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2018 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The project is analyzing the current legal and institutional framework related to sale and management of state owned agricultural land, including for compliance with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), and is providing policy recommendations for the use of management and sale of state land to improve farm structures and ensure access of smallholders to additional land.
Upon the request of the Senior Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy (MAFWE), a note on the establishment of a new Land Agency was prepared. The proposal is based on a brief analysis of the Macedonian country context in the area of land management and European good practices. The background for the proposal is a wish to ensure a stronger coordination between the different land management instruments and create synergies including land consolidation, to catalyze the process.
- Contact:
- Morten Hartvigsen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Support to reform of urban land management
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 9,380,000
- Implementers
- Ministre de l'Economie et des Finances
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- Améliorer la gouvernance foncière.Les types d'activités prévus incluent un inventaire du cadre législatif et réglementaire, l'élaboration d'un code foncier et domanial, la révision du cadre juridique pour la transmission et l'échange sécurisé des actes authentiques en format électronique, l' établissement et la conservation des actes notariés en format électronique,l' élaboration de nouveaux modes d’enquêtes cadastrales - la conception de la base de donnés d’un Livre foncier informatisé, Inventaire des biens de l'Etat - Appui à la mise en place d’interface entre le bloc foncier et le bloc fiscal.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Ethiopia
Support to Responsible Large-scale Investments in Agriculture in Ethiopia
- Donors:
- European Union,Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,300,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The intervention aims at supporting the regulatory framework for transparent and efficient land transactions to improve the quality of agricultural investments while at the same time supporting mechanisms to ensure that rights of local population are considered.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
Kenya
Support to the agriculture sector transformation process and to decentralised land governance
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO,Germany,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 17,700,000
- Implementers
- - German Development Cooperation
- Swedish Bilateral Aid
- Food and Agriculture Organisation
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Jan 2022
- Summary:
- The program aims at strengthening food security of smallholder farmers and pastoralists' communities with improved access to agriculture services and to land. The program has two components (i) institutional support to the agriculture sector including county capacity building to pursue county and cross-county coordination and service delivery, support to intergovernmental coordination and to the transformation process within Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. The second objective aims at improving the equitable access & management of land for better livelihoods and socioeconomic development as per the VGGT.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
- Website:
- Project weblink
Zimbabwe
Support to the Comprehensive Land Policy Development for Zimbabwe
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 400,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2018 May 2020
- Summary:
- The project supports the government per their request in Development of national, gender sensitive and comprehensive Land Policy considering through multi stakeholder process.
- Contact:
- Tea Dabrundashvili, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Support to the Establishment of a Community Land Use Fund (Iniciativa para Terras Comunitårias), Phase 2, Mozambique, 2011-2014
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 4,800,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- Establishment of a national organisation for community land security (demarkation) and economic development.
Support to the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 22,000,000
- Implementers
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2013 Jun 2018
- Summary:
- Support to the five year Strategic Plan of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) with the aim to support capacity of GLTN partners to help carry out land specific 'roadmaps' to stimulate land governance as described in the CFS Voluntary Guidelines; to encourage that Dutch GLTN partners are involved in the development of modern and low-cost instruments for better land governance; to underline the importance of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines and its adoption through a multi-stakeholder network like GLTN.
- Contact:
- GLTN Secretariat, Global Land Tool Network, +254 207623858
- Website:
- Project weblink
Malawi
Support to the Implementation of the New Land Laws in Malawi
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 452,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- The project supports the government per their request in awareness raising for national, district and local structures on the provisions of the new land laws, which will enhance their contributions towards the development of their implementation standards and guidelines and the actual implementation. The project will specifically build on support for women targeted with training in advocacy, confidence building and group dynamics to prepare them for the implementation of the new laws. The project will continue to raise awareness of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), Principles of Responsible Investment in Agriculture (RAI) and Food Systems and the Right to Adequate Food Guidelines (RtF), which have positively contributed to the enactment of the laws and their understanding in a number of districts.
- Contact:
- Tea Dabrundashvili, FAO
Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines
Support to the Implementation of the Tri-national Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 11,700,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2012 Mar 2017
- Summary:
- The project supports the planning and to some extent the implementation of selected elements of a trilateral action plan to protect the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion (SSME). The SSME action plan is closely aligned with the national priorities, plans and programmes of the three partner countries and their international commitments. It builds on relevant approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate change. Primary focuses of the project include promoting sustainable fisheries and improving the living conditions of affected sectors of the population, conserving endangered, charismatic and migratory species and setting up a network of marine protected areas (MPAs). The project also promotes capacity building in relevant government institutions by organising knowledge-sharing events, establishing a pool of trainers and documenting and disseminating lessons learned. The project partners develop specific bilateral or trilateral activities, for which the project provides co-finance and technical support as necessary. Based on scientific studies and lessons learned, the project also develops general policy recommendations, which are then disseminated throughout the SSME region.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Support to the International Land Coalition Strategic Framework 2011-2015
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 5,415,000
- Implementers
- International Land Coalition
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Support to the Strategic Framework 2011-2015 of the International Land Coalition.
- Contact:
- , International Land Coalition (ILC), +39 06 5459 2445
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mali
Support to the Land administration reform in Mali
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 860,000
- Implementers
- Ministère des Domaines de l'Etat et des Affaires Foncières, French embassy in Mali
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The programme funding aims at supporting the definition and implementation of the Malian land reform. The funding includes a resident technical expert and the support to specific activities (analysis of land registers, cartographic facilities, development of pilot projects in Bamako district)
- Contact:
- Juliette COulibaly Paradis, French Embassy in Mali
Colombia
Support to the Peace Process in Colombia
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,400,000
- Implementers
- GIZ, KfW
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2015 Mar 2019
- Summary:
- Support the peace process in Colombia. As part of this land shall be transferred to victims of the conflict.
Philippines
Support to the Philippine Climate Change Commission on the Implementation
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 4,300,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2012 Aug 2015
- Summary:
- The government of the Philippines resolved a climate legislative in 2009, which provides adaptation and mitigation. However, institutional capacities for the implementation of a consistent climate policy are weak and activities are not or insufficiently integrated into the planning process. The project therefore strengthens the national climate commission in development, implementation and coordination of the national climate strategy, and the national climate action plan and its integration in the planning system, e.g. applying a innovative monitoring system of effects of adaptation, local climate-compatible planning, support of the law of renewable energies,and with small-scale projects for better adaptation, mitigation and creation of carbon sinks with high possibility of duplication and multiplicator effects. The objective of the project is a better adaptation to climate change and emission reduction.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Brazil
Support to the policy of land regularization in the Amazon region (Apoio à politica de regularização fundiária da Amazonia)
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 4,930,000
- Implementers
- Government of the Federal Republic of Brazil (SEAD - Secretaria Especial de Agricoltura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrario)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2017 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- The general objective of the programme is to ameliorate the governance of tenure in the Amazonia. Specifically, the project aims to accelerate the process of allocation and registration of public lands in the targeted areas, in the framework of the initiative "Terra Legal". It targets more than 8000 families occupying public land who will be supported for the regularization of their parcels.
- Contact:
- Cristina Carvalho, EU Delegation to the Federal Republic of Brazil
Rwanda
Support to the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD)
- Donors:
- Netherlands
- Funding:
- USD 730,000
- Implementers
- Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Support to the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development, a local NGO working on capacity building at the grassroots through policy research, advocacy, and networking. The main focus is on the Land Tenure Regularisation Support Programme (LTRSP) by means of a Land Dispute Management Program to avoid disputes deriving from the land reform process.
- Contact:
- , Netherlands Embassy in Rwanda, (+250) 280 280 281
- Website:
- Project weblink
Uganda
Supporting Access to Justice, Fostering Peace and Equity (SAFE)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 15,000,000
- Implementers
- National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- The purpose of the USAID/Uganda Supporting Access to Justice, Fostering Peace and Equity (SAFE) program is to support peace building and conflict mitigation in Uganda by strengthening mechanisms for resolution of conflicts over land, oil and ethnic diversity. This project will further enhance the capacity of local actors to prevent violent conflict and transform them into peaceful outcomes while promoting reconciliation. Through training, technical assistance and providing grants to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), SAFE will focus on the oil rich Albertine region, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) affected Northern Uganda, and Central Uganda as primary entry points.SAFE will use a two pronged approach; first, it will strengthen systems of land administration; reinforce both formal and informal dispute resolution mechanisms and create awareness of the systems. Secondly, it will support local actors to prevent and transform emerging conflict into peaceful outcomes. Working with community networks, faith based organizations (FBOs), local government structures and CSOs, where appropriate, SAFE will build indigenous capacity for conflict prevention and reconciliation in Uganda.
- Contact:
- Xavier Ejoyi, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cambodia,Laos,Burma,Vietnam
Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Component 2a)
- Donors:
- FAO,Switzerland
- Funding:
- USD 840,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2016 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- FAO will add value to the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project through an approach known as transversal support. This approach is aimed at providing support across a number of projects/activities and it will support the mainstreaming and coordination of the VGGT into national activities in the four countries. This will ensure that the impact of the MRLG will be strengthened and, by supporting a holistic approach to land, fisheries and forests, extended to include the broader scope of interrelated natural resources. The transversal support will include a strong capacity development element, aimed at national counterparts and stakeholders through the application of public goods already produced by FAO.
- Contact:
- Louisa Jansen, FAO
Bhutan
Supporting revision of the National Land Tax both for rural and urban land in Bhutan
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 25,000
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2013 Apr 2014
- Summary:
- The intention of this project is to support the National Land Commission Secretariat in revising the existing land tax rates for both rural and urban areas and proposing a new land tax system with the aim of increasing and decentralizing revenue generation, reducing land speculation, and providing broader and more equitable access to land. This will impact on land use patterns in Bhutan and aims to provide a predictable, inflation-proof and sustainable stream of revenue to support local services, and influence economic activity in desired ways, whilst being affordable and equitable to the taxpayer, and inexpensive to administer.
- Contact:
- Andrew Hilton, FAO, +39 0657054987
- Website:
- Project weblink
Argentina,Mozambique,Nicaragua,Nepal
Supporting Small-scale Food Producers' Organizations in the Promotion and Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land, Fish
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 450,000
- Implementers
- Associazione Italiana Agricoltura Biologica (AIAB)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- The grant is intended to make small scale food producers familiar with the Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests (VGGTs), and build up their capacity to create synergies and develop common strategies with regional human rights organisations and institutions in order to support the implementation of VGGT, but also to monitor the implementation at national level.
The aim is to organize two regional capacity development workshops in Nicaragua and six national workshops in Mozambique (national partner: UNAC), two workshops in Argentina (national partner: MNCI) and two workshops in Nepal (national partner: ANPFA) for rural communities and members of organizations of small-scale food producers on the content of the VGGTs and on strategies on how to use them.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Sudan
Supporting Small-scale Traditional Rainfed Producers in Sinnar State (SUSTAIN - Sinnar)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,065,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Wealth and Irrigation
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2011 Jun 2018
- Summary:
- The project goal is to reduce rural poverty and increase food security and incomes for about 20,000 households in Dindir, Abu Hujar, and Dali and Mazmoum. The objective is to successfully disseminate appropriate technology in soil and water conservation, range development, livestock nutrition and post-harvest technology to 16,000 small scale producers.
Land and natural resource governance activities support awareness campaigns for the rationale use of natural resources, the development of a land use and investment map which will help the drafting of a a bill for Land Use and Natural Resource Management. The establishment of a lobby group will help smallholder farmers to influence decisions in formal and informal institutions, which are usually dominated by large farmers.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
China,Colombia,Kenya,Burma,Nepal,Sierra Leone,Tanzania,South Africa
Supporting the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests - Phase II
- Donors:
- FAO,United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 3,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2018 Mar 2020
- Summary:
- The project will identify and help to strengthen the innovative approaches that countries have adopted to translate the VGGT principles into practice, helping them set an inspiring example for others, and fostering a space for a two-way dialogue between countries and global level. The Phase II project activities and interventions are based on three thematic areas that correspond to the three main outputs: a) tenure governance processes to support responsible investments in agricultural land are enhanced and associated capacities strengthened; b) tenure rights and their governance processes are supported and strengthened at country/regional level; and c) the capacities of vulnerable and marginalized groups to improve tenure governance are strengthened.
- Contact:
- Louisa Jansen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique
Supporting the Policy Environment for Economic Development” Project (SPEED+)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- DAI
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Jan 2020
- Summary:
- SPEED+ supports economic and structural policy reforms through technical assistance on policy reforms across four components: (1) agriculture, (2) trade, investment, business enabling environment, (3) power, water, and (4) biodiversity conservation.
- Contact:
- Amanda Fong, USAID
Senegal
Sustainable and Inclusive Agribusiness Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 3,500,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2013 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- A technical assistance program will be established to: (i) assist local communities to undertake land rights inventories and planning to identify up to 10,000 ha of land they choose to make available to private commercial agriculture producers, including small-scale producers (about 5,000 hectares in the Ngalam Valley and 5,000 ha around Lac de Guiers); (ii) carry out feasibility studies and elaborate master plans for the development of irrigated perimeters in the selected areas; (iii) assist rural communities in selecting private operators through a transparent and competitive process at village level, and in negotiating commercial agriculture contracts with said private investors which shall include sustained benefits, fair compensation and enforceable rights for the community; (iv) assist rural communities in monitoring investors’ activities to ensure fulfillment of their obligations as per the legally binding contracts that will be negotiated by the communities with private investors; and (v) develop effective dispute resolution mechanisms.
- Contact:
- Andre Teyssier, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cote d'Ivoire,Guinea,Liberia,Sierra Leone
Sustainable and Thriving Environments for West African Regional Development (phase III) (STEWARD)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 18,000,000
- Implementers
- US Forest Service’s International Program (USFS-IP)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- STEWARD is actively working in PZ1, training community members of Fintonia village, located in Sierra Leone. The local community has participated in workshops on a Geographical Positioning System (GPS) and the principles of community land-rights mapping. The capacity building workshop enabled members of the community to work hand in hand with Thomson Reuters to be able to use a GPS to map their owned land in relation to the forest areas of PZ1. Thomson Reuters has collected a set of data and has generated a map of Fintonia that not only describes the land tenure but also the ownership of the lands of Fintonia.
- Contact:
- Zainab Akiwumi, STEWARD program
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sudan
Sustainable Development & Management of the Petroleum Sector in Sudan
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 190,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Dec 2019
- Summary:
- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has a four-year project within the Oil for development program. The main objective of the project is to obtain more exploitation of oil from existing reservoirs. As part of the project, assistance using GIS for departments under the Ministry of Petroleum and Gas is included.
Purpose
The Oil for Development (OfD) Programme offers assistance to developing countries in their efforts to manage petroleum resources in a sustainable manner. Oil and gas play an important role in an increasing number of developing countries, and have the potential to generate economic and social development. In several cases, however, it has proven difficult to translate the resource into improved welfare for citizens of those countries. Through the OfD Programme, Norway shares its experience from five decades of managing oil and gas resources. Some key characteristics of the Norwegian experience are strategic ownership by the state, strong and competent institutions, continual accumulation of technical knowledge, an advanced regulatory system with high respect for the environment, health and safety, and perhaps above all – society’s determination to secure national control over its petroleum resources.
NPD will in the OfD Programme cooperate with Ministry of Petroleum and Gas (MOPG) in Sudan within the project “Sustainable Development & Management of the Petroleum Sector in Sudan”. One component in the project is a Geographical Information System (GIS). The Norwegian Mapping Authority will contribute with deliverables on behalf of NPD within GIS data management.
The main target of the project is to implement a sustainable infrastructure for acquiring, maintaining and distributing spatial data, including:
•Spatial Data management
•Standardization of data and exchange
•GIS and Imaging Tools
•Distribution tools including web portal and web services
•Human resource skills, knowledge and capacity to manage, maintain and enhance the infrastructure
Activities
The project is divided into three phases:
1.Phase 1 involves creating data models for the spatial data, creating a data repository, implementing a GIS tool, and publishing a standard for the spatial data (for its’ content, structure and exchange).
2.Phase 2 involves creating a web portal for viewing, browsing and basic capture of spatial data; implementing image processing and management tools; and establishing web services for stakeholders.
3.Phase 3 involves setting up online communication channels for stakeholders; enhancing GIS functionality for analysis; and ensuring that an infrastructure for spatial data is operative
- Contact:
- Sabrina Grimsrud, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Ecuador
Sustainable development of Yasuni Biosphere Reserve
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 8,700,000
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2013 May 2017
- Summary:
- The capacities of institutions and local stakeholders are strengthened and make an important contribution to sustainable development of Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
Sustainable Forest Management in the Congo Basin - Environmental Foundation TNS.
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 3,075,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2017 Sep 2022
- Summary:
- As part of the development cooperation program "Sustainable Forest Management in the Congo Basin", the FC module contributes to the better protection and sustainable use of forest resources in the Congo Basin.
Somalia
Sustainable Land Management
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,570,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2015 Feb 2019
- Summary:
- The goal is that sustainable land management capacities are improved.
Ethiopia
Sustainable Land Management Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 12,200,000
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2013 Apr 2019
- Summary:
- To reduce land degradation and improve land productivity in selected watersheds in targeted regions in Ethiopia, the project support several land tenure related acitivities. First, it supports the review, harmonization and revision of the legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks for sustainable land and water management at the federal, regional and woreda levels. The review would cover the body of environmental legislation that relates to the use and management of Ethiopia’s natural resources, in particular the Rural Land Administration and Land Use Proclamation. Second, it supports the development of a harmonized land information system and the strengthening of the institutional and policy regimes for geo-referenced rural land administration, land use and certification. And third, it aims to strengthen the security of tenure of smallholder farmers as an incentive to increase the adoption of sustainable land and water management technologies and practices. Activities include: Developing standards and harmonized procedures, guidelines for cadastral surveying and land registration; Creating awareness about standards, procedures and guidelines for cadastral surveying and land registration; Undertaking cadastral surveying and land registration for individual, institutional and communal land holders; Updating and upgrading land records; Issuing land certificates to smallholder farmers and communities in all intervention areas.
- Contact:
- Stephen Danyo, The World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Sustainable Land Use Planning and Management Project
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 710,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 May 2017
- Summary:
- The federal planning institutions use instruments of integrated land-use planning.
Tanzania
Sustainable Management of Land and Environment, SMOLE, II
- Donors:
- Finland
- Funding:
- USD 950,760
- Implementers
- Niras
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- SMOLE aims at reducing absolute poverty in the society through environmentally sound land management and socio-economic development. The Project consists of four main components: 1. Institutional Development, 2. Land Management, 3. Environmental Management, 4. Awareness Raising. Specific objective for SMOLE II, which will cover the period of June 2009 May 2013, is to achieve the medium level of operations and feasibility in sustainable land and environmental management.
- Contact:
- Mr. Matti Tervo, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, +358(0)295 350 000
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso,Bolivia,China,Egypt,India,Iran,Jordan,Pakistan,Syria,Tunisia,Uzbekistan
Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands - SUMAMAD-II
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- UNESCO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2014
Nicaragua
Sustainable management of natural resources and strengthening of entrepreneurial competencies
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 6,760,000
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2011 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- Administration and cultivation of natural resources through local community, local government and relevant state institutions, preservation of biodiversity, sustainability criteria
Vietnam
Sustainable Mangement of Natural Resources Phong Nha-Ke Bang I
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,890,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2010 Apr 2014
- Summary:
- Cultivation and conservation of natural resources, socio-economic development in the Phong Nha Ke Bang region.
Vietnam
Sustainable Mangement of Natural Resources Phong Nha-Ke Bang II
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,220,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- May 2014 Apr 2016
- Summary:
- Cultivation and conservation of natural resources, socio-economic development in the Phong Nha Ke Bang region.
Laos
Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project (SNRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 5,525,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2009 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The project aims to enhance institutional capacity, at the provincial and national levels, to sustainably manage natural resource-based development and promote agricultural productivity in the areas of Salavan, Champasak, Attapu, Xekong and Savannakhet benefiting 11,250 households.
Land and natural resource governance related activities provide support for the community based participatory land mapping and land use planning; for the land title issuance and information on rights and responsibilities related to land. It supports the Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Offices and the District Agriculture and Forestry Offices to better inform the villagers about their rights and land tenure security.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Sustainable Rangelands Management Project (SRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development (MLFD), Tanzania
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2014
- Summary:
- The Project aims at securing land and resource rights of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and crop farmers, while improving land management by supporting village and district land use planning and rangeland management in Kiteto, Bahi, Chamwino and Kondoa Districts in Tanzania. More broadly, it aims at influencing policy formulation and implementation on these issues.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Vietnam
Sustainable Rural Development for the Poor Project in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh Provinces (SRDP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 790,000
- Implementers
- Provincial People's Committees of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2013 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The goal of the project is to improve the income and reduce vulnerability of 31,000 rural poor households in the provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh, including 4,300 ethnic minorities, with a particular focus on women. The project will invest in participatory, climate smart and market oriented approaches in support of pro-poor value chain development, increasing financial inclusion and leverage financing for productive investments and operationalising participatory processes for forest use allocation.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project aims to prioritize women headed and landless households in forest land allocation through a participatory approach and the issuance of forest land use certificates, it intends to provide support for land demarcation of approximately 5,000 ha and for the capturing of boundaries using Geographic Information Systems.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso
Sustainable Rural Development Programme (PDRD)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,295,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries Resources
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2005 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme was to contribute to rural poverty reduction efforts through activities that intended to develop target village groups and their institutions' capacity to better manage the land; to reverse the process of degradation of cropland and non-cropland through watershed management and irrigation construction; to increase the income of rural poor who constitute the target group by improving agricultural production and productivity; and to improve the living conditions of the target groups by increasing their access to basic social services and markets. The targeted population was included in 30,000 households in the five provinces of Bam, Loroum, Passoré, Yatenga et Zondana.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme undertook awareness raising activities regarding land issues. It further has provided support for the recording and formalization of land transaction, and for land registration, the recognition of land rights and land governance. It strengthened local institutions that deal with land tenure security; it defined a strategy regarding this issue and contributed to the land management policy at provincial and regional levels, as well as to the National Land Policy. Moreover it supported the establishment of a land tenure security fund to support the target groups which lack land access.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Peru
Sustainable Territorial Development Project
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 6,331,000
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2016 Apr 2021
- Summary:
- The project aims to contribute to poverty reduction of rural families through social and productive inclusion. Its development objective would aim at increasing the human, social, natural, physical and financial assets of potential project beneficiaries. Land and natural resource governance activities will include the co-financing of annual operating plans and activities for territorial environmental management, land demarcation and control. They will support the implementation of projects in the high rain forest area undertaking a process that includes both the development of their economic initiatives as well as management of natural resources and land use planning as main references for the management of their territory and it will establish a fund for rural youth enterprise learning.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Colombia
Suyo
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 3,300,000
- Implementers
- Suyo
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2015 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- Suyo helps families to secure their property rights by offering the most affordable and reliable property formalization services in Latin America. The organization’s innovative use of technology and their partnerships with local governments, microfinance institutions, and utility companies bring ease and efficiency to the formalization of title records.
Suyo’s team takes customers from start to finish through a streamlined process to acquire property documentation. Omidyar Network’s funding allows Suyo to successfully provide its property formalization services on a large scale across the four biggest municipalities within Colombia.
Tanzania
Tanzania Land Tenure Support Programme
- Donors:
- Denmark,United Kingdom,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 8,220,000
- Implementers
- Coffey International Development, DAI Europe, Crown Agents, Government of Tanzania
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2014 Sep 2019
- Summary:
- The programme implements commitments made jointly by the G8 and the United Republic of Tanzania to deliver a detailed road map for land reforms in Tanzania. Through the programme, the government will register land for villages and households in the three districts of Kilombero, Ulanga and Malinyi.
- Contact:
- Alex Mangowi, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Tanzania
Tanzania Policy Project (SERA)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 1,500,000
- Implementers
- Diligent Consulting
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Working closely with other donors in the country, the SERA project is contributing analysis that will help inform the Government of Tanzania’s land policy, particularly the land for equity model. This analysis is meant to support the implementation of land policies that protect smallholder rights while also enabling domestic and foreign investment under Government agricultural initiatives such as the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). A Land Allocation and Compensation Study will inform Tanzanian government officials, other decision makers and stakeholders of land allocation and compensation approaches being used in Africa and beyond. The study will include a review of existing laws governing allocation and compensation of land in selected African countries (including Tanzania), examples of the various types of land allocation and compensation approaches being used in the region, and a review of best practices and innovative approaches being used in Africa or in other regions. Best practices in land valuation in the Africa region will also be identified and discussed.
- Contact:
- Kevin McCown, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Guatemala
Technical assistance for the implementation of the agrarian policy in the framework of the VGGT
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 269,000
- Implementers
- Secretaria de asuntos agrarios(SAA), Fundo de tierras, FAO
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2017 Aug 2018
- Summary:
- The project aims at supporting the implementation of the agrarian policy (2014) in the frame of the VGGT in particular regarding land access; alternative conflict resolution mechanisms and supporting the monitoring of the policy implementation.
- Contact:
- Javier Molina, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Benin,Burkina Faso,Cote d'Ivoire,Guinea-Bissau,Mali,Niger,Senegal,Togo
Technical assistance for the Rural Hub/West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 1,350,000
- Implementers
- Expertise France
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2005 Sep 2015
Colombia
Technical assistance to implement land policy in Colombia
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 1,400,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2016 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Support to the implementation of the land policy through technical assistance to the review and test of the methodology of massive regularization; support to the evaluation of the farmers communal areas (zonas de reservas campesinas) and the establishment of a system to follow up on the regularization process.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Senegal
Technical Assistance to Land Use and Economic Development of Niayes Region
- Donors:
- Canada
- Funding:
- USD 2,820,000
- Implementers
- Tecsult International Limited
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2003 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- This project supports the Government of Senegal in developing a land use development plan for the Great Coast of Senegal (Niayes region). The plan is expected to serve as a land use management and development plan for an area that is one of the most agriculturally productive and highly sensitive environmentally. The plan also aims to support decision-making by Senegalese authorities in the long-term economic development of the agriculture, agroforestry, and forestry sectors, while taking into account environmental and land issues.
Guatemala
Technical assistance to strenghten local governance and recognition of communal land
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 63,000
- Implementers
- Registro Informacion Catastral de Guatemala
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2016 Jun 2018
- Summary:
- Support to the RIC (Registro de Informacion Catatsral de Guatemala) to strenghten local governance and recognition of communal land.
- Contact:
- Aurelie Bres, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Kenya
Technical Assistance: Ministry of Housing KENSUP
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 4,950,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2007 Jan 2013
- Summary:
- Technical assistance to the Ministry of Housing for the preparation of the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement programme (KISIP) through Hifab Consulting AB.
Ecuador
Technical assitance to Environment Ministry to implement the VGGT for natural resources responsible management
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 90,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of environment
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2018 Jan 2019
- Summary:
- The project aims at supporting the ministry of environment to implement the new organic code of environment for its aspect on tenure in line with VGGT to recognize, map and register tenure rights in protected areas while contributing to biodiversity protection, reducing tenure insecurity and social conflicts.
- Contact:
- Aurelie Bres, FAO
Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC)
- Donors:
- United States
- Funding:
- USD 15,400,000
- Implementers
- Tetra Tech ARD
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Jan 2018
- Summary:
- The Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) project is assisting the USAID Land Tenure and Property Rights Division to identify and test models that strengthen resource tenure governance and property rights as they relate to successful global climate change (GCC) mitigation and adaptation interventions. This project builds upon existing USAID land tenure work by testing the application of securing tenure rights in new sectors to determine how improved rights will impact GCC objectives.
Climate change impacts and the mitigation and adaptation interventions in response to GCC could significantly affect resource tenure governance, the rights of communities and people, and their livelihoods, depending upon assistance efforts. In turn, resource tenure and property rights issues and conflicts may undermine successful implementation of GCC-related initiatives. Interventions that strengthen resource tenure and property rights governance can help reduce vulnerability and increase the resilience of people, places and livelihoods in the face of GCC impacts and promote resource-use practices that achieve mitigation and development objectives.
- Contact:
- Stephen Brooks, USAID
- Website:
- Project weblink
The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility. 2014-2015 inception + 2015-2017 implementation
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 15,000,000
- Implementers
- Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
- Timeframe:
- Jun 2014 Dec 2017
- Summary:
- The Rights and Resources Initiative is catalyzing a new International Land and Forest Tenure Facility in response to growing global demand for land and forest tenure reform. Sida has committed USD 15.0 million over a 4-year period to support the final assessments and consultations needed to finalize design of the Facility, establishment and launch of Facility structures and governance, and support implementation of community tenure reform projects in a first set of countries.
- Contact:
- Annie F. Thompson, Rights and Resources Initiative
- Website:
- Project weblink
The Land Matrix Initiative Phase 2: Open Data for Transparency and Accountability on Land and Investment
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,100,000
- Implementers
- AGENCE FRANCAISE D'EXPERTISE TECHNIQUE INTERNATIONALE
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Feb 2019
- Summary:
- In order to further promote up-to date and reliable information on large-scale land acquisitions, contribute to the empowerment of weaker stakeholders and to correcting information asymmetries that negatively influence decisions over land, the program aims at supporting the Land Matrix Initiative Global Observatory as the primary reference point for data, information, and knowledge on large-scale land acquisitions, developing national, regional and thematic Land Observatories, and scaling up and creating momentum through replication, sharing, and up scaling of experiences and best practices of Land Observatories.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
- Website:
- Project weblink
The Landscape Fund - Pilot phase
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 800,000
- Implementers
- CIFOR
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2015 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Development of the Landscape fund in order to test it in 2-3 different country contexts and further develop it to allow for a scale up and more funding in a later phase. More info on http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/landscape-fund-new-way-invest-sustainable-agriculture
Benin
The Market Gardening Development Support Project
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 939,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of agriculture, farming and fishing (MAEP)
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2016 Nov 2023
- Summary:
- The goal of the programme is to increase revenues of horticultural enterprises sustainably, while improving climate change resistance. The project will develop partnerships and professionalization of the stakeholders, improving infrastructures, and improving access to technology.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
The Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) for Cooperation on International Waters for Africa (CIWA)
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 27,200,000
- Implementers
- SIDA
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- Four main result areas: i) strengthened regional cooperation and integration, ii) strengthened water resources management, iii) strengthened water resources development, and iv) strengthened stakeholder engagement and coordination.
Central African Republic,Congo, Democratic Republic of the
The Rainforest Foundation UK
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 11,100,000
- Implementers
- The Rainforest Foundation UK
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2011 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- Promoting poverty alleviation, and improving land tenure security and governance in the Congo Basin through community based mapping, legal capacity building and documentation of customary tenure and governance. This programme is a stand-alone forestry programme. It is ongoing but has been suspended in CAR.
- Contact:
- Neil Scotland, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
- Donors:
- Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Finland
- Funding:
- USD 4,345,000
- Implementers
- A coalition of 14 partners and 150 collaborator organizations
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2017
- Summary:
- (The funding amount only reflects the support from Finland)
Location: Asia, Africa, Latin America
The RRI supports the developing world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities in forests and other rural areas, helping them to secure and realize the rights to own, control, and benefit from the natural resources they have depended on for generations.
RRI works together with community organizations, civil society, governments, international institutions, and the private sector to promote and accelerate global efforts to improve local livelihoods, reform forest tenure and governance, combat poverty, mitigate the effects of climate change, and deliver sustainable development.
- Contact:
- Ms. Anu Penttinen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, +358(0)295 350 000
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso
Third Phase Community Based Rural Development Project
- Donors:
- World Bank
- Funding:
- USD 5,400,000
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2012 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The objective of the Project is to enhance the capacity of rural communities and decentralized institutions for the implementation of local development plans that promote sustainable land and natural resources management and productive investments at commune level.
Therefore, the project seeks to support the implementation of the land tenure policy and law. This would be pursued through: (i) the establishment and operation of rural land tenure services (Services Fonciers Ruraux - SFR) at commune level, village land tenure commissions (les commissions foncieres villageoises) and village conciliation commissions (les commissions de conciliation fonciere villageoise); (ii) land titling operations; (iii) strengthening of capacity of local actors and rural communes to carry out land titling processes efficiently and transparently; and iv) dissemination of the law to increase men, women and illiterates' awareness about their rights, and pave the way for a more gender-balanced access to land.
The project will also strengthen land security processes through: (i) diagnostic land tenure studies linked to the revision of Commune Development Plans; (ii) the elaboration of land tenure charters; (iii) elaboration of land tenure charters (chartes foncieres locales) and other documentation provided for by the Rural Land Legislation such as registration of usufruct rights (attestation de possession fonciere rurale); (iv) the regularization of land set aside for investment by the local government; and (v) strengthening the capacity of local actors to conciliate disputes related to land tenure. Given the preponderance of local disputes linked to land issues - including titling, pastoral vs. agricultural usage, and crop destruction - the component will also provide specific training modules on conflict resolution.
Finally, the project will pilot a mobile court system in selected regions to enhance the ability of citizens to access formal justice services.
- Contact:
- Elisee Ouedraogo, World Bank
- Website:
- Project weblink
Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 5,733,000
- Implementers
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2015 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- The Thomson Reuters Foundation promotes socio-economic progress and the rule of law worldwide. The Foundation runs programs that inform, connect, and ultimately empower people around the world.
Omidyar Network is supporting the Thomson Reuters Foundation to develop Place, the first digital platform dedicated to land and property rights issues that includes original print and video news content, infographics and reports, country profiles, moderated forums, analysis, and opinion pieces. The Foundation leverages its global network of freelance contributors and a team of journalists, videographers, and animators to generate meaningful, global visibility and to allow stories on land and property rights to reach different demographics and geographies.
- Contact:
- Amy Regas, Omidyar Network
- Website:
- Project weblink
Albania,Bangladesh,Bolivia,Cameroon,Congo, Democratic Republic of the,Colombia,Guatemala,Indonesia,India,Cambodia,Madagascar,Malawi,Nicaragua,Nepal,Peru,Philippines,South Sudan,Togo
Time for Action on People-Centred Land Governance: implementing ILC's 2016-2020 strategy
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 5,500,000
- Implementers
- ILC
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2016 Feb 2019
- Summary:
- The action aims at implementing the first half of ILC’s strategy 2016-2021 to realise land governance for and with people at the country level, responding to the needs and protecting the rights of those who live on and from the land, i.e. to bring about change at the country level. While the action is global across the 66 countries where ILC members operate, a special focus is on implementing National Engagement Strategies in 18 focus countries. National Engagement Strategies may also be developed in 7 countries including Honduras, Argentina, Niger, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania and Mongolia.
- Contact:
- Joachim Knoth, EC
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cambodia
Together against land grabbing: Strengthening civil society, easy-to-understand land rights
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 550,000
- Implementers
- Welthungerhilfe
- Timeframe:
- Sep 2017 Dec 2021
- Summary:
- Strengthening civil society to defend their land rights.
Armenia
Tools for sustainable land management
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,667,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- Preparation of new maps and the setting up a nationwide system for efficient use of satellite technology for surveying and mapping
- Contact:
- Elena Busch, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Ukraine
Tools for sustainable land management for Ukraine
- Donors:
- Norway
- Funding:
- USD 1,946,000
- Implementers
- Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2013 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The purpose of the project is to improve the surveying and mapping of parcel boundaries by facilitating modern, satellite-based surveying through the country, in line with the situation in most European countries. It started with the establishment of 90 reference stations. The network will provide centimeter accuracy in real time.
- Contact:
- Maria Lodin, Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Website:
- Project weblink
India
Transerve Technologies
- Donors:
- Omidyar Network
- Funding:
- USD 600,000
- Implementers
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2017 Aug 2019
- Summary:
- While technology solutions can help drive efficiency, most urban local bodies find high quality solutions expensive. Transerve Technologies works with cities to provide affordable tech solutions to infrastructure management issues such as property tax collection.
Transerve Technologies uses geospatial services such has unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellite imaging to more efficiently serve its customers. In many Indian cities, Transerve provides more efficient ways for individuals to exercise their rights to property through itsSmartMu product, which is a GIS-based property tax management system.
Burundi
Transitional Programme of Post Conflict Reconstruction (PTRPC)
- Donors:
- Belgium,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Planning (MINIPLAN)
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2005 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The programme aim was to regenerate the livelihoods of the rural environment, rebuild social capital including the rehabilitation of human dignity and restore food security among 74,000 poor and vulnerable households in the provinces of Bujumbura Rural and Bururi in the west and Ruyigi in the east. It worked to restructure farm production through donation of cattle and through the building of plant nurseries. It will support various training projects focusing on community development, legal issues, HIV/Aids and literacy. Legal support has been offered to women and vulnerable groups who have been subjected to violence during the conflict. supported the rehabilitation of 480 hectares of reclaimed swamp and the recovery and development of 1850 ha of additional marsh.
Land and natural resource governance related activities provided legal support and regeneration of livelihoods of poor rural women; support for local governance; legal assistance including training of members of the rural community about their rights and duties as citizens, and legal assistance and legal representation.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Mozambique,South Africa,Zambia
Transnational Nature Reserves - Great Limpopo Park V & VI
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,091,000
- Implementers
- KfW
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2017 Jun 2022
- Summary:
- The FC contribution aims at the establishment of an efficient park management and at an economically as well as ecologically sustainable development of the Limpopo National Park (LNP). The objective is to create a stable environment for private investment in tourism.
Bangladesh
Transparency and Right to Information
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- British Council, Transparency International Bangladesh, World Bank
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2014 Mar 2021
- Summary:
- To increase transparency and accountability in Bangladesh by improving systems for management and proactive publication of official information that is relevant and accessible, timely and accurate, and by enabling state reformers, businesses and social activists to hold officials and decision makers answerable for their actions across a range of services including health, education, local government, climate finance and land administration
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso
Tree-Aid Forest governance in Burkina Faso
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 2,400,000
- Implementers
- TREE AID
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2016 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The current phase aims at preparing an upscaling to national level of the TREE AID project "Decentralisation for pro-poor forest governance" which aims at reducing poverty amongst rural households in Burkina Faso through improved local forest governance and establishment of viable forest and tree product enterprises.
- Contact:
- Richard Bomboma, Embassy of Sweden
Uganda
Trocaire
- Donors:
- Denmark,European Union,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 2,900,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- Support of land tenure security and land management and justice systems in Northern Uganda. This is a stand-alone land programme. It is ongoing.
- Contact:
- Cathy Welch, DFID
Albania
Twinning between Lantmateriet in Sweden and the Immovable Property Registration Office in Albania
- Donors:
- Sweden
- Funding:
- USD 730,000
- Implementers
- The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Mar 2015
- Summary:
- Twinning support between the Swedish National Land Surveyor (Lantmateriet) and IPRO, Albania, in order to modernise IPRO and make it self-sufficient.
Rwanda
Umurage wEjo, the Legacy for Tomorrow: Land and Livelihood in Rwanda
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 1,104,000
- Implementers
- SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND VZW
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2011 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The overall objective is to strengthen decentralised implementation of land and livelihood policies in all districts of Rwanda. Specific objectives include:
1) Create opportunities for engagement and dialogue between local authorities, NSAs, and citizens, especially youth and other vulnerable groups, on policies related to land and livelihood;
2) Build capacity of Local Authorities and NSAs (media and civil society) at the local level to be more effective in ensuring appropriate implementation of policies related to land and livelihood
UN-REDD programme
- Donors:
- Denmark
- Funding:
- USD 10,000,000
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2015
Ghana,Mozambique,Senegal,Uganda
Understanding changing land issues for poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 325,000
- Implementers
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2014 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The grant provides support to improve the understanding of changing land access and use by poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa and to use that understanding for improved design, implementation and impact of development policies, programmes and projects.
Land related activities include the analysis of the "macro" trends that are driving change in local land access and use; the analysis of field-level changes and of their implications for rural livelihoods and societies and the development of, and engagement on, well-targeted knowledge products from the analysis.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
Brazil,Peru
Unlocking Forest Finance - Mobilisation of private sector capital to reduce deforestation through Public/Private Partnerships for forests and rural livelihoods.
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 5,200,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2013 Feb 2017
- Summary:
- Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
Ethiopia
UNWomen: Women's Rights to Land in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Campaign on Gender and Land Tenure
- Donors:
- Finland
- Funding:
- USD 163,000
- Implementers
- UNWomen and FAO in co-operation with a consortium of partners [Land Portal, OECD/SIGI, IFPRI, Landesa, International Land Coalition, World Bank LSMS, Oxfam, the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) initiative]
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2016 Mar 2018
- Summary:
- Women’s equal access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources are essential to ensuring gender equality and an adequate standard of living. Throughout the world, gender inequality when it comes to land and other productive resources is related to women’s poverty and exclusion. Removing inequalities requires changes in policies and more effective implementation. This project aims to contribute to these changes.
During 2015-2016 the project will organise a campaign on women's land rights and tenure. UN Women will be coordinating the project, which will bring together different organisations and actors to combine the information and evidence for the purpose of informing and influencing decision and policy makers. The aim is that when focusing at achieving sustainable development goals, there would be attention to and understanding of the impact of women's and men's equal land ownership and tenure to development. Also the project aims at promoting the systematic inclusion of equal land ownership and tenure in the activities of different organisations and actors.
- Contact:
- Ms. Leena Akatama, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Kenya
Upper Tana Catchment Natural Resource Management Project (UTaNRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,195,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Water and Irrigation
- Timeframe:
- May 2012 Jun 2020
- Summary:
- The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty in the Upper Tana River catchment through increased sustainable food production and incomes for 205,000 poor rural households, as well as sustainable management of natural resources.
On land and natural resource governance, the project will develop and implement community action plans for livelihood improvement and sustainable NRM, it will provide support to Water-Resource Users’ Associations (WRUAs) to help them fulfil their responsibilities to protect and manage water resources, resolve water use conflicts and improve the availability/quality of water. It will also support the establishment of Community Forest Associations and support them in entering into co-management arrangements with forestry authorities for various forest reserve areas and it will support the use of participatory planning and mapping processes and develop the GIS and mapping capacity of 6 Counties.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Mali,Mauritius,Senegal,Togo
Urban Governance and Local Taxation project
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- Ministeries of decentralization, ministeries of economy and finance, local governments and French embassies in the 6 countries
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2012 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- The project aims at supporting decentralization by strenghtening local governments and deconcentrated administration in the field of urban governance and local tax management system.
South Africa
Urban Land Reform- Urban Land Mark
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 6,833,000
- Implementers
- FinMark
- Timeframe:
- May 2006 Dec 2013
- Summary:
- The project aims to improve secure access to well-located land for the urban poor in South Africa by supporting urban land markets and governance systems to work more effectively. This will help to reduce the number of people living in informal settlements without security of occupancy, help to generate provision of land that can be used productively, assist the development of functioning property markets, and develop tenure of security for the urban poor. Urban Land Mark will make urban land markets work better for the poor by building evidence, by building the capacity of municipalities, and through improvements to the legal framework.
- Contact:
- , Urban Land Mark
- Website:
- Project weblink
Bangladesh
Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- UPPR, UN Habitat
- Timeframe:
- Nov 2007 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- To improve the livelihoods and living conditions of 3 Million urban poor and extremely poor people, especially women and girls.
The programme trials three different approaches to securing land tenure, including through getting municipalities to recognise community-created land settlement maps of informal areas.
- Website:
- Project weblink
Laos
Usage of an IF in MAF DALaM
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 300,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Aug 2017 Aug 2019
- Summary:
- The aim is that organizational and technical concepts for agrarian land usage are implemented.
Burundi
Value Chain Development Programme (PRODEFI)
- Donors:
- European Union,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 9,300,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
- Timeframe:
- May 2010 Jun 2019
- Summary:
- The programme aims to support public and private institutions, civil society and rural poor organizations to establish a good partnership in the development of two key agricultural sectors (rice and milk) and six secondary branches; it intends to build the human, physical and technical capacity of poor smallholder farmers to enable them to protect their productive assets, increase their production of rice and milk and raise their incomes. Approximately 77,500 households in the provinces of Cibitoke, Kayanza, Karusi, Bubanza, Muramvya, Gitega will benefit from the programme.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the programme aims to establish the legal status and land rights in each plot (hills and marshes) and to support the registration of newly entered in the community by strengthening the capacity of communal development centres (CDCs) and administrative authorities, agents of communal land services, local elected officials, and "bashingantahe" (council of elders). Land activities include measures that allow women to access their own plot of land. Landless women can also rent a plot of rehabilitated land.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Uganda
Vegetable Oil Development Project - Phase 2 (VODP 2)
- Donors:
- Netherlands,IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 11,900,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
- Timeframe:
- Oct 2010 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- This project aims at increasing the domestic production of vegetable oil and its by-products, thus raising rural incomes for smallholder producers and ensuring the supply of affordable vegetable oil products to Ugandan consumers. To that end, the project is helping farmers to increase their production of crushing material (both oil palm and oilseeds) and establish commercial relations to link them directly to processors. The project will benefit 139,000 households covering 43 districts in four hubs: Lira, Eastern Uganda, Gulu and West Nile.
Land and natural resource governance related interventions include the development of Environment and Resource Management Plans. Women are engaged in the project in their own right as landowners or tenants, as wives of landowners or tenants, or as plantation workers.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Congo, Republic of the,Gabon,Honduras,Mongolia,Senegal,Zambia
VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments - Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Honduras, Mongolia, Portugal, Senegal, Zambia
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 55,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Apr 2018
- Summary:
- VGGT based forest tenure and CBF assessments conducted in each of the countries. In Gabon and Congo Brazzaville the assessments will inform Ministry of Forests on status and challenges of CBF, and recommendations for improvement. In Honduras and Senegal, the assessments will be used to inform on-going forestry programs and design of new projects. In Mongolia, the assessment will be used to promote implementation of the VGGT and inform the pasture law being drafted. In Portugal, the findings are being used to promote policy dialogue on communal forest land tenure and management. In Zambia the assessments will inform the on-going FAO Technical Cooperation Program on Sustainable Forest and Woodland Management for Food and Nutrition Security in Western Province of Zambia.
- Contact:
- David Egiashvili, FAO, +39 0657052322
- Website:
- Project weblink
Uganda
VGGT-based forest tenure project
- Donors:
- FAO
- Funding:
- USD 300,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2014 Jan 2016
- Summary:
- A VGGT-informed forest tenure project was implemented in Uganda to pilot the process for registering community and private smallholder customary forests. The project aimed to strengthen tenure security of owners, and improve forest governance of areas that are otherwise functioning as open access and experiencing the greatest levels of deforestation in country.
- Contact:
- Safia Aggarwal, FAO
Madagascar
Vocational Training and Agricultural Productivity Improvement Programme (FORMAPROD)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 1,995,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Timeframe:
- May 2013 Jun 2023
- Summary:
- The aim of the programme is to contribute to an increase in the income of 110,000 smallholder households in 13 regions through professional and vocational training, leading to higher productivity and improved marketing of agricultural products. The programme specifically aims to support vulnerable groups, with special attention to uneducated youth and young women who are heads of household.
Land and natural resource governance related activities include 6 land registration committees (CRIF) constituted by 10 land offices, they include the support for the issuing of land certificates and plan to install at least 2000 ha of new irrigated areas and rehabilitate 4200 ha of existing or traditional boundaries in order to secure the control of water and/or expand the irrigated area.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Haiti
Waste Management Project in the cities of Cape Haiti and Gonarves
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
Ethiopia
Water & sediment budgets of Lake Tana for optimisation of land management and water allocation
- Donors:
- Belgium
- Funding:
- USD 410,000
- Implementers
- VLIR (Flemish Interuniversity Council)
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2010 Jan 2015
- Summary:
- The overall developmental objective of the project is to contribute to sustainable management of land and water resources in Lake Tana basin. The project will provide scientific evidence and raise awareness about water and sediment problems associated to the lake and show alternative options to minimize these prob¬lems and bring sustained use of the land resources and lake. Academically, this project will strengthen the capacity of BDU, BWR and EPLAUA staff
Egypt
Water Management Reform Programme
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 1,200,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Jul 2015 Dec 2018
- Summary:
- The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, as well as farmers' organizations, are applying optimized procedures for integrated water resource management in irrigation agriculture at the field level.
Niger
Watershed management in Badaguichiri
- Donors:
- France
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2009 Jan 2014
India
West Bengal: Kolkata Urban Services for the Poor (KUSP)
- Donors:
- United Kingdom
- Funding:
- USD 0
- Implementers
- The Municipal Affairs Department is the lead. A Change Management Unit has been established under the Municipal Affairs Department to oversee the implementation of the programme.
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2003 Dec 2015
- Summary:
- Supporting the improvement of urban planning and governance in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area, and ensuring improved security of tenure to poor people. The project will support the implementation of urban reforms and city sanitation plans.
- Contact:
- Jeena Abraham, DFID
- Website:
- Project weblink
Russia
Western Caucasus World Natural Heritage Site – climate protection through sustainable forest management and decentralised exploitation of renewable energy sources in the newly created buffer zone
- Donors:
- Germany
- Funding:
- USD 2,800,000
- Implementers
- GIZ
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2010 Nov 2014
- Summary:
- One of the negative impacts of uncontrolled deforestation within the Western Caucasus World Natural Heritage Site is that adjacent villages are being ever more frequently affected by flooding and landslides. The project combines protection and sustainable use of the remaining Nordmann fir forests through the designation of a buffer zone with sustainable forest management and exploitation of renewable energy sources. In addition to avoiding climate-changing emissions, this will guarantee a long-term income source for the population and reduce its exposure to impacts from climate change.
- Contact:
- Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, IKI, +49 (0)30 338 424 - 218
- Website:
- Project weblink
Sudan
Western Sudan Resources Management Programme (WSRMP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,310,000
- Implementers
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2005 Dec 2016
- Summary:
- The programme aims to build up traditional rain-fed agriculture and improve economic conditions of 61,500 households in the three Kordofan states. The programme focuses on the importance of appropriate natural resource management and the access of poor households to productive services and fair terms of trade.
On land and natural resource governance, the programme intends to develop a harmonised natural resources legislation passed and implemented for farmland, grazing land, forest land and water, addressing clear access and use rights and appeal and arbitration mechanisms. The programme further supports the mapping and demarcation of traditional stock routes, participatory GIS mapping and the foundation of Conflict Resolution Centres along stock routes.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Nepal
Western Uplands Poverty Alleviation Project (WUPAP)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 3,525,000
- Implementers
- Ministry of Local Development
- Timeframe:
- Jan 2003 Sep 2016
- Summary:
- The aim of the project is to ensure more resilient livelihoods and to defend the basic human dignity of poor and socially disadvantaged people in the western uplands of Nepal, by strengthening the capacity of 115,000 households to mobilise their own resources thus gaining access to external resources and ensuring social justice.
Land and natural resource governance activities promote the transfer of lands, on a leasehold basis, to women and landless peoples to enable them to undertake leasehold forestry, increase their production of fodder crops and undertake NTFP (Non-timber Forest Product) production. The project supports the provision of services to organise new leasehold forest user groups and initial training, exposure visits, monitoring workshops, work schedule planning and operational planning reviews.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Cameroon,Ethiopia,Kenya,Mozambique,Malawi,Togo,Tunisia,South Africa
Women’s Land Rights for Inclusive Development and Growth in Africa
- Donors:
- European Union
- Funding:
- USD 2,700,000
- Implementers
- STICHTING OXFAM NOVIB (NOVIB)
- Timeframe:
- Feb 2017 Feb 2020
- Summary:
- The overall objective is to ensure women’s access to and
control over their land resources across Africa - supporting and enabling rural women’s voices. The action aims to effective independent and participatory monitoring by civil society of government progress on achieving targets related to the promotion of women’s land rights.
In order to contribute to this goal, the action has three specific objectives:
1) Monitor actions taken by governments in key countries and Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and hold them accountable to implement relevant AU Women's Land Rights (WLR) instruments;
2) Empower rural women’s organizations to analyse, document and disseminate evidence on pronounced cases of missing WLR and action against the discriminatory land tenure systems and threats originating from large-scale land-based investments (LSLBIs);
3) Promote recognition of Pan-African civil society for its leadership, knowledge and effective advocacy capacity on women’s land rights.
- Contact:
- Antonio.MARTINEZ-PIQUERAS, EU Commission, DEVCO E3, Development Coordination East and Southern Africa
China
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Modular Rural Development Programme (MRDP-XUAR)
- Donors:
- IFAD
- Funding:
- USD 2,000,000
- Implementers
- Poverty Alleviation Office of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
- Timeframe:
- Apr 2008 Jun 2014
- Summary:
- The project aims to contribute to the reduction of absolute poverty and promote gender equality among 176,000 households lacking of skills and financial resources, including particularly those headed by women, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
With regard to land and natural resource governance, the project aims to recognize communities as the main actors in planning and implementing activities and to discuss within the village committee for formally recognised allocation of land from village collective land for group activities.
- Contact:
- Harold Liversage, IFAD
- Website:
- Project weblink
Armenia
“ENPARD Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia”
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 2,200,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Dec 2014 Nov 2018
- Summary:
- During 2017, FAO has under the FAO ENPARD project (GCP/ARM/006/EC) assessed the reasons for land abandonment, an emergent problem in Armenia, and prepared a Policy Note outlining a range of possible responses. The analysis revealed that land abandonment is a complex multi-dimensional process with interlinked economic, environmental, social factors causing it. The inability to irrigate (due to infrastructure constraints, economic constraints or for any other reasons) was found to be among the main drivers of land abandonment in Armenia. Thus, the multiple causality of land abandonment requires a coordinated policy response between agricultural policy, land policy and improvements in the irrigation sector.
The policy note and the advise provided therein builds on the VGGT principles of good governance of tenure.
- Contact:
- Morten Hartvigsen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink
Macedonia
“Mainstreaming of the National Land Consolidation Programme (MAINLAND)”
- Donors:
- European Union,FAO
- Funding:
- USD 2,653,000
- Implementers
- FAO
- Timeframe:
- Mar 2017 Aug 2020
- Summary:
- The MAINLAND project is supporting the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy (MAFWE) to build technical and administrative capacity to implement the National Land Consolidation Programme and the provisions of the National Land Consolidation Strategy adopted by the Government in 2012 for mainstreaming the National Land Consolidation Programme through (i) developing expertise and strengthening the land consolidation capacities of local stakeholders, (ii) raising public awareness about the benefits of land consolidation; and (iii) implementing the first round of land consolidation projects.
The proposed approach to land consolidation is integrated, combining activities addressing small holding sizes and reducing land fragmentation with other local rural development needs, such as design and construction of new agricultural infrastructure, while preserving the environment.
In supporting the land consolidation programme FAO respects a few key principles: respect all legitimate tenure rights (not just formally registered ownership rights); include safeguards – participatory process, fair valuation and accessible options for appeal; and the cornerstone principle that participants should be as well off after the project as before.
- Contact:
- Morten Hartvigsen, FAO
- Website:
- Project weblink