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The Land Portal Foundation is a non-for-profit organization based in the Netherlands dedicated to supporting the efforts of the rural poor to gain equitable access to land by addressing the fragmentation of information resources on land. We believe access to information is crucial to achieve good land governance and to
Whose Land? Webinar Series
The four-part webinar series provides a platform for different stakeholders engaged in land governance to exchange on the importance of inclusivity and meaningful participation of all relevant actors in both formal and informal land governance processes.
Land Portal Webinar Series
The Land Portal partners with strategic organizations on webinar series that take an in-depth look at issues of crucial importance to the land governance sector.
UNION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT VOLUNTEERS
The Union of Community Development Volunteers (UCDV) an indigenous Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), based in Uganda – commonly known as “The Pearl of Africa” that is kindly extending an invitation of collaboration with your great organization. Union of Community
Degradação da Terra e Posse
Open Up Guide for Land Governance
Governments rarely publish their primary land tenure, use, value, and development data in open and reusable formats. Yet land is a critical global asset, and land governance — the exercise of political, economic, and administrative authority over land — should include processes for citizens to participate. Publishing open data on land governance has known barriers. In some cases, reliable, formal land tenure data does not exist at all or is not in digital form. Metadata is inadequate. Governments are hesitant to publish data that may include sensitive personal information.
The Open Up Guide for Land Governance is therefore a practical resource to be used by governments from developing countries to publish land-related data to improve data quality, availability, accessibility and use for improved citizen engagement, decision making and innovation. It sets out:
- Key datasets for land management accountability, and how they should be collected, stored, shared and published for improving land governance and transparency;
- Good data policies and frameworks;
- Existing gaps or challenges in the policies and frameworks; and
- Use cases from real-life examples to illustrate the potential impact and transformation this type of data can provide in local contexts.
“There is an open data revolution happening now,” says Laura Meggiolaro, Team Lead of the Land Portal, “and the Land Portal is transforming the landscape for land governance data. We are proud to co-launch this new, highly researched Open Up Guide in collaboration with our colleagues at GIZ and the Open Data Charter.”
The Land Portal complements this work by assessing how OPEN land data is in various countries -- to know more, check the State of Land Information.
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Pitch your story!
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Pitch your story!
How can you participate?
Please read the guidance below and pitch your story by submitting the form. The deadline to pitch stories is April 6, 2022.
Requirements:
- Stories should fulfill the four pillars of solutions journalism to be selected. You can find examples of solution stories in the SJN Solutions Story Tracker.
- Stories should include both the environmental and the land angles of the solution. For example, the practice of saving seeds via agroecology requires farmers to have the rights to land.
- Stories should be published in local media first and will be further disseminated on the Land Portal.
- The story pitch must be in English but the full story can be in your local language. If the language in which the story is written is other than English, the story will be translated into English, free of cost for the author of the story, for its dissemination on the Land Portal.
Your commitment:
- Get familiar with the Solutions Journalism approach attending the Solutions Journalism 101 training (next training March 15, 2022) and reading the Basic Tool Kit (available in over a dozen of languages).
- Find a local outlet to publish your story and ensure permission for its publication on Land Portal.
- Maintain open communications with project organizers to receive guidance and exchange ideas throughout the production and publication of the story.
- Participate in 1-3 project calls to engage with other journalists writing stories to share ideas, experiences, challenges, and successes.
- Must be willing to participate in a future webinar presenting the story.
If you are wondering…
Is the story paid?
Yes, each author will be paid 300 USD for their story and any accompanying pictures. The author will be required to fulfill the commitments as laid out above.
How long should the story be?
The story should be around 2000 words. The length can be discussed if the local outlet where it will be published have other requirements.
In what format should the story be in?
The story should be in written format, though accompanying photos are highly encouraged.
Reporting on Environment and Land: The Solutions Journalism Approach
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Land Portal and Solutions Journalism Network LEDE Fellow Nieves Zúñiga are collaborating on a project to spread solutions-based stories about repairing the environment, while also improving land governance.
About the collaboration
The Land Portal is a leading global platform for inclusive knowledge sharing on land governance. We believe that access to information is crucial for achieving good land governance and securing land rights for landless and vulnerable people. Our mission is to nurture a growing information ecosystem on land governance to inform and improve decision-making, policy and practice at all levels.
Solutions Journalism Network’s mission is to transform journalism so that all people have access to news that helps them envision and build a more equitable and sustainable world. The LEDE Fellowship, awarded by Solutions Journalism Network, allows journalists entrepreneurs to create and lead projects to spread solutions journalism.
The Land Portal and LEDE Fellow Nieves Zúñiga will sponsor six solution stories about land and the environment to be produced and published in 2022. Our collaboration is to faciliate training, dialogue, story production and dissemination on solutions repairing environmental damage and improving land governance. The stories will be first published in local outlets and ultimately published for a global audience on the Land Portal.
Alarming news about the devastation of global warming or the destructive consequences of our economic activities or consumption are in the media daily. But, the reality is that human action is also the solution even if this part of the story hardly makes it to the media. We choose to highlight these solutions.
Please stay tuned to this space for future updates.
Join us for the introductory briefing on March 9.
Pitch us your solution story here.
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As part of this project, the Land Portal and LEDE Fellow Nieves Zúñiga will sponsor six solution stories to be produced and published in 2022. |
State of Land Information (SOLI)
The State of Land Information (SOLI) research and reports seek to provide an overview of publicly available data and information on key land issues. The aim of the research is to uncover the many different sources of land data and information at the country-level and help to identify actual data and information gaps, with a view to establishing a baseline for targeted interventions to improve the information ecosystem.
Our robust methodology demonstrates not only trends and gaps in land data collection, but functions as a practical guide in support of improved visibility and usability of land data and information. SOLI reports serve as the first step in the implementation of the Open Up Guide for Land Governance.
In 2021, we kicked off SOLI research in five countries in Africa. We aim to develop SOLI reports for a dozen countries in Africa by 2024.
Como adicionar o seu projecto ao Land Portal?
O banco de dados de projetos do Land Portal tem como objetivo apoiar profissionais, investigadores(as), doadores(as) e outras partes interessadas em uma busca facil e rápida sobre projetos, financiamentos e informações a fim de realizar colaborações produtivas. Os detalhes de projetos são baseados na Iniciativa de Transparência de Apoio Internacional (IATI) para garantir que essas informações possam ser compartilhadas entre outros sites. Todas as apresentações de projetos relacionados à terra são bem-vindas.
Passos para a submissão de um projecto no Land Portal
1. Crie o seu perfil de usuário(a)
Para adicionar seu projeto, você primeiro precisa criar um perfil de usuário(a) no Land Portal. Isso permitirá que você contribua com projetos, mas também com outros tipos de conteúdo, tais como notícias, blogues, eventos, referências bilbiográficas e muito mais. Você precisará esperar que um moderador(a) aprove sua conta antes de prosseguir. Se você já possui uma conta no Land Portal, basta fazer o login.
2. Adicione sua organização
Sua organização pode já ter um perfil no Land Portal, portanto, antes de criar uma organização, verifique nossa página Comunidade para verificar se sua organização já foi cadastrada. Se a sua organização não tiver um perfil, você precisará criar um. Para criar o seu perfil organizacional, adicione todos os detalhes relevantes, incluindo o nome da sua organização, descrição, tipo de organização, informação de contacto, metadados (incluindo foco geográfico, foco temático e termos relacionados) e finalmente carregue a sua logomarca.
3. Crie su projeto
Para criar um projeto, preencha as informações com o máximo de detalhes possível, incluindo título do projeto, descrição, data de início e conclusão, financiamento, links da web, informações de contato e metadados (enfoque geográfico, enfoque temático e termos relacionados).
Mais importante ainda, adicione funcionários(as) associados, organizações doadoras, organizações de implementação e provedores de dados, se for o caso. Para adicionar uma pessoa à equipe, simplesmente digite o nome da pessoa que deseja adicionar e ela aparecerá. Da mesma forma, para adicionar uma organização, digite o seu nome e aparecerá. Se você ainda não adicionou sua organização ou se outras organizações, como doadores, ainda não estão cadastradas no Land Portal, clique no símbolo + para adicioná-la.
4. Envie seu projeto
Para submeter o seu projecto, certifique-se de que preencheu todos os campos obrigatórios e clique no botão "submeter".
O que acontece com seu projeto após o envio?
Depois de enviar seu projeto, a equipe do Land Portal revisará o que você enviou. Podemos solicitar informações ou explicações adicionais. Assim que o processo de análise for finalizado e seu projeto estiver pronto para ser publicado, a equipe do Land Portal irá informá-lo sobre sua publicação e outras etapas, se for necessário.