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ONLINE workshop "Formalizing the Informal to Protect Residents in Informal Settlements"
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries requested their citizen to ‘stay at home’ to stay safe. Not for everyone home is actually a safe place. Housing conditions and density of informal settlements often do not allow residents to follow basic hygienic measures or to keep the minimum social distance to reduce spreading the virus.
LandVoc Community of Experts Workshop
Session 1: June 8th
Session 2: June 23rd
Time: 14:00-17:00 CET
Building Back Better: How Securing Land Rights Will be Critical in a Post-COVID19 World
JUNE 03, 2020 | 15:30 -16:30 (CEST)
Supporting the struggles of local land-users and communities to own, control and manage their land and natural resources is a long-term effort. It is complex, challenging and takes time.
Migration, Displacement, and De-urbanization in the Context of COVID-19
Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
Webinar: African land rights in the time of the coronavirus
Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 13:00
Join PLAAS for the next webinar in this series, “African land rights in the time of the coronavirus: Perspectives from West, East and Southern Africa”.
Eviction response during and after COVID-19
Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
Women’s Housing and Land Rights and Covid-19
Join us for the Land Rights and COVID-19 webinar and discussion series, which is presented by Land Portal, Landesa, the Global Protection Cluster HLP AOR and GIZ, with organizing support from Environmental Peacebuilding Association, LANDac, New America and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
Empowering Smallholder Farmer Land Rights - Beyond Covid-19: Global Open Innovation Challenge
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST/1.00-2.00 PM EST
CBA14: From local solutions to global action
The 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA14) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, on 18-21 May, 2020.
CBA14 in May 2020 will bring together practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors to share their experiences and drive forward efforts to achieve a climate-resilient future.
Proceedings of the FIG 2020 Working Week: Smart surveyors for land and water management
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, FIG Working Week 2020 has been cancelled. However, the programme, all abstracts and both peer review and regular papers have been published in the FIG 2020 Working Week website. There might be some online webinars/meetings, which will be informed in the event website.
Webinar: The Distribution of Urban Land in the Global South
Join us for a webinar co-hosted by the the Land Portal Foundation, Habitat for Humanity International, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, UN Habitat and Tata Trusts on the distribution of urban land in the global south.