As the largest country wholly within Europe, possessing an abundance of fertile soil, land governance in Ukraine holds great importance to future economic development and prosperity. Already the government has privatized urban housing units and three-quarters of its agricultural land, with provisions for citizens to apply for private land rights to certain categories of remaining public lands. However, key challenges in land administration remain, notably in the establishment of conditions for the lifting of the moratorium on agricultural land transactions.

Contribution à l’Amélioration de la politique foncière en Mauritanie à travers l’usage du Cadre d’Analyse de la Gouvernance Foncière (CAGF)

Daşınmaz Əmlak İdarəçiliyinin Qiymətləndirilməsi Proqramı: Daşınmaz Əmlak Sektorunda İdarəçiliyin Qiymətləndirilməsi üzrə İcra Təlimatı

Marco de Evaluación de la Gobernanza de la Tierra: Manual de Implementación para Evaluar la Gobernanza en el Sector de la Tierra

Land sector challenges are vast and complex. Insecure rights to land continues to affect more than 2 billion people living in urban and rural informality worldwide, with women, youth and indigenous people faring the worst. We need more strategic partnerships, at all levels, that drive innovative thinking and provide practical solutions to these tenure security challenges.

Beyond concerns about agricultural productivity growth, issues of land governance have attracted global interest as demand for land acquisition by outsiders has increased rapidly but most of the transfers failed to live up to expectations and instead disrupted local livelihoods. We use the land governance assessment framework to identify key conceptual issues and identify how land governance in 10 African countries compares to global good practice.

Land Governance Assessment Framework: Implementation Manual for Assessing Governance in the Land Sector

Cadre d’analyse de la gouvernance foncière: Manuel de mise en œuvre pour l’évaluation de la gouvernance dans le secteur foncier

Marco de Avaliação da Governança Fundiária: Manual de Implementação para Avaliar a Governança no Setor Fundiário

Under support from the DFID PyoePin programme, Dr Kyaw Tint, the head of ECCDI, a leading Yangon based NGO led a research project to understand the current status of Community Forestry in the country, with technical support from Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski. Field study was conducted in October – December 2010, and we presented our findings at a national workshop.

The three main outputs of the project are available to download here:

A Comparative Study of Land Rights Systems in Southeast
Asia and the Potential of National and International Legal
Frameworks and Guidelines....."Land rights systems in Southeast Asia are in constant
flux; they respond to various socioeconomic and political pressures and to changes in statutory and customary
law. Over the last decade, Southeast Asia has become
one of the hotspots of the global land grab phenomenon,
accounting for about 30 percent of transnational land
grabs globally. Land grabs by domestic urban elites,

Very rich site with many resources..."In a world where billions of people live outside the protection of the law, Namati is building a global movement of grassroots legal advocates who work with communities to advance justice. These advocates are solving problems on the front lines to ensure that people can protect their land, access essential services, and take part in the decisions that govern their lives...