We are happy to announce the launch of the project Participatory Land-Use Consolidation for Climate Resilience and Inclusive Business Models in Egypt, which started in May 2024 and will run until October 2026. The project aims to reduce land fragmentation through participatory land use consolidation in order to increase the productivity and income of smallholder farmers, and to strengthen the institutional capacity of key institutions on land governance aspects.

Terra Firma and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) are pleased to announce the launch of a new LAND-at-scale project: Scaling Community Land Rights Certification in Municipal Areas of Mozambique. The project started implementation this month (February 2024) in the rural hinterlands of four municipalities in Manica, Sofala and Zambezia provinces.

During the Conference for Land Policy in Africa (CLPA) which took place in Addis Ababa in November 2023, LAND-at-scale organised the side-event ''Climate-Resilient Land Use Planning as a Tool for Addressing Land Degradation''. The LAND-at-scale (LAS) project partners and their government constituencies from Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda participated in person. The set-up of the session was dynamic with each country first ‘pitching’ how land use planning processes were important in their LAS interventions, and then the government representatives adding to that a perspective from government. In each of the countries, the LAS partners consisting of NGOs and UN organizations, work closely with national or district land use planning officers of the government in carrying out project activities.

As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, GLTN dove into the links between climate and land governance in the ‘’Scaling up community-based land registration and land use planning on customary land in Uganda’’ project. This case study highlights experiences from the community-based wetland management planning approach in Butaleja, Uganda, focusing on how the approach is addressing land governance issues and contributing to community climate resilience.

By Peter Sangeyon, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS Project Tanzania

From 1995 to 2005 I was the village chairman, and I was a ward councillor for ten years after that. I was very pleased when the community selected me to be a WOLTS gender and land champion.

Desde que participou do treinamento WOLTS, a defensora de gênero e terra Sindooi está apoiando ativamente os direitos de herança de mulheres e viúvas em sua comunidade.

A defensora de gênero e terra Rosa compartilha seu orgulho de poder ajudar sua comunidade pastoril a resolver disputas difíceis de terra.

Por Rosa Olokweni, Campeã de Gênero e Terra, Projeto WOLTS Tanzânia

Antes de a HakiMadini e a WOLTS chegarem a Mundarara, era como se as mulheres de nossa aldeia estivessem dormindo. Nenhuma de nós tinha conhecimento de nossos direitos à terra, muitas de nós eram maltratadas por nossos maridos e nunca falávamos em reuniões.

By Milya Samberu, Gender and Land Champion, WOLTS  Project Tanzania

By Tuya, Gender and  Land Champion, WOLTS Project Mongolia

Esta história de dados examina alguns dos impactos do VGGT. Ele destaca os dados disponíveis sobre como os VGGTs têm sido utilizados, como o trabalho do projeto associado incorpora as diretrizes e se a implementação resultou em mudanças tangíveis na segurança da posse da terra para as comunidades ao redor do mundo.