Un soutien à la sécurisation foncière au profit de la communauté rurale au Niger
A Tillabéri, un forum soutenu par le projet ProPFR vise à améliorer la monétarisation des terres et l’accès aux ressources pastorales en alliant les acteurs locaux.
Du 9 au 16 décembre 2024, s’est déroulée au Cameroun une mission transnationale d'échange de connaissances sur les questions foncières et agropastorales. Une mission qui a réuni des experts, praticiens, acteurs de la société civile et autorités politico administratives.
December 3, 2024 — At the Land Portal, we are committed to advancing the accessibility and long-term sustainability of knowledge on land governance. The World Bank Land Conference is one of the premier venues for knowledge exchange on land, and we were thrilled when the organizers requested our support in making the 2024 conference session materials available to the public in our Land Library, which now hosts over 73,000 publications on land governance.
La Fondation Land Portal, en tant qu'organisation à but non lucratif opérant à l'intersection des communautés des données ouvertes et de la gouvernance foncière, a eu le privilège, au cours des 5 à 8 dernières années, d'être en mesure d'observer certaines tendances intéressantes affectant le paysage des données de gouvernance foncière.
Curating land information is part of our daily work in the Land Portal. It includes selecting, categorizing, and enriching information with analysis and/or additional data, graphic visualizations, etc. In times with so much information available to choose from, people are increasingly seeking sources that offer selections of high-quality knowledge and provide analysis that make sense of it. Understanding how partners in the land community are meeting this demand is a great source for us to improve our work of curating, and providing meaning to land data.
Not only is the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) having serious health impacts around the world, it also has the potential to significantly affect the housing, land, and property (HLP) of women and girls, particularly in low and middle-income countries.
Women at a disadvantage
This document has been initially released online as a Land Portal data story. You can find it online here.
This publication provides practical and evidence-based guidance on how to improve women’s access to land as an essential element to achieve social and economic development and enjoyment of human rights, peace and stability in the specific context of the Muslim world. The challenges faced by women living in Muslim contexts do not substantially differ from those faced by women in other parts of the world: socially prescribed gender roles, unequal power dynamics, discriminatory family practices, unequal access to justice are the most common.
Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.
These are:
1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;
