USAID LAND TENURE and PROPERTY RIGHTS PORTAL

Video Transcript: USAID's Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (MAST)

Did you miss the online discussion on the meaning and application of “legitimate land rights?” Watch the recording here. USAID has developed two mobile applications, or apps, that support land tenure and land use. Watch this video about the apps now. Interactive map with information on U.S. Government (USAID and MCC) programs that strengthen land tenure and property rights.

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LRDP Success Story: Intensive Restitution Training Breaks New Ground in Area Hit Hard by War

Three-month certificate course bolsters local capacity to protect victims’ rights and promote reconciliation through improved implementation of the Victims and Land Restitution Law of 2011. Just talking about land restitution in some parts of Colombia can put a person at risk. The climate of fear surrounding the topic in the northern Colombian department of Cordoba is particularly heavy. Public confidence in state institutions and processes is at rock bottom because of a lack of coherence between the various state entities involved in critical land processes, co-option by local legal/illegal power structures, and corruption. Recent policies like the Victims and Land

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LRDP Monthly Highlights: March 2016

The Land and Rural Development Program (LRDP) is a five-year task order funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR) Indefinite Quantity Contract. LRDP is intended to assist the government of Colombia to strengthen its institutional capacity to develop tools, systems, and skills that will enable it to fulfill its mandate to resolve land issues at the heart of Colombia’s decades-long internal conflict. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Community knowledge of women’s land rights strengthened through 12 radio dramas about formalization, restitution, and rural development written and performed by female victims of the

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CLPP Impact Evaluation Survey Instruments

Did you miss the online discussion on the meaning and application of “legitimate land rights?” Watch the recording here. USAID has developed two mobile applications, or apps, that support land tenure and land use. Watch this video about the apps now. Interactive map with information on U.S. Government (USAID and MCC) programs that strengthen land tenure and property rights.

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Concern Over Climate Change and Land Concessions in Liberia

Home Commentary Did you miss the online discussion on the meaning and application of “legitimate land rights?” Watch the recording here. USAID has developed two mobile applications, or apps, that support land tenure and land use. Watch this video about the apps now. Interactive map with information on U.S. Government (USAID and MCC) programs that strengthen land tenure and property rights.

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Project Brief: Land Tenure and Property Rights in Colombia

Did you miss the online discussion on the meaning and application of “legitimate land rights?” Watch the recording here. USAID has developed two mobile applications, or apps, that support land tenure and land use. Watch this video about the apps now. Interactive map with information on U.S. Government (USAID and MCC) programs that strengthen land tenure and property rights.

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LPIS Land Surveying Technician Course Curriculum

Did you miss the online discussion on the meaning and application of “legitimate land rights?” Watch the recording here. USAID has developed two mobile applications, or apps, that support land tenure and land use. Watch this video about the apps now. Interactive map with information on U.S. Government (USAID and MCC) programs that strengthen land tenure and property rights.

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Liberia

Liberia is rich in natural resources, including valuable timber species, significant biodiversity, and mineral resources, including iron ore, gold and diamonds. Agriculture provides a livelihood for the majority of the population, with most farming carried out on small landholdings, but there are also a number of large commercial plantations. Liberia has an urban-based elite, the descendants of freed slaves from the US and Caribbean. The majority of indigenous Africans live in rural areas. The land-tenure system reflects this division of the population. Throughout coastal Liberia, the urban elites use a Western statutory system of land ownership based on individual fee

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The duality of local resource governance in rural Liberia: Evidence using multiple types of data

Paper prepared for presentation at the “2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY,” The World Bank—Washington DC, March 14-18, 2016. Authors: Alexandra Hartman, Heather Huntington, Kate Marple-Cantrell – The Cloudburst Group Conclusion: Overlapping statutory and neocustomary regimes in property rights in Lofa, River Gee and Maryland Counties in Liberia can be understood as dualities. The first duality lies in the management of communal land and natural resources. Within the community traditional authorities confidently dictate rules about access to land and natural resources, resource use, and land investment. However, when problems arise with outsiders who ignore community based enforcement mechanisms,

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Open Data Hub Terms of Use

Data Policy Data presented on the USAID Land Tenure Open Data Hub are published as part of USAID’s commitment to Open Data. As such, their use is subject to the same Terms of Use that apply to the USAID’s Development Data policy, which can be found at http://www.usaid.gov/ads/policy/500/579. Moreover, evaluation data are unique because they are often obtained from or provided by individuals and organizations that have been given assurances of confidentiality. Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or organization violates accepted professional standards and jeopardizes future data collection and dissemination. Users of evaluation data should be aware

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Interactive map with information on U.S. Government (USAID and MCC) programs that strengthen land tenure and property rights.