Find links to complementary platforms and services to safeguard land rights in investment

Find links to complementary platforms and services to safeguard land rights in investment

Platforms and services

How To: Contract Monitoring Roadmap

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This platform provides an introduction to the concepts surrounding community monitoring, based on the "Contracting Roadmap" developed by the World Bank Institute. It is appropriate for civil society organisations who are exploring whether they can monitor procurements, butit also applies to any entity interested in contract and project monitoring. It explains the different types of monitoring and different approaches, how to access data and general rules in what to do with it afterwards in the analysis.

Community Land Protection Initiative

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The Community Land Protection Initiative provides land rights defenders with the practical skills to support communities to document and protect their indigenous and customary lands. It includes practical how-to videos, blogs and other tools that will help you design interventions to protect community land rights.

Community Land Protection programme

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The Community Land Protection page on the Namati website proposes a number of short videos that will be especially useful for civil society, grassroots organisations and other groups who engage in work at the community level. 

Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Reform

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This course, designed for policy makers, government staff and civil society, provides guidance on driving reforms that strengthen policy, legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks for responsible agricultural investment (RAI). It provides support to design the reform strategy, establish multi-stakeholder consultation processes for decision-making and enhance the role of regulatory processes in creating an enabling environment for responsible agricultural investment.

Follow the Money to Justice

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This resource is for advocates working to support communities who have been affected by harmful investment projects. It will help you follow the money to identify and analyze the companies, investors and other actors behind these projects. It also explains how to collect evidence and develop tailored advocacy strategies to hold these actors accountable and defend land, housing and resource rights.

Follow the Money to Justice

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This website is for advocates working to support communities who have been affected by harmful investment projects.

Indigenous Navigator

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The Indigenous Navigator is a framework and set of tools for and by indigenous peoples to systematically monitor the level of recognition and implementation of their rights. By using the Indigenous Navigator, indigenous organisations and communities, duty bearers, NGOs and journalists can access free tools and resources based on community-generated data.

Interactive VGGT Guide

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Interactive guide to the VGGT

Land Matrix

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The Land Matrix is an independent land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability around large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in low- and middle-income countries across the world. By capturing data on its website, the initiative aims to stimulate debate on the trends and impacts of LSLAs, facilitate wide participation in collecting and sharing data about these deals, and contribute to the growing movement towards open data. In this way, it seeks to support greater public involvement in critical decisions that affect the lives of land-users and strengthen their positions in the processes that govern access to land.

LandAssess Tool, Risk Assessment and Management Framework

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The Landassess Tool is a risk assessment and management framework. It provides a clear and simple set of checklists that generate a report to help companies assess and manage how they respect land rights.