Global Land Alliance Awarded € 2.1 Million Grant to Advance Prindex

Global Land Alliance has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to receive a €2.1 million grant to further develop Prindex further. It is part of an overall effort by the EC to strengthen land governance with the International Land Coalition (ILC), and underscores the importance of data on perceptions of land and property rights. This grant will allow a second round of the global study which asks people how likely they think it is that they will lose their land or property against their will in the next five years.

"The EC has shown its leadership on global land governance through its support to Prindex, ILC, Land Portal and the Land Matrix. We look forward to a close partnership to drive land governance up the agenda and strengthen people's land and property rights across the world." said Anna Locke, co-Director of Prindex.

The new funding underscores the importance of perceptions to land and property rights. Perceptions provide a strong indication of how people are likely to behave in the future: if people and communities trust that they can stay on their land, they are more likely to invest in their homes, farms and local communities. 

"The EC's €2.1 million grant to Prindex demonstrates that assessing perceptions of tenure security has an important role in measuring progress on the Global Land Agenda." said Malcolm Childress, co-Director of Prindex.

Prindex has already collected important findings which advance learning and practice: 1 billion people worldwide fear losing their homes in the next 5 years. With the new grant from the EC, Prindex will be able to compare data from two periods - before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. "We are delighted to be working on the next round of global data collection on citizens' perceptions of their tenure security," added Anna Locke. "Having data from two different years across the globe will be another first for Prindex and the land community."

Prindex: Prindex collects data on how people worldwide view the security of their right to retain use of their homes and other property, in order to encourage and empower governments, business, and civil society working to build a world where tenure rights are securely protected.

Global Land Alliance is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington D.C. which seeks to to enable the sustainable prosperity of people and places by advancing learning and practice of land governance to achieve healthy relationships with land, life and natural resources, emphasizing local and Indigenous knowledge. We understand that communities know their land most intimately, and that rights-based approaches that center local empowerment, inclusion, participation and consent are key to improve land governance agendas.