“Monitoring is a tool that must be yoked to a process of action and mobilization to be effective… The point is transformative change” -Malcolm Childress for the 33 Country Data Launch of Prindex on March 25th on the sidelines of the World Bank Conference for Land and Poverty. Visit prindex.net for the full reports and comparative data.

We are excited to share with you Global Land Alliance's 2018 Annual Report. Since beginning operations five years ago, Global Land Alliance has committed itself to promote sustainable prosperity for people and places. We are grateful for your continuing support and collaboration, and we look forward to our next five years in alliance with you to change the trends on global land issues for a sustainable, inclusive and prosperous future.

Policymakers in countries like Tanzania have been looking at Prindex data to inform their thinking on land tenure security for some time. Now, the United States has become the first country to officially adopt Prindex as a measure of its success in meeting a key land-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).

Happy International Women’s Day  Women’s access to land, safeguarding’ women’s roles & rights before, during, and after formalization, and empowering women to become local advocates for land rights is a critical intersection of Global Land Alliance’s engagements.

Fiers de soutenir ce forum sur la politique foncière au Sénégal aujourd’hui avec IPAR ThinkTank et ILC Afrique, où nous partageons les résultats du Prindex avec des responsables politiques et des journalistes.

As part of the Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) under USAID’s second Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights project (STARR 2), Global Land Alliance, led by Cynthia Berning, teamed with TetraTech to think through how to best measure the results of the capacity development activities that are part of the project

Today, Malcolm Childress is speaking at the University of Twente in the Netherlands on land governance challenges and opportunities related to climate, urbanization and social justice.

Colombia Rural, Global Land Alliance partner, under the leadership of Margarita Varón Perea, introduced policy to the Corte Constitucional in Colombia this past Friday (2/8/2019) during a Public Hearing on Land Regime and Land Reform. 

Save the date! If you’re going to be in Washington DC on 25 March for the World Bank’s Land and Poverty conference, join Prindex, Gallup, Omidyar Network and DFID for a reception to launch our second wave of data measuring perceptions of land rights & tenure security

Adam Benjamin presented a collaborative UAV exercise between the University of Florida’s Geomatics Program, Forest County Potawatomi Community’s Land and Natural Resources Division and Global Land Alliance at #ASPRS2019 this week.

Check out the Global Land Alliance January Parcel Post newsletter!

Last night Theresa Williamson and Catalytic Communities, partners of the Global Land Alliance and the GLA CLT Center, hosted a fundraiser entitled Defend Democracy In Brazil: Politics and Music at Busboys and Poets.

Global Land Alliance is supporting the Government of the Dominican Republic’s Agroforestry project, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. GLA is developing an audit procedure and rules for the monitoring and verification of land tenure clarification

Miss the Prindex Webinar? Here are some highlights:

Are you a policymaker, civil servant, advocate or researcher interested in land and from one of the first 15 countries in which we have collected data? Join us on Wednesday, November 28th

We are so busy in 2018 we almost forgot to send you our Annual Report for 2017, but there is a lot to share and we very pleased to share our 2017 Annual Report with you.

Have you registered for the Prindex Webinar, moderated by Global Land Alliance’s Director Malcolm Childress, cohosted by Land Portal yet?

Excited to announce that Global Land Alliance has moved to a new office, proudly co-locating with Cadasta Foundation! Come by and say hello! 

Global Land Alliance’s partner organization Catalytic Communities completed an exchange this past August with leaders of Puerto Rico’s Caño Martín Peña favela community to strengthen support and knowledge exchange for Communal Land Tenure.

“Researchers, policymakers, donors, and citizens the world over will have access to data that gives all of us a truly global picture of what we believe to be an urgent challenge of the 21st century: insecure land and property rights.”