Our Mission:
Sustainable Prosperity for People and Places
The mission of Global Land Alliance is 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.
Measuring global perceptions of land and property rights
Explore the latest Prindex 2024 data from 108 countries to understand global trends in land and housing security. Prindex is an initiative of Global Land Alliance
Latest News
Invisible and Excluded: Risks to Informal Spouses from Land Tenure Formalization and Titling Campaigns
Marriage informality is a widespread phenomenon, and emerging evidence points to the risk that land rights formalization efforts may systematically exclude rural women who live with partners in informal marriages. Formalization programs that fail to recognize and include these “invisible” wives risk leaving them worse off than they were before, by permanently assigning rights to the land on which they live and work solely to male partners.
Global Land Alliance is raising awareness among national governments, multilateral and bilateral development agencies, civil society and researchers about the risks to rural women’s land rights related to marriage informality in the context of land tenure formalization campaigns.
Email us to learn how to donate to Global Land Alliance for the data collection, research, and raising awareness of this topic. Global Land Alliance is a 501c3 charitable organization. If you have questions about this or other research projects, email here.
Our Programs
Prindex, a joint initiative of the Global Land Alliance and Overseas Development Institute, is the first truly global, comparable measure of ‘perception of land tenure security’. We survey perceptions of a representative sample of citizens, not only heads of household. Prindex has collected data from over 140 countries. United States Government has accepted Prindex as the data source for reporting on SDG 1.4.2. Learn more at prindex.net
Global Land Alliance’s Land Administration Program builds upon this extensive and long-term global experience to provide, through our staff, associated consultants and Global Alliance partners, widely considered global practice leaders, innovative and progressive technical assistance and advisory services in the conceptualization, design, technical and operational oversight of land administration and land tenure projects.
Community -Based Resource Management supports communities and individuals in identifying and managing natural resources to ensure long-term sustainability and self determination, especially of forest ecosystems. Global Land Alliance works on studies to advance collective land tenure security, rights and recognition. Securing forest and community tenure and tenure of fragile ecosystems lays the foundation for effective programs across sectors.
The Program on Community Land Access & Security seeks to address domestic and global threats to social equality that structurally targets access of land of low income and vulnerable communities. This program builds upon localized development of community-centered land strategies to foster new ways of addressing: eviction, land grabbing, urbanization, restorative justice, and policies targeting displaced- marginalized and discriminated groups.
“The Global Land Alliance is doing a remarkable job at collaborating with researchers and governments in developing countries in defining objectives, generating global data and disseminating key information on land tenure internationally.”
Dr. John Bruce/ Read Full Article
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Since our founding in 2014, Global Land Alliance has recognized that well-defined and well-managed land and resource rights are fundamental to the prosperity of people and places, with a focus supporting a broad range of poverty reduction and sustainability goals. Join our alliance to help reach that vision.
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Rights to adequate housing and the peaceful enjoyment of private property are fundamental human rights, but the accessibility and security of these rights are far from equitable or sustainable at the global level. Understanding and delineating this has until now been difficult. But data from Prindex have provided the first global, comprehensive assessment about tenure forms (e.g. ownership, rental, use rights) and the perceptions of insecurity associated with them across countries and population groups.