Building Land Governance Resilience with Open and Transparent Land-data Systems

Organiser(s): The Land Portal Foundation.
Session format: Roundtable.

The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated land governance challenges, including addressing failures in land governance systems, a lack of transparency, systemic corruption, and lack of accessibility to data. It undermines development progress on global food security and has driven people into poverty, while governments take license to develop indigenous and community lands and thus fuel the climate crisis.

The Land Portal Foundation & Open data Charter have joined efforts to create an Open Up Guide on Land Governance that outlines key land governance data types, how they should be collected, stored, published for improving land governance and transparency. This session showcases evidence of how open land governance systems can be used as a tool to untangle and ameliorate the damage caused by the lack of transparency and corruption & demonstrate how open land governance systems can serve as a tool to fight poverty and increase food security.

02-07-2021 15:00 - 16:15