Event Type: Training

Property Rights and Resource Governance Issues and Best Practices

Training
Start Date: October 17, 2011
End Date: October 19, 2011
Location:

Arlington, Virginia, USA

This short course provided USG foreign assistance practitioners training that strengthens their knowledge and skills in addressing land tenure and property rights (LTPR) challenges in their portfolios. Course objectives:

  1. Exchange experiences and strengthen understanding of LTPR issues, best practices internationally and their application to USAID programming;
  2. Introduce LTPR concepts and approaches aimed at improving programmatic interventions in economic growth, food security, governance, natural resource management, conflict mitigation and climate change; and
  3. Teach USG foreign assistance practitioners tools to address land tenure and property rights issues, or use land tenure and property rights interventions to strengthen economic development, governance, conflict mitigation and natural resource management objectives.

Training materials are linked below.

Best Practices for Land Tenure and Natural Resource Governance in Latin America

Training
Start Date: June 12, 2011
End Date: July 17, 2011
Location:

Quito, Ecuador

Best Practices for Land Tenure and Natural Resource Governance in Latin America, June 12-17, 2011 (Quito, Ecuador). This course provided participants with the opportunity to:

  1. Exchange experiences, deepen discussion and strengthen understanding of land tenure and property rights issues, and their application to government and USAID programming;
  2. Learn land tenure and property rights approaches, best practices and tools aimed at improving programmatic interventions on critical issues in the region related to natural resources, agriculture and economic growth, and governance and conflict; and
  3. Develop a country action plan that can be used to guide government and donor investments.

Training materials are linked below.

Treasure, Turf, and Turmoil: The Dirty Dynamics of Land and Natural Resources Conflict

Training
Start Date: June 13, 2011
End Date: June 15, 2011
Location:

Accra, Ghana

Treasure, Turf, and Turmoil: The Dirty Dynamics of Land and Natural Resources Conflict short course, June 13-15, 2011 (Accra, Ghana). Course objectives:

  1. Identify critical connections among NRM/Biodiversity, LTPR and conflict. 2. Use key USAID tools and resources for integrated programming in complex scenarios. 3. Apply concepts to design and manage integrated strategies and programs.

Training materials are linked below.