What Makes Impact Last: Cadasta at the Skoll World Forum

By Cadasta Staff This month, Skoll World Forum returns to Oxford at a time when the social impact sector is under real pressure to evolve. Across the sector, long-standing assumptions about funding, scale, and sustainability are being tested. Aid is tightening, expectations for accountability are rising, and many of the systems meant to support impact…

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Webinar: Geospatial Tools, Stronger Land Rights: Insights from Cadasta and Esri, Inc.

By Cadasta Staff Around the world, millions of people live and work on land that is not formally documented in systems that governments can easily recognize or use. Community knowledge about land and resource boundaries often exists only in paper maps, hand-drawn sketches, ancestral lore, PDFs, or disconnected spreadsheets, making it difficult to validate claims,…

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Investing in Malawi’s Future: Sustainable Financing Recommendations for Land Services

In recent years, the Malawi Ministry of Lands has been making big strides in improving land governance. Improvements include passing the 2016 Customary Land Act, passing the 2022 Land Act Amendments, and receiving approval from the Office of the President's Cabinet of the decentralization of land services functional plan. All of these developments help contribute…

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Aligning Policy and Practice in Kenya’s Community Land Governance

By Wambayi Wabwire The Kenya Community Land Act of 2016 (CLA) charted a clear path forward for documenting and recognizing community land rights. A decade later, Kenya is entering a critical phase in implementing the CLA. Recognizing this pivotal moment, the Kenya Land Alliance and Landesa convened a Multi-stakeholder Platform - the Ardhi Caucus, which…

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Op-Ed: Land Rights: The Missing Pillar for Climate Resilience at COP30

COP30 has come to a close, leaving behind a landscape that is both promising and unfinished. While land and resource rights did not dominate every negotiation or headline, the summit did deliver meaningful steps forward with the launch of the Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment (ILTC) and the renewed Forest & Land Tenure Pledge - both…

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