Featured Project – Spatial planning to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions in Indonesia
Indonesia has a special place in LEI’s company heart, with a nearly 30-year history of partnership between LEI and the Government of Indonesia. The recently closed Papua Spatial Planning (PSP) project has been a particular highlight, undertaken in partnership with Daemeter Consulting and the governments of UK and Indonesia.
Our Land Thoughts – The ‘DOS’ and ‘DON’TS’ of the land acquisition processes: navigating a just path to sustainable investments
To explore deeper the challenges of land acquisition and extract good practices, LEI’s Senior Land and Law specialist, Renée Chartres, reached out to Racheal Kisiangani, a land acquisition practitioner, to share her years of experience working for private sector utility and infrastructure companies across seven sub-Saharan countries.
Signing of MOA between LEI and DIC, IPD, MPI for the Transformative Land Investment Project
Land Equity International (LEI) are pleased to announce the formal signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Department of International Cooperation (DIC) and the Investment Promotion Department (IPD) of the Ministry of Planning and Investment to implement the Transformative Land Investment (TLI) project in Lao PDR, Tuesday 3rd October, 2023.
An Update from LEI
Happy mid-year (already!) to our friends and colleagues. We step into the second half of the year after our 3-day planning sessions in Warrane on Eora Nation land, now known as Sydney – 3 days of intensive discussions and planning, sustained by and bonding over good food and harbour views.
Featured Project – How to design projects that establish or reform land transaction systems?
LEI works extensively with development partners and governments to design, implement, assess and monitor a host of land-related projects – including land records and transaction systems projects.
For this latter type of projects, there are often two somewhat conflicting questions in our minds:
One, how to best design a land records and transaction system reform project?
And two, what level of technology is the right level of technology for this project?
Project Update – Spatial decision-making to underpin energy transformation in Bangladesh
LEI staff, together with partners UNSW and ENRAC, recently presented to the Bangladesh State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources the work conducted under the World Bank project, Systematic Identification and Access to Land for Renewable Energy in Bangladesh.
Our Land Thoughts: Does joint titling advance gender equality?
Recently at LEI we’ve been having some discussions on this very topic. Some of us thought the evidence was clear cut – of course joint titling is an essential step to achieving gender equality! Others thought that examples on the ground would show a more nuanced – and perhaps negative – perspective. We put intern Madison Durham to the task, drawing on the experiences from LEI’s Mekong Region Land Governance project.
Intern Blog #3: Reflections
I completed the last week of my internship with LEI last week, and it feels as though the three months with them have flown by. Over the course of my internship I have been pushed to gain exposure to many of the different facets of the land tenure and administration process and have come to realise just how inextricable the link between land administration and international development is.
MCC Webinar: New Tools for Land Records and Transaction System Assessment and Design
Join LEI and ESRI as we co-host along with the MCC for the Webinar: New Tools for Land Records and Transaction System Assessment and Design being held on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 8:00 am to 9:30 am EDT (10:00pm to 11:30pm AEST).
Intern Blog #2: Learning the Ropes
It has now been just under two months since I commenced my internship with LEI and I am pleased to say that I am starting to understand the wonderful world of land tenure a lot more. Not only do I understand a handful of acronyms that were once completely foreign to me, but I have been given some fantastic opportunities to work on projects across more of LEI’s portfolio, meaning I am always gaining new exposure to land administration issues and processes.
