An Update from LEI
As the year draws to a close, the LEI team look back with appreciation for the loyalty of all our project teams and consultants and the support of clients and implementing partners. We look forward to a new year of more great work together in 2024.
Project Update – Insights from the Ground Up: Gender Equality and Responsible Agriculture Investment in Cambodia’s Rubber Sector
The purpose of the 2018 ASEAN Guidelines for Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry is “to promote investment in food, agriculture and forestry in the ASEAN region that contributes to regional economic development, food and nutrition security, food safety and equitable benefits, as well as the sustainable use of natural resources”. Guideline 3 states that ASEAN RAI Guidelines want to “contribute to equality, engagement and empowerment for women, young people, indigenous peoples and marginalized groups by…Supporting equitable access to opportunities and protecting human rights.”
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.
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.
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.
Happy International Women’s Day 2023 from LEI
This is a good day to remember that women’s land rights are human rights. Women’s land rights are not about women ‘taking land’ from men.
