Land Tenure and Property Rights: Issues and Best Practices
About the Course
Rights to land and resources are at the center of our most pressing development issues: poverty reduction, food security, conflict, urbanization, gender equality, climate change, and resilience. Secure Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) create incentives for investment, broad-based economic growth, and good stewardship of natural resources. Insecure property rights and weak land governance systems often provoke conflict and instability, which can trap communities, countries, and entire regions in a cycle of poverty.
Through 14 modules and 3 country case studies, this course examines the issues, theories, evidence, and best practices around land tenure, property rights, and effective international development programming. This course features lectures and case studies from a wide variety of experts in the field from leading academics to seasoned development practitioners.
Course Format and Syllabus
Each module features video lectures from a subject matter expert on that topic. These lectures are broken in several short videos. Each module also contains suggested readings, which should be completed before you watch the video lectures. Each module also has an interactive discussion forum. You are encouraged to use the forum to ask questions and share your thoughts and experiences with other participants. You will have one week to complete each module. New modules will become available each week according to the schedule in the syllabus below. You must progress through the modules in order.
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Get Started
- To begin the course, start with Module 1: Introduction to Land Tenure and Property Rights.
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