Combining geospatial and information technology and participatory methods for securing tenure rights (GeoTech4Tenure).

This 4-week programme delivered online through two high-impact 2-hour learning sessions held every week provided invaluable insights to project staff and government partners to find solutions to secure tenure rights through participatory methods and geomatics technology.

This course is intended for development partners and organizations interested or involved in FAO and IFAD operations. It was designed with IFAD and FAO country teams and technical specialists in mind, along with staff from IFAD-supported projects whose work involves land tenure.

Four sessions of the course have taken place in both English and Spanish. In the near future it will be offered in French as well.

Participants will learn:

• The core concepts of tenure, tenure security and tenure governance.
• The challenges and opportunities surrounding tenure issues for development investments ¥ Methods for participatory land recordation and mapping.
• The use of different geospatial and information technologies for land recordation.
• The criteria for selecting the most appropriate technologies for a given situation.

The course contains the following components:

• An e-learning and GT4T Technical Guide delivered by leading land experts.
• Peer-to-peer learning opportunities with colleagues from all over the world.

GeoTech4Tenure has a robust network of experienced professionals able to provide a broad range of technical support activities to assist any land tenure initiatives involving national government agencies, as well as project-specific development interventions. This can entail providing policy support, guidance, strategic support to planning and operationalizing land tenure components within various development interventions, as well as supervising implementation and evaluating impacts. GeoTech4Tenure can also design and deliver training and capacity programmes localized to suit unique contexts and needs of the planned training courses, and implementation of pilots and land tenure components within various development interventions.