COLARP

CONSORTIUM FOR LAND RESEARCH AND POLICY DIALOGUE

2011

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Mission

COLARP’s mission is to develop as an organization capable of helping the poor and the landless to improve their life situation by engaging in research and policy analysis. 

COLARP's goal is to bring research and policy actors and practitioners together to promote evidence-based policy debate that will help the poor, landless and near-landless people gain access to and control over productive resources, including land. The vision of COLARP is to see a society without poverty where every person enjoys a dignified life by furthering equitable access to and control over resources.

Objectives

COLARP’s objectives are to contribute to addressing land-related issues by systematically engaging the consortium in research, development and consultancy services; to promote informed policy debate on land issues; to help the government in the formulation and implementation of relevant policies and their effective implementation; and to develop COLARP as an independent ’think tank’ on land resources.

Constituencies

Its constituencies include the government, non-governmental organizations, international non-governmental organizations, policy makers, landless people, etc.