Resource Center
The Resource Center provides Businesses and Service Providers with access to a curated selection of standards and principles, tools and guidance, studies and reports, and country-specific resources in local languages, such as a set of training resources in Swahili focused on Tanzania. These are available at the Guidance and Support link below.
The Resource Center also connects you to the powerful RLBI Navigator tool. The Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator, developed by IIED and Land Portal, aims to help private sector stakeholders identify and access the practical tools and guides that are most relevant to their work. It offers a wide selection of resources on a variety of topics for operating companies, lenders and investors, buyers, service providers and legal advisors. To access the Navigator, follow the link below.
Guidance and Support
This section links you to useful guidance for land investment processes, bundled into easy-to-understand resource packages.
Standards & Principles: leading international standards and benchmarks for responsible investment and business practice
Tools & Guidance: valuable tools to monitor and assess processes and risks associated with land-based investment
Studies & Reports: leading analyses of how land rights and land tenure affect land-based investments
Swahili Training Materials: provides a series of guidance briefs and training modules focused on land rights, in Swahili.
Landscope
Landscope is a system for measuring the financial risk associated with local opposition to a real asset.
The Responsible Investments in Property and Land Resource Platform
The RIPL Resource Platform offers practical guidance for companies, governments and communities…
LandAssess Tool
Landesa’s LandAssess Tool provides checklists that help companies comply with international standards and best practices.
Mpango wa Matumizi ya Ardhi Kijijini
A detailed training manual on the process of conducting village land use planning in Tanzania.
Tenure Risk Tool
The Tenure Risk Tool helps investors avoid harmful investments by accounting for the possible impacts of tenure disputes.
IFC Performance Standards
The IFC Performance Standards are the international benchmark for identifying and managing environmental and social risk.
Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems
These CFS Principles provide guidelines for investment in agriculture and food systems that is based on human rights.
Haki za Mwanamke Katika Sheria za Ardhi
A training manual that covers various provisions from land laws that safeguards women’s land rights in Tanzania.
Assessing the costs of tenure risks to agribusinesses
This report shows that tenure disputes can create substantial financial losses.
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
The VGGTs provide guidance and information on practices for systems to improve governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests.