| dc.description.abstract | The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance
of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context
of National Food Security (VGGT) are a globally agreed
standard. Achieving this normative consensus in an
inclusive and participatory process in the Committee on
World Food Security (CFS) was an enormous achievement
and one to which the UK is proud to have contributed.
The UK is committed to promoting the VGGT and
to supporting initiatives to strengthen implementation
and monitoring, as part of its commitment to addressing
poverty and food security globally, and to improving
accountable and transparent governance of natural
resources. Much more remains to be done for the principles
of the VGGT to be realised in practice, and to translate
into better, more land secure rights for women, indigenous
people and others whose rights are marginalized, and into
transparent and democratic land governance.
In pursuit of this commitment, the UK has created the
Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development
(LEGEND) programme to provide a unique contribution
towards improved knowledge and practice as a global
public good. LEGEND aims to mobilise knowledge
and capacity for design and delivery of new country
programmes, improve land governance as an essential and
inclusive basis for economic development, and strengthen
land and property rights at scale. Through building policy
coherence globally and stimulating innovation across
civil society, private sector and sector at country and local
levels, LEGEND aims to improve the quality and impact of
land investments of all kinds so they contribute sustainably
to growth while safeguarding rights and opportunities for
poor people — rural and urban — especially women. | en_US |
