Thinking and Working Politically on Land Tenure - Panfil et al. (2025)

This USAID funded research identifies how development practitioners have developed strategies and approaches for navigating local political, social, and institutional realities to make progress on land tenure. These strategies and approaches reflect much of what has been called “thinking and working politically,” or TWP.

This paper covers:

• the politics of land
• the tools and strategies for TWP in land reform programmes (design, implementation, adaptive management)
• case studies from Colombia and Madagascar and 

The paper was produced by the USAID’s Integrated Natural Resources Management, of which New America was one of the implementers.