Securing land, unlocking opportunity
The new five-year roadmap (2026–2030) builds on results already reaching thousands of farmers, women and Indigenous communities across five countries.
For rural families, secure land rights can mean the difference between investing in opportunity and living with uncertainty. To help address this challenge, IFAD and the International Land Coalition (ILC) have renewed their long-standing partnership through a new Strategic Partnership Roadmap to 2030.
IFAD isn't just a partner to ILC, it's also a founding member and its host. Together, they have delivered tangible results across countries.
In Madagascar, partners established local land mediation committees and inventoried more than 1,600 hectares of land to support negotiated allocation and reduce the risk of conflict. In Cameroon, they mapped land tenure status across 125 hectares and eight project sites to identify disputes before they escalated.
In Kyrgyzstan, a USD 2.5 million grant helped 7,500 farmers, many of them women, adopt climate-resilient organic agriculture. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, they integrated a free, prior and informed consent process with Indigenous communities into a major rural investment project.
As climate pressures mount and rural investment grows more urgent, secure land tenure is increasingly recognised as the foundation for food security, resilience and stability. The new roadmap responds directly: embedding land governance into IFAD-supported investments, strengthen collaboration with national partners, and scale approaches that benefit women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and pastoralist communities.
Over the next five years, IFAD and ILC are targeting at least 12 countries and projects, improving access to land and natural resources for rural people.
Backed by ILC's network of more than 320 organizations across 86 countries, the partnership combines global reach with local expertise and trusted community relationships.
The shared objective is clear: empowering rural people with secure land rights so they can build more resilient and prosperous futures.
