Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development

Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) is a £38mn DFID global programme running from May 2015 to March 2021. LEGEND was designed to mobilise knowledge and capacity for design and delivery of new land-related programmes, improve land governance as an essential and inclusive basis for economic development, and strengthen land and property rights at scale. LEGEND aims to improve the quality and impact of land investments so they contribute sustainably to growth while safeguarding rights and opportunities for poor people, rural and urban, and especially women. It has done this through: building policy coherence globally using internationally agreed principles and guidelines, such as the VGGT and CFS RAI principles; promoting application of emerging good practice emerging across countries; and stimulating the development of innovative tools and partnerships involving civil society, private sector and governments at global, country and local levels.

Activity period	2015–2020
Last CoAct update	2025
Web URL	https://landportal.org/organization/legend
Output effectiveness	0.69
Accountability Index	0.39
Inclusiveness Index	0.30
Capacity Index	0.63
Num. actors	25
Functions	Knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Institutional capacity building, Standards and norms, Lobbying, Funding, Policy planning
SDGs
Themes	land use
Policy focus	Equal focus
Sectors	Information and communication, Real estate activities
Implementation countries	Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Palestine, State of, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, the United Republic of, Zambia