Key Operative Linkages
Insecure tenure is today widely considered an operative link between the most existential threats to humanity. These include, but are not limited to poverty, climate change, armed conflict, food and nutrition insecurity, and land degradation. To this end, the Durable Solutions Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Housing, Land and Property Rights has taken an area-based approach to pledge development and pledge mobilisation - acknowledging the complementary role of various pledging areas in creating sustainable pathways for safe and dignified returns, thus contributing to Objective 4 of the Global Compact on Refugees.
Climate Action
The impact of climate change across many countries and regions has significantly impacted people's ability to exercise their full range of rights over housing, land and property. In coastal zones for example, sea level rise has resulted in the loss of land, other property and livelihoods.
Peace-Building
Where statutory, customary and religious legal systems overlap, one system may have advantages or disadvantages over the others. For example, statutory mechanisms could use processes that seem lengthy and costly to the claimants, but their outcomes are legally binding.
Urbanization
HLP conflicts and disputes are often exacerbated by large-scale population displacement whether to camps or urban settings, which can put pressure on scarce local resources, and in turn, generate tensions between communities.
Food Security
In 2012, the Committee on World Food Security endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, which have acquired a high degree of legitimacy owing to, inter alia, the inclusive nature of that Committee.
Gender
Women are among those most disproportionately affected by insecure tenure, particularly where customary land tenure arrangements (amidst their inherent weaknesses) are further disrupted by armed conflict, natural disasters, and the effects of climate change
