Global status on land tenure security data collection, analysis and on comparable indicators in the SDGs

Land is of cross cutting significance for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Under SDG Goal 1, Ending Poverty, SDG Target 1.4, articulates a high priority global objective: "By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance." For better understanding of countries’ existing readiness to report against Indicator 1.4.2, UN-Habitat in collaboration with the Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) commissioned a rapid multi-country assessment of the existing status of data availability, data quality and data related institutional capacities at country level amongst National Statistical Organisations (NSOs) to collect, analyse the relevant data, on documentation and perceptions of security of land and property rights in both urban and rural areas. The paper presents findings of the multi-country assessment