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Palestinian Territories: Supporting land right during conflict

The West Bank faces significant political and administrative complexities. Overlapping governance frameworks between Israeli and Palestinian authorities complicate land ownership, planning, and resource management. This leads to uncertain land and water rights for Palestinians, undermining the livelihoods of local communities.
To address these challenges the Dutch Shiraka programme supports a project implemented by Kadaster International. The project helps strengthen land governance and enhances tenure security for land and water resources in the West Bank.

Land administration has become extremely hard in the Palestine Territories, due to all kinds of legal and illegal security constraints. Our project is trying to support the Palestinian government in further digitizing the property registration and mapping of the ownership rights of Palestinians.

Luc Groot - International Portfolio Manager

Strengthening governance through collaboration

The Netherlands has extensive experience in water and land governance. Through the project “Strengthening governance and public service delivery in land and water resources tenure security” we contribute our expertise in land administration, data management, surveying, mapping and integrated land-water governance.

With the support of the Netherlands, through Kadaster, we continue to implement land settlement initiatives despite ongoing settlement challenges, with the aim of safeguarding our people’s ownership rights and protecting their land.

His Excellency Mr. Alaa Altamimi - Minister of the Palestinian Land Authority

More about this project

  • Strengthen land tenure security for Palestinian farmers, citizens and vulnerable groups, in particular women and youth.
  • Improve the water and land governance system through technical support.
  • Strengthen the technical capacity of Palestinian institutions managing land registration and mapping.
  • Improve cooperation and information sharing between Palestinian institutions.
  • Support sustainable development by improving public service delivery and institutional capacity.
  • Enhanced institutional capacity for land and water governance.
  • Greater gender inclusion and improved recognition of women’s land rights.
  • Sustainable institutional development supported by Dutch technical expertise and cooperation.

This project works closely with:

  • The Land Research Center
  • The Palestinian Land Authority
  • The Ministry of Agriculture

Special attention is given to vulnerable groups, especially women and young people. Working together ensures that solutions are sustainable, technically sound, and aligned with international best practices.

June 2025 – December 2026

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