Exposing the global land and housing crisis
Our research finds that almost 1 billion people fear eviction worldwide. This hidden land and housing crisis is holding back development and women’s empowerment and driving conflict and climate change.
For most of us, land is more than a commodity; it is tied to our cultural heritage and identity. Our homes offer more than just shelter, they’re key to our sense of dignity and wellbeing.
Strengthening land and housing rights can safeguard the vulnerable and help us build a fairer, greener more prosperous world. To do this, we need better data to understand who is at risk of losing their rights and how we can defend them.
Our groundbreaking global survey helps meet this need for data by listening to all people – including often excluded groups. For the first time, we have a global measure of land rights and a clearer understanding of the scale of the problem.
In addition to our global data, we conduct in-depth studies within a country to better understand what’s happening in a specific location or to specific communities. Our analysis also seeks to expose how land rights impact other areas of development, including violent conflict, climate change and gender equality.
What we do

Evidence & analysis
- providing fully comparable open-source data on perceptions of tenure security at the global and local level
- conducting policy-relevant research and offering monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) services

Global outreach
- communicating our findings, influencing policy, and raising awareness of the urgent need for action
- building regional networks in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, MENA and sub-Saharan Africa

Collaboration & partnerships
- working with partners like the International Land Coalition and Land Portal to highlight the importance of tenure security
- sharing our data with likeminded organisations to promote change, such as the global land governance index LANDex
Prindex is a joint ODI and Global Land Alliance initiative funded by Omidyar Network and the FCDO.
Partner with us
The Prindex global dataset is open source and available for individuals and organisations to use in their own research and advocacy work. We also partner with likeminded organisations at the national level to conduct in-depth studies to meet local demand for data.
We believe more and better data will strengthen the case for action and inform smarter policymaking. We therefore constantly seek new partnerships to scale up the availability and quality of land rights data. If you have an idea for a Prindex study where you are, get in touch and let us know how we can help.
Latest stories and news
View moreBlogs
Prindex at the 2022 Global Land Forum
Blogs
Indigenous peoples and local communities can save our forests: but governments must put them on the map
Protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities can save our forests. This blog for International Day of Forests sets out how to combine knowledge and data to achieve progress at scale.
Blogs
Land rights can break the gender bias in climate action for the good of the planet
Joseph Feyertag reflects on the latest IPCC climate impact report, arguing that climate action could set back gender equality - while stronger land rights could ensure the opposite happens