Current Recognition of the multi-disciplinary and cross-cutting nature of land issues has led a number of countries actively to debate this topic and in many cases to initiate pilots or pass innovative pieces of legislation. However, PRSP's and equivalent strategy documents, especially in Africa and South Asia, hardly mention land issues, implying a serious risk that the opportunity may be missed and little progress be made in terms of either implementing highly appropriate legislation or in carefully evaluating and drawing appropriate lessons from pilots. To encourage dialogue and sharing of good practice by policy makers and opinion formers in developing countries on the role of agriculture in broad-based growth. To bridge the gap between global research and policy design at the national level, the project will provide evidence to demonstrate the importance of secure land tenure and effective land institutions at the country level, help to identify policy and institutional options to improve tenure security and land access for the poor, and integrate these into country strategies/PRSP's. This will be complemented by a benchmarking of countries' performance against others, which, over time, may help in overcoming resistance to reform by vested interests.To translate policy into practice, the project will monitor and evaluate innovative tools for pro-poor land administration in order to allow policy-makers to select the most appropriate approaches for their specific conditions and identify associated institutional and resource requirements as well as critical risks, thereby making it easier for countries (and donors) to respond quickly to specific problems or opportunities.