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TENURE SECURITY LEARNING INITIATIVE FOR EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA(TSLI-ESA)

Achievements, Lessons Learned and Way Forward

By:

Samuel Mabikke, Clarissa Augustinus, Danilo Antonio, Harold Liversage, Steven Jonckheere

GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME

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• Land Tenure security is a central yet often a neglected area for economic development and poverty reduction in the developing world.

• Access to Land is becoming more tenuous than ever for many of the poor in developing countries

• Women are particularly vulnerable

• About 70% of people in developing countries are outside the register (Zevenbergen)

• 2-3% owned by women (RDI)

SOME CHALLENGES IN LAND


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• Land documents deliver security of tenure• Done better if documents are digital and not paper

Disorganized Paper System Organized Paper System


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• GLTN idea conceived in early 2004• Sida funded design and project proposal development• 2 Workshops held (Partners’ Meeting) to get buy-in from partners

and consolidate agenda • Identification of partners and programme development• 2006 officially launched at WUF III, Vancouver, Canada• 2006/7 first funding for activities/projects (Norway/ Sida)• 2008-2011 4-year programme approved, basket funding

(Sida /Norway)• 2011-2013 TSLI- ESA Phase 1 (IFAD)• 2013-2016 TSLI-ESA Phase 2• Going to scale

BRIEF HISTORY OF GLTN


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OVER 62 PARTNERS

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CONTINUUM/RANGE OF LAND RIGHTS


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IFAD AND GLTN LEARNING INITIATIVE

In 2011, IFAD and UN-Habitat, through the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) entered into a partnership to implement a project called the 'Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security Learning Initiative for East and Southern Africa (TSLI-ESA)'.

Objective of TSLI-ESA project

The main objective of the TSLI-ESA project is to identify common issues and to enhance lesson sharing and knowledge management on land-related tools and approaches amongst the various projects, country stakeholders and partners in selected ESA countries


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1. MAPPING: Using technically advanced geographic information technologies, such as remote sensing technology (i.e. satellite imagery), Global Navigational Satellite Systems (i.e. GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping land and natural resource rights, use and management.

2. LAND & WATER RIGHTS: Recognizing and documenting small-scale farmers’ land and water rights particularly in irrigation schemes.

3. GROUP RIGHTS: Recognizing and documenting group rights, focusing on range/grazing lands, forests and artisanal fishing communities.

4. WOMEN’S ACCESS: Strengthening women’s access to land.

5. INCLUSIVE BUSINESS: Documenting best practices in securing land and natural resource rights through business partnerships between small-scale farmers and outside investors.

TSLI-ESA THEMATIC AREAS


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WHY MAPPING THEME


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• Maps are an effective medium for use by a large variety of development projects.

• They can help to visualize the spatial distribution of complex problems, to understand their inter-relationships and to promote awareness.

• Mapping tenure relations not only provides spatial information about the land tenure, use and mgt but also the socio-political relationships underlying this environment


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WHY LAND AND WATER RIGHTS


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• Irrigation schemes raise specific issues in relation to both Land and Water Rights.

• With land tenure, irrigation schemes raise three broad groups of issues. The first is with the very creation of the scheme – which

may entail the expropriation of existing land rights and the reallocation of land-cum- water rights to new users?

The second group relates to the land tenure security enjoyed by farmers on irrigated plots (nature and duration of use rights, etc.).

The third group relates to land transactions fostered by the increased land values that irrigation brings about.


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WHY GROUP RIGHTS THEME


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• Recognizing customary an/or collective rights to natural forests and other land-based resources can improve access and secure livelihoods for the poor.

• Local communities can manage forests in a sustainable way if they have secure land rights.

• However, dealing with “communal land” areas is a complex issue

• Rural people generally need both secure individual rights to farm plots and secure collective rights to common pool resources upon which whole villages depend.


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WHY WOMEN ACCESS THEME


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•Women, in particular widows and women-headed households, tend to be denied or are assigned weaker land rights and as a result are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society.

•Strengthening their rights to land contributes not only to gender equality but also to poverty reduction, since women are responsible for household subsistence production and welfare.

•Women are particularly vulnerable because their land rights may be acquired through kinship relationships with men or through marriage


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WHY INCLUSIVE BUSINESS THEME


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• The current controversy about large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors has put land rights issues and responsible agricultural investment back on the global development agenda more visibly.

• The controversy has opened up important international space for discussion on how to improve land administration systems and investment in agriculture, so that the land rights and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and other vulnerable groups are strengthened.


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Thematic Area Projects /Countries

1. Mapping

• Mount Kenya East Pilot Project (MKEP) in Kenya

• Kirehe Watershed Management Project (Rwanda)

• Restructuring and decentralization of the land administration system Project ( Madagascar)

• Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation Project (Swaziland)

2. Land & Water Rights

• Irrigation, Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development Project (Malawi)

• Participatory Small-Scale Irrigation Development Project (Ethiopia)

• Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Programme in Lesotho

IFAD SUPPORTED PROJECTS


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Thematic Area Projects /Countries

3. Group Rights• Gash Barka Livestock and Agricultural Development Project

(Eritrea)

• Mount Kenya East Pilot Project (MKEP) in Kenya

• Artisanal Fisheries Promotion Project (Mozambique)

• Fisheries Development Project (Eritrea )

4. Women’s Access• Transitional Programme of Post-Conflict Reconstruction

(Burundi)

• Southern Nyanza Community Development Project (Kenya)

• Community-Based Integrated Natural Resources Management project (Ethiopia)

5. Inclusive Business• Agricultural Services Support Programme (Botswana)

• Smallholder Agricultural Development Project (Lesotho)

• The Vegetable Oil Development Project (Uganda)

• Pro-poor Value Chain Development in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridors (PROSUL) in Mozambique


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ACHIEVEMENTS OF TSLI-ESA PROJECT - PHASE 1

TSLI-ESA Phase 1 has managed a number of achievements.

1.Documenting and sharing innovative approaches for strengthening security of land and natural resource tenure of the poor

2.Providing and disseminating recommendations and guidelines for integrating approaches for securing land and natural resource rights into development programmes,

3.Providing opportunities and modalities for scaling up lesson learning and for piloting new approaches in Phase 2 of the TSLI-ESA Project.


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Phase 1 of TSLI-ESA Project has generated a number of Knowledge Management materials including:

•Country Reports: providing country-specific reviews of how recent or on-going IFAD-supported projects and programmes are dealing with land and natural resource issues. The country reports cover Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Swaziland and Mozambique

•Thematic Factsheets: providing a brief overview of relevant land and natural resource tenure issues and describing each project in respect to their relevance and involvement in the various thematic areas.

•Learning Notes: providing some summarized information about concepts, approaches, issues, challenges and emerging good practices and opportunities in relation to strengthening land and natural resource rights


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PHASE 2 OF TSLI-ESA PROJECT •Phase 2 of TSLI-ESA project started in October 2013 and

builds on the learning and experiences of the initial phase.

•The goal of the Phase 2 project is to contribute to the development and integration of pro-poor tools and approaches for securing land and natural resource rights into development programmes in selected countries in ESA.

•Phase 2 has 3 main objectives;

1.Improve knowledge and awareness on issues and measures for strengthening land and natural resource tenure security of poor women and men.

2.Strengthen the capacity for tool development and implementation including for in-country policy dialogue, country strategy development and project/programme design, implementation and evaluation.

3.Strengthen and scale up approaches and tools for securing land and natural resource tenure.

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GLTN SecretariatUN-Habitat, P.O Box 30030, Nairobi 00100, Kenya

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www.gltn.netand

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