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Bottom-up Engagement in Policy-Making Affecting Rural Areas: The State of Rural Civil Society

by Rebecca Pointer — last modified 2012-02-22 11:19
What Workshop
When 2012-03-12 08:30 to
2012-03-13 17:00
Where Monkey Valley, Noordhoek
Contact Name Tersia Warries
Contact Email
Contact Phone 021 959 3733
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PLAAS is pleased to invite key rural organisations to a workshop to discuss how to facilitate, encourage and leverage meaningful, vibrant public debate with active engagement from civil society on rural development and economic transformation, including agricultural development, land reform and land rights in South Africa.  This civil society workshop is for practitioners, activists and scholars and will take place in March 2012 at Monkey Valley, in Noordhoek.


Workshop Focus

  • PLAAS will present their State of rural civil society report,
  • Identify a common agenda which clarifies the key issues facing the rural poor,
  • Mapping the policy terrain, how rural civil society responds, use and advocates for policy changes, discuss possible learning partnership,
  • Explore common spaces for policy engagement from below,
  • The workshop will help us to start a conversation about partnerships (including limitations i.e. budgets), 
  • Explore networking capabilities (either through existing or new networks).
PLAAS is offering an inclusive common participatory space where researchers and civil society organisations can engage in sharing of knowledge and strengths and explore opportunities for collaborations and discuss expectations and realistic and concrete aims. We encourage rural organisations and participants to forward key aspects they would like to be considered for the agenda that will contribute to the proposed focus of the workshop and help us to develop the workshop elements and process guidelines. We would like you to consider this common space as a potential to collectively assess our strengths and weaknesses as well as building relationships and strengthening existing connections amongst those with an interest in building rural civil society’s engagement in policies affecting the state of rural communities.


Logistics
PLAAS will cover the traveling and accommodation cost of 30 participants.


Registration
Kindly fill in the registration form if you wish to attend the workshop. If you have any difficulty with the form, please email Tersia Warries and provide her with the information requested in the form.
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