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Decentralised Land Reform in Southern Africa

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Duration: October 2007 - October 2009
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Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 This project will be conducted on a regional level, with PLAAS utilising its relationships with a range of practitioners, civil society, academic and government based individuals and institutions.

The regional programme will facilitate debate amongst practitioners, policy makers and scholars to raise a higher awareness and understanding of innovation and best practice in decentralised land reform in regional and national institutions dealing with land and rural development. In doing so through exchange of information and experiences we will distil the lessons that promote the broader benefits of more appropriate and sustainable land use, and of more effective and democratic local government.
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Objective:

 		The overall objective is regional and national discourse and practice in land is informed by innovation and best practice in decentralized land reform in the Southern African region.
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Project Purpose:

 

 

 
The project purpose is lessons and best practice in decentralised land reform in the region are defined, documented and shared.

This Project seeks to achieve two results:
  1. Experiential learning facilitated amongst land reform practitioners.
  2. Land reform experience, lessons and practice documented and disseminated.
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Experiential learning facilitated amongst land reform practitioners
  • Three regional workshops to share experiences and derive policy-relevant lessons from practice in countries in Southern Africa (the first two events would be co-funded with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights)
 
  • Facilitation of active networking amongst key stakeholders and participant institutions

Land reform experience, lessons and practice documented and disseminated
  • Preparation, publication and dissemination of a series of published outputs, including policy briefing papers and an accessible book (a workbook or manual) based on these workshops
 
  • Annual regional review of progress with land reforms in Southern Africa, covering at least five countries, and identifying lessons and best practices, to be reproduced as a newsletter, providing country-by-country reviews and identifying cross-cutting issues
 
  • Targeted presentations to share perspectives emerging from the above at key policy fora, within the Southern African region and at the continental level
 
  • Preparation, publication and dissemination of Umhlaba Wethu, a PLAAS quarterly bulletin tracking progress with, and emerging best practices in land reform in South Africa, specifically
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Funders:
New Publications
Umhlaba Wethu 6 - October 2008
Land Reform in South Africa: A status report 2008
Land Reform in South Africa: A status report 2008
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