Towards a Pan African Land Policy Framework Skeleton Framework and Benchmarks

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Towards a Pan African Land Policy
FrameworkSkeleton Framework and Benchmarks

• Sue Mbaya,
• Director, SARPN
• Land Expert Task Force member
• Expert Group Meeting on Land Policy Indicators
• Addis Ababa, 3-4 May 2007

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Presentation Overview

• Necessity for a Pan-Africa framework
• The scope of the land policy framework
• Critical land policy issues
• Land policy implementation
• Follow up strategies
• Benchmarks

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Necessity for a Pan-Africa framework

• The need for land policy framework
• Objective of land policy development

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The Scope of the land policy framework

• Nature of land question
• Land in national development framework
• Land as a factor of production
• Land and poverty
• Land and social justice
• Land and governance
• Land and HIV/AIDS
• Land issues in agriculture
• Land issues and the environment
• Land and urban development
• Land in post conflict situations

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Critical land policy issues

• State Sovereignty
• Land redistribution
• Duality of property regimes
• Tenure Security
• Sustaining the Commons
• Managing pastoral land use
• Land and gender
• Land rights administration
• International and regional commitments

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Land policy implementation

• Programming implementation
• Costing the policy framework
• Resource mobilization and capacity building
• Monitoring and evaluation

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Role of Stakeholders

• The role of continental institutions
• Role of Regional Economic Communities
• Role of National Governments
• Role of Civil society
• Engaging development partners

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Benchmarks

• Protection of land rights
• Transparency in land management
• Improvements in land administration
• Improvement in land access and distribution
• Land management in conflict and post-conflict
  situations
• Prioritisation of land issues in national
  development planning

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Example of benchmarks
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