Land Tenure and Resource Access in Africa 08 Legal empowerment in practice. Using legal tools to secure land rights in Africa

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Land Tenure and Resource Access in Africa 08 Legal empowerment in practice. Using legal tools to secure land rights in Africa Legal empowerment in practice. Using legal tools to secure land rights in Africa
Lorenzo Cotula, and Paul Mathieu (Editors)
Series: Land Tenure and Resource Access in Africa
Publisher: International Institute for Environment and Development (illed); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: May 2008 - FAO and IIED
ISBN 10: 1843697033
ISBN 13: 9781843697039
152 pages (Book/Report) Areas: Cameroon, Congo, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Topics: Land, Policy, Participation

In recent years, many legal services organisations have developed innovative ways for using legal processses to help disadvantaged groups have more secure rights over their land. The approaches, tools and methods used vary widely across contexts - from legal literacy training to paralegals programmes; from participatory methodologies to helping local groups register their lands or negotiate with government or the private sector, through to legal representation and strategic use of public interest litigation. While some of this experience has been documented, much of it has not. Only a very limited part of this experience has fed into international debates, and there have been few opportunities for lesson-sharing and cross-fertilisation among practitioners. In March 2008, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the International Institute for Environment and Development, and the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana jointly organised an international workshop to promote exchange of experience among practitioners. Over the two days of the workshop, some 25 practitioners from different parts of Africa, together with a few practitioners and researchers from international institutions and from Europe, shared lessons and learned from each others' experiences with legal empowerment. This report captures the highlights of workshop discussions. Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Credits
LEGAL EMPOWERMENT IN PRACTICE USING LEGAL TOOLS TO SECURE LAND RIGHTS IN AFRICA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. LEGAL EMPOWERMENT TO SECURE LAND RIGHTS – DEFINING THE CONCEPT
3. LEGAL EMPOWERMENT IN PRACTICE TO SECURE THE LAND RIGHTS OF THE POOR – A SHORT CONCEPT NOTE
4. USING THE LAW AS A TOOL TO SECURE THE LAND RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN CAMEROON
5. PARALEGALS AS AGENTS OF LEGAL EMPOWERMENT IN THE BANKASS AREA OF MALI
6. LEGAL EMPOWERMENT TO SECURE AND USE LAND AND RESOURCE RIGHTS IN MOZAMBIQUE
7. LAND RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTRES IN UGANDA
8. PARALEGALS AND COMMUNITY OVERSIGHT BOARDS IN SIERRA LEONE
9. LEGAL LITERACY TRAINING IN THE THIÈS REGION OF SENEGAL
10. AWARENESS-RAISING AND PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION FOR MINING COMMUNITIES IN TANZANIA
11. HELPING COMMUNITIES GAIN RECOGNITION AS LEGAL ENTITIES: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CHIBHEMEME EARTH HEALING ASSOCIATION IN ZIMBAB
12. CHALLENGING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF LAND LEGISLATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
13. LEGAL CLINICS AND PARTICIPATORY LAW-MAKING FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE REPUBLIC OF CONGO
14. PROCEDURAL RIGHTS: INCLUSION IN DECISION MAKING PROCESSES RELATING TO LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
15. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WORKSHOP DISCUSSIONS
REFERENCES
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

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