Implementing the AU Agenda on LandALPC Progress & Plan for 2018-2022
Joan Kagwanja, ALPC
FAO/ALPC Capitalisation Meeting
- June 2018
Land Policy Initiative
Land Policy Initiative
Unsustainable/
inadequate
financing/technical
capacity
Cross-boarder aspects
of land related
disputes/issues
Incoherent
involvement
of actors/partners
Inadequate lessons
learning in policy
formulation/
implementation
Low political
will/commitment
by African govts
Continental platform for
dialogue, advocacy,
consultation, consensus,
commitment on land agenda
Partnerships/synergies/
coherence/
commitment in support of
land governance
Evidence, tools, frameworks –
basis for political
will/commitment - land reforms
(policy, institutions, tracking)
Key Achievements of LPI: Setting agenda/coordinating
implementation/building capacity
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Political & Public will AU Agenda on land setSDGs: 1-No Poverty, 2-Zero Hunger & Sustainable Agriculture, 5-Gender Equality; 8-Inclusive Eco.
Growth,11-Sustainable cities, 16-Peace
AU Goals: 1-Quality of life; 5-Agriculture; 6-
Environment; 13-Peace/security; 17-Gender
Equality
10-Year Implementation Plan:
Implement LPI/ALPC, use F&G to Secure land rights; use
GPs on LSLBI to improve land investments; domesticate
land targets(Malabo )
Malabo targets on land governance: secure
land rights for investments/sustainable agric.
CAADP-MALABO Business plan
Develop strategic Framework/good practice tools; High
quality capacity building tools; demand driven support
to MS, RECs; coordination/accountability mechanism
Develop comprehensive policies; build
financial, human & institutional capacity;
secure land tenure for all; resolve women’s
land rights challenges (national)
-Build regional platform for sharing best practices;
integrate land governance in common protocols
(regional)
-Establish institutional & monitoring mechanism and
fund (continental)
--Establish ALPC
--M&E on Land governance
--30% documented land rights for women
--apply GPs on LSLBI
-launch/institutionalise ALPC
-MELA pilots
-strengthen ALPC Gender, Women, Land programme
-Assess status Land investments; Develop
Guidelines; Build Capacity; Monitor progress;
develop appropriate policy frameworks
Specialised
Technical
committee
UN-Habitat
Landesa
IDEP
AWEPA
FAO
EC/EUD
Member Govt
PAFO
Private sector
UN
EUAfr
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Pe
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Direct Support flow
Continental
Regional
National
Global
LPI SC Member
LPI core partner
Other-Donor or Dev. partner
Other partner/-Stake holder
LPI Institutional landscape
ILC
CSO Platform
Improving synergies and coordination
Knowledge generated, frameworks/tools
developed
Frameworks
Tools…
Evidence …
Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the implementation of the AU Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
FRAMEWORK FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AU
DECLARATION ON LAND ISSUES
AND CHALLENGES
Platforms for knowledge exchangesynergies, coordination established/enhanced
Decision: Enhanced platforms for knowledge sharing/ dissemination/ coordination
Coordination
• LPI/ALPC– SC members
• Development & implementing partners platform
• FAO/ALPC Platform for country-level capitalisation of VGGT and F&G
• Land-agriculture committees/task force at country level in 6 countries
Knowledge exchange/coordination
• Conference on Land Policy in Africa- CLPA
• Regional (REC level) platforms – IGAD regional platform on LG
• African Land Commissioners Platform
• Land investment negotiators platform
• Forum for African Traditional Leaders (FATA)
• CSP-CSO platform on land
Highlights of progress:ALPC select programme presentations to follow
Land policy development - Zambia pilot project
• Agenda Setting/Political Will: AU Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges 2009; AU Specialized Technical Committee on Water, Agri. & Env.
• Knowledge/Tools: Continental Regional Assessment Reports ; Zambia Land policy review
• Capacity/Institutional Strengthening: Multi-stakeholder platform established
• Synergies and partnerships: Dev. Partners Platform established; USAID/LPI-ALPC support to Land Policy Stakeholder Consultations -Provincial, Chiefs; Farmers
Land use planning - Niger pilot project
• Agenda Set/Political Will: AU Declaration on Land;
• Knowledge/tools: guidelines for land use planning; report of progress/Code Rurale;
• Institutional dev: Mainstreamed land governance in Niger’s Development Plan; M&E framework; multi-stakeholder platform
• Synergies/coordination: EU SDC, ECA/SRO-WA, ECOWAS
Monitoring & Evaluation of Land Governance in Africa
Agenda Set/Political Will: AU Declaration; STC Decision;
Knowledge, data: Background document on monitoring land policy
• Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Skills & expertise/Institutional development: M&E Framework; MELA Pilots; ALPC - Data, statistics and monitoring programme
Synergies/coordination: IFPRI,ECA/ACS, UN-Habitat/GLTN, FAO, World Bank, IFAD, NPCA/RESAKSS, Landesa, CSO Platform
Country Pilot Countries
Securing Women’s Land Rights-AU 30% Campaign
• Agenda Set/Political Will: AU Declaration on Land; AU STC (30% target-documented land for women); NAP on LSLBI
• Knowledge/tools: Regional assessments; WLRs study on improving access to land/tenure security; MELA indicators
• Skills & expertise/Institutional development: Training-Gender and grassroots participation; LPI Gender Strategy; ALPC - Gender, Women and Land programme
• coherence & synergies: ECA/ACG, RECs, Civil Society Platform (CSP), Landesa, UN-Hab./GLTN, FAO, WB
Land in Agriculture-improving Large Scale Land Based Investments
• Agenda Set/Political Will: Malabo Declaration; AU Declaration; Nairobi Action Plan, STC decision on GPs
• Knowledge data, tools: F&G; Assessment report on LSLBIs; Policy brief on LSLBIs; Guiding Principles on LSLBI
• Capacity Developed: Training (Bureaus of investment; legal negotiators); sensitisetraditional chiefs
• Skills & expertise/Institutional development: ALPC programme on LSLBIs; Partnerships for capacity development (CCSI- IIED; TRAPCA); Establishment FATA
• Coherence & Synergies: AfDB; ALSF; CCSI; IIED; IDEP; ECA- CDD; IDEP
Land governance and Agriculture-Land in NAIP/CAADP
• Agenda set/political will: 2009 AU
Declaration on Land; 2014 Malabo
Declaration
• Knowledge/tools: LPI study (30 country
NAIPs); REC RAIPs; 6 reports on Land
governance in Ag strategies/NAIPs
• Skills & expertise/Institutional
development: Skills gaps assessed,
training programmes, land-Agric
Committees/Task Force; key actors
trained
• Data, monitoring: land in CAADP results
Framework; MELA Pilots
• Synergies: AUC, NPCA, IFAD, EU, BMZ/GIZ
Regional - Land Policy Convergence/ Harmonization; Platforms for exchange
• Agenda Set/Political will: AU/2063, AU Decl, STC, Malabo Decl; REC protocols, communiques
• Knowledge/tools: Regional assessment studies, F&G; – LPI study on effective land administration systems in Africa; status of land governance in IGAD, COMESA & ECOWAS countries-research; land in RAIP; Convergence framework for ECOWAS, IGAD and COMESA
• Institutional development/ strengthening: strategy/business plan; –Land expert; trained staff, M&E (IGAD, Ethiopia, Kenya), Regional Knowledge/Multi-stakeholders Dialogue Platform Established
• Synergies and partnerships: ECA, AUC, AfDB, RECs, Member States, academia, research, SDC, EU, ECA-SPODQ & DOA, ACS; REC, CSO Platform; Farmers Platform (EAFF)
Capacity Development – strengthening skills and Expertise
• Agenda Set/Political will Generated: AU
Declaration on Land; AU STC decision (2017)
• Knowledge/tools: Assessment report on capacity
Gaps; Capacity dev. Framework; Guidelines for
development/review curricula
• Skills & expertise/Institutional development: Network of Excellence on Land Governance (NELGA) –
see map for current members;
• Capacity (Training and research): MSc, PhD
scholarships; training/short courses; research
fellowships
• Data, monitoring: KM/ Database; MELA
• Synergies/Partners/Collaborators: BMZ/GIZ,
World Bank, Universities, IDEP, RCMRD, UN-Habitat, EU,
AfDB, WB
NELGA Regional Nodes
African Universities,
Centers of Higher
Learning and Research
NELGANetwork of Centers of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa
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Strengthened Capacity
for Land Governance in Africa (SLGA)
Enhancing capacity for land governance
Conference on Land Policy in Africa
What: A policy and learning event
When: Biennial— Nov 2014; Nov 2017
Goal: To deepen capacity for land policy
development and implementation in Africa
through improved access to knowledge,
networks and innovation
Audience: Academia/Researchers,
governments, donors/development partners,
parliaments, civil society organization,
traditional authorities; youth and women’s
groups, private sector and media
Thematic Representation (2017): 96 scientific
papers presented, 20 round table dialogues,
11 side events, 3 master class, 5 pre-
conference events
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Conference on Land Policy in Africa – Participation
Total number CLPA-2017: 445Total number CLPA-2014: 342
FAO/ALPC/capitalization based on EU/donor support at country level
• Key Interventions by LPI/FAO to (initial) countries• Agenda set: CFS/AU Decisions on VGGT,
F&G
• Knowledge generation/dissemination –documenting/sharing promising practices
• Outreach and advocacy; Awareness raising
• Skills & Expertise/ Institutional strengthening • Technical assistance
• Training
• Established continental platform for knowledge sharing/ capitalization/learning of promising practices
2018-2022
Decisions, milestones underpinning ALPC
• Multi-stakeholder Continental meeting (2006) - established LPI to lead actors in developing framework for land policy
• AU Summit Decision (2009) -AU Declaration on land endorsed --establish institutional framework to coordinate implementation
• LPI-Dalberg study (2013) - recommendations on appropriate institutional mechanism, theory of change, business plan validated
• AU Specialized Technical Committee (STC) Decision-2015 - establish & capacitate African Land Policy Centre to coordinate implementation of AU Agenda on land; institutionalize ALPC in a manner that ensures financial stability, operational efficiency and strong ownership; launched ALPC
• ECA Committee on Regional Cooperation & Integration (CRCI) Decision-2015 - endorsed ALPC establishment; endorsed institutionalization of ALPC
• AfDB Board & Conference on ag transformation(2015): Developed Feed Africa Strategy - implementation plan endorses ALPC to lead in securing of land rights to boost agric
ALPC Governance Structure
Africa’s land governance constituent (RECs, PAP, NPCA, PAFO, CSO, Think
Tank)
AUC
UNECA, AfDB
Joint WorkingGroup on Land
Chair
Development Partners on Land Governance (EU, FAO, IFAD, UN-
Habitat)
SteeringCommittee
African Land Policy Centre
Observers
Secretariat
Results Pathway: ALPC
Women’s Land Rights
AUC, ECA, AfDB Goal
ALPC Outcome
ALPC Goal
(ALPC)
Enhanced socio-economic status and peace/ security for African people particularly women and other vulnerable groups
Increased equitable access to land and security of tenure for all land users especially women, pastoralists and other vulnerable groups
Agriculture and investments
NRM & Conflict
Youth & Employment
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Improved land governance
Land PoliciesLand
RegistrationLand Valuation
Land- Use planning
Dispute Resolution
Effective and Efficient AdministrationComprehensive and ResponsiveALPC
Intermediate
Outcomes
Advocacy: Political/public will and commitment is generated and sustained
Knowledge generation/dissemination: Policymakers & actors are equipped with relevant knowledge & data
Capacity Development: Policymakers and actors have requisite skills and expertise
Institutional Strengthening: Institutions & systems are effective and well-resourced
Partnerships: Coherence and collaboration among Initiatives/ actors
Urban dev & human settlements
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: MELA
Legal Frameworks
PolicyConvergence & harmony
Gender mainstreaming
Thematic/regional specificities & considerationsFocus Areas
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