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UPDATE ON THE KILIMANJARO INITIATIVE
June 2016.
By: Grace Ananda
Kilimanjaro Project coordinator
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IntroductionThe Kilimanjaro initiative seeks to mobilise rural women from across Africa towards an iconic moment
at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro in October 2016, using women’s rights to land and productive resources as
an entry point for the mobilization of rural women to define the future they want- in practical terms.
This platform seeks to afford rural women space to engage with and seek accountability from decision
makers at national and continental level, with a view to securing fundamental, irreversible shift and
commitments on women’s land rights.The initiative is currently supported by various Civil Societies Organisations (CSOs) who are
implementing land rights programs, including PROPAC, OXFAM, International Land Coalition (ILC),
Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP) and
Women n Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) and ActionAid International. Non State Actors
Coalition (CNC) has shown interest in supporting the initiative. Others continue to express interest in
the intuitive and can support different components of the initiative here
Thus far, mini Kilis have been launched in several countries riding on important moments like the
International Women’s Day or the national public holidays to launch the initiative. Such countriesinclude Nigeria, Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Togo, Benin,
Cameroon and DR Congo,
Overall Result:The success of Kilimanjaro Initiative will be a stronger movement of rural women enjoying their rights
to land and natural resources, while influencing policy and practice in their favour at all levels.
Objectivesi.
To strengthen the agency and movement of rural women in claiming and defending their land
and natural resource rights in Africa
ii.
To engender political will amongst national governments, donor and regional institutions to
implement an all-inclusive African women’s charter.
iii.
To mobilise and support the participation of 100,000 rural women in the Kilimanjaro initiative in
at least 20 countries in Africa
iv. To raise awareness on existing frameworks and safeguards around Large scale land based
investments and demand for their application in securing legitimate tenure rights of rural women
in Africa
How have we been working………….
An oversight team, drawn out of all supporting organizations as well as representatives of rural women,
signs off plans and products of the Kili Initiative. With the guidance of this oversight team, the steering
Group, made of the same organizations is responsible for producing and delivering a campaign strategy
and operational plans. To handle the different components of the initiative, thematic working groups
have been set up; mobilisation and communication; Advocacy; logistics; and fundraising. More details
on this can be found here .
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Communication platforms The key documents for the initiative are available on demand (until we set up a central site for
sharing). These include the brochure, approved caravan route, and TOR for different Working
Groups.
We are working towards having the caravan route on google map.
Soon we will have tools for collecting stories , aimed to start in July 2016. On social media, you can interact with the Initiative through facebook- Women2kilimanjaro and
twitter-Women2kilimanjaro and #landFor.
There was is a significant level of participation on our social media platforms, specifically the twitter
handle using harsh tags #mylandmylife #women2kilimanjaro #womensland. #LandRightsUg
#LandrightsUg #Uganda.
Some of the quotes tweeted included;-
http://thenationonlineng.net/actionaid-oxfam-make-case-smallholder-farmers/
http://nannewsnigeria.com/women-represent-60-agriculture-labour-force-nigeria-oxfam
http://www.punchng.com/oxfam-partners-actionaid-on-womens-right-to-land/
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/oxfam-calls-for-land-use-act-reform/
https://www.facebook.com/850216141774125/photos/a.850546928407713.1073741828.850216141774
125/851607434968329/?type=3&theater
https://t.co/uRVXaF3NGb https://twitter.com/hashtag/LandrightsUg?src=hash
Advocacy effortsIn the first week of June, 2 members of the Kilimanjaro Initiative Rural Women’s council, with support
from ActionAid Staff had a productive meeting with the AU commissioner for Rural Economy, as well
as secretariat of the Land Policy
Initiative. A key outcome of that
engagement was an endorsement of the
Kilimanjaro initiative by both the
commissioner and LPI, as well as an
agreement to partners with LPI the joint
agenda of women’s land rights in Afr ica
at the AU summit, bringing together two
complementary initiatives- the
Kilimanjaro Initiative for Africa rural
women, and the LPI’s campaign for ‘30%Africa land for women’.
The team is currently working with the
LPI secretariat to host a joint event at the
AU summit in July on women’s land
rights in Africa
Fundraising
Some fundraising efforts have been made for this initiative. However, with such an ambitious initiative,more resources are still needed to realize the dream. For example, with leadership from ActionAid
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Australia, we have been able to secure support for 30 Rural Women to climb up the Kilimanjaro
Mountain. The dream is to have support for 100 women scale the heights of the mountain and make the
iconic statement. Other aspects like the regional caravans from West, South East and North Africa, as
well as the costs of the assembly at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro are yet to be fully funded. More details
on this are available here, and specifics can be provided on demand from the Fundraising Working
Group
Regional and Country level actions
The initiative has formed the regional blocks for easy coordination and mobilization of grass-root
women to participate in the initiative. The blocks are South African region; West African region;
East
So far, two regional blocks are active with clear strategies and action Plans- East and West region.
The regional blocks meets on regular basis to update themselves on the issues to do with mobilization,fundraising, logics, message collection and planed activities.
At the country level, several countries have established Kili consortiums that comprise of organizations
working on the land rights, and have launched the initiative, taking advantage of key dates such as
International Women’s Day or the public holidays to launch the initiative. Country level launches have
been held in Nigeria, Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Togo, Benin,
Cameron, DR Congo, and Senegal. The key messages during the launch were the core demand on land
rights, to strengthen women's voice and participation in decision making, particularly on issues relating
to land and natural resource management in Africa.
East African region-Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda
In Kenya, National convening of rural women
on Kilimanjaro meeting held between 9th may
to 10th May 2016. The following CSOs
participated- Daughters of Mumbi, KELIN,
Kenya Land Alliance, and Groots women. The
meeting also drew rural women participants
from 23 counties with each county sending two
representatives with an aim of strengtheningand sharpening Women Land Rights agenda
and form a movement on Women Land Rights
(WLR), there is a change on WLR in our laws
and regulations (Policy influencing), create
awareness on WLR, capacity building on WLR. This
is a leadership for women from the grassroots to take leadership.
In Tanzania, TGNP, the overall host organisation for Kilimanjaro initiative in Tanzania is coordinating
and supporting in mobilisation. The National committee that comprises of CSO and rural women’s
groups has been set up. Among the key activities that have taken place are;- Mapping of country
organizations on land and women’s right, Resource Mobilization, Consultative meetings with the
Figure 1the launch of Kili in Kenya
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government officials at the Ministerial (ministry of land, agriculture, tourism, TAMISEMI, Gender and
community Development, Youth) and local government level and present the Kilimanjaro ideas.
In Uganda a mini Kili event took place between 8th and 9th June 2016 in Northern Uganda. The women
climbed Patiko Hill in Gulu District. The District has a major women land rights violation cases and a
long history of insurgency by the Lord’s Resistance Army. With complexity of land tenure systemwhich creates more dynamics around women’s access to and control of land. In addition to the tens of
rural women, other CSOs who participated were Land Net, Uganda land Alliance, Solidarity Uganda
and grass root women organization alongside with Representatives from the Government of Uganda.
Key actions were;- a) A conference on women
land
rights
for the
Rural
women Farmers Forum in which the issues in
the National Women’s Charter on Land
and Livelihoods was discussed and committed to by politicians in line with the Voluntary guidelines onLand Tenure and Free Prior and informed consent Principle in relation to Uganda’s Land laws and
Policies. b) Symbolic climb of women on the hills of Baker Fort in Patiko- over 200 women rural
women participated in this event and a strong media presence.
1. West African region-Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal
Senegal and Nigeria launches took place during the International Women’s Day. Among the activities
that took place was the rally at Wuse market. Hosted by
SWOFON, a network of rural women, other CSOs who
participated were, CNCR Women College, CICODEV,
WILDAF, Oxfam and partners from the grass root women
organisations. “Without Women we cannot have food
security, without women there cannot be peace and
development, the SDGs is only achievable with women”
chairperson from ECOWAS
In addition, following countries developed a communication
tool for advocacy Togo, Benin, Cameroon, DR Congo,
and Senegal. Each country target decision makers and
presented their demands to them on challenges that women
farmers and herders face in accessing and controlling their land based resources.
Figure 2Mini Kili in Patiko hill In Uganda
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Project management committees have been set up at the
National level. The committees have the lead role in the
mobilisation of rural women and the mobilisation of funds at the national level. Benin has been able to
raise funds to conduct a parallel activity to the Kilimanjaro initiative. Public hearings between rural
women and policy makers to promote rural women’s land and resource rights was done in 5 countries in
West and Central Africa supported byWILDAF.
South African region- Zambia,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi
and South Africa
In Malawi, there was a joint event was held in
the month of October 2015 and it coincided
with the International rural women’s day. Over
500 rural women farmers were mobilized to attend this rural women’s assembly held at the foot of
Mulanje Mountain as a mini Kilimanjaro in a build up to the big event. The event was in partnership
with the Coalition of Women Farmers (COWFA), Civil Society Network for Climate Change
(CISONECC), NASFAM, CISANET and Oxfam organized a Mount Mulanje event. Through a joint
communiqué, rural women farmers made it clear to the world that they gathered at the foot of Mulanje
Mountain and climbed the mountain up to Sapitwa (highest point) among the participants women and
youth farmers
In Mozambique a meeting of Rural Women´s Forum was held in, in Manhiça. The objective of themeeting was to discuss the road map of the initiative. Among the key people to invite were Government
Ministries, the First Lady of the Republic, and the President of the Mozambican parliament. Ministries
of Gender, Children and Social Affairs she was very open to this initiative.
In Mozambique ILC worked closely with ORAM and Forum Mulher to promote rural women’s land
and other resources rights. They have built partnership with local ActionAid..
Key Outcomes of the events from the country actions
A road map of how women will engage in the initiative is unfolding clearly Improved coordination among the women in the countries around the Kilimanjaro initiative
concrete plans around advocacy and communication at country and regional levels
Communication and information exchange and national events and dialogues.
Inclusion of previously underrepresented region (North Africa -Tunisia & Morocco)
Working within national and regional spaces
Existing Women Land Rights Chapters in different Countries and within countries supported by
different actors on land rights struggles
Explicit Women land rights Agenda among partner CSOs add institutions
Figure 4Mini Kili at Mulanje hill in Malawi
Figure 3 the launch of Kili Initiative in Nigeria
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Communities of land and natural resources struggles exist and some capacity on policy legal
matters giving us opportunity to feature their stories/ experience and build traffic to the
campaign
Ongoing review of land and natural resources laws with an aim to feed into the Africa Land
Policy agenda
Going forwardA practical work plan has been developed and shared with the working groups. However, we expect to
have more Mini kili events in different block. IEC materials will be developed after content stories have
been collected and documented. Media engagement both print and online. (Twitter bomb and face-book)
on Kilimanjaro initiative. The communication team will share the dates when a discussion on Kili will
happen using social media platform. Preparations are underway for Rural Women and Rural Women
Farmers to attend the African Union Summit. For more details, see below.
Broad area DateWorking groups and team
Strategic oversight team
Steering team
Working groups
Ongoing
Research documentation & communication May to August 2016
Country mobilisation
i) National formations
ii)Alliance building/networking/Mini Kilis
iii)Post event mobilisation/sharing
Note: Mini Kilis
Countries from the regional blocks have planned for mini kili subject to
availability of funding.
2. South African region- Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi
and South Africa
3. West African region-Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and
Senegal
4. East African region-Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda
Country
mobilization done in
most regional blocks
1st May – 30th July
2016 TBC
AU Summit: Joint event with LPI 10t to 18t July 2016
Logistic: (Securing of the Caravans; Securing of venue; Hotels; Visas;
Licencing)
June to August 2016
Launch of Caravans 3r to 13t October
2016
Mass Assembly 14t - 16t October
2016
Continental Lobby and advocacy
Engagement with AU organs
Post Kilimanjaro (Engagement with regional institutions, All
participating countries, and Pan African rural women leadership
council
May 2016
July 2016
January 2017
The Climb 10th to 15t
October2016
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