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

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UN-Habitat

Landesa

IDEP

AWEPA

FAO

EC/EUD

Member Govt

PAFO

Private sector

UN

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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

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: MELA

Legal Frameworks

PolicyConvergence & harmony

Gender mainstreaming

Thematic/regional specificities & considerationsFocus Areas

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