Through its Pastoralist Programme, TNRF is participating in a side event in the run up to the UN-GGIM 4th High Level Forum on “Good land governance for the 2030 Agenda” hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 18th– 19th April 2016. The conference is organized in partnership with the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) at the UNECA as a side event that brings together fellow professionals from government, the private sector, academia and policy circles.
The overall objective of this workshop will be to create a space for the working groups to discuss issue papers, validate them and agree on advocacy strategy for emerging land issues.
The specific objectives of the meeting will be to:
- Share presentations from the 6 thematic group leaders and identify the key messages for advocacy
- Inform the group of the developments at and activities of the LPI, AU, RECs and other bodies working around land issues
- Plan a workable strategy for the operationalization of the CSO-LPI thematic groups
- Consolidate membership and member commitments
- Approve a set of advocacy positions for the CSO-LPI platform
- Update the 2-year action plan, fundraising strategy and roles and responsibilities.
The following thematic papers will be validated:
- Women’s land rights
- Tenure security and Customary Tenure
- Land governance for natural resource management
- Large-scale land investment
- Transparency and accountability
- Monitoring and implementation of LPI land policies