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Putting the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure into Practice:
a Learning Guide
for Civil Society
Organizations
Rome, 27 June 2018
Francesca Carpano
Civil Society Team - Partnerships Unit
Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division – FAO

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From the VGGT to the Learning Guide

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Co-developed: FAO with the Land and
Territory Working Group of the International
Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty
(IPC)
Tested and implemented: In more than 20
countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Users: CSO facilitators
Beneficiaries: Members of CSOs seeking to
defend/secure their tenure rights –
representative of social movements,
indigenous people, peasants, the landless,
agricultural workers, women, youth…
The Leaning Guide

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21 COUNTRIES COVERED
AFRICA: Malawi, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea,
Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. ASIA & PACIFIC: Myanmar, Nepal, Mongolia,
Philippines, Indonesia. EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA: Kyrgyzstan. LATIN AMERICA &
CARIBBEAN: Guatemala, Colombia.

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Methodology in 5 steps
based on
experiential
learning
learning is based on
building progressively
on the participant’s
own experience –
adopting a popular
education approach

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Modularity
adaptable to
• National context
• Particular tenure
objectives
• Familiarity of the
participants

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The Learning Guide
The Learning Guide has the following sections:

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Training sessions and material

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Nepal: MPs involved in the ToT agreed to consider the facts and suggestions
provided during the training in the amendment process of the National Park and
Conservation Act.
Mongolia: During the ToT the draft law on pastureland was presented by a
representative of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and it was discussed by the
participants.
Malawi: Local chief trained VGGT used the Guidelines to engage in negotiations
with investors to solve tenure disputes at community level
South Africa: Increase exchanges amongst sectors (Land / Forestry/ Fisheries)
Senegal: Used the Learning Guide to train journalists, parliamentarians and
government authorities
Adaptation small-scale fisheries and pastoralism
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The Learning Guide is available at
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7763e.pdf
The e-learning course is available at
http://www.fao.org/elearning