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Recognition of land governance in GIZ projects in Africa
and upcoming learning events of land governance 12-
16.11.2018 PPRARD Working Group in Addis Ababa
Date: 17 September 2018
SNRD Working Group CCLNRM
Dr Thomas Breuer, Speaker SNRD Working Group PPARD

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Presentation Overview
Presentation Overview07.09.2018
1) Background Information
2) Survey objectives and design of the Study
3) Respondent characteristics
4) GIZ‘s Land Governance portfolio in Africa
5) Support Areas and Recommendations
6) Learning Event Addis Ababa 12-16 November 2018

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Background Information07.09.2018
The study
• Assesses the importance of land policy in country contexts
where GIZ projects are active
• Analysed in how far GIZ projects could strategically incorporate
land governance into their project design and implementation
• Recommends support measures GIZ projects need for their
specific work environment
Author: Antti Seelaff
Financed by: Global Project „Strengthening Advisory Capacities
for Land Governance in Africa” (2014.0126.4)
The long version of the presentation can be sent if required.
Background Information
Study: Recognition of Land Governance in GIZ projects in Africa
Further information and
download:
https://www.snrd-
africa.net/land-governance-in-
africa-survey-results/

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Survey Objectives and Design07.09.2018
Survey objectives and design of the Study
Key questions
Key questions
1. What is the importance of land policy in the country context?
2. To what extent are land policy issues recognized and addressed by GIZ
programs?
3. To what extent could GIZ projects incorporate land policy and land governance
approaches?
4. What type of cooperation or support from SNRD Africa do GIZ projects need?
5. What importance do Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and other
regional and continental bodies in Africa (such as the NEPAD Agency and the
African Union Commission) assign to land policy and how land policy is
addressed in their country support programs?

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Respondent Characteristics07.09.2018
Respondent characteristics
projects, project distribution and thematic work
• 50 online responses from
48 projects in 23 countries
• 21 follow-up interviews
Type of program no. %
Bilateral program 25 51,02
Special initiative (Global projects) 14 28,57
Regional program 7 14,28
EU cofinanced 2 4,08
Sector Project 1 2,04
Total 49 100
Classification no. %
Rural development and agriculture (056) 30 61,22
Decentralisation, urban and regional development (061) 8 16,33
Forest, biodiversity and management of natural resources (057) 5 10,20
Crisis, conflicts, disasters (034) 3 6,12
Promotion of the private sector (011) 1 2,04
Climate change, climate protection (065) 1 2,04
Water policy, water resources, urban water management (026) 1 2,04
Total 49 100

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Title
Title
Title
Global Project
Responsible Land Policy,
(Germany, Bonn)
Madagascar
Programm Politique
Fonciere Responsible
Ethiopia
Support to
Responsible
Agricultural
Investments
Uganda
Responsible Land
Policy in Uganda
Burundi
Good governance in
the area of land
register
Benin
Promotion d’une
Politique Foncière
Responsable
Namibia
Support to Land
Reform
Global Project
Strengthening Advisory
Capacities for Land
Governance in Africa
(Ethiopia)
GIZ’s Land Governance portfolio in Africa (I)
Projects focussing on Land Governance
Sector Project
Land Policy and Land
Management (Germany,
Eschborn)
Survey Objectives and Design07.09.2018

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Liberia
Capacity
Development in the
Transport Sector
Nigeria
Sustainable
Economic
Development
Egypt
Water Management
Reform
Programme
Mozambique
Good Financial
Governance
Zambia
Decentralisation
for Development
Global Project
The Global Project “Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in
Africa” (SLGA), based in Ethiopia, strengthens land-related capacities in over 30
African countries, coordinated by regional academic centers in Ghana, Namibia,
Cameroon, Morocco, and Tanzania as well as in Rwanda and South-Africa
Togo
ProREDD
Cameroon
Forest and
Environment
Programme
D.R. Congo
Conservation of
Biodiversity and
Forest Management
Benin / Togo
Transboundary
Biosphere Reserve in
the Mono Delta
Forestry/Biodiversity
Agriculture, rural
development
Benin
Soil protection and
rehabilitation for
food security
Niger
Promotion de
l’Agriculture
Productive
Burkina Faso
Soil protection &
rehabi-litation for
food security
South Africa
Support to CAADP
Programme
South Sudan
Food Security and
Rural Development
Somaliland
Sustainable Land
Management
Decentralization, urban & regional dev.
Transport and mobility
Private sector promotion
Water policy, water resources
Sector Project
Soil protection, desertification,
sustainable land management
GIZ’s Land Governance portfolio in Africa (II)
Projects with a component or activities related to land governance
Survey Objectives and Design07.09.2018

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GIZ‘s Land Governance portfolio in Africa07.09.2018
GIZ’s Land Governance portfolio in Africa (III)
Different entry points to tenure rights (I)
Land tenure security as a basis for productive agriculture (and forestry)
• Strengthening rural households and communities through documentation and formalization of
customary tenure rights and tenure arrangements (UGA, BEN, BFA)
• clear and solid land rights as basis and incentive for investments in sustainable agricultural
intensification for food security and rural development (ETH)
• Community-based afforestation and participatory forest management, climate change
mitigation (CAM)
Participatory tenure management of natural resources “under pressure”
• Conflict prevention between pastoral and farming communities (SSD)
• Water user associations, rehabilitation of degraded land (BEN, BFA, ETH, SOM)
• Conservation of biodiversity and forests through benefit sharing in protected area and buffer
zone management (CAM, DRC)
• Urban water management (EGY)
Global initiatives
• transparent and inclusive tenure rights and arrangements as precondition for increasing
carbon stocks in agricultural soils (“4 per 1000”) and forests (REDD+)

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GIZ‘s Land Governance portfolio in Africa07.09.2018
GIZ’s Land Governance portfolio in Africa (IV)
Different entry points to tenure rights (II)
Promoting women’s land and water tenure rights
• link to water, irrigation, horticulture, nutrition, food security (EGY)
Urban planning and development
• Providing secure housing to citizens through the mapping, registration and improvement of
informal settlements (NAM, EGY, GHA)
• Infrastructure development: Avoiding delays, additional cost and illegitimate evictions arising
from unclear tenure arrangements (LIB)
Private sector promotion/ investment climate:
• facilitating development control, plot service planning and budgeting (water, electricity) (NIG)
Fiscal cadaster as a basis for municipal revenue collection
• Increasing importance of property tax, land-related licenses and fees for financing of
government agencies (political and financial decentralization in several countries) (MOZ,
ZAM)

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Support Areas and Recommendations07.09.2018
Support Areas and recommendations
Possible Expansion Areas
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
Large Scale Land Acquisition
Land consolidation and redistribution
Land valuation, markets and taxation
Promotion of the VGGTs
Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management
Public disclosure and other public provision of Land…
Land demarcation, adjudication, registration, and…
Policy, legal and organizational frameworks related to…
Land use planning and zoning
Specific support to women, youth and vulnerable groups
What kind of activities related to land governance would you like
to include in your project? (D2)

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Support Areas and Recommendations07.09.2018
Support Areas and recommendations
Helpful documents, Exchange of experience and information
Helpful documents
• A short policy brief with key arguments for, and benefits arising from strengthened tenure
rights and tenure administration, to convince high-level government officials to buy-in
• Collection of project experience (e.g. applied approaches and technologies, cost, duration,
lessons) from other countries related to
• Mapping, demarcation and registration of tenure rights (“usual suspects”, plus forestry,
biodiversity, urban and decentralization projects)
• Strengthening land & water tenure rights of women, youth and other vulnerable groups
Exchange of experience and information
• Networking between “core” land projects and ARD projects good (LandHub meetings, IDA
community of practice)
• but little exchange with forest, urban, governance communities

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Learning Event Addis Ababa November 201807.09.2018
Learning Event Addis Ababa 12-16 November 2018
Introduction to Land Governance for practitioners in the agricultural sector

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Learning Event Addis Ababa November 201807.09.2018
Learning Event Addis Ababa 12-16 November 2018
Introduction to Land Governance for practitioners in the agricultural sector
Anita Hernig
Luisa Prior

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Contact:
Dr. Thomas Breuer , Team Leader
GIZ Land-Based Development, SNRD WK PPARD
thomas.breuer@giz.de
+264 (061) 400 220