Capacity Building in Southern Africa
March 31st, 2002
The purpose of this report is to evaluate capacity development needs in land policy and administration in southern Africa Major issues include the creation of two-tiered systems of land holding which have continued in the post colonial era.
While this may be generalized as a system of customary tenure and a system of formalized, western style tenure, in essence the arrangements vary over the region. Increasingly there is also large-scale migration into urban and peri-urban areas which creates its own mix of customary, formal, and informal tenure.
The three major challenges arising from this situation are 1) the need for more equitable distribution of land and natural resources; 2) the need to develop new arrangements for the co-existence and recognition of several types of tenure systems; and 3) the need to provide the land tenure and land administrative basis for urban and peri-urban growth. Issues within these challenges that require particular attention include gender equity, common property resources, rapid demographic changes, economic development, the rights of pastoralists, and peri-urban infrastructure.
Funding: Canadian International Development Agency
Partners: Department of Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering, UNB |
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