Draft Biennial Report 2005-2007 International Land Coalition

1. Draft Biennial Report 2005-2007International Land Coalition Presentation at 2007 ILC Global Assembly Entebbe, Uganda

2. Land and Global Development Agendas • Challenge in 1995: Return land to the global agenda • Challenge in 2007: Being together diverse agendas, which address land in different ways • New international forums emerging in 2005-2007 • ICARRD (FAO) • Global Land Tools Network (HABITAT) • African Land Policy Framework (AU) • Farmers Forum (IFAD) • Commission on Legal Empowerment (UNDP) • EU Land Policy Guidelines (EC) • World Development Report 2008 (World Bank)

3. Land and National Policy Agendas • Growing interconnection between national economies and regional & global trends • Competing interests in land and resources across rural communities, and by private and state actors • Increasing strength and diversity of civil society and rural people’s movements • More attention by govts and IGOs to pro-poor laws  capacity needs, esp. formulation, implementation

4. ILC Activities: Spaces for Dialogue • Goals • Increase openness of land-related processes • Improve leverage of people in decisions • Bring together diverse rural & national sectors • LAND Partnerships: Guatemala, Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa • CALI Action Research: Niger, Uganda • Land Policy Formation: Madagascar

5. Results and Lessons • Country-specific results: • Improved links across sectors • Expanded national alliances for reforms • Governments addressing broader scope of issues • Dialogue complements but doesn’t replace organizing • Value of international events to open up discussions • Forums within government and civil society • Time needed to break down barriers • Capacity-building needed for conflict management

6. ILC Activities: Global Advocacy • Goal: Highlight land access on global agendas • Bringing lessons into land-related forums • ICARRD • World Bank Rural Week • UNDP Pro-Poor Land Governance • IASCP (Common Property) • Visibility of land rights in UN development arenas • ECOSOC • MDG World Summit • CSD • Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

7. Thematic Policy Work • Goal: Encourage pro-poor land reforms • Building messages based on network’s lessons • Indigenous people’s territorial rights • Pastoralist tenure and livelihood • Common property regimes • Land and conflict transformation • Review of international agency policy documents

8. Results and Lessons • Capacity-building benefits from CSO and government participation in global events • Possible to influence outcomes of global forums  What is impact at local and national levels? • Importance of cross-sector view on policy • Need to systematize lessons from local activities

9. ILC Activities: Capacity-Building • Community Empowerment Facility • Supports innovative work on land access • 49 initiatives in 25 countries to date • 12 new partners in 9 countries in 2005-2006 • Range of goals and activities for these new initiatives • Land literacy to increase knowledge of rights • Community organizing to claim and defend rights • Increase leverage of landless and land poor • Improve capacity for land-use and territorial planning • Link land rights with sustainable land management

10. Strengthening Networks for Land Access • National network initiatives (2005-06: 7 countries) • Developing legislation and policy alternatives • Public campaigns for land rights • Linking communities that face land conflicts • Convene strategic planning on land rights • Regional network initiatives (2005-06: 5 regions) • Develop strategy for engaging regional bodies • Identify and address cross-border policy issues • Build network for solidarity Across countries • Global knowledge networking • Land conflict management • Participatory mapping and territorial development

11. Results and Lessons • Influencing laws and policies: Honduras, Philippines • Opening up land policy processes: Indonesia, Uganda • Up-scaling local initiatives: Madagascar, Nicaragua • Promoting common voice: Andean Region, African Union • Harmonization between community-based efforts and policy-level is needed, to support broader impacts

12. Strengthening ILC as an Institution • Updating ILC’s institutional framework • Strategic Framework 2007-2010 • New resource mobilization strategy • Proposed changes to ILC governance • Identify options for ILC identity & legal status • Next steps (2007-2008) • Monitoring and evaluation framework • Revised communication strategy • Regional strategies and programme plans

13. Findings of Independent Evaluation • ILC mission and goals remain relevant in global context • Most effective in opening space for dialogue, and documenting and sharing knowledge • Need to strengthen ILC as stakeholder-driven body • Encourage decentralization / regionalization process • Steps needed to clarify legal status • Operational model and resource-mobilization strategy should respond to diversification and growth in ILC

14. ILC Finances: Total Resources 2004-2007

15. Diversity of Funding Sources

16. Future Considerations • Land rights movement becoming stronger, more diverse • Donor support remains modest relative to needs • Social movements increasingly influential • Land reform needs vary across countries, regions • Need for ILC programming to become more systematic • Need for ILC to clarify legal status, institutional identity

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