Land Tenure Observatories
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Project Title: Towards the Establishment of Land Tenure Observatories in the CILSS Member Countries
Term: January 1999-July 2000
Funding: US Agency for International Development, Office of Sahelian West Africa via the BASIS IQC, under subcontract to Development Alternatives, Inc.
Amount: $190,000
Project contacts: Peter C. Bloch, Principal Investigator (608-265-2109, pcbloch@facstaff.wisc.edu)
CILSS Member Countries: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
Participating institutions: Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS); National Institute of Human Sciences, University of N'djamena, Republic of Chad; Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Mali; Ministry of Regional Planning, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar and University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, Republic of Senegal
Summary: Provides technical assistance, training, capacity building and research in support of CILSS's efforts to assist member countries in the establishment of national land tenure observatories and a regional land tenure network. Observatory development has begun in Chad and Senegal, with probable expansion to Niger and perhaps other countries in the coming year. Apart from the creation of observatories, LTC will also assist in implementation of research; the first study, already under way, deals with tenure issues in irrigated agriculture in Mali.
Objective: Establish national capacity to conduct research, provide training, and offer policy analysis and advice on land tenure issues in member countries.
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In June 1994, the Regional Conference on Land Tenure and Decentralization, held in Praia, Cape Verde, reached the conclusion that the development of new policies and laws related to land tenure called for the involvement of academic structures and research institutions. In April 1997 the Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) held an international symposium on land tenure in the Sahel in Saint-Louis, Senegal. The symposium resulted in the following major recommendations :
Among these, the recommendation related to the establishment of land tenure observatories soon emerged as the keystone in the logic determined in Saint-Louis. The symposium held the view that, to enable better land tenure management in the Sahel, a land tenure observatory could be useful at the national level for research, data collection, information dissemination, and training.
From that point on, the establishement of land tenure observatories became a priority activity in the land tenure component of PADLOS/CILSS. Among other things, a first phase is supporting the establishment of national land tenure observatories in Chad and Senegal, and to contribute to refocusing the land tenure observatory in Mali via sectoral research programs. The activity is planned to expand gradually to other CILSS member countries in the next few years.
CILSS, the Permanent Inter-state Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, is LTC's principal collaborator in the regional program through its Project on Local Development in the Sahel (PADLOS). In addition, relevant partners have been identified in each country. To date, partnerships exist with:
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