Workshop on Land Policy

Within the context of developing a Land Policy framework in Africa, the consortium of the African Union Commission (AUC), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and African Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), is planning to organise a regional consultative workshop on land policy in the Southern Africa region. Scheduled to take place from August 29th to 31st, 2007, the regional consultative workshop would be hosted by the Government of Namibia in Windhoek, Namibia.

With joint sponsorship from the consortium, the United Nations Development Program Dry Land Development Center (UNDP-DDC) and Rockefeller Foundation, the consultative workshop will bring together a wide-range of stakeholders on land issues in the Southern Africa sub-region including representative from national governments, civil society, private sector, centers of excellence and development partners. The aim is to discuss and reach consensus on key land issues in the Southern Africa sub-region, notably,

• The regional specificities, initiatives and lessons that should be included in the continental framework;
• The knowledge, institutional and resource gaps as well as lessons from on-going land initiatives in the region, critical to identifying capacity needs and developing strategies for implementation; and
• A road map for the development of relevant benchmarks and indicators, and mechanisms for assessing performance of land processes in the region.

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