LANDNET WEST AFRICA – CRCD – GRAF
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LAND ISSUES IN THE POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIC PAPERS

Sub-Regional Informative and Capacity Building Workshop
Lome, Togo, 25 – 26th April 2003.
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The LandNet West Africa network is pleased to announce its forthcoming bilingual workshop in Lome (Togo) on April 25 – 26th 2003.
This meeting will be focused on the following themes:
- the land issues in the sub-region
- the World Bank land policy
- the PRSPs and the land tenure challenges with a focus on some countries experiences
- the means for correctly address land problems within the PRSPs scheme.

The workshop aims to put different land policy stakeholders (national LandNet networks, NGOs CBOs, women organizations, research institutes...) into contact with national managerial teams of PRSP. The representatives of West African countries that have already achieved their PRSP will present to other participants at which stage land issues have been addressed in those PRSP, and which approaches have been initiated to make those actions work concretely. Representative from countries where PRSP were not yet effective will present the major tenure challenges they are facing and will consider how those issues would be correctly addressed within the PRSP scheme

The outcomes of this meeting are supposed to offer participants positive indications on:
- the opportunities and strategies for national, regional and continental agendas for networking capacity building and for fundraising
- the principles for a participatory approach in the vein of the type 2 partnership recommendation
- the research opportunity related to the PRSP process.

For more details and the progress on the organization of the event, please contact:
- Koffi Alinon
CRCD / LandNet Togo
P.O.Box 80677 Lome, Togo.
Tel. +228 226 1211 / 912 9576
Fax +228 225 1359
E-mail: [email][email protected], [email][email protected]

- Hubert Ouedraogo
GRAF
Tel: (226) 34 14 57
E-mail : [email][email protected], [email][email protected]