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Customary Tenure Security Tools

World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2014

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Global Land Tool Network

GLTN – Customary Tenure Security Tools

• Currently 63 partners

• Land professionals, civil society, research and capacity development, multilateral and bilateral

• Shared commitment to developing tools that can enable the implementation of pro-poor and gender sensitive land policy

• A multi-sided platform

• The strength of the network is the multidisciplinary and multisector partnership with a focused agenda

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GLTN OBJECTIVES

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•Establish a continuum of land rights rather just focus on individual land titling;•Improve and develop pro-poor land management as well as land tenure tools;•Unblock existing initiatives;•Improve global coordination on land (Paris Declaration);•Assist in the development of gender sensitive tools which are affordable and useful to NGOs/grassroots, professionals, academia/training and other stakeholders; •Improve the dissemination of knowledge about how to improve security of tenure at scale

CORE VALUES:CORE VALUES: Pro-poor, governance, equity, subsidiarity, affordability, systematic large scale approach, gender sensitiveness and sustainability.

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INTERACTION BETWEEN GLTN GOALS, CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES, THEMES AND TOOLS

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5. THEMES AND 18 TOOLS-Customary identified by partners as a priority

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THE TOOL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS – GENERIC STEPS

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Training (6)

Revision/Adoption/

Dissemination(5)

Piloting/Testing(4)

Product Development

(3)

Consultations(2)

Scoping Studies(1)

TOOL TOOL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

- EGMs, E-Forum, Meetings Workshops

-With (and through) partners-Specific products, i.e. criteria, guidelines, software (STDM)

- At country level, with partners

-Consultations with partners-Revisions, enhancement-Publication and dissemination

- Devt. of training packages- Conduct of training, i.e. TOTs

-Global knowledge-Current initiatives

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APPROACH TO CUSTOMARY TENURE SECURITY TOOLS

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•Customary tenure security tool development process is currently at the scoping study stage. Where we are seeking to scope the range of tools being developed and used in the land sector.•GLTN partners are engaged with customary land tools in a range of ways.•Focus on capitalizing the experience and knowledge within the network and beyond•Developing an analytical framework

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The first stage we are at is working on collection and description of customary tenure security tools •Recognizing that the tools are developed to respond to a range of different challenges (External and internal)•Analyze the tools with regards to gender responsiveness and other values•Identify critical success factors

Working out ways to tackle the complexity

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NEXT STEPS

•We are building a reference group for the research•Develop the way forward – through the reference group and other consultations•Ensuring linkages with regional processes •Developing global and/or regional tools which can be adapted to country and local context

•We would like to foster broad engagement in the process, going forward

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NEED TO KNOW MORE?GLTN Secretariat

UN-Habitat, P.O Box 30030, Nairobi 00100, Kenya

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