MS-TCDC: Land Rights

MS-Training Centre for Development Cooperation (MS-TCDC) is conducting a five-day course on Land Rights from 2-6 November 2009 Arusha, Tanzania.

This course is aimed at practitioners working on land rights interventions and advocacy issues especially for the poor and marginalised indigenous people facilitated by CSOs, governments and their partners
By the end of the course, participants will have deeper understanding of the nature of land rights, how to secure them, how to develop effective and reliable institutions for management of land rights, how to use land rights to empower the poor and reduce poverty.

Course Content:

• Key concepts: Formal and informal nature of land rights, securing access to land, land rights and equity, land rights and empowerment for poverty reduction
• Land rights acquisition: Land policy and legislation; the various ways and means of securing and sustaining access to land, a gender perspective on land rights, gender and generational equity. Values and practices to equal access. Identity and citizenship: the social character of land.
• Implications of land rights on economic and political empowerment: Land pricing and commoditisation - determining access and rights to land: custom, law and market. Whose rights to land? Improvement of social, economic and political power of the poor; in representation and participation in decision-making at the local and national levels.
• Land rights institutionalisation: Land rights advocacy, maintaining land rights’ institutional integrity and trustworthiness. Land rights, land use planning, livelihood strategies and reduction of poverty.

Cost: Single room: US$610 and shared double: US$515 (Incl. tuition and full board)

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