RECONCILE Projects and Programmes

Land Rights Programme

Formalization and Land–based Livelihoods in Eastern Africa 

This project seeks, through action research and advocacy to generate policy options for engagement with the Commission for Legal Empowerment of the Poor (HLCLEP) as well as governments and regional and global frameworks to secure property rights of communities in the Horn of Africa that depend on common property natural resources for their livelihoods.  It is supported by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA).

RECONCILE is working with partners in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Southern Sudan to generate case studies mechanisms for securing and managing land and natural resources. The partner organizations are Mainyoito Pastoralists Integrated Development Organization (MPIDO) in Kenya, Matheniko Development Forum (MADEFO) in Uganda and Ujamaa- Community Resource Trust in Tanzania.  Two consultants will undertake similar case studies in Ethiopia and South Sudan.

The case studies will be presented for discussions at community and national levels workshops for the respective countries in the first instance and later at a regional workshop to identity and agree on key advocacy issues regarding the securing of property rights for hunter – gatherer s and pastoralists. The ideas coming out of the process shall be used to engage with policy frameworks at the global, regional and national levels on securing livelihoods that are based on CPRs in Eastern Africa.