V. Strengthening capacities to address land tenure security in Africa through better monitoring and information UN-Habitat in collaboration with ECA ($501,000) Background 1. Secure land and property rights are critical for reducing poverty, enhancing economic development, gender equality and social stability. When land is poorly managed, the problems often lead to disputes, land degradation, and lost economic and development opportunities, as seen in many developing countries. Secure land tenure and property rights can be delivered through a variety of forms. It is partly a matter of perception, and can be safeguarded under various mechanisms, provided the rights of land users and owners are clear. In addition to formal titles, security can be achieved through long-term rental contracts, or formal recognition of customary rights and informal settlements. This range of possible forms of tenure has become internationally recognized as a continuum, whereby each form of tenure provides different sets of rights and degrees of security and responsibility. 2. While some Governments have, to varying degrees, recognised a range of different forms of tenure as legitimate, ‘tenure security’ still tends to be defined strictly in more secure forms such as individual land titles. This not only fails to tap the realities on the ground, but severely reduces the number of women and men, particularly those living in poverty, who can realistically afford such ‘formal’ tenure security. The problem is particularly acute in Africa, where the majority of the populations will remain unable to afford such forms of tenure for generations, and are increasingly marginalised by market-based statutory tenure systems that emphasise individual rights. At present it is estimated that more than 70 per cent of Africans live outside of the formal land registry. 3. Given the limitations of land titling, and the value of an incremental approach to secure tenure, UN-Habitat, serving as the Secretariat of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), a coalition of 50 global partners working to enable governments and partners to implement pro-poor land policies, advocate for the use of a variety of alternative tenure options which can be more easily adapted in developing countries. While the continuum approach is increasingly being endorsed, there is still important work required to shift deeply rooted mind-sets around what secure tenure entails. 4. While tenure security in Africa needs to be addressed at many levels, this project focuses specifically on enabling land practitioners (state and non-state actors) and national statistical offices to more effectively monitor and provide information on the state of different existing forms of tenure at a national and city level, so as to more accurately advice land policy. This is a critical component of improving land policy formulation and implementation in Africa, as the information will enable Governments and non-state actors to assess how land policies are being implemented in practice and over time. 5. The project is focused on developing capacities of land practitioners and statistical officers in three countries in Africa, with a view to share and promote the methods used across the region. It will build on an existing tenure security indicators framework focused on urban land tenure security, jointly produced by UN-Habitat and GLTN. Methods of measuring and tracking different forms of tenure will be applied to both urban and rural settings, and be institutionalised beyond the project in the selected countries through opportunities to add tenure security related questions into existing surveys such as the Demographic Health Survey and Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey. National statistical offices will also be supported to use the Urban Inequities Survey and assessments at the policy at the city level through the Legal and Institutional Framework Index (LIFI), both of which have been tested by UN-Habitat in various cities. The process will encourage collaboration between statistical and municipal offices, and draw on a wide range of state and non-state land actors to refine the measurement methods and analyse and share the data. 6. The project will draw on a number of partners of the Global Land Tool Network, the primary one being ECA, which will provide the platform for regional exchange and synergy with the roll-out of the above mentioned Land Policy Initiative Framework and Guidelines. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will capitalize on the project to encourage countries to implement the Committee on World Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. The GLTN Secretariat will provide a global platform for harnessing expertise, making use of its convening power, creating space for knowledge sharing, management and documenting the practices. The country experiences are envisioned to generate further understanding and international support to the critical area of tenure security monitoring which is still under-resourced. Objective of the Organization: To strengthen the capacity of Summary budget (Thousands of United States dollars) selected African governments and other relevant land actors in Consultants 140.5 monitoring tenure security to guide land policy implementation Travel 45.0 Relationship to the strategic framework for the period 2014Grants 180.0 2015 and the Millennium Development Goals: UN-Habitat Operating expenses 26.0 subprogramme 1 (Urban legislation, land and governance), and Workshops/training 109.5 subprogramme 7 (Research and capacity development); ECA Total 501.0 subprogramme 2 (Food security and sustainable development), and subprogramme 2 (statistics); Millennium Development Goal 7. Expected accomplishments of the Secretariat Indicators of achievement (EA1) Increased capacity of the three selected African governments to assess land tenure security through the use of a tenure security indicators framework (EA2) Land policy decisions in the three selected countries informed through the findings of the tenure security monitoring (IA1.1) Number of Member States able to utilise the tenure security indicators framework, and its methods, tools, and guidelines, in their urban and national contexts (IA2.1) Number of Member States that have utilised the findings of the tenure security indicators frameworks to guide their land policies Main activities 7. The main activities of the project will include: (A1.1) Organize regional workshop to: (i) update the project countries on the existing tenure security indicators framework, including its tools and guidelines; and (ii) establish criteria for, and preliminary selection of, representatives to constitute multi-stakeholder national land tenure monitoring reference groups, for advising on the implementation of the project; (A1.2) Develop strategy and road map for assessing existing capacities of participating institutions and implementing the tenure security indicators framework in the three project countries; (A1.3) Develop national adaptation of the tenure security indicators framework (including its methods, tools and guidelines) and production of related training materials; (A2.1) Organize national workshops (three) to enable national statistical and municipal offices to use the adapted tenure security indicators framework; (A2.2) Support to three countries (through grants to national statistical and/or municipal offices depending on institutional country contexts) to collect data, analyse and disseminate the collected information, develop a strategy for continued utilisation of the methodology by their institutions, and convene multi-stakeholder action planning workshops to discuss the data and policy implications of the findings; (A2.3) Document the experience, and results of, the action learning seminars in the three countries, for wider learning on possible land policy implications of the data generated. Detailed budget (US dollars) Consultants International consultants International consultant to provide inputs at regional and three national workshops and in strategy development and national adaptation activities, in support of activities A1.1, A1.2, A2.1 and A2.3 and to evaluate the project (advisory service travel = $10,000*) + (evaluation = $10,500) = $20,500 (*Global Land Tool Network to pay the fee of $50,000 over a duration of 6 work months) National/Regional consultants National consultants (3) for coordinating the development a strategy and road map for implementing the tenure security indicators framework guide the national adaptation of the framework, co -facilitate the national workshops, and facilitate the action planning workshops being hosted by the national statistical offices in support of activities A.1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A2.1, and A2.2 ($40,000 x 3 persons) = $120,000 140 500 45 000 Travel of staff UN-Habitat staff members Attending workshops and support of country activities, in support of activities A1.1, A1.2, A2.1, A2.2, and A2.3. ($3,000 per trip x 6 persons/trips) = $18,000 Implementing Partners’ travel (UNECA and FAO) Attending regional workshop and national events in support of activities A1.1, A2.2, and A2.3. ($3,000 per person x 9 persons) = $27,000 Grants Contractual services and grants for the national statistical institutions/municipal offices to implement the tenure security indicators framework, development of tools and guides for the implementation of the framework, analysis and compilation of results, and convening of action planning seminar to discuss findings in support to A1.3, and A2.2 ($60,000 X 3 countries) = $180,000 Seminars and Workshops Regional workshops One regional workshop for participants from the target countries at start of project (including government officials (national and local), land professionals (e.g. surveyors and notaries), CSO (particularly youth and gender representatives), research and academia, in support of activity A.1.1 ($3,000 per participants x 20 participants) = $60,000 National workshops Three capacity development workshops for national statistical offices on using the tenure security indicators framework in support of activity A2.1 ($16,500 per workshop x 3) = $ 49,500 180 000 109 500 26 000 Operating expenses In support of activity A1.3 for national adaptation of tools and guidelines and materials for national training workshops ($8,000 x 2 workshops) = $16,000 In support of activity A2.3 for outcome document on experience and land policy implications of the data findings = $10,000 501 000 Total .