International Land Coalition
Global Assembly 2005

Land is Life
Secure access to land helps reduce poverty
Santa Cruz, Bolivia - 19-23 March 2005

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President Mesa's
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Programme

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española - AECI
Calle Arenales 583 - Casilla 875
Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Bolivia

Saturday, 19 March - Arrival of Delegates, Registration and Reception


Sunday, 20 March - Learning from Bolivian experiences

Participants will select from one of two learning options


Monday, 21 March - Opening Session

09.30h Inauguration - Master of Ceremonies - Annalisa Mauro

11.30h Land for Rural Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

13.00h Lunch

14.30h Land and the Millennium Development Goals

Plenary of three successive sessions incorporating case studies followed by discussion.

  • 14.30h Land and Territorial Development

Land is one of many interconnected factors affecting the dynamics of rural space or territory. The opportunities for poor men and women depend on how the development of the territory incorporates such interactions, such as those between the urban and rural; farm and non-farm; governmental authorities; community organizations and the private sector; social and environmental factors and the inclusiveness of agreements, and decision-making processes affecting these relationships.

Mr. Roberto Haudry de Soucy, from IFAD (Spanish) - Latin America and the Caribbean Division ppt 1900KB

Ms. Rohini Reddy, from SARRA - India ppt 199KB

  • 15.30h Reviewing, Reforming and Revitalizing Land Policies

Governmental institutions, community-based/civil-society organizations and the private sector represent key actors that need to be engaged in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of the policies and related legislative and regulatory systems governing land access and use.

(Mr. Joseph Mbinji, from Zambia Land Alliance - Zambia PDF 36KB)

Mr. Lumumba Odenda, from Kenya Land Alliance - Kenya

Ms Rita Aciro Lakor, from Uganda Land Alliance - Uganda

Mr. Erpan Faryadi, from KPA - Indonesia

  • 16.30h Land Rights: Diverse Organizations Sharing a Common Cause

The basis for building a land rights movement, at international or national levels, has different starting points for bringing organizations together. For some organizations land is an underlying factor for achieving food security, whilst for others equitable land access is an issue of democratic development. In still others, it may be conflict prevention or natural resource management.

Ms. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, from IFPRI - USA PPT 492KB

Mr. Jochen Donner, from DWHH - Germany PPT 39KB

Intergovernmental working group for the elaboration of a set of voluntary guidelines to support to progressive realization of the right to adquate food in the context of national food security. PDF 93KB

17.30h Summary and Conclusions. Moderator: Antonio Quizon summary and Sappho Haralambous

18.00h Adjournment

19.30h Official Assembly Dinner and Cultural Programme


Tuesday, 22 March

09.00h - Working Together - Part One

Opening Plenary and Briefing on the Coalition, Bruce Moore and Julie Carle

09.30h - Introduction to the working groups, Annalisa Mauro

Participants will join one of three working sessions. Each discussion will be guided by Coalition members who will act as facilitators and rapporteurs.

Fostering participation in national land policy formulation, implementation and monitoring including regulatory, legal, policy and institutional factors. Effective participation by rural peoples' organizations depends on strengthening their capacity and on the willingness of governments to establish consensual processes for land policy formulation.

Individual private property is often, sometimes all too often, the primary way of considering security of land tenancy. Experience points; among others, to community, collective and traditional ways in which security may involve ownership, user and leasehold rights. Additional and innovative ways are emerging in response to changes in the social and economic nature of communities and countries as well as global forces.

Both territorial development and collective action can improve tenure security and strengthen rights, resolve conflicts over natural resources, increase food security and improve rural livelihoods. What forms does territorial development take in practice? How can collective action reinforce or strengthen democratic processes?

13.00h Lunch

14.30h Working Together - Part Two

Plenary Session

18.00 Adjournment

Free evening


Wednesday, 23 March

09.00h Governing Assembly of Members

Official Business Meeting for Voting Members only, Co-chaired by Jim Carruthers and Nathaniel Don Marquez

09.00h Learning from Others

A session devoted to exchanging lessons learned on methodologies, implementation practices and techniques with a particular focus on knowledge, networking, innovation and community empowerment. The session will be guided by Coalition members who will act as facilitators and rapporteurs

13.00h Lunch

14.00h Assembly Outcomes and Conclusion - Co-chairs Bruce Moore (ILC) and Miguel Urioste (Fundación TIERRA)

16.30h Meeting of the Coalition Council for 2005-2007, Co-chaired by Jim Carruthers and Nathaniel Don Marquez

19.30 Official Closing Dinner


Thursday, 24 March

Departures throughout the day.