The Land Access Movement of South Africa (LAMOSA) is an independent
Community Based Organisation (CBO) advocating for land and agrarian rights, and substantive democracy through facilitating Sustainable Development.
Mission:
To combat poverty, inequalities and oppression through People Centred Development (PCD), advocacy for access to land that was brutally and forcefully taken from our ancestors, substantive democracy, profound social, economic and political structural transformation, and facilitation of Sustainable Development for prosperity.
Vision:
Sustainable Community members, families, organizations, institutes and/ or enterprises are engaged in, and are in control of sustainable collective social, economic and political actions.
Objectives:
To Contribute To The Accessing Of Land And Agrarian Rights For The Dispossessed And Landless People Of South Africa.
Dispossessed and landless people in targeted communities have the capacity to engage in the land reform process and to facilitate effective land use for their livelihood
Activities/Main areas of work:
1. Land and agrarian reform
Result Area 1:
Land and agrarian policy reform development and review LAMOSA will have influenced changes and for improvements in policies relating to land and agrarian reform for the benefit of its member communities. Result Area 2:
Land and agrarian reform policy Implementation
2a). Dispossessed communities have their land swiftly restored.
2b). Landless people have accessed land through the land redistribution programme.
2. Post settlement programmes
Result Area 3:
Community governance and administration
LAMOSA Member communities have systems that ensure equal access to land user rights and control of natural resources that are recognised by both the community judicial system. Result Area 4:
Local economic development
LAMOSA member communities are engaged in viable local economic development activities. Result Area 5:
Community Infrastructure and social development
LAMOSA would have ensured that the member communities have contributed to the development of the IDPs in their local municipalities so as to ensure that basic social services and infrastructure development are catered for.
3. Governance and institutional support
Result Area 6: Institutional Support and Governance at all national and regional level of LAMOSA.
LAMOSA has effective and efficient governance, management and administration systems
Coverage:
South Africa
Beneficiaries:
Communities
Membership/Affiliations:
– Alliance for land and Agrarian Reform in SA (ALARM)
– Grassroots international (a member of HUAIROU)
– Women’s Land Link Programme (WLLA)
– South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO)
