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Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA)
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Southern Africa |
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| Country: |
South Africa |
| Contact Details: |
123 Janu Ndlovu Street
Pietermaritzburg 3201
Tel: (0333)457607
Fax: (0333)455106
Contact: Lisa Del Grande
www.afra.co.za
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| Description: |
The Association for Rural Advancement is an independent rural land service organization (affiliated to the National Land Committee) which has been working in the land rights sector for the past twenty years. The focus of its strategic and operational work is in contributing to the redress of the legacy of unjust land dispensation in South Africa. |
| Coalition Programme Activities: |
Advocacy Events - ICARRD 2006 Administering Land Rights: Alternatives to Individual Property Ownership
Community Empowerment Facility
Farm dwellers project
LAND Partnerships
Planning and training workshop on Participatory Consultation PDF 202KB
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| Aims and objectives: |
- Empower communities to engage with land reform processes to meet their needs.
- Promote and protect the interests of women and the poorest within the groups with which AFRA works.
- Network with other organizations to lobby for a just, equitable and effective land reform programme for the benefit of our target groupw ithin an integrated rural development framework.
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| Programmes and Activities: |
- Externally defined programme and project implementation work
The defining feature of this work is that we are open to entering into contracts to implement land reform projects. However, we have a set of selection criteria, which projects must satisfy, including that they are consistent with our mission statement.
- Internally defined project work
The projects aim to highlight, and contribute to the filling of critical gaps and eliminating weaknesses in land reform programmes. These are projects that are identified by AFRA as work that is not being done and yet is necessary if our vision is to be realised. This is done through specific projects or research. Though part of our ongoing work, they will be time bound and specific. They will not necessarily be undertaken to earn income.
- Community Empowerment Programme
Services provided by this programme are:
- Training of community structures;
- Building and strengthening community structures;
- Providing information to communities around policy and implementation issues;
- Facilitating the formation of a rural social movement;
- Facilitating community networking around common issues
- Facilitating collaboration and coordination of organisations working at district level;
- Facilitating joint community campaigns;
- Giving advice on land issues;
- Putting communities in touch with other role players who are able to provice resources.
All of the above are informed by the the following programmes: Redistribution, Restitution and Tenure Reform.
The Rural Women's Movement Project (RWM):
Although AFRA's primary focus is on land reform and sustainable development, it is understood that the Rural Women's Movement will address broader issues related to women.
The AFRA vision statement sets out our commitment to empowering rural women. We believe that in order to promote equality between men and women we need to involve ourselves in the needs, concerns, and interests raised by rural women.
Financial Administration and Information Technology
AFRA also contracts out services in financial administration and information technology.
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| Target Groups |
AFRA works with black rural people in KwaZulu-Natal who have been dispossessed or are subject to insecure tenure or who do not have the resources to access land.
Agriculture Workers
Farmers
Forest users/dwellers
Landless
Peasants
Women
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| Focus: |
Land Acquisition
Land Tenure Systems
Community Capacity Building
Network Building
Institutional Development
Lobbying and Advocacy
Legislation, Regulations and Legal Support
Policy Research
Land Literacy
Land Demarcation, Mapping and Cadastre
Women's Access to Land
Conflicts and Conflict Resolution
Land and Water Rights
Environmental Sustainability
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