Ground Fl Everite House
20 De Korte Street
Braamfontein
Johannesburg
Tel: (27 11) 4033803
Fax: (27 11) 3396315
Contact: Mr Buti Chakache

Member of the International Land Coalition 2003

Advocacy and Policy

Workshop on Sharing Experiences, Planning and Training on Participatory Consultations

Support of LPM Landless People's Movement

ARnet

Empowering the landless through capacity building: As part of its activities to empower the landless, the NLC organizes landless communities and those with insecure land claims to provide them with information, training, skills development, organizational development, conflict resolution and negotiating skills, access to development resources, etc.

Knowledge generation from the grassroots for effective policy advocacy:As a result of its ability to bring community interests to the fore through community facilitation, advocacy, and research experience, the NLC has made significant contributions and impact to national land reform policy. An important watershed in its policy engagement was the Community Land Conference held in February 1994 at which the demands of rural and landless communities were translated into concrete proposals for land reform. The NLC played a central role in developing the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act and in 1997, similarly advocated and mobilized around the Extension of Security of Tenure Bill. The NLC provides the essential link between marginalized grassroots communities and the national land reform programme and enables an equitable reform process to take place. The NLC thus becomes a constructive facilitator of the reform process.

Co-operation with government on agrarian reform implementation. The NLC currently engages the government at all levels of land reform policy as well as its implementation. It has, in fact, contributed to shaping and driving land reform programmes on the ground. Because of the closeness of land reform to local government, the NLC has extensively participated in the formation of local government structures that are more favourable and more accountable to rural communities.

Lobby and advocacy on agrarian reform
Community Capacity building
Land Aquisition
Land Tenure Systems
Network Building
Institutional Development
Lobbying and Advocacy
Legislation, Regulations and Legal Support
Policy Research
Post Land Acquisition Services
Land Literacy
Land Demarcation, Mapping and Cadastre
Womens Acces to Land
Indigneous Peoples Resources Rights
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Land and Water Rights
Environmental Sustainability