Land Alliances for National Development

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The complexity of effort required to achieve sustainable development, coupled with the challenges in establishing a good land policy aimed at increasing the rural poor's access and tenure to land, call for robust partnerships among citizen, governmental and international organizations. These challenges represent an appeal to all stakeholders to become allies with the landless by strengthening their resource opportunities and consequently their capacity to develop sustainable livelihoods.

Land Alliances for National Development, or ‘LAND Partnerships’, was launched by the Coalition at the WSSD. More than 70 representatives participated from governments and international/national CSOs and NGOs. LAND Partnerships constitute a worldwide initiative, led by the Coalition, to foster country-level collaboration among state, civil-society, bilateral and international actors. This collaboration is vital to achieve participatory dialogue, improve policy formulation, establish joint action to achieve secure resource tenure, and increase access to land by the landless and near-landless.

The first step in this collaborative process involves the establishment of a neutral forum in each participating country. In guiding this process, the Coalition uses its experience in convening stakeholders across institutional borders, to address complex, and often difficult, land-management issues. LAND Partnerships is not prescriptive, but nurtures arenas, fora, events, committees, land alliances, and other structures that can provide a framework and mechanism for those with diverse, vested interests in land, to find a common basis for progress. Through the establishment of LAND Partnerships, the Coalition has found it possible to find common ground, build alliances and resolve conflicts. LAND Partnerships can then move to the next stage of developing country-specific solutions to problems relating to the historic, social, economic and political challenges related to improving land access by the poor.

Land Alliances for National Development: A Johannesburg Partnership initiative for WSSD - Strengthening the Implementation of Agenda 21 by building country level partnerships on Land