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PEOPLE’S LAND RIGHTS: URNEGT NEET FOR POLICY & LAW REFORM - A Civil Society Perspective Zambia Land Alliance Tel: +

PEOPLE’S LAND RIGHTS: URNEGT NEET FOR POLICY & LAW REFORM - A Civil Society Perspective Zambia Land Alliance Tel: +260-260041 Email: land@coppernet.zm. ZLA – Network. Ass. for Land Development Zambia Civic Education Ass. Women for Change

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PEOPLE’S LAND RIGHTS: URNEGT NEET FOR POLICY & LAW REFORM - A Civil Society Perspective Zambia Land Alliance Tel: +

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  1. PEOPLE’S LAND RIGHTS: URNEGT NEET FOR POLICY & LAW REFORM - A Civil Society Perspective Zambia Land Alliance Tel: +260-260041 Email: land@coppernet.zm

  2. ZLA – Network • Ass. for Land Development • Zambia Civic Education Ass. • Women for Change • Caritas Zambia, JWOP, Zambia Alliance of Women, Law and Dev. Ass., plus 8 districts

  3. Customary Land • Land – primary resource • For food, shelter, business, Social status & power • ‘Land is life’ • Usually land allocated by chief/Headperson - male

  4. The Ideal, the Goal ! • Constitn protects rights of people • Good land policy/legal framework • Good land governances • Which people then??

  5. Challenging Issues • Inadequate constitutional protection • Large-scale land acquisitions – biofuels, water, mining, food prodn, etc • Inadequate legal/policy protection – evictions (Kabanje, Macha, Mpongwe, Masaiti, Kazungula, Nyimba, MFEZ) • Widows, children, disabled most affected • More land grab threats from technocrats

  6. Challenging issues • But note that there is no ‘free’ land out there ! • Loss of communal resources including water, pasture • No/inadequate compsation mechanisms

  7. Challenging Issues • Rising land prices e.g. $30-$200,000/10 ha • Serious national food insecurity threat • Women disadvgd in state and customary land, perpetually insecure • Land admin system not fully transparent/accountable • Long procedure, costly, centralised • dispute resolution mechanisms • Weak institutional framework capacity • Funding, technical, human

  8. Challenges in midst of: • inadequate govt programs on 30% provision • no standard guidelines/law on customary land admin • No Land Policy: ‘Hide and seek’ methods to land reform • 6th NDP silent on land • Inaccessible/outdated land Information

  9. Opportunities • Petauke, Chipata, Mansa land allocated to women between 22% to 30.2 % from 2005 -2009, Lands Ministry 50% +, but little sustainability • Traditional leaders recognising women’s land rights - chief Chitina of Mkushi district encouraging ‘joint’ land ownership • Lack of land policy provides an opportunity • Constitutional review • Review planning laws

  10. What Should Be Done? • Must STOP large scale land grabs till policy/legal frameworks are reviewed • Review constitution, land policy and lands Act – broad-based, gender sensitive process and outcome • Formulate customary land law • Change mindsets, focus on developing local people while addressing large scale investments

  11. What do we need to see? • Strong local community say • Provide the public with information • Strengthen capacity of land admin Ministry of Lands, Councils & civil society for service provision • Review SNDP, include land

  12. Thank you

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