Document Type: Project Design and Implementation

The purpose of this work plan is to lay out detailed activities based on the program outlined by USAID/Washington and USAID/Kenya in the February 2009 final SOW. This work plan covers a period of 18 months from 1 September 2009–28 February 2011.

ARD first drafted the SECURE work plan in April 2009, and submitted it to USAID on 4 May 2009. Due to the need for additional GoK approvals, USAID/Kenya requested that the project start date, work plan finalization, and Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) development be postponed. Once the approvals were obtained and theproject started on 1 September 2009, the MoL (as SECURE’s key GoK implementer) requested that work plan be finalized after the first stakeholder workshop was held (December 2009) to allow work plan activities to tie in with the GoK schedules. USAID/Kenya approved this new schedule. This work plan has received buy-in from all key partners, particularly from the MoL, to the process and activities
proposed herein.

This paper identifies five categories of population groups whose vulnerability is potentially increased by land tenure and property rights interventions: women; households that have been directly affected by HIV/AIDS; pastoralist communities; indigenous populations; and people who have been displaced during violent conflicts (refugees, IDPs, and demobilized combatants) or who are threatened to be displaced by natural disasters or climate change (climate refugees). These are populations who, either because of their ascribed characteristics (e.g., gender or ethnicity), livelihood systems (e.g., mobile populations or commonly held resource bases), and/or external shocks (e.g., natural disasters or violent conflict), have weak claims on land rights that might be formalized as part of land tenure reform. For each of these groups, the relevant theoretical, empirical, and policy literature on their interface with land tenure issues is reviewed, with the goal of calling attention to the principal challenges faced by these vulnerable populations.

A team of six members from the USAID|Sudan Property Rights Program (SPRP) and the Southern Sudan Land Policy Steering Committee (LPSC) conducted a workshop consultation with 107 participants from 11 counties of Upper Nile State (UNS), including representatives of state line ministries, county commissioners, traditional chiefs, county executive secretaries, women representatives, youth representatives, and civil society organizations (CSOs). Participants discussed their concerns and ideas regarding land tenure and property rights (LTPR) over the course of three days.

This report, published in August 2009 by USAID, is one of a series of regional documents intended to identify the broad range of land tenure issues and challenges found throughout Sudan’s ten states. The workshop in Rumbek, Lakes State is one of ten being conducted in each state of southern Sudan. Participants included representatives from civil society, women’s organizations, and traditional authorities, although the largest number of participants has been drawn from government institutions at the State, county, and payam level.

The Kimberley Process (KP) and its supporting certification system (KPCS) came into effect in January 2003. The effort aims to control the flow of rough diamonds to and within international markets. While generally deemed successful by the industry and cooperating countries, the KPCS has failed to come to grips with a huge proportion of diamond mining in alluvial producer countries. The small-scale and itinerant character of alluvial diamond mining make it particularly difficult for governments to exercise effective monitoring and regulation of this sector, or to improve conditions in an often chaotic environment. Thus a significant portion of alluvial diamond mining activity remains unregulated and unregistered.

This report, published in July 2009 by USAID, is one of a series of regional documents intended to identify the broad range of land tenure issues and challenges found throughout Sudan’s ten states. Participants included representatives from civil society, women’s organizations, and traditional authorities, although the largest number of participants has been drawn from government institutions at the State, county, and payam levels.

This report, published in June 2009 by USAID, is one of a series of regional documents intended to identify the broad range of land tenure issues and challenges found throughout Sudan’s ten states. The workshop in Wau, Western Bahr El Ghazalis one of ten being conducted in each state of southern Sudan. Participants included representatives from civil society, women’s organizations, and traditional authorities, although the largest number of participants has been drawn from government institutions at the State, county, and payam level.

This report, published in June 2009 by USAID, is one of a series of regional documents intended to identify the broad range of land tenure issues and challenges found throughout Sudan’s ten states. The workshop in Yambio, Western Equatoria State (WES) is the first of ten being conducted in each state of southern Sudan. Participants included representatives from civil society, women’s organizations, and traditional authorities, although the largest number of participants has been drawn from government institutions at the State, county, and payam level.

Completion of a review of legislation in Guinea that regulates or influences property rights to land and natural resources in alluvial diamond mining areas was identified as a priority and stage-setting activity to be included in the program designed to achieve the Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Pilot Program (PRADD)1 result 2: A mechanism for identifying and recognizing property rights holders is established in the target zones. Statutory policies are a significant part of the property rights context that the PRADD pilot project seeks to illuminate and strengthen. However, statutory rights in most African countries are best considered within a broad perspective.

The purpose of the study is to raise questions concerning the draft Kenya Land Policy and to propose areas for further consideration, to assist Kenya in its attempts to address this difficult issue. The study thus first reviews and assesses systematically the ideas put forward in the current draft of the policy. It goes on to look at the implications of some elements of the policy for ongoing USAID programs, and at opportunities for new programming. It then provides key findings and recommendations.