Africa Task Force

Africa Task Force

Dr Diane Dumashie

Chair

FIG Congress, Kuala Lumpu, Malaysia

16th- 21st June 2014

African Task Force www.fig.net/tf/africa

Good morning

• Past (2010 & 13),

• Present (2014) &

• Future (2015+)

ATF Roundtable – KL 2014

Can We move on?

What: We were asked & We did:

A -Aspirational

F - Fundamental

R - Rewards

I - Inspirational

C - Connectivity

A - Action


You delivered – Thank You!African Workshop themes:• 2010: Workshop, Peri- Urban Development,

Kenya,

Round table, WW Marrakech, 2011• 2011: Workshop, Resilience Women & Young

Surveyors, Soth Africa,

Round table, WW Rome, 2012• 2012: Workshop, Environmental Agenda,

Ghana,

Round table, WW Abuja, 2013• 2013: Pulling together recommendations,

• 2014: Congress, Kuala Lumpur Publication #63

Workshop manual

Task Force report ATF Roundtable – KL 2014

AspirationalThe How and Why: For: •Sub-Saharan Africa Land Professional Member associationsBy •Devising innovative ways to engage

How? •Do our Associations demonstrate societal contribution? and •Can we make our profession a global thought leadership? Why? •MDGs: Our societal responsibility •


Fundamentally - We did

• Workshop – 140 attendees over 3 workshops • Representation from West, East and Southern Africa (10

Nations) • Documented: Briefing, PPT, Ideas, Tool drafting,

Proceedings, Review & Design, Engagement, and• Rewarding our community……


Fundamentally- More? What we’ve yet to do

Past, Present (today) and the Term 2015- 2018……

The future You want:•Our Purpose: Social responsibility •You Recognise: opportunity to be Change Agents •Your Need: Continuing Professional Development (CPD)


Why?A continuing need for our network?•MDG’s expire in 2015 & much work ongoing led by UN Habitat To draft the SDG’s •UN Habitat - Think Urbanisation, focus Cities •MDG’s, now +2015 to evolve to the SDG’s …

Sustainability is back &

high on the agenda

And•Africa Union initiatives…..


Land Issues: Complexity and diversity of land issues across the continent--continental prioritization of issues is problematic

Source: Dalberg analysis

Land governance priorities across regions

East Africa•Legal pluralism

•Protection of the environment

•Women and vulnerable groups

•Conflict

Southern Africa•Inequality of access•Security of tenure

•Dualism•Harmonization of

policies

North Africa•Environmental degradation

•Security of tenure•Gender inequality

•Low productivity on land resources

West Africa•National resources

•Climate change•Insecurity of tenure

•Vulnerable populations

Central Africa•Natural resources•Informal settlements

•Vulnerable populations•Conflict

Though there are areas of commonality across the continent such as gender issues and tenure systems, the focus issues for land governance reform will vary by region, country,

making a continental prioritization of limited utility

H. FIG President Professor Stig Enemark

Inspirational to establish ATF •MDGs: Our social responsibility

Recognised:•Flying High, the Big vision & global agenda, but•Keep feet on the Ground

And•Rapporteur….


ATF Recommendations, Our Path Ahead - Connectivty

Working to influence for change; inequalities that are ethically indefensible, economically inefficient, and political destabilising

•Communication– work with political and civic society, otherwise they will work with other

Professionals– Working with the young and to delegate and mentor

•Collaboration – Engage in the built and rural environment– Work to consider future trends, prepare and act responsibly – Understand and engage with historical context, traditional leaders

•Connectivity •Ensure skills are developed that will reach out to all members of the public, private and civic communities.

• Embrace the new and exciting times ahead


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The Future we want to shape

(…and How ATF will operate - if at all?)

Deliberations/ Voting:

1.Do we want to continue?

2.What is the most beneficial delivery Platforms

3.Enabling logistics - Venue location etc

4.Format & Content

•Rapporteur

•Next stepsATF Roundtable – KL 2014

Our Dialogue Process• Motion will be put forward,

Q&A& observations, then

• Vote with show of cards• Use the red and green cards to vote.• NB an abstention will not be

recorded

• Direction & deliberations recorded (Chatham House rules)


Vote 1 - Continuing ATF

Motion:

That the ATF should continue, subject to agreeing in what format?

•Yes

•No


Action What we need: TORs to GC for their

consideration advised in 2016

Drafting under the headings of:

•Continuation

•Delivering Platforms

•Enabling

•Format and content •(To avoid deliberations being step- by- step)


QA&O- Delivery Platform• Hosted by FIG

– Finance has to be sourced, – Subsidy value circa 160-180 EU based on

60 persons

• How many meets each year? – Current is 3 over 4 years (next 2015)

• An alternative includes: Leadership4Change, piloted in Ghana and UK…..


CPD a Two part approach:

•Science/ Hard skills; means systematic analysis of the problem solving

•Art/ Soft Skills; interpersonal skills,

•L4C = Listen, Create, and innovatively Deliver, leadership change skills for you and your institutions

CPD


Vote 2 – Delivery PlatformsMotion:

a) To host through FIG/ ATF (with or without funding)

b) If not possible, To consider other platforms

Vote: Yes or No to each,•A) •B)


QA&O- Enabling

Venue and Country Hosts•Thanks to ISK, PLATO/ UCT/ GhIS, We have been East, West and South

•Continue with rotation and asking Member Associations to help?•Quantify annual, more or less?•Consider UK in August each year (or another month)?


Vote 3 – EnablingMotion: •a) To continue with current time line format: i.e one workshop each year in Continental Africa•b) Adjust the timeline format ? •C) allow for additional workshop in UK?

•Vote: Yes or No to•A) •B)•C)


QA&O- Format & Content• Capturing our outputs in a manual- helpful?• Agee 3 or 4 themes? If so link to SDGs? • Do we consider capacity development amongst

LPs is enough? (3rd party cost implications)• Is the participatory design appropriate going

forward? Should we hold more roundtables?• Will joint co-operations e.g. GLTN, AU be

beneficial? • Other ideas for format and content? E.g. aim to

lobby and influence organisations such as AU


Vote 4 – Format & ContentMotion: Sub motions include, to:

a) Record and document

b) Thematic approach on SDGs

c) Iinvite 3rd party stakeholders (cost?)

d) Participatory design

e) Co-operations

f) Other issues?

•Vote: Yes or No to each


Next steps

Motion:

-that Your deliberations be represented into a single proposition, and

-Approved by You (end August)….

•Rapporteur Prof Enemark..


Action Summary

Votes on:

•Continuation

•Delivering Platforms

•Enabling

•Format and content

Wrap Up…


Housekeeping

• Certificates?

• Workshop Photos?

• Ongoing communications (Email/ Linked-In)?

• Closing


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A Big

Thank You for a Productive & Energising

Term 2009- 2014

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