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Chief Rapporteur: 

DR. ELIZABETH GACHENGA 

Best pratices and approaches for the protection of community landrights in Kenya

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LANDRIGHTS

COMMUNITY LAND LAW

6th-7th June2013

Conference Manager:

FRANCISCA M. OBUBA 

Facilitator:

DR. COLLINS ODOTE

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6th June8.00 – 8.30 Registration of Participants

  Conference Manager 

8.30 – 9.30 Introductory Session

• Kenya Land Alliance (KLA)• University of Nairobi School of Law • Strathmore Law School  9.30-10.30 Opening Session

• Chair, KLA Board • Chair, Community Land Law Taskforce • Chairman, National Land Commission• Ford Foundation• Regional Representative • Cabinet Secretary for Land, Housing & 

Urban Development 

10.30-10.40 Group Photo Conference Participants & other Dignitaries - Conference Manager  

10.40-11.00 Health Break - All 

11.00-11.45 Context for Community Land Rights inKenya - Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote 

Objectives and Structure of the Conference - Dr. Collins Odote  11.45 – 12.45 African Comparative Experiences:

1. South African experience on communal land rights (Specically-South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Act.)

Dr. Wilmien Wicomb, Legal Resource Centre 

2. How the Ghana’s hybrid systems combining elements of   Anglo-European and customary law governs rights to property in land for particular communities in Ghana.

Prof. Nii Ashie Kotey, Law Faculty, University of Ghana 

3. e experience of upholding the Village Land Act as a legal framework for the recognized customary land law 

 governing communal/community land rights in Tanzania.

   Mr. Yefred Myenzi, Executive Director of HAKIARDHI .

 

12.45 – 1.15 Plenary Discussion - All 

1.15- 2.15 Lunch - All

2.15-3.30 African Comparative Experiences: 

4. Rwanda’s effort to Modernize Agriculture without the 

legal framework that recognizes customary forms of   governance to land and other natural resources.

   Mr. Raphael Mpayana, Agronomist with Rwandan Ministry of Natural Resources.

5. e efforts to develop a legal framework for the recognized customary land law governing communal/community land rights in Uganda.

 Ms. Judy Adoko, Executive Director , Land and Equity  Movement in Uganda (LEMU)

6. Gender and community tenure or customary tenure inNorthern Uganda.Elisa Scalise, Attorney Director LCWLR, LANDESA

7. Mozambique Experience of Protecting Community Land Rights under Mozambique Community Land Act of 1997 Regina Dos Santos, Investigadora de Genero, Centro Terra Viva 

3.30 – 4.00 Plenary Discussion - All 

4.00-4.15 Health Break - All 

4.15 – 5.00 International Comparative Experiences: 

1. Brazilian Legal Framework regarding Community Lands & particularly Agrarian Reform of Rural Settlements & Common Lands (‘faxinalaes’) and the Role of the 

 Judiciary Video on: Traditional People’s Lands and Territories in Brazil  

Dr. Alfredo Wagner  

 2. Agrarian Reform Settlements and Faxinais (CommonUse Lands) in Brazil. - Dr. Luis Edson Facchin

3. Indigenous Peoples and Quilombolas Communities inBrazil - Dr. Carlos Mares 

4. e Dynamics of Land Designation in the BrazilianForest in the Recent Years with Special Reference toCommunity Lands - Dr. Aurelio Vianna 

4.45-5.15 Plenary Discussion - All 

5.15 End of Day One

6.00 -8.00 Cocktail

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7th June8.30 - 9:00 Recap of Day 1

  Rapporteurs 

9.00 – 10.45 Case Studies

1. Ogiek Mt. Elgon - Peter Kitelo

 

 2. Endorois - Julius Muchemi & Wilson K. Kipsang 

 3. Kasigau - Dr. Celestine Musembi et al 

4. Tana River - Patrick Ochieng, Executive Director, Ujamaa 

Center 

5. Case study on the interface between community land rights 

and natural resource management focusing on the Northern

Rangeland & the experience of establishing conservancies - Dr.

 Mike Harrison, CEO Northern Rangelands Trust 

6. Mukuru Informal Settlement - Prof. Patricia Kameri-

 Mbote and Dr. Collins Odote 

10.45 - 11.15 Health Break - All 

11.15-12.00 Plenary Discussion - All 

12.00 -1.00 Group Discussions - All 

1.00- 2.00 Lunch - All

2.00-2.30 Group Discussions - All  

2.30-4.00 Plenary Discussion and Feedback 

4.00-4.30 Health Break -  All 

4.30-5.00 Workshop Conclusions & Recommendations 

5.00 OFFICIAL CLOSE OF WORKSHOP