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Please note:
Participation by invitation only.
For further details, please contact: sarpn@hsrc.ac.za
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Monday 16 June
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| 17:30 - 19:00 |
Registration (primarily for those already in the hotel) |
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Day 1 (Tuesday 17 June)
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| 8.00-8.30 |
Registration (primarily for those attending locally) |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Opening
Kaori Izumi (FAO),
Robin Palmer (OXFAM GB) |
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I. Women's Land and Property Rights and Conceptual Framework |
Chair: Nomcebo Manzini (UNIFEM)
Facilitator: Scott Drimie (HSRC)
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| 9:00- 9:30 |
Gender issues of land tenure and reform in Southern and Eastern Africa: An overview
Cherryl Walker (HSRC) |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Discussion |
| 10:00-10.15 |
Coffee break |
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II. Legal Issues of Land, Property and (co-) ownership |
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Chair: Robin Palmer (OXFAM GB)
Facilitator: Carin Vijfhuizen (Univ. Wageningen)
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| 10:15-10:45 |
Joint titling and its economic implication in Uganda
Abby Sabina-Zziwa (MISR) |
| 10.45-11.15 |
Gender perspective in the land reform process in Uganda
Harriet Busingye (Uganda Land Alliance) |
| 11.15-11.30 |
Discussant 1: Ambreena Manji (Univ. Warwick) - Co-ownership or consent clause in the Uganda Land Act? |
| 11.30-11.45 |
Discussant 2: Birgit Englert (Univ. Vienna) - Legislation for women's land rights: a wrong answer? |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Discussion |
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III. Natural Resources |
Chair: G. Lekhula (Ministry of Lands, Botswana)
Facilitator: Craig Castro (OXFAM GB)
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| 12.15-12:45 |
Strategic women and gainful men: women's rights to natural resources in Mozambique
Rachel Waterhouse (Consultant Mozambique),
& Carin Vifhuizen (Univ. Wageningen)
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| 12:45-13:15 |
Discussion |
| 13:15-14:30 |
Lunch break |
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IV. Women's Inheritance Rights |
Parallel session 1
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Inheritance rights - Zimbabwe |
Inheritance rights - Malawi |
Chair:
Facilitator:
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Rose Gawaya (OXFAM GB)
Gun Mikkelsen (FINIDA) |
Jan Peterson (Huairou Commission)
Ingunn Ikdhal (Univ. Oslo) |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Venia Magaya's Sacrifice in Zimbabwe: A case of custom gone awry
Agatha TsiTsi Dodo (WLSA, Zimbabwe) |
Women's inheritance rights in MalawiNaomi Ngwira (Univ. Malawi) |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
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| 15.30-16.00 |
Tea break |
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V. Women's land rights in post-conflict countries and in pastoral communities |
Parallel session 2
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Post-conflict |
Pastoral communities |
| Chair: Facilitator: |
Caroline Sande-Mukulira, (OXFAM GB)Nomcebo Manzini (UNIFEM) |
Maren Liberum (OXFAM GB)
Ada Mwangola (OXFAM GB) |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Women's land rights in post conflict countries
Nyradzai Gumbonzvanda (UNIFEM) |
Pastoral land and women's rights to landFiona Flintan (International Famine Centre, Ireland) |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
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Day 2 (Wednesday 18 June)
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| VI. HIV/AIDS and Women's Land Rights |
Chair: Richard Trenchard, IFAD
Facilitator: Michael Aliber, HSRC
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Gender, HIV/AIDS and land issues in Kenya
Cherryl Walker (HSRC) |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Questions |
| 9:20-9:40 |
HIV/AIDS and Women's land rights and livelihood in Uganda
Maude Mugisha (EASSI) |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Testimony 1: Our struggle with HIV/AIDS, land/property and livelihood
Constance Niwagaba (Bunono-Ilanga Group of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda)
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| 10:00-10:20 |
Testimony 2: Evicted from rural home: HIV/AIDS, violence and loss of livelihood
Edvina Kyoheirwe (woman living with HIV/AIDS in Kampala) |
| 10:20-11:00 |
Questions and Discussion on HIV/AIDS and women's land rights and livelihood |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Coffee break |
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VII. Land Administration and Legal aid for women's land rights |
Parallel session 3
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Land administration and women's land rights |
Legal aid to strengthen women's land/ property rights |
Chair:
Facilitator: |
Sithembiso Gumbi (DLA)
Abby-Sabina-Zziwa (MISR) |
Winluck Wahiu (ICJ)
Samantha Hargreaves (NLC) |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Best practice in land administration for tenure security for women
Marjolein Benschop (UN-Habitat) |
Paralegals' support to protect women's land rights
Women Lawyers Association (FIDA) Kenya |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Questions |
Questions |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Efficient land administration as a tool to secure women's land rights
G. Lekhula (Min. of Lands, Botswana) |
Village legal desk for women's land rights in Tanzania
Mary Kessi (TAWLA) |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Questions |
Questions |
| 12:45-13:15 |
Discussion |
Discussion |
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| 13:15-14:30 |
Lunch Break |
| VIII. Women's rights to housing, land and property: new resolutions, reality and new initiatives |
Chair: Susanne Wedstein (SIDA)
Facilitator: Harriet Busingye (Uganda Land Alliance)
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Making rights into reality; women's land rights to land housing and property in East Africa: UN-Habitat resolution and new development
Marjolein Benschop (UN-Habitat) |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Kenya case study on women's property rights violations
Janet Walsh (Human Rights Watch) |
| 15.30-16:00 |
Women's rights to human settlement, mothers' centre in slum in Nairobi
Esthter Mwaura-Muiru (Groots Kenya)
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| 16:00-16:15 |
Tea break |
| 16:15-16:45 |
New resolution of the Office of Commission for Human Rights: Women's property rights in international context
Birte Scholz (COHRE) |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Human Rights Commission and Global Coalition for secure tenure and land rights
Jan Petersson (Huairou Commission) |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Questions and Discussion |
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Day 3 (Thursday 19 June)
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| IX. Working Groups |
| 8:30-12:30 |
5 Working Groups |
| 10.30-10.45 |
Coffee break |
| 8.30-12:30 |
Working Groups:
- Land rights and legal reforms (including titling and tenure issues) - links to other laws such as family laws (relating to inheritance, marital rights, head of household definition)
Chair/rapporteur: Ambreena Manji (Univ. Warwick)
Facilitator: Birte Scholz (COHRE)
- Legal aid and land administration practice: establishing women's rights through practice and in practice
Chair/rapporteur: Sibongile Ndashe (Women Legal Centre)
Facilitator: Louise du Plessis (Legal Resources Centre)
- Women's land rights in an HIV/AIDS context:
- legal aid
- gaining social support
- livelihoods approach to enable land use
Chair/rapporteur: Dan Mullins (OXFAM GB)
Facilitator: Scott Drimie (HSRC)
- Women's land rights in post-conflict situations:
- legal aid
- gaining social support
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livelihoods approach to enable land use
Chair/rapporteur: Nomcebo Manzini (UNIFEM)
Facilitator: Rachel Waterhouse (consultant, Mozambique)
- Land rights in food security and livelihood context:
- Enabling women to establish de facto rights to land
- Enabling women to increase control over land through use
- Increasing social acceptance of women's rights to land through use.
Possible list of questions to address and report on:
- What direction should current work on this issue take?
- What could be the next steps - ideas for research, programmes, projects, possible collaboration?
- How can gender land rights issues integrate with work on food security?
- Is there need to broaden the base of organisations working on land rights - move towards making land rights issue a 'non-specialised' issue? If so, how?
- What kind of advocacy is needed to advance women's land rights and how should it be undertaken?
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch break |
| X. Plenary Discussion - Working Group presentations |
Chair: Craig Castro (OXFAM GB)
Facilitator: Scott Drimie (HSRD)
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| 13:30-15:30 |
Presentations from working groups and discussions
- Group 1: Land rights and legal reforms
- Group 2: Legal aid and land administration
- Group 3: Women's land rights in HIV/AIDS context
- Group 4: Women's land rights in post-conflict situations
- Group 5: Women's land rights in food security and livelihood context
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| 15:30-15:45 |
Tea break |
| XI. Future activities |
Chair: Nomcebo Manzini (UNIFEM)
Facilitator: Nyradzai Gumbonzvanda (UNIFEM)
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| 15:45-17:30 |
Discussion on project ideas and future activities including:
- Research
- Projects (e.g. legal aid, sensitisation, group leadership training, income generating activities, land administration, capacity building for Government and NGOs in research, land project formulation and implementation, programming, test court case,)
- Advocacy
- For future networking and a way forward
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| 17:30-17.45 |
Closing
Gendered land rights issues: a challenge for NGOs
Robin Palmer (OXFAM GB)
Advocacy and beyond: support for strengthening women's land/property rights and improved livelihood
Kaori Izumi (FAO)
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(Note: Chairs and facilitators are tentatively selected and should be finalised in consultation with those who are listed).
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