Country & Name of NGO

Main Activity Areas

Notable Achievements

Angola:

Action for Rural development and Environment

Botswana:

The Botswana Centre for Human Rights (Ditswanelo)

Lesotho:

Helvetas Lesotho

Malawi:

Co-ordination Unit for the Rehabilitation of the Environment (CURE)

Mozambique:

Uniao Nacional de Camponesses (UNAC)

Namibia:

The Namibia NGO Forum (NANGOF)

Monitoring land conflicts between agro-pastoral communities from Gambos and Manquate Projects and private farmers

Collaborative effort of NGOs and university departments to create awareness and knowledge of human rights with particular attention to the rights of the under privileged, marginalized and discriminated against.

Advocacy on improved livelihoods of the rural populations through development of long term partnerships with CBOs and NGOs

Capacity building through participatory development; Gender analysis and awareness

Raising awareness on the Land Bill of 1996; lobbying and advocacy of for the inclusion of peasant farmers in land policy formulation

Land advocacy program to influence government policy and legislation on the land reform process, communal land reform, established the Working Committee on Land Reform (a network of concerned organizations)

Project to monitor land conflicts between agro-pastoral communities from Gambos and Manquate Projects implemented

Has and continues to undertake research on the land rights of the Basarwa

Recent expansion of their program coverage

Played and important role in breaking the silence on addressing Land tenure

Developed strong lobbying skills among land activists and other stakeholders in particular as it relates to land tenure security of peasants

Country & Name of NGO

Main Activity Areas

Notable Achievements

Namibia Economic Research Unit (NEPRU)

Rural Peoples Institute for Social Empowerment (RISE)

South Africa:

Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA)

Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)

National land Committee (NLC)

Program for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Tanzania

Land Rights Research and Resource Institute (HAKIARDHI or LARRRI)

Zambia

National Association for Peasant & Small Scale Farmers of Zambia (NAPSSFZ)

Impact of land reform on poverty alleviation

Facilitates a process that develops sustainable organizational and human resource capacity at grassroots level

Community base action to redress past injustices and to secure land tenure for all in KwaZulu Natal

Conducts land research programs

Program to mainstream gender into all the ten regional South Africa land and development affiliated NGO forming NLC

Conducts research, policy studies on land and agrarian reform including gender sustainable production systems and land reform in the Western Cape

Promotes research to facilitate equitable and socially just access to and control over land for production of food and other basic needs

Promotes the interests, conducts lobbying and advocacy of peasant and small scale farmers most of whom are women

Working Committee was involved in drafting the Land policy and lobbied for the Communal Land Bill of 1999

Completed a program on Support to the Namibia National Farmers Union

Established advocacy links with relevant focal points; monitors and participate in macro level policy debates including land

Jointly with government, effective 1998, AFRA implemented several projects including tenure reform and tenure upgrade projects

Advocacy for tenure rights in particular for women

Awareness creation campaigns and intensely engaging government on land related issues

Country & Name of NGO

Main Activity Areas

Notable Achievements

Zimbabwe

Rudecon Zimbabwe (PL)

Women and Land Lobby Group (WLLG)

Conducts advocacy activities focusing on gender biased issues and develops training materials on land redistribution program.

A coalition of civic and activists to lobby the Zimbabwe government to accord women same rights as men to the ownership of communal and resettlement land.

Participation by program staff in the process of writing a Green paper on Land Policy and in the Tenure reform Core Group

Successfully lobbied parliament on the 1999 Land Bill

Continued lobbying government for Land Acts for equitable reforms

Carried out a two year study and produced a report on gender biased land use rights

Assisting women in the actual process of land acquisition; engendering the land redistribution committee; carries out intensive advocacy on several issues pertaining to women land rights