Strengthened capacity for improved governance of land tenure and natural resources by local government in partnership with Non State Actors in the Central Highlands of Angola Progress of implementation SUPPORT TO AND CAPITALIZATION ON THE EU LAND GOVERNANCE PROGRAMME IN AFRICA (GCP/GLO/539/EC) 6th CAPITALIZATION MEETING ADDIS ABABA, November 2017 PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Main project’s features Duration: 3 years (May 2014 – April 2017) Budget: 3.529.412 € (15% World Vision contribution) Coverage: 10 municipalities in 3 Provinces Huambo: Huambo, Caála, Ekunha, Longonjo, Bailundo, Katchiungo, Tchicala Tcholoanga Bié: Kuito, Chinguar Benguela: Cubal PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Project’s components (R1) (R2) Technical Specific Objective Legal-Administrative Strenghtening To empower national, Strenghtening provincial, and municipality level governments, and local NSA and communities to facilitate the (R4) recognition of tenure (R3) rights Diffusion of Community information Strenghtening PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Context • Close of election campaing in Angola; • The opposition part contest the final results • After 38 years we have a new president in Angola • Indicate the new staff (Ministers and State secretaries) without any claim – the civil society are with high expectation • The combat against corruption is one the priority in agenda of new government • The new president recognize that to grow the agricultural is necessary to give land title for farmer and family in rural areas (His speech during the opening of Agriculture season on last October in Cachiungo Municipality) PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Progress - Technical Strenghtening • With support of FAO, it was possible to initiate the a cycle of training in SOLA – Open Tenure • Technicians start to print the first licenses for urban areas (plots) PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Progress - Legal-Administrative Strenghtening Realization of three meeting with technicians to analyze the several document necessary to give land title in urban areas The recommendation produced on those meeting will be presented in provincial meeting with provincial and municipalities authorities The analysis of the Angolan land-related legislation under the VGGT-point of view has started. First draft ready to be discussed with relevant stakeholders PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Progress -Diffusion of information Production material to disseminate the land law, VGGT in Portuguese, and the municipalities profiles Updated the manual of DRP and the flipchart for the community sensitization on the national land law Finalization of the manual of “management municipality land” focused on urban land and the technical tools PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Progress -Community Strenghtening 1. Raise awareness about their rights on land occupation through the permanent sensitization in about 150 communities in center of Angola 2. Up to date, about 30 customary land titles issued, securing access to land to about 13.000 people in the Province of Bié PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Sucess factor (VGGT/ F&G) 1. The technical discussion with the Provincial Direction of Urbanism in Huambo to harmonize and simplify the process for the issuing of individual concession 2. The Despacho adopted by the Provincial Government of Bié represents a model for the effective recognition of customary land rights 3. The Government of Bié shown the political willing to enforce the Despacho, and to advocate to scale it up at national level PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Challenges 1. Local Administration offices are understaffed, and with high turnover 2. Official translation of VGGT to Portuguese has never been provided. The project finally decided to produce an unofficial version 3. The 2017 has been more challenging than usual, due to the August general elections PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Lessons learned Technical strengthening of the local administration staff is key for sustainability. However, this requires long term effort, which is often not in line with the limited timeframe of the projects Simplification and harmonization of processes for land registration/titling requires a strong political commitment, which in turn, requires a long-term advocacy effort Starting at local level is key to design sound bottom-up policies. However, it is necessary to scale up local experiences at national level to reach a real impact Projects that have their direction to influence on land titles accordind with VGGT parameters must be done for a long time (programm), because they are strongly linked to the political, legislative and economics issues PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA Ndapandula Tchalwa! Muito Obrigado! Thank you very much! PROJECTO DE GESTÃO DE TERRAS NO PLANALTO CENTRAL DE ANGOLA.