ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Land Rights Research & Resources Institute ANNUAL REPORT 1 Land Rights Research & Resources Institute ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2013 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Table of Contents LIST OF TABLES iv ACRONYMS v Massage from Board Chairperson Vii Massage from Executive Director ix CHAPTER ONE 1 1.0 BACKGROUND ON HAKIARDHI INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT 1 1.1 BACKGROUND 1 1.2 VISION 2 1.3 MISSION 2 1.4 MAIN OBJECTIVE 2 1.4.1 Specific Objectives 2 1.5 INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT 3 HAKIARDHI ORGANOGRAM 5 1.6 HAKIARDHI PROGRAMMES 5 1.7 ACHIEVEMENTS 8 1.8 CHALLENGES 9 CHAPTER TWO 10 KNOWLEDGE GENERATION AND DISSEMINATION (KGD) UNIT 10 2.1 RESEARCH 10 2.1.1 Research on local peoples’ perceptions on environmental management, land rights governance, climate change and responses to climate change effects 10 2.2 Baseline Studies 12 2.3 Conducting policy analysis on climate change 15 2.4 PRINTING OF PUBLICATIONS 16 2.4.1 Printing of Books, newsletter and other publications 16 2.4.2 Brochures 18 2.4.3 Occasional paper 18 4 i ANNUAL REPORT 2013 2.4.4 Fact Sheet 18 2.4.5 NewsletterARDHI NI UHAI 19 2.4.6 Land Rights Training Manual (special edition) 19 2.4.7 Land Rights Training Manual 19 2.4.8 Printing of 2014 Calendars 20 2.4.9 Other publications disseminated 20 2.5 PURCHASE OF PUBLICATIONS FOR THE RESOURCE CENTRE 21 2.6 DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION THROUGH DIFFERENT CHANNELS 22 2.6.1 Dissemination of publications through exhibitions 22 2.6.2 Dissemination of Information through Websites 22 2.6.3 Dissemination of information through Resource Centre 23 2.6.4 Dissemination of information through media channels 23 2.7 Outcomes of activities implementation under KGD unit 31 CHAPTER THREE 32 INTERVENTIONS UNDER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (PE) UNIT 33 3.1 A PROGRAMME ON LAND RIGHTS, GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE 33 3.2 IMPROVED POLICIES, LEGISLATION AND PRACTICES ON LAND IN FAVOR OF THE MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES 42 3.2.1 Analysis of the draft constitution 42 3.2.2 Analysis of Land and related policies and regulations 42 3.2.3 Provision of legal aid services 47 3.3 ENHANCED COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ON LAND RELATED DECISION MAKING PROCESSES 51 3.3.1 Monthly Seminar on Land and Natural Resources Issues 51 3.3.2 Multi-stakeholders workshop on Climate Change 51 3.3.3 Land and Climate Change Public debates in villages in Kilolo and Mufindi Districts 52 ii ANNUAL REPORT 2013 3.4 STRENGTHENED STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH LIKEMINDED LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS 51 3.5 ENHANCED, EFFECTIVE AND JOINT COLLABORATION OF CSOS 57 3.5.1 Influencing key decisions through the Parliament 57 3.5.2 Multi-stakeholders meeting on Land Issues in the Maasai Northern Steppe 57 3.5.3 Sustainable use and management of land promoted 58 Lessons learned from conducting VLUP 58 Expected results from the Village Land use Plan 60 Outcome of Land Use Plan process 60 CHAPTER FOUR 62 INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAMME SUPPORT (IMPS) UNIT INTERVENTIONS 62 4.1 Improved performance of human resources 62 4.2 Ensured availability and efficient use of resources 62 4.3 Improved quality of services delivery 63 4.3.1 Evaluation of TALA interventions 63 CHAPTER FIVE 66 CHALLENGES, LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 66 5.1 Challenges 66 5.2 OVERALL LESSONS LEARNT 69 5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS 72 5.3.1 Recommendations to national level government functionaries 72 5.3.2 Recommendations to district council officials 72 5.3.3 Recommendations to village leaders and ordinary villagers at the grassroots level 73 5.3.4 Message for HAKIARDHI to take home 73 6.0 CONCLUDING REMARKS 73 ii iii ANNUAL REPORT 2013 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Database of baseline studies conducted for the year 2013 13 Table 2: Publications printed by HAKIARDHI for the year 2013/2014 17 Table 3: Roster of publications disseminated by the Institute in 2013 21 Table 4: Radio programs aired through community and national radio stations for the year 2013/14. 24 Table 5: TV programs aired by HAKIARDHI for the year 2013/2014 29 Table 6: Land issues reported in newspapers during programme execution in 2013/14 30 Table 7: Land rights, governance and natural resources training sessions in different levels 41 Table 8: Analysis of Land, climate change and related laws 46 Table 9: Series of Legal aid services provided to indigents by the Institute for the year 2013/2014 49 Table 10: Total number of people reached through public debates in the programme Districts in 2013/2014 52 Table 11: Showing HAKIARDHI participation into the National and International networking activities 56 Table 12: Stages reached in implementation of Land Use Plan in four villages. 59 Table 13: Showing dispute settlement trends in Village Land Councils before and after the training as extracted from M&E report 2013. 70 iv ANNUAL REPORT 2013 ACRONYMS ACT Agriculture Council of Tanzania AGM Annual General Meeting AGRA Growing Africa’s Agriculture AIAS African Institute of Agrarian Studies CCRO Certificate of Customary Rights of Occupancy CORDS Community Research and Development Services CRC Consitution Reform Commission ESRF Economic and Social Research Foundation FCS Foundation for Civil Society FORUM CC Tanzania Civil Society Forum on Climate Change GRL Green Resources Limited LAP Land Accountability Programme LARRRI/HAKIARDHI Land Rights Research and Resources Institute LEAT Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team LEDECO Legal and Development Consultants MEMART Memorandum and Articles of Association MJUMITA Mtandao wa Jamii wa Usimamizi wa Misitu Tanzania MPLCMKURABITA Morogoro Mpango wa Para Kurasimisha Legal Center Rasilimali na Biashara za Wanyonge Tanzania MS-TCDC Training Center for Development Cooperation MVIWATA Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania NALAF National Land Forum NEMC OrganizationsNational Environmet Management Council PINGOs FORUM Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental PLUM DegragationParticipatory Land Use Management Team REDDS Reduce Emmission from Deforestation and Forest REPOA Research on Poverty Alleviation RUBADA Rufiji Basin Development Authority TALASAGCOT TanzaniaSouthern LandAgricultural Alliance Corridor of Tanzania TABEF Tanzania Bio – Energy Forum TANAPA Tanzania National Park TAMWA Tanzania Media Women Association TAWLA Tanzania Women Lawyers Association TFCG Tanzania Forest Conservation Group iv v ANNUAL REPORT 2013 TGNP Tanzania Gender Network Programme UCRT Ujamaa Community Resources Team UNFCC United Nations Framework Convention on VLUP Village Climate Land Change Use Plan VLUM Village Land Use Management Committee WLAC Women Legal Aid Center vi ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Massage from Board Chairperson At times like this, it is not an easy task to find the most appropriate words to represent the feelings of everyoneasante who was involved in converting all the joint efforts made for the year into a brief report like this. However, the Swahili language thanks giving word says it all. I feel deeply delighted to see that many people from the grassroots levels up to the donor community are increasingly getting inspired to work together to extend the dream and work of this organization beyond our initial imagination. Our work, since HAKIARDHI’s inception, has been to learn, share, sensitize, catalyze and inspire the rural based and peri urban communities to mobilize themselves and engage in decision making processes to influence changes in systems, structures, practices and behavior that affect their access to, ownership of and control over land and related resources. It is obvious that the forces and interests on the same resources that we want people to benefit are enormous and gigantic, and the change we are pushing for is not easy for it means a lot in terms of power relations between people, their classes, way of doing things and many other issues. What I am glad to see is that grassroots people are regaining their voices individually and collectively to defend their destiny, to claim their rights and to advocate for policies, systems and structures that are responsive to their needs. This is happening in formal set ups like villages, wards, district councils as well as informal gathering places like markets, kiosks and local brew bars. The results of knowledge generated through research, policy analysis and publications and the broad based public engagement interventions are increasingly becoming manifest in Kilindi, Mkinga, Kisarawe, Rufiji, Morogoro and Ulanga district villages where villagers are actively demanding for their leaders accountability and responsiveness on matters pertaining to their land rights. Consequently, there is a growing sense of accountability, adherence to principles of just conduct and human rights as well as more responsiveness of the leadership to the villagers at least in some villages within the programme area. This is indeed a significant step in addressing the concerns raised by villagers in programme areas that they wanted to participate in decision making process to improve the land rights governance, natural resources management and their livelihoods. vi vii ANNUAL REPORT 2013 One should note however that, as the grassroots communities in those areas enjoy the fruits of this work, it is an uphill battle for us as individual organization to sustain and extend this work further all alone. This is partly because of resource constraints and other forces at play. An appeal is thus made to other likeminded actors to combine their efforts with HAKIARDHI in order to sustain the achievements realized beyond the reach of this programme. This can be done through joint interventions as the old adage reminds us; unit is strength. I would thus wish that CSOs collectively embark on mobilizing citizens for change through linking, learning and sharing. By doing so, they can certainly record much bigger impact than what is narrated in this brief report. Lastly but not least at all on importance, I take this opportunity to sincerely thank our supporters Oxfam NOVIB, Foundation for Civil Society, DKA/Welthaus, Royal Danish Embassy in Tanzania, WWF Tanzania Country Office and Trust Africa for their generous financial contribution to the strategic plan that has necessitated realization of the achievements highlighted in this report.