Pillars of the community: how trained volunteers defend land rights in Tanzania

Research report
, 20 pages
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17587IIED.pdf
Language:
English
Published: December 2016
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ISBN: 9781784314378
Product code:17587IIED

Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania. This report documents how Hakiardhi, a Dar-es-Salaambased research institute working on land governance issues, has established and trained a 600-strong network of male and female ‘Land Rights Monitors’ (LRMs) operating in 300 villages on various aspects of the land law, so they can help people and local governments to exercise and ensure respect for their legal rights in land disputes. While this approach can be used to tackle different types of land conflicts, this report focuses primarily on examples related to the impact of large-scale land-based investments. It describes in detail the process that was put in place, distils lessons learned from implementing the approach, and provides tips for legal empowerment practitioners interested in adapting it to their respective contexts.

This publication has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project.

Cite this publication

Massay, G. (2016). Pillars of the community: how trained volunteers defend land rights in Tanzania. .
Available at https://www.iied.org/17587iied