Overall Objectives

• To ensure that claimants are actively involved in the resolution of their claims and are able to achieve maximum benefits in their claims
• Women and youth are actively involved in the entire processes and are able to benefit directly from all claim resolutions
• Lobby the Land Claim Commission to become more effective in resolving community claims more speedily.
• To engage provincial Government Departments in a more meaningful, less adversarial if possible, more equitable partnership that will add value to communities.

 

Nkuzi assist communities to regain access to land they were dispossessed of through its Restitution programme which support communities with the following:

• Negotiate settlement agreement
• Identify legal entity options (CPA, CC ect.)
• Establish legal entity , develop a suitable constitution to guide entity
• Register CPA or whatever entity with Commission
• Prepare claimant community for land transfer
• Engage claimants with the Local Government IDP process
• Lobby government and Donor partners for developmental support.

These communities are at various stages of the restitution process and will become the catalyst of what we roll out in other communities in the same situation.

  

Outputs
Short Term

To have developed effective processes for engagement with communities and dealing with land reform.
Tenure reform project to have reached the stage of land transfer.
At least three other Land Reform projects to be past negotiation prosess and others to be in progress.
Levels of awareness of land reform to have improved in the general public and understanding of land reform issues to have improved amongst those directly working on land reform issues.
Learning from initial work to have been documented and related to provincial and national policy and programme development.

Medium Term

A heightened level of awareness and understanding in communities in the Limpopo of land reform options and programmes.

Nine land claims to have been properly prepared to challenge the Land Claims Commission on the lack of progress on their claim

A number of land reform projects covering the three main elements of land reform to have been implemented and lessons from these to have been analysed and shared with others involved in land reform. Models for land reform implementation to have been documented and shared.

More relevant and implementable provincial and national land reform policy and programme options to have been developed.

Restitution Indaba with Communities and Relevant stakeholders and role players present.

  

Activites

The activities of Nkuzi can be seen in the following areas:

Community facilitation will deal with the interaction with the community and be the point of contact for the community, ensuring a quality and continuity of relations with the community throughout the land reform process. Community facilitation will involve;

• providing the community with information
• building understanding of land reform and development issues,
• facilitating the establishment of effective structures for Land reform implementation and land ownership,
• conflict resolution,
• identification of community resources and needs,
• facilitating the bringing in of other resources and the interface between outside skills and the community,
• and feeding experience and knowledge from the community situations engaged with into the advocacy and information dissemination work of Nkuzi.

Short training sessions will be organised for communities and community structures.

Nkuzi will use a range of participatory methodologies to ensure community participation and community leadership of projects. Time will be dedicated to the development of methodologies which are appropriate in the Northern Province context.

Training will be organised to equip community structures for land reform implementation. This will respond to needs identified within beneficiary communities. Short workshops will be organised within individual communities and at a provincial level where a number of communities have similar training needs. Exchange visits will be used to expose community leaders to development initiatives in other communities.

Advocacy work will be done to highlight the plight of communities in the Limpopo Province as regards land reform and attempt to influence government and other related programmes. Information and lessons from what is happening on the ground will be used to promote models and approaches for land reform and land use and the developing alternative policy options.