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Mapping team explaining boundary mapping to Mahila Milan leaders in Orissa, India. SPARC.© GLTN |
As part of the Grassroots Mechanism, GLTN is providing support to four grassroots-led projects in India, Peru, Tanzania and the Philippines. The aim of the projects is to enable a process of learning and communication to take place, to help get grassroots solutions to land policy implementation problems and to make the leap from pilots to large scale impact. Each project enables experimental replication in new locations as a basis for learning, with independent evaluation and technical support by GLTN and its Partners. The aim in each case is to help achieve the mainstreaming of the approach and establish a grassroots-government partnership for implementation at scale.
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) partners would like to ensure genuine grassroots participation in its land tool development initiatives, to ensure that high quality, pro poor and useful tools will be designed and used in practice. GLTN will, by developing, and implementing a ˜grassroots mechanism", engage the grassroots in participating in tool development. This will ensure a virtual feedback loop between research and action, to enhance accountability, to be pro-poor, to deliver affordable land tools, to support community involvement, and to maximize policy impact.
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) partners would like to ensure genuine grassroots participation in its land tool development initiatives, to ensure that high quality, pro poor and useful tools will be designed and used in practice. GLTN will, by developing, and implementing a “grassroots mechanism", engage the grassroots in participating in tool development. This will ensure a virtual feedback loop between research and action, to enhance accountability, to be pro-poor, to deliver affordable land tools, to support community involvement, and to maximize policy impact.
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The report Not About Us Without Us : Working with grassroots organizations in the land field, which builds on inputs from partners and grassroots representatives, proposes that GLTN's strategy for working with the grassroots should comprise 4 functions:
- Ensuring grassroots participation in large-scale land tool development;
- Scaling up community-led initiatives;
- Strengthening the capacity of the grassroots to engage in land administration and land management; and
- Promoting grassroots participation approaches amongst GLTN partners.
A workshop in November 2009 focused on the second function – scaling-up community-led initiatives – as a first step in implementing the Grassroots Mechanism strategy. This has led to the support of four projects in 2010 implemented by grassroots organisations affiliated to one of the GLTN partners.
The assistance GLTN and its partners are giving to grassroots projects is intended to enable a process of learning and communication to take place, to allow grassroots solutions to make the leap from pilots to large scale impact. It enables experimental replication in new locations as a basis for learning, as well as critical and objective evaluation and documentation, bringing together self-reflection, with independent evaluation and technical support by GLTN and its partners. Outputs include communication materials to facilitate replication and independent documentation to build understanding and confidence among state actors and donors.
For more information on scaling up community-led initiatives, see http://www.gltn.net/en/home/grassroots/grassroots-and-land-tool-development-brief-/details.html
Other grassroots related publications: http://www.gltn.net/en/e-library/grassroots/index.php |
