Category: Land tenure

Cross-cutting efforts to integrate Historically Marginalized People

“To be marginalized” in a Rwandan society means that you don’t have access to opportunities as other members of your community, and that lack of equal opportunity persists from generation to generation. What it feels like, day-to-day, is that your children are not able to freely play with your neighbor’s children, or that you are [...]

Monday October 24th, 2011 in Civil Society Empowerment, Land tenure, Participation in local development, RWANDA | No Comments »

Public dialogue before the land tenure regularization process

As part of our work on land tenure reform near the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, we have compiled the findings from the public dialogue and awareness programme which we conducted in three cells of Musanze District. This task was delivered in partnership with the National Land Centre (NLC). The exercise preceded the registration of [...]

Wednesday June 29th, 2011 in Land tenure, Learning and Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Management, RWANDA | No Comments »

Addressing the land crunch near Volcanoes National Park

There are many things that a family passes from generation to generation- customs, morals, stories- but in the Great Lakes region of Africa, there is one thing above all else on which the next generation can stake it’s economic prosperity- land. Near Volcanoes National Park (PNV) in northwest Rwanda, population densities range between 500-1000 people [...]

Wednesday April 20th, 2011 in Civil Society Empowerment, Land tenure, Natural Resource Management, RWANDA | 1 Comment »