Tested Field Designs
Leap teams have tested field designs for different purposes. The earlier. completed case studies explain their methodology. Current applications can be found in the current project cases
"Legal entity establishment"
This involves formalizing institutional arrangements to hold and manage land to enable land transfer, including legal entity establishment.
LEAP worked with the Diocese of Marianhill on legal entities to take transfer of church land by donation to the residents of St Bernards. In thinking through the task we re-named it as "formalizing institutional arrangements to hold and manage land" of which "legal entity establishment" became a part. St Bernards is a large farm, with complex land uses and issues, on which about 120 families applied for DLA grants.
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download the St Bernards report (291 KB) |
Building the capacity of an established legal entity
LEAP was requested to tender for "capacity building" with a small labour tenant community. LEAP went through a formal tender process in order to learn what could be done within the constraints of the system and budget. The Grange report describes the approach that LEAP used to do this, the difficulties it encountered and some recommendations. The workshop sequence and methods is given in more detail in the Grange methods document.
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download the Grange report (318 KB) |
Assessing established legal entities
The Department of Land Affairs set up the communal property institutions review which planned a countrywide analysis of the situation with respect to cpis in order to improve policy and support around land holding bodies. LEAP and DLA regional staff ran two pilots
- to carry out an assessment of the organizational performance of the communal property institutions in providing groups and their members security of tenure,
- to pilot methodology for fieldwork, analysis and report writing for these assessments.
The first of these pilots was an assessment of a CPA less than one year from establishment at Msikazi, and the second a CPA about four years after establishment at Gwebu.
The reports for Msikazi and Gwebu include methods sections that give an outline of activities, and explain the theoretical framework used for analysis. You can also download some visuals that were used in feedback at Gwebu.
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download the Msikazi report (459 KB) |
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download the Gwebu report (753 KB) |