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  • Steps in fieldwork
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  • Field Method Toolkit
    • tips for facilitators
    • mapping
    • reading the land
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  • Constitutions
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  • Events
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Events

LEAP held a symposium entitled Leap Symposium 2007: Learning about promoting tenure security for the poor and vulnerable. 6th-8th November 2007 in Goedgedacht, Malmesbury.

Objectives of the Symposium:

• To analyse what is emerging from early fieldwork in Leap projects and partnerships, in order to learn from and between projects, focusing on tenure in relation to a set of issues affecting poor people livelihoods and local economic development in order to inform our research, our practice and our analysis.
• To identify needs, opportunities and strategies for engaging with policy, law and programmes of government.
• To establish a basis for collective learning over the life of the project

Process Objectives:

• To maximise the particular experiences, skills, talents and strengths of the diverse participants at the symposium
• To mirror Leap¹s culture, method and values in the way the running of the workshop
• To balance time spent on in-depth feedback for each project report and overall analysis in order to contribute to Leap’s longer term goals of mapping the tenurial landscape in South Africa, informal learning and forward movement

This report has the challenge of seeking to capture three days of dense, intense sharing and discussion. The symposium is part of ongoing learning that is built into Leap's approach, and should be viewed in that light. The report seeks to capture the essence of the symposium, and is geared towards the participants and to those practitioners who are interested in a learning approach to address tenure security.