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Leap’s objectives
Leaps main objective is to practically explore and recommend appropriate tenure arrangements in urban and rural contexts that:
- Increase the security of tenure for the poor and vulnerable, individuals and groups; and
- Enhance peoples livelihood strategies;
- Enable improved delivery and maintenance of basic services;
- Enable improved equitable access to local economic development by all sectors of society;
Leap offers a unique approach to facilitate collaborative learning processes, through action research, that broaden understanding about tenure security. This understanding should be grounded in the reality of poor and vulnerable people, contextualise tenure within South Africa’s broad land management policy framework, and enable people at multiple levels to engage productively to move practice towards the project goal.
The secondary objectives of Leap are to
- Work with particular communities, with NGO partners, and with other stakeholders to learn about tenure arrangements and related land management, and help solve immediate problems people are facing
- Interact with national, provincial and municipal policy and programmes in South Africa, and with international policy debates in developing countries, in order to promote pro-poor policies regarding tenure security.
- Work with and promote what new understanding applies for practices (for officials, NGO and various professional practitioners); in South Africa and internationally.