Links
South Africa - Civil Society
AFRA |
Association for Rural Advancement |
www.afra.co.za |
CBNRM |
Community Based Natural Resource Management Network |
www.cbnrm.uwc.ac.za |
CALS |
Centre for Applied Legal Studies |
www.law.wits.ac.za/cals |
LAPC |
Land and Agriculture Policy Centre |
www.sn.apc.org/lapc/home.htm |
Land Reform at Groutville: Chief Albert Luthuli Land Reform Upgrade Project |
www.groutvillelandreform.co.za | |
| A tenure upgrade project initiated by the KwaDukuza TLC and the Department of Land Affairs to secure land tenure rights for 3 400 families living on state land within Groutville. Involves an upgrade of tenure rights from a "Permission to Occupy" status to a freehold right. | ||
LRC |
Legal Resources Centre |
www.lrc.org.za |
| An independent, client-based, non-profit public interest law centre which uses the law as an instrument of justice | ||
Urban Land Mark |
www.urbanlandmark.org.za | |
Nkuzi Development Association |
www.nkuzi.org.za | |
CALS |
Centre for Applied Legal Studies |
www.law.wits.ac.za/cals |
PLAAS |
Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies |
www.uwc.ac.za/plaas |
South African Homeless People's Federation |
www.dialog.org.za | |
| The website of Umfelandawonye waBantu BaseMjondolo, the South African Homeless People’s Federation and its allies, People’s Dialogue and Utshani Fund | ||
SARPN |
Southern African Regional Poverty Network |
www.sarpn.org.za |
| SARPN’s ultimate goal is to contribute to the sustainable reduction of poverty through effective pro-poor policy, strategy and practice in the SADC region. Its purpose is to deepen and widen debates on policy, strategy, practice and decision-making processes that impact on poverty in the region. | ||
SPP |
Surplus People Project |
www.spp.org.za |
TRPN |
Workings of Township Residential |
www.finmarktrust.org.za /themes/trpm/trpm.asp |
| Reports from recent studies into township property markets on the FinMark Trust website. | ||
DAG |
Development Action Group |
www.dag.org.za |
AWARD |
www.award.org.za | |
South Africa - Government
Commission on Restitution of Land Rights |
http://land.pwv.gov.za/restitution | |
DLA |
Department of Land Affairs |
http://land.pwv.gov.za |
International
COHRE |
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions |
www.cohre.org |
de Soto Watch |
www.desotowatch.net | |
| A Norwegian network of organisations engaged in the tenure formalisation debate, set up a web page to follow up the work of the High-Level Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor | ||
FAO tenure website |
www.fao.org/sd/LTdirect/landrf.htm | |
Ford Foundation |
www.fordfound.org | |
Habitat for Humanity |
www.habitat.org.za | |
IDRC |
International Development Research Centre |
www.idrc.ca |
LTC |
Land Tenure Centre |
www.wisc.edu/ltc |
Oxfam Land Rights in Africa (Web page) |
www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/ | |
Plain English Campaign |
www.plainenglish.co.uk | |
| Plain English Campaign is an independent pressure group fighting for public information to be written in plain English. "Public Information" means anything people have to read to get by in their daily lives. "Plain English" is language that the intended audience can understand and act upon from a single reading. | ||
World Bank land policy pages |
www.worldbank.org/landpolicy | |
IIED |
International Institute for Environment and Development |
www.iied.org |
GLTN |
Global Land Tool Network |
www.gltn.net |