CICODEV, in partnership with Enda Pronat, ACCES and FAPD, organized a monitoring and capacity building workshop for land rights defenders at the RESOPP center in Thies.
Objectives of the workshop
- Monitor cases of violation of the rights of land rights defenders
- Discuss experiences, good practices and tools to advocate and fight against land grabbing with collectives
- Share textual content on natural resource management with collectives and answer their questions in relation to specific aspects that concern their respective struggles;
- Facilitate the synergy of initiatives to strengthen national advocacy and the fight against land grabbing;
Expected results
- Five cases of violation of the rights of land rights defenders are documented
- Mutual tools in techniques to advocate and fight against land grabbing are shared and appropriated by the actors
- The good practices and tools for the protection of land rights defenders are popularized and appropriated by the actors
- The experts / consultants address the specific concerns and questions of the collectives in relation to the texts around the governance of natural resources
- The synergy and collaboration between the different collectives are reinforced.
- A press briefing is held by land rights defenders.
The workshop ended with a press briefing punctuated by the reading of a joint statement by the various victims of land grabbing.
