SENEGAL

  • Formulation: 2014
  • Contact: Ndéye Yandé Ndiaye
  • Phone: +221 77525 7200
  • Email: ndiayemameyande@gmail.com
  • Where:
    Africa
  • Commitments:
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Members

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
1

Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
4

Equal land rights for women

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
6

Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
7

Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
8

Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
9

Effective actions against land grabbing

Achievements

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Press Release

A platform to monitor land governance

10 April 2019

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Senegal’s public hearing on land governance

5 March 2019

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In 2014, a land governance platform was established in order to bring together all land governance stakeholders in Senegal, including the government, civil society, research institutions, and more. The platform was set up to support the implementation process of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT), with technical and financial assistance from IFAD, FAO, and Italian Cooperation. In late 2017, the pre-existing platform was transformed into NES Senegal with more than 100 members and a strong Steering Committee led by the Senegalese Agricultural Ministry.

WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE?

The strategic objective of NES Senegal is to contribute to the improvement of policies and practices relating to the governance of natural resources and land, with particular emphasis on vulnerable people such as women and youth.

WHAT ACTIONS DO WE TAKE?

In order to advance land reform in Senegal, the NES will:

  • Promote evidence-based land governance through monitoring data on platforms such as LANDex;
  • Strengthen the capacities of stakeholders on land governance and sustainable management of natural resources through training, workshops, and development of knowledge products and tools;
  • Raise awareness and influence parliamentarians and decision-makers on the importance of land governance and natural resource management;
  • Contribute to the land reform process

OUR IMPACT

In 2019, the advocacy work and political demonstrations of NES Senegal and other civil society organizations led to the release of 20,000 hectares of arable land and wetlands that had originally been allocated to a private investor by the Senegalese government. This protected the pastoralists, farmers, and other local people who were already living on and working this land from being displaced and losing their livelihoods.

NES Senegal is also actively involved in the design of a land observatory to increase transparency in land deals in the country. Increased transparency allows for more informed decision-making processes for land-use activities. Due to the knowledge and capabilities of NES Senegal’s members, the platform is even in consideration to be a host of the observatory.

  • Formulation: 2014
  • Contact: Ndéye Yandé Ndiaye
  • Phone: +221 77525 7200
  • Email: ndiayemameyande@gmail.com
  • Where:
    Africa
  • Commitments:
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ILC Internship Journey: A Rewarding Experience in Land Governance

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ILC Africa Applauds Unconstitutional Ruling on Leadership Act

14 June 2023

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Media statement by the land sector non-state actors in Kenya

31 May 2023

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Maasai delegation to meet European leaders in a bid to end the forced evictions and human rights abuses they are facing in Tanzania

22 May 2023

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