Background Material

• Article 'DPRN is gaining ground' by dr Mirjam Ros-Tonen, coordinator of the Regional Expertmeetings. The article contains background information on the Development Policy Review Network, and is soon to be published in CERES Magazine.
• Webdossier on poverty reduction and land issues. Published in connection with the East Africa Day

Background material for Session A:

• IOB evaluation report no. 294 (English): Co-ordination and Sector Support. An evaluation of the Netherlands’ support to local governance in Uganda, 1991 - 2001
• IOB-evaluation report no. 296 (English): Poverty, policies and perceptions in Tanzania, an evaluation of Dutch aid to two district development programmes.

Background material for Session C: Landpolicies and Rural Development Programmes

1. Book:
   Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
   by World Bank Price: $ 30.00
   Available Immediately
   
   English Paperback 288 pages 7.5 x 9.25
   Published May 2003 by World Bank ISBN: 0-8213-5071-4 SKU: 15071
    
2. Articles:
   'Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?' by Marcel Rutten (ASC). Issue paper no. 111, Drylands programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), June 2002
   
   Benjaminsen, T. A. & Lund, C. eds. (2002): Securing Land Rights in Africa. Special Issue of European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 14, no 2
   
   Okoth-Ogendo, H.W.O.: Land policy development in East Africa, a survey of recent trends.
    
3. Review:
   Mackenzie, A. F. 1998, Land, ecology and resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
    
4. Literature:
   1996, Ours by right, theirs by might : a study on land clashes Kenya Human Rights Commission, Nairobi.
   
   Juma, C. & Ojwang, J. B. 1996, In land we trust : environment, private property and constitutional change Initiatives Publishers [etc.], Nairobi.
   
   Shivji, I. G. 1994, Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters Scandinavian Institute of African Studies [etc.], Uppsala [etc.].
   
   Bruce, J. & S. Migot-Adholla (eds) (1994) Searching for Land Tenure Security in Africa, World Bank, Washington.
   
   Potkanski, T. (1994b) Property Concepts, Herding Patterns and Management of Natural Resources among the Ngorongoro and Salei Maasai of Tanzania, IIED/Pastoral Land Tenure Programme, Pastoral Land Tenure Series, No. 6, London.
   
   Rutten, M. (1992) Selling Wealth to Buy Poverty – The process of the Individualization of Landownership Among the Maasai Patoralists of Kajiado District, Kenya, 1890-1990, Verlag Breitenbach Publishers, Saarbrücken,
   
   Toulmin, C. & J. Quan (eds) 2000 Evolving land rights, policy and tenure in Africa, DFID/IIED/NRI, London.
   Land Rights and sustainable development in Africa
    
5. Links to websites containing more information:
   
   Conference on Land in Africa: http://www.iied.org/aboutiied/landinafrica.html
   
   Other websites:
   http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/livelihoods/landrights/index.htm
   http://www.whoseland.com/
   http://www.kenyalandalliance.or.ke/