First Arab Land conference Dubai 26-27 February 2018

1. Capacity Development on Land Governance
in
North Africa
Mohamed Timoulali
GTOPIC sarl - Morocco
First Arab Land conference
Dubai 26-27 February 2018

2. Content
• Context
• Objectif of the study
• Methodology
• Training demand analysis
• Training Offer analysis
• International Benchmark
• Identification of the Gaps
• Conclusions

3. Context
- AU Agenda on the Land Goverance
- The program “Strengthening
Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in Africa (SLGA)
- Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa NELGA

4. The AU Agenda Land; F&G, AU
Declaration
• A commitment of African Heads of State and
Governments to ensure land governance is
prioritized in Devt. Agenda
• A call to AU Member States employ various
measures to improve land governance
• Mandate to Regional Economic Communities
(RECs) to Capture/ address land issues within
their respective common frameworks
• Welcomes CSOs to participate in implementation
process of the Declaration
• Calls upon the Continental bodies to establish an
appropriate institutional framework for the
implementation of the Declaration (LPI/ALPC)

5. Strengthening Capacities for Land governance in
Africa (SLGA)
Overall Objective
“Strengthen Human and Institutional
Capacities for realizing sustainable land
policies in Africa”
NELGA: Partnership of various African
Universities and tertiary/research institutions
on land governance
• Needs assesment of Training on Land
governance
• Guidelines on developing Curricula
• Stakeholders : Academia, Government ,
Private sector and Civil society

6. Context (continue)
• NELGA implementation
• Needs assesment of Training on Land governance
• Guidelines on developing Curricula
• Stakeholders : Academia, Government , Private sector and Civil
society

7. Context (Continue)

8. Objectif of the study
• Identification of universities and training institutions
• Analyse the Gaps in the training Offer
• Recommendations for a regional focal point for NELGA
• Propose a Road Map for the NELGA in North Africa

9. Methodology
- Desk research and questionnaires
- Analysis of the demand for training
- Analysis of the offer of training
- Analysis of the Gaps
- Presentation of the results to a workshop 28-29 march
2017
- Recommendations for filing the gaps

10. Analysis of the needs of various
sectors
• Universities
• Professors and Rechearchers on Land Goverance
and related fields
• Training Centres
• Lectures with technical and managerial
competencies
• Short courses and training programms responding
to a specific need

11. Analysis of the needs (continue)
• Professional Organisations
• Master the new Technologies
• comparative Approach on land Goverannce
• Audit of the legal frameworks
• Analysis of the implementatiobn of the legal texts

12. Analysis of the training offer

13. Mapping the training institutions
languages Country Land
surveyor
Geomatics Remote
Sensing
Real
Estate
Building
Land Laws Territorial
and Land
Governance
Land
issues
French Algeria ASAL ENSA
USTHB
Morocco IAVH II CRTS
CRASTE-LF
ICH /
INAU
Sale
FSESJ
INAU FAO
(VGTT)EHTP, FST
Mauritania USTM FLSH /
University of
Nouakchott
Tunisia ENIT CRTEAN FSJPS
Tunis /
Central
Private
Faculty
English Egypt University
Benha
Cairo
University
ARADO
Sudan University of Khartoum
Table 1 : Mapping of institutions

14. Degrees on Land Surveys

15. Degrees on Geomatics

16. Benchmark - France

17. Benchmark - CLGE

18. Other factors
• Partnership
• Employment
• Equipement

19. The Gaps

20. The Gaps (Continue)

21. The Gaps (Continue)
• The new curricula has to consider :
- Participative and inclusive approach for identification of
the needs
- Adapatation of the Lega and institutional frameworks
- Regular revision to accomodate the emerging needs and
technology change
- Agend of reserch in adequately identified themes
- National , Regional and international cooperation

23. Conclusions
- Openess and cooperation between the training institutions
• Competencies harmonization
• Pooling available resources
• Exchange of experiences
- Creation of common regional training curricula on land governance
- Mobilise available technologies for Knowledge mamagement and
sharing

24. Mohamed Timoulali
GTOPIC sarl
email: mtimoulali@gtopic.net
Tel: 212 537 264602 Fax: 212 537 264602 GSM: 0661165545
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