How Transparency Internationalls Advocacy and Legal Advice Centers Support Citizenss Access To Justice And Tenure Security : An Analysis
Samuel Mbithi Kimeu, Annette Jaitner, Francis Muchai Kairu
Access to land and tenure security have been concerning issues for generations. These ranges from large tracts of land held by foreign companies or absentee landlords, to unregistered land and land grabs. In Africa, a large portion of arable land is in tenure by small-scale farmers. Most recently, Africa has suffered from alienation of large swathes of indigenous communitiess and communal land for mining and large scale agricultural investments, disenfranchising the original users. The daily strife for land has taken a toll on ordinary peoplees livelihoods as they face the constant threats of eviction. most are still seeking for land tenure that will guarantee them a source of citizenship, justice and some minimum protection against those who rule the marketplace. However, on deep interrogation of the issues at hand, there is a clear relation between a citizenry that is not well informed, inaccessible justice, archaic management systems of land, corruption and the resultant land governance problems. This paper discusses how legal empowerment contributes to communitiess access to justice and secure land tenure, as derived from various land related corruption cases dealt with by Transparency Internationalls Advocacy and Legal Advice Centers (ALAC) in Africa, as well as other available case studies.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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