DW Angola

Development Workshop Angola

STRENGTHENING LAND TENURE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN ANGOLA

Development Workshop worked with ARD and its partner, the Rural Development Institute (RDI) to implement a program supported by USAID called “Strenghtening Land Tenure and Property Rights in Angola”. The program implemented between 2006 and 2008 aimed at helping the Angolan Government  to address land tenure and property rights issues early on in the post-conflict strategy of national development. Land access, land possession, and land rights (land
tenure) are among the most significant issues confronting post-conflict Angola, as they typically affect displaced peoples and returning combatants. The sequence of land reforms leading to secure land tenure and property rights contributes to good local governance, economic growth, and sustainable natural resources use. The project has set the groundwork for land concessions,
eventual land tenure regularisation, land markets, sustainable agricultural development, and economic growth

Women Property Rights – Project BestPractices

Development Workshop worked with ARD and its partner, the Rural Development Institute (RDI) to implement a program supported by USAID called “Strenghtening Land Tenure
and Property Rights in Angola”. The program implemented between 2006 and 2008 aimed at helping the Angolan Government  to address land tenure and property rights issues early on in the post-conflict strategy of national development. Land access, land possession, and land rights (land tenure) are among the most significant issues confronting post-conflict Angola, as they
typically affect displaced peoples and returning combatants. The sequence of land reforms leading to secure land tenure and property rights contributes to good local governance, economic growth, and sustainable natural resources use.The project has set the groundwork for land concessions, eventual land tenure regularisation, land markets, sustainable agricultural development, and
economic growth. Women’s access to land and housing, and the type and strength of women’s rights to land and housing, have been recognized as an important development issue. Secure property rights for women can have an impact on intra-household decision making, income pooling and acquisition, and women’s overall role and position in the household and community. This study attempts to further the body of work on gender relations and land tenure and property rights by examining successful interventions that have improved and strengthened women’s access to and control over land. In this way, the study seeks to identify best practices and lessons learned with regard to integrating gender concerns and focus in relation to the five land issues identified in USAID’s LTPR Matrix. These are: • Conflict and/or instability that impact land rights, • Insecure tenure rights, • Landlessness and land redistribution, • Land markets and their influence on communal and individual ownership, and • Natural resources (pastures, wetlands, forests) management.

Dr. David Strangway – Medical Research in the Angola Highlands, 1900-1967

Dr. David Strangway was the keynote speaker at Angola’s 4th National Conference on Science and Technology. His presentation, made on Thursday, September 10 2015, was titled “Medicine and Medical Research in the Angola Highlands, 1900-1967”.

Dr. Strangway grew up in Angola in the 1940s and 1950s. Dr. Strangway is a renown Canadian academic and scientist and member of Development Workshop’s international advisory board. His father and mother came to Angola in 1927 and spent 40 years working in the fields of medicine, public health, nutrition and agricultural.

His presentation was based on research that he is carrying out using public access archives in Angola, Portugal, Canada and the USA together with his own family records dating back to when his family worked in Angola. Dr. Strangway demonstrated evidence of the pioneering research that Congregational and later United Church medical practitioners did, dating back to the late 19th century. Early investigation into chronic tropical diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness, leporacy and tuberculosis were done by his parents.

Dr. Strangway demonstrated statistics on the dramatic reduction in mortality that was achieved in the 1950s when his parent’s hospital at Chissamba in Bie Province began to have access to new modern medicines. Dr. Strangway’s mother worked on nutritional research and local herbal medical plants. His father not only built the 140 bed hospital and 83 village clinics, but conducted a remarkable 40,000 surgical operations over his 40 years in Angola.

The presentation was followed by comments from the conference chairperson and the floor noting that despite progress in medical research and vaccination campaigns, diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis are still chronic in Angola.

 

Uso do SIG como ferramenta de Suporte a Projectos da DW – Massamba Dominique & Henriques Ribeiro

Os Técnicos da Unidade de Pesquisa & Gestores do Sistema de Informação Geográfica da DW, trouxeram ao espaço do Debate a sua experiência em relação ao uso do GIS, que a sua extensão em termos de beneficiários vai desde as Instituições públicas, Privadas, Organizações Não Governamentais, Organizações da Sociedade Civil, no domínio da Agricultura, Alterações climáticas, Habitação, Abastecimento de Água, Saneamento básico, Pesca, e entre outros; e funciona como uma ferramenta de suporte aos projectos a nível da Development Workshop.

 

Apresentação à “Universidade” de UNICEF: Mapeamento de Pobreza

Mapeamento da Pobreza Participativo e uma abordagem estatística aqui tem o objetivo de ser compreendido por não especialistas. Scoring da pobreza é usado para informar decisões e políticas publicas, transparência e simplicidade promove a confiança. Obtendo “buy-in” é necessário para os tomadores de decisão.

Graças à previsão de modelagem, abordagens “Scoring” simples podem ser tão precisos como métodos complexos (Schreiner, 2012). Pontuações totais de pobreza variam de 0 (mais provável abaixo da linha de pobreza) a 100 (menos provável abaixo da linha de pobreza). Não-especialistas podem coletar dados e pontuações computar como em papel no campo em cerca de 10 minutos.

DW recomenda a UNICEF para usar o Scorecard à Pobreza e à ferramenta de mapeamento para fazer um estudo de base e acompanhamento regular do projeto Proteção Social eles estão implementando com MINARS.