Local land and water governance in IFAD supported projects Steven Jonckheere Knowledge Management Officer Land and Water Days, FAO, Rome, 10 November 2015

Land and water governance Importance of secure access to land and water Secure access to water cannot be separated from secure access to land Mainstream support for good land and water governance into agricultural and rural development programmes Different areas of interface between land and water rights Irrigation Rangelands Wetlands Coastal areas

Irrigation Irrigation schemes raise three broad groups of issues - Allocation of water rights - Creation of scheme - Tenure security on irrigated plots - Transactions fostered by the increased land values Swaziland LUSIP - Chiefdom Development Plans - Chief’s Letter of Consent – procedure for land sharing - Farmers’ associations

Rangelands In dry areas water rights are the key to the control and use of land for pastures Chad PROHYPA - Participatory pastoral appraisal - Mapping of pastoral resources - Pastoral water points - Protection of stockroutes - Management committees

Wetlands Complexity of competing livelihoods strategies and overlapping use rights Mali FODESA and PIDRN - Land use mapping - Local stakeholder agreements - Rehabilitation of “bourgoutières” - Increased incomes and promoting of conservation and sustainable use

Coastal areas Competition for water, land and other resources used by artisanal fishing communities Mozambique ProPESCA - Mapping of resource use in artisanal fishing communities - Community empowerment in natural resource management - Linking macro and local level natural management planning processes - Multi-stakeholder co-management of natural resources

Conclusion Development of practical, innovative tools and approaches in land and water governance -Interface between customary and statutory systems -Ensuring inclusion of vulnerable groups -Mapping is an important and powerful tool Success depends on local solutions to the challenges of poverty and the environment – by making the livelihood and income strategies of the poor the basis for sustainable resource management Important not to loose sight of landscape dimension Strengthening involvement of Ministries often not directly involved in land (and water) policy Sharing of lessons learned by the people we support in policy dialogue processes