Using the Tenure Guidelines for Action Research & A Toolkit for Participatory Action Research

Using the Tenure Guidelines for Action Research:

The primer is the result of a joint effort that brings together TNI work on accountability with FIAN work on monitoring. This publication is part of collaborative project aimed at strengthening the capacity of grassroots communities in Mali, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa to address through action research, situations of land and other natural resource grabbing that are threatening their lives and livelihoods. The project was carried out by a consortium of organizations based in Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Mali. The project involved supporting people in threatened communities to investigate the causes, conditions, and consequences of these processes in order to inform collective action and advocacy, and in particular exploring use of the CFS/FAO Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in action research to increase bottom up accountability amidst these pressures. We hope the primer is of use to other grassroots communities in other countries as well.

A Toolkit for Participatory Action Research:

This Guide is drawn from experience in the action research project “Bottom-up accountability initiatives and large-scale land acquisitions in Africa”. The project aimed to bring the international soft law instrument, the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of the Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests (the Tenure Guidelines or TGs), to rural communities and, together with them, to use the Guidelines to strengthen their tenure of land, fisheries and forests.

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