Workshops

This page lists workshops organized in connection with the key phases of this project, including preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. These activities typically involve key stakeholders and take place in Mauritania or abroad (see Section Processes). For output at these events, see Section Output. For documents prepared for and/or presented at these events, see Section Resources.

The activities are listed chronologically, as follows:

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Location and date: Washington, D.C., USA; 13 September 2000. Description: ?.

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Location and date: Nouakchott, Mauritania; 12(?) June 2001. Description: This workshop discussed the concept of TFT with representatives of the Government and NGOs.

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Location and date: Washington, D.C., USA; 22 September 2001. Description: ?.

Making law at the grassroots level

Location and date: Washington D.C., USA; 27 November 2001. Description: The World Bank's mission to reduce poverty can be accomplished in rural areas, and particularly in dry lands such as the Sahel only through effective environmental protection. The land feeds people only if these share diligently among various uses and allow natural regeneration. Local people's use rights are based on tradition and custom and are slow to adjust to exterior change. To influence behavior, value patterns need to be discussed, shared, and reformed uses negotiated in open participatory discussions, including all rights holders. The emerging new use patterns would form the 'code' governing this specific site, this village, this environment, drafted in local language, embodied in locally drawn maps - reproduced on internet-based GIS - centered geographic data and recorded in an electronic register. This is the vision the TFT Initiative aims to test in eastern Mauritania. Participants in the Workshop, which is composed of distinct, yet interrelated 90 minute sequels, are invited to voice criticism, ideas, and proposals so as to improve the design. The Initiative will depend on government- and donor-cooperation, acting as initiators and coordinators only. Comment: The proceedings are not finalized. [download: Program, Proceedings]