Overview, Content

The work would, in the proposed pilot phase, address the following:

1. An area assessment to: (a) Assess and evaluate various ecological, ethnic and livelihood/subsistence practice zones in the country and their relationships to each other, and (b) Identify suitable localities in the southeast of the country to test the design of the Initiative in a limited number of villages and areas (i.e., the Pilot area(s)),
2. Identification of suitable partners (preferably local) to work with the local population in the Pilot area(s),
3. Identification of local land use patterns based on traditional use rights, through interviews with the local population,
4. Securing administrative support (hakim and wali) to enable local communities to practice these traditional land use patterns (even if formally illegal under the present national law),
5. Codification of these traditional use rights in the vernacular languages, explaining the respective notions in all applicable languages (including a dictionary of terms),
6. Translation of the data into Arabic and French, as well as relevant vernacular languages,
7. Establishment of a rural registry based on the land-use pattern and user rights (identified under above no. 3),
8. Supporting existing relevant traditional institutions, and establishing new co-management institutions among representatives of use-right holders and the public sector, based on said regulations (above no. 3), and
9. Registration of said regulations (above no. 3) on a central digitized GIS centered map and the Internet (GLIN).

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