News in 2016
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African Land Professionals working to ensure good land governance
16-18 November 2016, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Report on FIG-Arica Regional Network workshop and FGF conference
Participants at the FIG Africa Regional Network Workshop
Vice President Diane Dumashie attended the 2016 Annual Africa
Regional Network Capacity Development workshop 16-18th November 2016 and
the Fédération des Géomètres Francophones (FGF) conference held in
parallel, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, organised by the Africa Reginal
Network in partnership with FGF and De L’Ordre des Geometres-Experts de
Cote d’Ivore (OGECI).
From 17th to 18th November Vice President Diane Dumashie chaired the
Africa FIG Regional Network (ARN) 2016 meeting and facilitated the
training workshop assisted by Stephen Djaba (Geotech Ghana) and Ndwiga
Robinson (GEBCO Kenya) and Yacoba Hamed Dagnoko (OGECI) who was
indispensably on logistics. Importantly ARN collaborated with the
Young Surveyors from West Africa, led on this occasion by Yusuf
Aro-Lambo, Adama Sarr and Chuck Onwuzuligbo. Notably, following
this workshop the Nigerian African young surveyors held a conference in
Lagos, Nigeria between 23rd and 25th of November, 2016 (see
following article link).
President Adjoumany Koko Emile (De L’Ordre des Geometres-Experts
de Cote d’Ivore), Vice President Dr Diane Dumashie (FIG),
President François Mazuyer (FGF) |
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Dr Odami Larbi (FAO), Vice President Dr Diane Dumashie (FIG),
President François Mazuyer (FGF), Ibrahim Mwathane (AU/LPI) |
Attended by 35 land professionals over the two day ARN workshop,
participants were drawn from across the spectrum of land survey,
valuation, quantity surveying and planning, and who travelled from
across the Africa continent. The theme, “Ensuring Good Land
Governance Practices in the Land Profession and What you can do about
it” appealed to those wishing to have an understanding of the
international land governance initiatives, specifically the Voluntary
Guidelines on Good Governance (VGGT’s), and we were very pleased to be
joined over the two days by Dr W. Odame Larbi, currently seconded to the
Africa FAO team, and a brief visit from Ibrahim Mwathane (on behalf of
the Africa Union Land Policy Initiative).
Our workshop focus was to:
- Build future
resilience into land professional practices to improve governance of
tenure,
- By understanding the
implementation opportunities referenced in the VGGTs and,
- That will ensure that
people benefit from secure and equitable tenure rights.
The workshop was implemented with the now trademark, highly
participatory design and fast pace that enabled the participants to:
overview, discover principles and practices, design, develop and
communicate key good governance messages by capturing their outputs on
video clips (see them here @ www)
Full details of this workshop will be reported on the ARN website in the
2017 New Year at
www.fig.net/organisation/networks/capacity_development/africa/events/2016_abidjan/index.asp
Designed to run in parallel with the FGF conference with their theme
title “Land management and sustainable development, which solutions for
developing countries” the FGF conference was attended by Land
professionals and exhibitors from across Francophone speaking Africa,
and held in the Distribution Pension fund (WAEMU), Abidjan Ivory Coast
https://www.goafricaonline.com/ci/97372-crrae-umoa-epargne-abidjan-cote-ivoire
Vice President Diane Dumashie delivered a welcoming address and was also
asked to chair the FGF day 3 opening session, and rapporteur the
presentations from Dr W. Odame Larbi (pdf of his presentation at ARN
www) and Madame Clair Galpin (delivering Fit For Purpose on behalf of
GLTN).
Because of the linguistic diverse networks, ARN (predominantly
Anglophone) and FGF (Francophone) we ensured that we were able to come
together at various stages and thereby expose each other to a greater
number of people – making the three days, informative, productive and
above all mixed with some fun as we will conclude with the opportunity
of a joint field trip navigating through the complex waterways of
Abidjan.
Picture of Young surveyor’s with Hamed Yacoba Dagnoko (Geometre expert,
OGECI) |
Chair of FIG Africa Capacity Building Network, Diane Dumashie |
From the waterways tour
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The view from the waterways tour |
Details of the ARN workshop will be reported on the ARN website in
2017 and to the General Assembly May 2017:
www.fig.net/organisation/networks/capacity_development/africa/events/2016_abidjan/index.asp
Dr Diane Dumashie FRICS, Vice President FIG
22 December 2016
