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Seminar on the impact of HIV/AIDS on land reform in KwaZulu-Natal

Hosted by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network and the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking University of Natal, Durban

Scott Drimie      and      Deborah Heustice
[Briefing note]     [Seminar proceedings]     [Delegates]     [Annexures]

Seminar proceedings

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5.5. A "way forward": Developing an agenda for future research
It was decided that a research agenda needed to be developed to help identify policy issues and gaps, particularly around the following areas in relation to HIV/AIDS:
  • Identify how people qualify to get land in the land reform process? i.e. who are the decision makers? / who decides who gets the land;


  • How much land is available? and


  • What do people need the land for?
Dr Drimie noted that the reports on the FAO (Kenya, Lesotho, SA study) and Oxfam (Zimbabwe and Malawi) studies would soon become available on the effect of HIV/AIDS on land tenure at community level in these countries. These studies will answer the above questions, and form a basis for further, more detailed, research. Furthermore, the FAO study will be workshopped in March 2002 and invitations would be extended to delegates from this forum that would be interested in attending.

Other research questions needed to revolve around:
  • Effective utilisation of the land by the recipients - who controls or makes sure that the land is used effectively?


  • What structures are there to ensure effective utilization?


  • Are there legal structures to enforce this? Legal institutions could formalize partnerships in land use.


  • Are there enough resources to use the land?


  • Need to identify stakeholders;


  • Need for gender sensitive approaches concerning land;


  • Need to protect individuals rights to land - security of land tenure;


  • What are the key issues / causes for illegal settlement?


  • Research into indigenous diets - utilize locally available foods / crops;


  • Role played by micro-enterprise development in sustainable utilization of land; and


  • Research should be seen as a management tool:
    • A mechanism for mobilising existing research, data and monitoring capabilities;
    • Identify what, where and why and disseminate results / reports
    • Identify what, where and why and disseminate results/reports; and
    • Responsibility for picking up on research needs and prioritizing necessary research by DLA and other bodies. I.e. who takes things forward?
In order for headway to be made with this research agenda a number of key players and resources needed to be identified.
  • Research institutions - academic institutions
    • HIVAN undertakes to circulate information and ensure regular feedback so that momentum is not lost;
    • SAPRN, HSRC will link this forum with the upcoming reports from and activities of the FAO and Oxfam studies; and
    • HSRC Cape Town’s SAHARA (Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health) Journal:
      • A new social science HIV/AIDS journal to be produced quarterly for SADC region.
      • The journal will be accessible through the SADC MRC portal.
      • SAHARA invites input from land reform and sustainable development
      • Will collaborate with Ms Carey at NLA HIV/AIDS desk about designing the appropriate questions for an effective understanding of HIV/AIDS and land.

  • Community


  • Government departments:
    • Need a working group from those present today to carry the momentum of today’s seminar forward: - Ms Carey agreed to invite delegates from today’s seminar onto the working group.

  • Private sector


  • Regional institutions
In order to take this research agenda further, a decision was made to make a strategic input into the national land tenure conference held in Durban on 27-30 November 2002 by the DLA.
  • Dr Drimie secured a poster session on the upcoming land tenure conference programme


  • He drew up an A1 poster for the conference along with a flyer version available outlining the impact of HIV/AIDS on land.
    • It will incorporate some of the outcomes of the seminar discussion as it relates to land tenure.
    • The poster will point to beyond the DLA policy document - not HIV/AIDS education per se - to issues of:
      • Management
      • Current problems
      • Opportunity / challenges
      • Time frames - longer term: plan with / for
      • Labour
      • Burial
      • Land loss
      • Beneficiaries
      • Inheritance / land grabbing (widows)
      • Legal entity
      • Orphans
      • Projects
      • Budgets

  • Apart from the poster session, the group will raise the issue of HIV/AIDS at any appropriate forum within the conference and will endeavor to speak about the issue with conference delegates.

For any comments on the report or the seminar please contact either "Scott Drimie or Deborah Heustice.

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