Contents

1 The chapter at a glance

2 Current situation

2.1 Membership, rights and equitable access

2.1.1 The CSIR review

2.1.2 The SDC enquiry

2.1.3 CPAs

2.1.4 Trusts

2.2 Business entities and their relationship to the land-holding entity

2.3 Social development

2.3.1 Quality of Life surveys

2.3.2 Meeting social development needs: The sustainability imperative

2.4 Capacity development and training

2.4.1 Land reform participants

2.4.2 Government officials and others

2.5 Local organisation

2.5.1 The decline of land sector NGOs

3 Key issues and problems

3.1 Rights determination and CPI functionality

3.2 Capacity of municipalities to manage commonages

3.3 Business entities

3.4 Social development

3.5 Capacity development and training

3.6 Local organisation

4 Where we want to be

5 Getting there

5.1 Establishing a social and economic baseline

5.2 Securing membership rights and equitable access

5.2.1 Fixing and overhauling existing CPIs

5.2.2 Establishing functional entities as part of newly planned projects

5.2.3 Amending the CPA Act

5.2.4 Creating CPAs, not trusts, to hold land and manage land rights

5.2.5 Creating an accreditation system for service providers

5.2.6 Providing support to ensure continued CPA functionality

5.2.7 Ensuring ongoing M&E and assessment of rights

5.3 Commonage and land rights management

5.4 Building business entities

5.5 Enabling improved social development

5.5.1 Social profiling

5.5.2 Reducing the impacts of HIV/Aids

5.5.3 Integrating gender, age and livelihoods perspectives

5.5.4 Securing social development benefits

5.6 Capacity development and learning

5.6.1 Developing capacity in a dynamic context

5.6.2 Building capacity in three spheres

5.6.3 Building the capacity of land reform participants

5.6.4 Indicative capacity development areas

5.6.5 Developing the skills of SIS service staff

5.7 Encouraging local land reform participant associations

6 Conclusions

7 Chapter references