Haki Ardhi - Programmes

LARRRI works under three major organizational portfolios through which programmes are planned and implemented. Those are RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENATTION, ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT and INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAMME SUPPORT.

Each portfolio consists of thematic programmes that also further divide into specific activities that are implemented in three to five programme year phases sometimes. Below, a brief description of the programmes under each portfolio is warranted.

The over all objective of the Research, Publication and Documentation portfolio is to search for, analyse, publish and document reliable information on land matters for public use in raising their awareness, self organizing and feeding into the policy processes to influence policy changes.

Under this portfolio, Research is the major activity but there are other activities such as policy analysis, fact findings, rapid response, baseline studies publication and documentation. Other objectives of the research, publications and documentation are as follows;

This portfolio encompasses two major components namely public engagement on one hand, and lobbying and advocacy on the other. Public engagement is part of the Institute's initiatives to enlighten the public through broad based awareness programmes like land rights training, workshops, seminars, national forum, media programmes and information dissemination for them to understand and advocate for their rights on land.

It is also the means of linking up with grassroots struggles against unjust system through trainings on how to organize and participate effectively in decision making. Many activities shall focus on those thematic contents but also on a very wide reaching programme on land rights and village governance.

The later is a long term programme to broadly engage with the public so as to enable them become active players of policy processes as well as participation in decisions pertaining to their rights. It thus links up issues related to land tenure system with administration of resources rights and justice.

So the current thematic programmes include but not limited to;

The second component focuses on usage of research findings and analysis to inform policy changes. The information obtained through research, analysis and publications is widely shared with other actors in the society for the purpose of mobilizing forces for change that benefits small producers.

The changes may range from improving implementation of a particular course of action to protesting against decisions that have negative impact on small producers. This is what we generally consider to be lobbying and advocacy for policy changes.

Given the rapid changing circumstances and forces that inform land tenure system in the world today, lobbying and advocacy must be one of the continuous undertakings for activist organizations like ours so as to bring on board issues that are critical to the rights and livelihoods of marginalized groups in society like peasants, pastoralists, women, artisan miners and related groups.

The over all objective of this programme portfolio is to ensure that a strong institutional base is in place to initiate, coordinate and supervise all plans of the Institute so that the objectives of the Institute and programmes are achieved effectively and efficiently.

In addition, to ensure that the necessary facilities and equipments and other programme requirements are acquired and functional all the time to enable smooth implementation of planned activities and, to manage plans and expenditure of money according to the procedural requirements of national and International standards.

The portfolio divides into three main components namely administration, finance and programme support whose main functions are briefly described below.

All issues related to the day to day management of the Institute including office running, attending to clients, personnel matters, resources mobilization and allocations and security of the Institute in general fall under the administration sub portfolio.

This component also takes care of the management development and general welfare of the workers. Proper planning and execution of the planned activities depend entirely on a well functioning administrative machinery and availability of resources to facilitate operationalization of tasks.

This sub unit is responsible in searching for and or developing human resources with requisite skills and experiences to run the administration, finance and programme functions of the Institute

The finance component deals with all financial matters including fundraising, preparation of financial reports and budget, auditing, managing relationship with the donors and general management of accounts of the organization.

The main function of the unit is to ensure that financial resources are available to facilitate smooth execution of planned activities and accounted for in accordance with both local and international standards.

Programme support primarily focuses on provision of conceptual guidance with respect to strategic planning, execution of planned activities, monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance.