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Dr. Diane Dumashie, Chair of the Africa Task Force |
News
ATF Workshop 2011 - 30 November - 2 December
2011
The 2011 ATF Workshop will be held in Cape Town,
South Africa hosted by FIG Partners:
- The South African Council for Professional and
Technical Surveyors (PLATO) and
- Geomatics department of the University of Cape Town.
Registration by 18th September to:
Soraya Shaffie
soraya.shaffie@uct.ac.za or Diane Dumashie
atfchair_p@ymail.com
Young Surveyors Network encourages Young
Surveyors to attend the Workshop
GLTN - GEC Communiqué
A two day workshop will be held in Uganda by Uganda Land
Alliance 19 – 20 September 2011 for trainers.
ATF Tool Book
The ATF Tool deliberated upon at the first workshop in
Mombassa November 2010, and subsequently discussed in Marrakech 2011, is now
available for final review. Any editorial observations to be forwarded to the
Editor Dr D Dumashie (Chair ATF) by 27th July 2011 after which it will be going
to print.
ATF Workshop in Mombasa,
Kenya, 11-12 November 2010
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Participants of the ATF Workshop |
FIG African Task Force held its first Africa Task Force Workshop in Mombasa
in cooperation with the Institute of Surveyors in Kenya (ISK).
ISK have
demonstrably proved active in Kenya, having been instrumental in taking
on the role of advocates with the community in the recent government
activity in Land reform on Kenya. Their skills as acting as change
agents in Africa will lend itself to the objectives of the Task force in
debating and proposing tools for individual land professional members in
sub - Saharan Africa.
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Key Milestones
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ATF Workshop in South Africa, 30 November -1 December 2011
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ATF Workshop in Mombasa, Kenya, 11-12 November 2010
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Pre Task Force Workshop held in Ghana with GhIS, February
2010
Background
The UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty
will not be reached in Africa. The same applies to a number of the other MDGs.
There is a need to revitalise the efforts in a large number of areas, whilst it
is also important to view efforts to find best practices in all areas of society.
Africa has seen many positive developments and experienced
progress in several areas in the past decade, primarily thanks to Africa’s own
efforts and reforms. In recent years Africa has achieved growth rates of about
5%. Furthermore, there are also clear signs of improvement in governance. The
business environment is improving. Many countries are taking steps to combat
corruption. The public authorities in many places have improved.
Despite these and many other positive examples, Africa faces
considerable challenges in the next couple of years, and development must be
accelerated further. In a global context, Africa has largely been left behind in
the area of economic growth, which is a pre-requisite for solving many of the
still existing challenges.
Focus of the Task Force
The Task focus is on the African Surveying Profession and how
it can best contribute to meet the key challenges of poverty alleviation,
economic growth, and environmental sustainability.
The key purpose is to enable the surveying profession in Sub
Saharan Africa to deal with social responsibility in terms of contributing to
achieving the MDGs. In this regard, the role of the surveyors as change agents
engaging with the politicians is important. This relates to the professional
status of surveyors that in turn is based on the principles of social
responsibility and justice.
The Task Force will consider and present new and creative
tools to revitalise and strengthen members within Sub Saharan Africa. The focus
will be on building the capacity of the surveying association and individual
surveyors to act as agents of positive change and encourage the process of
development and growth for the benefit of Africa and its people.
Recent good examples of such approaches can be found in Kenya
and Ghana. Within the framework of Professional Development and Ethics the task
force will look at developing capacity and relevant tools in three key areas:
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Peri-urban development – to develop tools to plan for
access rights to sanitation and water infrastructure in emerging informal
settlements, and thereby also complimenting the current FIG efforts to
increase access to secure tenure
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Environmental resilience – to develop tools for responding to
local natural resource environmental degradation by integrating the principles
of sustainable development into all stages of the building cycle process and by
encouraging practices to stem the loss of environmental resources
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Recruitment and involvement of young surveyors and women
- concentrating on ways and means to breaking down entry barriers for young
people and women
Timetable and Working Programme
The Task Force was established at the FIG Working Week in
Eilat, Israel, May 2009. The term of this Task Force is exceptionally
2009-2014. A mid term report will be presented at the FIG Working Week in
Rome 2012 and the final recommendations will be presented in a FIG
publication to be launched at the FIG Congress 2014 in Kuala Lumpur.
.Even if the focus of this Task Force is on the African
region the results can of course be multiplied for inspiration and
implementation in other regions such Asia and Latin America.
The Africa Task Force will have an ambitious working
programme that includes a range of thematic seminars and open discussion
fora prior to the submission of the final report. This will include:
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Mombasa, Kenya, ISK
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May - Marrakech, Morocco |
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Cape Town, South Africa, PLATO & UCT |
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May - Abuja, Nigeria |
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2009 Liaison activities to ensure African ownership
and relevant input to the work plan
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2010 FIG Congress, Sydney - Open forum discussion
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11-12 November 2010; Mombasa, Kenya - Regional Seminar in Africa - Theme: Peri-Urban
development
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2011 FIG WW, Marrakesh - Open forum discussion
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2011 Regional Seminar in Cape Town, South Africa – Theme:
Building resilience into the Profession
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2012 FIG WW, Rome – Presentation of mid-term report and open
forum discussion
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2012 Regional Seminar in Africa – Theme: Environmental
Resilience
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2013 FIG WW…… - Open forum discussion
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2013 Regional Seminar in Africa - Pulling together
recommendations.
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2014 FIG Congress…… - Launch of report.
With the aim of ensuring African ownership and in order to
provide valuable input for the Task Force’s work, a series of thematic workshops
will be arranged in Africa between the Working Weeks to inform, and be widely
discussed at the next Task Force meeting. Members of the Task Force will
participate and co-chair each conference.
The Task Force will be chaired by Dr. Diane Dumashie,
Chair of FIG Commission 8 (2007-2010). Members of the Task Force will include
key persons anticipated to be representatives from East, South, Central and
Western African countries. Other FIG resource persons may also contribute to
achieving the aim and objectives of the Task Force.
The Task Force will be allocated some budget funds on
biannual basis from the Council for organising the regional events. The Council
will also look for funding support through partnership with UN agencies and
donor organisations.
Chair
Dr. Diane Dumashie
Dumashie Associates
Keta Lodge
Grange Road, Creech
Wareham
Dorset BH20 5DG
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. + 44 1929 555 392
Fax + 44 1929 555 392
E-mail: atfchair_p@ymail.com
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