Community-led impact for rural land rights in South Africa: A multilingual best practice handbook

随着南非努力进行土地改革，农村土地权利案件在南非各地层出不穷。不仅对农村社区，而且对支持他们的非政府组织和法律团队来说，案件的官方文件都很难获得。此外，农村社区、非政府组织和法律团队为应对正在展开的土地权利案件而每天作出的决定，并没有定期保存在任何文集中。因此，农村社区努力保存和展示正在进行的土地权利斗争的证据。也没有任何系统或基础设施在农村社区及其支持者之间提炼和分享经验教训或基于证据的最佳做法。因此，农村社区很难相互分享记录和证据，因此无法利用全国同行所拥有的丰富的经验知识。这些差距阻碍了土地权利索赔的进展，并限制了诉诸司法的机会。为了更好地保存记录和证据，传播经验教训和最佳做法，改善诉诸司法的机会，并在农村社区建设能力，有必要收集和分享全国正在发生的案件的报告、证据和文件。该项目将激发新的影响途径，以满足我们研究中出现的独立确定的社区需求。该项目将支持土地权利法律支持中心、非政府组织和农村居民分享南非各地土地权利纠纷的经验和知识；在利益相关者之间建立新的实践网络；与所有利益攸关方共同编写和传播一系列土地权案例摘要和应对土地权危机的多语种最佳实践手册；从而提高农村社区在其土地权利受到威胁时有效应对的能力。这些目标将通过与利益攸关方使用联合生产方法的知识交流（KE）讲习班实现。KE合作者将包括原AHRC GCRF土地权利项目的调查人员和合作伙伴，包括农村社区研究人员；谢菲尔德大学数字人文学院（DHI）；以及关键的土地权利利益相关者。土地权利益相关者参与者将包括：南非的四个主要土地权法律支持中心；南非两个主要的农村发展非政府组织，有农村社区的代表；来自南非主要大学的发展和法律研究人员；还有来自服务欠缺的农村地区的研究生，他们作为农村社区和体制结构之间的中介有过亲身经历。参与者将选择至少10个他们直接经历过的土地权利案例，并编写可访问的案例摘要、经验教训、支持性证据和文件。然后将根据案例摘要共同编写最佳做法手册。所有资源将在反复发生土地权案件的地区翻译成三种主要语言，并将通过项目网站和硬拷贝形式在一些居民数据获取或数字素养较低的农村地区传播。利用利益攸关方广泛的现有网络举办的启动活动将扩大相关用户群体的传播和支持吸收。随着利益攸关方相互学习彼此的成功和失败，这些资源将产生经济和社会影响，包括改善司法救助（联合国可持续发展目标16）；证实或驳斥在当地证明有用的方法和技术在全国的效力；提高他们有效应对土地权危机的能力。

There is an unending stream of rural land rights cases across South Africa, as the country grapples with land reform. Official documentation of cases is difficult to access, not only for rural communities, but also for the NGOs and legal teams supporting them. Moreover, the decisions taken daily by rural communities, NGOs, and legal teams in response to unfolding land rights cases are not routinely maintained in any collection. As a result, rural communities struggle to preserve and present evidence of ongoing land rights struggles. Nor is there any system or infrastructure for distilling and sharing lessons learned or evidence-based best practice among rural communities and those supporting them. As a result, rural communities struggle to share records and evidence with each other, and thus cannot exploit the wealth of experiential knowledge held by their peers nationwide. These gaps impede the progress of land rights claims and limit access to justice. To better preserve records and evidence, disseminate lessons learned and best practice, improve access to justice, and build capacity in rural communities, there is a need to collect and share reports, evidence, and documentation from unfolding cases nationwide. This project will stimulate new pathways to impact, to meet independently identified community needs which have emerged from our research. The project will support land rights legal support centres, NGOs, and rural residents to share experience and knowledge of land rights disputes across South Africa; create new networks of practice between stakeholders; co-create and disseminate, with all stakeholders, a series of land rights case summaries and a multilingual best practice handbook for responding to land rights crises; and thus enhance rural communities' abilities to respond effectively when their land rights are threatened. These aims will be achieved through knowledge exchange (KE) workshops with stakeholders using co-production methodology. KE collaborators will include the original AHRC GCRF Land rights project's investigators and partner, including rural community researchers; the University of Sheffield's Digital Humanities Institute (DHI); and key land rights stakeholders. Land rights stakeholder participants will include: four major land rights legal support centres in South Africa; two major rural development NGOs in South Africa, with representatives from rural communities; development and legal researchers from leading South African universities; and postgraduate students from underserved rural areas who have lived experience as intermediaries between rural communities and institutional structures. Participants will select at least 10 land rights cases they have directly experienced, and develop accessible case summaries, with lessons learned, and supporting evidence and documents. A best practice handbook will then be co-produced, based on the case summaries. All resources will be translated into three primary languages in areas with recurring land rights cases, and will be disseminated through a project website and in hard copy in rural areas, where data access or digital literacy are low for some residents. A launch event with stakeholders' extensive existing networks will widen dissemination and support uptake among relevant user groupsThe resources will deliver economic and social impact, including improved access to justice (UN Sustainable Development Goal 16), as stakeholders learn from each others' successes and failures; corroborate or refute the national efficacy of approaches and techniques that have proven locally useful; and enhance their abilities to respond effectively to land rights crises.