Workshop report on securing agricultural land tenure for communities affected by Fomi dam in Guinea

This workshop report contains the full details of a national workshop on securing agricultural land tenure for communities affected by Fomi dam in Guinea co-hosted by Guinea's ministries of Energy and Water, Agriculture, and Rural and Urban Planning and with the support of GWI West Africa on 4-5 March 2015.

The workshop focused on the legislative and administrative reforms regarding land tenure which need to take place in Guinea in the context of the planned construction of Fomi dam in the Upper Niger River basin. Representatives from the ministries responsible for land tenure in Guinea, civil society and technical and financial partners, as well as members of parliament and mayors from Fomi's local communities, amongst other participants, took part in the workshop discussions.

This report contains the speeches and presentations given at the workshop and details of the discussions as well as the participants list, agenda and final communiqué.

Please note that this document is only available in French.

You can find out more about our work in Guinea and there are more details about the workshop and the research which informed the workshop recommendations here: Fomi dam: catalysing land tenure reform in Guinea.