The preparation of the National Land Policy was considered essential by stakeholders to prevent emerging land crises: increased pressure on natural resources, including recurrent land conflicts in both urban and rural areas, and especially farmer-herder conflicts, which detrimental to vulnerable groups and more and more frequent.

During the Workshop exchanges, the questions of and lack of knowledge and application of the legal to protect tenure rights. The need for better access to cultivable land and market gardening, were also raised by the women. Mrs. Amné Ali Abakar, President of a cooperative of women traders and member of the International Organization of Millennium Women (OIFM) stressed that 80 percent of conflicts in Chad are related to land. She explains the fatal negative social impact that this induce: “Conflicts between farmers and pastoralist is a real problem for us as women. Our men, brothers and children are dying because of these conflicts”.

The preparation of the land policy is a key step in the inclusive land reform process, initiated in 2018 with the review of the draft land code. This process is inspired by the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) and the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa.

The debates held during these meetings and the group work focused on 4 thematic areas: 1) the legislative and regulatory framework of land administration; 2) urban land; 3) rural land; and 4) land use planning, in order to formulate recommendations based on the realities of each zone.