TIME LINE ON THE GENESIS OF LANDNET EAST AFRICA.

1999:    Landnet Africa was conceived in February 1999 at a Land tenure and sustainable development conference in the UK, as a mechanism to network across Africa and with the rest of the world on issues of land management and administration. 

2000:    At a follow-up meeting in Addis Ababa in January 2000, a decision was made to devolve the operations of the network to the Sub-regional levels.  This led to the formation of four sub-regional Landnet: East Africa, the Horn, West and Southern Africa.
The East African Sub-region covers Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. Landnet East Africa was formed with a specific mandate to facilitate the buying in from the National level Land Alliances in the four countries, and RECONCILE from Kenya agency was mandated to provide the interim secretariat and to facilitate the actualization of the new Sub-regional Network.

2001:    At an inaugural General Assembly held in Naivasha Kenya in August 2001 a draft Constitution and a Steering Committee comprising of representatives from civil society, government and research organisations from the four countries were approved.

2002:    A business plan was developed and discussed at a meeting in Kigali in December of 2002.  The plan was to serve as basis for resource mobilisation. 

2003:    The process stalled this year.

2004:    Process reactivated by the Uganda Land Alliance with the support of the International Land Coalition and a reflection and learning meeting held in Kampala Uganda in September. Earlier drafts and constitution fed into and informed the development of this document