Adapted the FRILIA framework to Zamfara's unique post-conflict and extractive economy context — integrating responsible land governance with post-displacement resettlement planning.
The challenge
Zamfara's land-use profile is distinctive in the Nigerian federation. Years of insecurity had displaced communities across several LGAs, disrupting customary tenure patterns. Artisanal and small-scale mining had created competing land-use regimes. A straightforward FRILIA adoption required explicit adaptation to these compounding pressures.
Our approach
CISD delivered the core FRILIA curriculum with two substantial contextual overlays — extending the vulnerable groups module to treat internally displaced persons as a first-order stakeholder category, and reframing resettlement modules to address post-conflict needs. A dedicated session addressed the intersection of mining rights and agricultural land use.
FRILIA is more flexible than its name suggests. Its emphasis on legitimate tenure, consultation, and grievance redress is directly applicable to post-conflict land governance.
What we delivered
- A trained cohort with shared working vocabulary across the agriculture–mining–humanitarian axis
- Zamfara-specific annotations on FRILIA toolkits for displacement and mining-overlap scenarios
- A draft institutional coordination map including the state's security architecture as a formal interlocutor
Outcomes
Commitment to pilot FRILIA principles in a post-conflict agricultural resettlement scheme; recognition of the need for a cross-ministerial standing committee on land-use disputes; identification of mining-overlap hotspots for priority GRM application.
Partners
Zamfara State Government · World Bank-supported programme