Robin Palmer
Mokoro ConsultantAreas of Expertise: • Land Reform • Governance & Society
rpalmer@mokoro.co.uk
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Robin Palmer is a global land rights policy specialist. He had 20 years' experience with Oxfam GB in a range of advisory, management and communications posts, with a focus on land rights, gender and livelihoods, and 15 years' experience as an academic. He has published extensively on land rights as a development worker, as an academic, and as a Mokoro consultant. He has worked on governance issues, giving advice and programme and advocacy support to civil society organisations, governments and donors on global land rights issues, including women's land rights and legal issues, principally in Africa and South-East Asia. He has undertaken consultancies for DFID in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Rwanda and on governance and secure access to land and was a member of DFID's Land Tenure Advisory Group 1998 – 2003. He continues to manage Oxfam's prestigious Land Rights in Africa website.
1968 PhD (Arts), Title: The Making and Implementation of Land Policy in Rhodesia, 1890-1936, University of London.
1964 Upper 2nd BA (Honours) in History (London) (External) at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland