A Negotiation Handbook for Communities and Traditional Leaders: Facilitators’ Booklet: Negotiation Role Play

This booklet is the facilitators’ handbook to guide the negotiation role play. It is to be used by a facilitator together with Book 3 (Negotiation Skills)of a series of three books that together constitute the “Negotiation Handbook for Communities and Traditional Leaders”to help them engage government and corporates. Book1 (Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities) provides the information that the traditional leaders and community members need to know on citizens’ rights and responsibilities; Book 2 (Obligations of Corporate)outlines the obligations of corporates towards society; and Book 3 (Negotiation Skills) defines negotiations and outlines the negotiating process that the leaders and communities should follow in negotiating and making demands with the duty bearers including the mining firms and local authorities. The “Negotiation Handbook for Communities and Traditional Leaders” is a product of the JCTR partnership with Diakonia and the Embassy of Sweden, under which the JCTR has been implementing the Strengthened Accountability Programme (SAP) in Solwezi in the North Western Province since 2014. One of the activities under the SAP was to produce a negotiation handbook for communities and traditional leaders to help them negotiate with local authorities and corporates. The series contributes to meeting the project outcome: “Targeted corporate sector acts transparently, are accountable to the rights holders, and contribute to socio – economic justice in targeted districts of North Western Province.