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Promoting Inclusive Local Land Tenure Governance in Mauritania and Sierra Leone - GCP/GLO/1028/GER

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Weak land governance in Mauritania and Sierra Leone leads to insecure tenure and unequal access to land and other natural resources, particularly among women and youth. Conflicts can arise because of competition over natural resources between different user groups, and also because large areas of land are increasingly being purchased by foreign and domestic investors, causing land scarcity for local communities. This scarcity has begun to affect land distribution and ownership, as evidenced by shrinking farm sizes, rising land prices, and increasing levels of inequality in ownership. All of these factors, coupled with prevailing customary land tenure systems, are limiting the likelihood of rural youth to access land for productive purposes, contributing to increasing migration rates. Strong tenure governance can mitigate the above-mentioned issues; however, existing systems generally exclude the most vulnerable groups, meaning that young people and women are not aware of their rights or empowered to exercise them. In addition, land administration can be complicated and expensive, limiting who can undertake related procedures. This project was formulated to tackle the imbalance of power related to land tenure governance in Mauritania and Sierra Leone by raising the awareness of women, youth and other disadvantaged groups on the topic and by laying out roadmaps to promote transformative changes in local governance of tenure.

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