Promoting inclusivity for improved local tenure governance
The project aims to promote more inclusive and gender-responsive local land governance and accountability mechanisms by strengthening local institutions, participatory multi-stakeholder processes and data generation.
In Sierra Leone, the project strives to improve local land governance by reinforcing and capacitating local institutions that play a crucial role in implementing the legislative framework, paying particular attention to the role of women and youth. It promotes multistakeholder local dialogue on responsible governance, addressing particularly local government institutions, but also traditional leaders.
The project also aims to increase the capacity of national actors to define land reform targets (national roadmaps) and indicators and agree on long-term monitoring mechanisms, in line with FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), which were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012.