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| Project Name: | Security of Land Tenure (SLATE) |
| Project Description: |
Security of Land Tenure (SLATE) - Land tenure insecurity is epidemic in Ghana, and plays an important role in the decline in agricultural
production and the entrenched poverty among those - including poor farm families and women -- who depend on
land and natural resources for a living. If land is to play its requisite role in national development, reform of the land administration system is urgently needed. The SLATE project addresses the underlying causes of poverty among
Ghana's rural land users in Greater Accra, Western and Northern Regions. SLATE's purpose is to support national, organized civil society advocacy to ensure that the implementation
of Ghana's land policy includes mechanisms, accessible to poor land users, for equitable security of tenure.
SLATE's participants include poor and marginalized land users, landowners and traditional authorities. SLATE
focuses specifically on enhancing civil society's voice so that participants benefit from modified, customary or
community based land administration systems. SLATE also strives to integrate the efforts within the 15-year, World
Bank-supported Land Administration Program (LAP) to achieve a sustainable impact. At the close of the project,
SLATE will have enabled: 1) civil society networking and dialogue that links local realities to national civil society actors and advocacy on the rights of land users to security of tenure; 2) exploration of strategic options that enable traditional authorities, district assemblies, land owners and land users to harmonize activities and agree roles and cooperation; 3) local, regional and national opportunities for improved information flow between land users and land stakeholders; 4) LAP pilots to fully consider poor land users and give evidence of how this can be done in practice, including demarcation and recording procedures and the process by which locally led systems can be established; and 5) coordinated communication by NGOs with donors and the LAP. |
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