1. NEPAD's Role in Strengthening National Institutions for Data and Land Policy Analysis: Opportunities to Build on LGAF
Estherine Lisinge Fotabong, Rudo Makunike and Mandivamba Rukuni
Presentation at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2017, Washington DC, session on Expanding African Capacity for Land Governance

2. BACKGROUND
The way in which land issues are addressed will be critical for Africa’s development especially so in light of AU Agenda 2063.
Increasing demand, competition and conflict for land (agriculture, urbanization, mining, protected areas etc)
Land policy and governance determine -productivity, investment, efficiency of land use, distribution of benefits.

3. BACKGROUND
In 2006, the AU established the Land Policy Initiative (LPI)
Endorsed Framework and Guidelines (F&Gs) for Land Policy in Africa in 2009.
Nairobi Action Plan (NAP) 2014 on Large Scale Land Based Investments in Africa (LSLBI)
Challenge African Institutions to move from principles to implementation.

4. PURPOSE OF FRAMEWORK
The Framework is application to agriculture as well as other rural and economic sectors.
Strengthen the National Agricultural Investment Plans (NAIPs) for implementation of CAADP with respect to investments in land.
Development and investment plans for sustainable land management – the Country Strategic Investment Frameworks (CSIFs) under the TerrAfrica partnership.
Provide multi-sector framework for application in:
Agriculture and livestock systems
Natural resources management
Extractive industries, and
Infrastructure and urban development.

5. HOW FRAMEWORK WAS DEVELOPED
The Framework was crafted by pulling together the NEPAD Agency experiences
Lessons from the NEPAD Agency-LPI project to mainstream land governance into CAADP ( )
Findings from NEPAD Agency Land Governance Programme (LGP) pilot 4 country studies: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, and Tanzania;
Lessons from the World Bank Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) covering 12 countries in Africa.
Review of literature on land governance in Africa and internationally.
A draft framework was undergoing reviews and verification processes
Framework is premised on the need for countries to self-assess

6. The framework cont’
The Framework provides a Country Self-Assessment Methodology And Tools For Land Policy And Governance covering 6 dimensions:
Land integration in national economic development planning
Decision-making structures and processes on land at all levels, all sectors
Legal and institutional frameworks, structures and implementation modalities for public, community and private land
Review On-going land programs, projects, investments and reforms
Land use planning, management, valuation and taxation
Public provision of land information including Land governance performance monitoring

7. THE METHODOLOGY WAS APPLIED ON 4 PILOT COUNTRIES
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Malawi
Tanzania

8. BURKINA FASO The development of the property market booming
The commodification of land in many rural localities
Large housing estate transactions
Growing expansion of mining activities
Government continues to prioritise family farming
Establishment of the National Land Observatory

9. CAMEROON
One of the fastest urbanising countries in Africa- pressure on urban land and services
Small holdings of family farms dominate, but growth in second generation agriculture of larger farms
Land in Southern Cameroon in demand by mining companies prospecting for iron ore, cobalt, nickel, gold and diamonds. 
Demand for large long-term forestry concessions
Efforts to decentralise land governance and pursuit of more sustainable pastoral systems

10. MALAWI
Land reforms aimed at modernising and commercialising customary tenure
Aim to give Government more control over land
New legislation transferring land administration from traditional leadership structures to community structures
Reforms target emerge a land market

11. TANZANIA
Government priority in securing Village Land for conversion into General Land that can be leased out by Government for large scale commercial investment
Kilimo Kwanza is concerned with making Village Land available for commercial and foreign investment.
Aim is to amend the Village Land Act No. 5 of 1999 to facilitate “equitable access” to village land for Kilimo Kwanza.
Other activities concerned with building capacity of local land administration, fast tracking land delivery and dispute resolution systems, identifying available land for investment

12. Operationalizing the framework at country level
Step 1: Compact With Government Leadership And Stakeholders
Step 2: Assessment by independent Local Experts (build on LGAF data)
Step 3: Stakeholder review and validation (state and non-state actors)
Step 4: Identify Priority Interventions, Plan, Budget & Resource mobilization
Step 5: Strengthen Capacity -, Implement, Review

13. NEPAD’s work in strengthening national institutions
NEPAD program on land governance
develop and apply, in a set of select countries, instruments and institutional arrangements to:
- strengthen awareness on role of land governance for Africa’s social and economic transformation
- strengthen analytical capacity to identify priorities, develop evidence combined with performance monitoring to track progress.
The analytical instruments and capacity building strategies - will enable countries to put in place a virtual land data repositories
strengthening analytical capacity to prepare policy notes and analysis required for national policy dialogue, sector planning and investment plans.

14. NEPAD’s work in strengthening national institutions
Set up land policy help desks & data repositories in selected countries
Land policy help desks - located at a university or research institute and will help build a (virtual) land data repository
Repositories - to analyze the status of land governance and produce evidence for investment priority setting
The virtual land data repository organized by country and brings together key land data and analytical tools to facilitate use by governments and researchers for policy analysis and monitoring progress

15. Conclusion
Competing demand for land (mining, real estate, agriculture, infrastructure, protected areas)
Build systemic capacity at all levels for self assessment; collection and management of appropriate data
Land issue needs to be looked at from a macro-level (overall role in socio-economic transformation
Procedures are as important as regulatory policies relating to land (consultative processes, judiciary processes for recourse
in all stages of transformation Land continues to embody elements of social status, power, prestige, wealth and in that regard the need for astute political management cannot be ignored