Strive to restore public confidence in land agency

Land commissions are fairly recent inventions in Africa. They are consequential to innovative attempts to improve land governance systems around the continent, whose majority states are yet to optimise on the exploitation of land and natural resources.

The commissions are established under contexts and with mandates that are jurisdiction-specific. The history, the state of land administration, the politics and priority development issues of the day inform their scope. As with ours, their performance in various countries has been rather chequered.