Collaborative customary land governance: Motivations and challenges of forming land management committees (LMCs) in the upper west region of Ghana

Participatory monitoring and evaluation in local government: a case study of Lambussie District, Ghana

“…The secondary data was subjected to content analysis and integrated into the primary data. This involved expanding, collapsing, merging and creating themes that best represented initial interpretations of meaning (Miles and Huberman 1994;Ibrahim et al 2020).…”

The evolving dynamics of land administration and its implications for physical planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: experiences from Wa, Ghana

“…The customary structures take the form of family, skin or stool lands administered on behalf of communities through Customary Land Secretariats (CLS) and land management committees (see Ibrahim et al 2020a). With the customary land establishments administering 80% of both developed and undeveloped lands, the state land institutions only take charge of 20% of lands in Ghana (Bugri 2013;Ibrahim et al 2020b). The statutory land administrative institutions include, the Lands Commission, Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands, Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority (LUSPA) and Physical Planning Department of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).…”

“…Through the government of Ghana's Land Administration Project (LAP), the families constituted a Land Management Committee through which a CLS known as Wa-Central CLS was established (Ibrahim et al 2020a). The Wa-Central CLS keeps record of all lands granted customarily, resolves land disputes through alternative dispute resolution, educates the public on customary land issues and expedites the development of local plans (see Ibrahim et al 2020b). Statutory land administration institutions including the physical planning department of the Wa Municipal Assembly, the Lands Commission and the Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority (LUSPA) have offices in the Municipality.…”

“…The lack of documentation of a significant proportion of land transactions is partly responsible for the various land related conflicts in the Town (see Ibrahim et al 2020b). The CLS established under the Land Administration Project in 2003, is making efforts in the recording of customary land transactions.…”

“…Land ownership and administration is split between customary authorities and the state institutions in Ghana (Ibrahim et al 2020b). Besides the non-homogeneous ownership structure, land administration is characterized by risky processes of land acquisition due to multiple claim to land titles, undocumented customary lands, bureaucratic land registration processes and challenges in securing land tenure (Ehwi et al 2019).…”