Land Administration Project

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The objectives for the Land Administration Project for Ghana is to stimulate economic development, reduce poverty and promote social stability by improving security of land tenure, simplifying the process for accessing land and making it fair, transparent and efficient, developing the land market and fostering prudent land management. The project will comprise the following components: Component 1: Harmonizing land policy and regulatory framework for sustainable land administration: revisions of policies, laws and regulations for an effective and efficient land administration; strengthening of civil courts to expedite resolution of land cases and developing alternative land dispute resolution mechanisms; inventory of all acquired state lands and determination of outstanding compensation. Policy studies: (i) Land tenure registration to formulate government policy on what rights will be registered on land titles; (ii) Divestiture of vested lands; (iii) Finance and fees structure of land administration system to formulate government policies on fees and taxes for registration of land transactions; (iv) Gender study and analysis; and (v) Assessment of current land administration services provided by customary land authorities. Land policy development process. Component 2: Institutional Reform and Development: restructuring of public sector land agencies; decentralizing and strengthening land administration services; strengthening customary land administration; strengthening private land sector institutions; and strengthening land administration and management training and research institutions Component 3 Improving land titling, registration, valuation and information systems: developing the cadastre and land information systems; cadastral mapping; establishing model land titling and registration offices; improving deed and title registration; land use planning and management; establishing land valuation data base; piloting demarcation and registration of allodial land boundaries; and piloting systematic land titling and registration. Component 4: Project management, monitoring and evaluation: project coordination and management; human resources development; communication strategy; and monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment.