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SUCCESS STORY
Liberia-
Paving the way
for systematic
registration
of customary
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Background            Successes
PROJECT NAME:           The project supported, inter alia, the new Liberia Land Authority to pilot
Liberia Land            key provisions of the Liberia Land Rights Act of 2018, which recognized
Administration Project  customary land rights in Liberia for the first time in the country's history.
INVESTMENT:             The pilots were implemented in 4 communities, consisting of about 29,529
US$7m                   community members.
TIMEFRAME:
2018-2023               The project helped LLA to design and demonstrate streamlined and cost-
effective customary land formalization process, leading to the development
TEAM LEADER (S):        of formal field manuals.
Linus Pott
Victoria Stanley        The project enhanced government and community knowledge on
formalization of customary land rights and ensured the participation of men,
Ia            women and youth in community land rights governance matters.
Implementation
Completion and Results  The pilots assisted the target communities to establish Customary Land
Report                   Development and Management Committees (CLDMC).
The pilots tested an efficient and open-source data collection method.