Project to support mainstreaming land governance in eastern Africa to be launched in Djibouti

Abstract

The Land Policy Initiative (LPI), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will launch the project “Improve Land Governance in the IGAD Region,” on 16 February 2015, in Djibouti. The main objectives of the IGAD-LPI-SDC project to be launched are to: enhance the capacity of the LPI and the IGAD Secretariat to facilitate and monitor the implementation of the African Union Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa; mainstream land governance issues in programmes and activities of the IGAD Secretariat and Member States; and develop capacity of academic institutions in the region to promote and undertake land policy related research.