Professor Wilbard Kombe) provided technical guidance and critical review of the background reports. Panel members included in annex 2. We are most grateful for their invaluable contributions that have enriched the analysis and helped to further fine-tune the assessment and recommendations. This report also acknowledges LGAF Global coordination Klaus Deininger and Thea Hilhorst, and Sue Mbaya from the LGAF Africa Secretariat for their technical guidance and support.
This chapter focuses on how the policy and regulatory frameworks were established which supported the LTR programme. It also describes some of the policy and legal instruments and how they were aimed at guiding and supporting the envisaged land tenure reform. It also describes the land tenure regularization trial phase and discusses the key challenges encountered during the development of the frameworks and the implementation of the pilot phase.
This chapter provides details on the institutional framework that was developed to guide the land tenure reform (LTR) programme implementation, defining each institution's mandate and how they interacted with each other as well as how the capacity of these institutions was built to apportion responsibilities accordingly. Challenges at the institutional level are also discussed.
This chapter summarizes the historical context of land tenure systems in Africa. This is important given that the book is aimed at providing insights from Rwanda for other countries willing to initiate land reforms similar to Rwanda. It also draws attention to the developments and changes of land tenure systems in Rwanda before, during and after independence. Further, the chapter looks at the concept of land tenure security, given its relevance to the book.
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