Traditional Authorities in Africa and Their Role in Land-Based Investment Governance – A Webinar Recap

This short recap on the Land Portal summarises key highlights from the webinar of the same title organised by Land Portal with the FCDO-funded Advancing Land-Based Investment Governance (ALIGN) project. The recap piece includes the link to the full recording of the webinar, where one can hear first-hand the arguments put forward by participants. The webinar was one of the first – if not the first – global webinar to tackle head on the important subject of traditional leaders’ roles in improving governance around land-based investments, with relevant experts on the panel. Moderated by a (male) academic from the University of Cape Town, panellists included Liberian and Kenya government land officials (both male), a (male) landowners’ leader from a traditional chiefdom in Sierra Leone, and the (female) Founder and Director of COLANDEF, a Ghana-based NGO.