Conakry, Guinea, 18 November 2022 (ECA) - An initiative to improve land investment actions and its governance capacity is now set-in place in Guinea. The Land Multi-stakeholder Coordination initiative, identified and adopted at the Guinea National Land Forum on November 17, is designed to ensure sustainable land investment and governance space for the country.
The decision to set up the multistakeholder platform reached at the Conakry forum from November 14 to 17, 2022, also agreed to revise the current land act (Code Foncier et Domanial) and develop an agricultural land policy and legislation to solve the country's land challenges.
The forum, organised by the Ministry of Urban Planning, Habitat and Land Use Planning in Guinea, is a result of contributory actions by ECA on a request from the country to support the development of a land investments framework to guide land investment decisions. After an in-depth review of legal and institutional frameworks on agriculture and investments in Guinea, ECA and the Guinean government developed the Technical Guide (TG) for Responsible Governance of Agricultural Investments with Land Holdings. The TG further recommended developing a mapping tool on land based on large-scale agriculture investments and setting up a land governance coordination platform for decision-making.
Noting progress to date, ECA Section Chief on Agriculture and Business Enabling Environment Joan Kagwanja explained that the land conference is a testament to the political will to land reforms and investments in Guinea. She welcomes the government's commitment to land reforms and supports the call for accelerated actions in implementing the agreed road maps at the conference to move the land agenda forward. She further shared that the ECA is working on the mapping tool for land investments and supports the call for introducing a monitoring and evaluation system within the multistakeholder platform on land governance.
The historic meeting, organised with the support of ECA, FAO and other partners, brought together over 300 participants and representatives of different land groups who agreed that the national multistakeholder platform on land governance should monitor the land reform process and agreements made at the forum.