Land has become a complex and highly contested commodity, attracting diverse and often competing interests within society. Governments require land to build roads, affordable housing, and to support agricultural projects. The private sector also demands land for investment purposes, claiming…
With funding from BMZ through Welthungerhilfe, Land for Life successfully concluded a day-long training for media practitioners and other non-state actors on March 21st, 2025, and launched a simplified version of the Customary Land Rights Act and National Land Commission Act of 2022.…
Land for Life (LfL) and its partners from the four operational areas—Pujehun, Kenema, Tonkolili, and Port Loko—gathered in Kenema on the 7th and 8th, of February 2025 for a strategic meeting. The purpose of the meeting was threefold: to review…
Annually since 2020, when five District Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (DMSP) were formed, Land for Life Initiative Sierra Leone has been conducting a shared learning session for all DMSPs nationwide and the General Assembly of Members. The intent of the shared learning…
The three-day training in Bo City, Southern Sierra Leone, was attended by Land for Life’s District Directors, District Facilitators (DFs), who have now been transformed into Paralegals, key members of the District Multi-Stakeholder Platform (DMSP) from the project’s four operational…
With support from UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and Tuffer Muller_Think Tank (TMG), Land for Life Sierra Leone and the Human Rights Commission for Sierra Leone have concluded a three-day validation workshop of the Human Rights- based Land Governance…
Land for Life, in partnership with the National Investment Board—a Board chaired by the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone and tasked with promoting investment opportunities in the Sierra Leone—organized a day-long dialogue session between Civil Society Actors and…
The significance of land in Sierra Leone and the World at large cannot be overstated. For a country of around 7 million people and a geographic size of 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi), many Sierra Leoneans may have benefitted from…
It was generally regarded as a time of learning and advancement for the different District Multi-stakeholder Platforms (DMSP) as they assembled in Makeni City, Northern Region, for a three-day Technical Workshop funded by UN-FAO that started on the 5th of…
With funding from UN-FAO and technical support from TMG, Land for Life has in three days trained twelve 12 enumerators—two from each of the selected enumerated districts in Sierra Leone in Bo District, Southern Region. The training was planned to…
