Land for Life, through its partner, Partners Initiative for Conflict Transformation (PICOT), with support from Welthungerhilfe through the Land for Life Secretariat in Freetown, conducted a capacity-building activity for the Chiefdom Land Committee in Makpele Chiefdom, Pujehun District. The activity…
In the years following Sierra Leone’s civil war, many women, especially widows and displaced survivors, returned home only to face exclusion from land ownership and inheritance. Discriminatory customary practices and limited legal protection left them vulnerable to dispossession and economic…
The five-day capacity-strengthening training for District Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (DMSPs), which commenced in Port Loko on 24 August 2026, successfully concluded on 28 August 2026 in Kenema District. The training brought together DMSP members and key land governance stakeholders to deepen…
Land for Life and its implementing partners in Pujehun, Kenema, Tonkolili and Port Loko Districts are advancing the establishment of community-level land governance structures across their respective operational areas. The initiative supports the formation of Village Area Land Committees (VALCs)…
Land for Life Sierra Leone, in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe (WHH), has successfully concluded a five-day joint monitoring mission across the project’s four implementation districts of Port Loko, Tonkolili, Pujehun, and Kenema. The exercise assessed the progress of ongoing interventions, documented…
For most of her life, Sampa Kamara’s place in the family was firmly behind the kitchen walls. In her paternal home in Romani Chiefdom, she spent countless hours preparing meals for men and other family members, carrying the heavy responsibilities…
For many years, Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun District was widely associated with one of Sierra Leone’s most intense land-related conflicts involving communities, land-owning families, activists, traditional authorities and Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC), Malen. At the center of the conflict were…
In November 2025, Land for Life, alongside members of the Media Alliance for Land Governance Team, embarked on a field mission across several mining-affected districts in Sierra Leone to document firsthand the environmental and human impact of unchecked mining activities…
Land for Life, alongside Green Scenery, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Country Planning and the National Land Commission, joined Food and Agriculture Organization Country Representative, Saeed Abubakar Bancie, and his team to conclude a two-day joint monitoring visit across…
In many rural communities across Port Loko District, customary land disputes often take months, and sometimes years, to resolve. For Madam Alice Mama Mansaray, however, the introduction of the Customary Land Rights Act of 2022 has become an important tool…