The 5th Regional Conference of the African Land Institutions Network for Community Rights (ALIN) came to a close today with the adoption of the “Freetown Declaration” a collective call to action directed particularly at the governments of the 16 participating…
Land for Life Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the National Investment Board (NIB), on the 30th of September and the 2nd of October 2025, organized CSO–Private Sector Dialogues in Bo and Makeni. The dialogues brought together civil society organizations (CSOs),…
Land for Life Sierra Leone, a Civil Society Organization, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 16 media institutions across four of its operational districts: Pujehun, Kenema, Tonkolili, and Port Loko. The two-day engagement, which started on the 28th…
For years, the fertile soil in and around Lagor Community, Bari Poturu, Pujehun District, lay untended with the recurrence of conflict after conflict. “Land disputes were common here,” recalls a local elder. “Families would fight over boundaries and ownership of…
In 2011, Long before the formation of the Pujehun District Multi-Stakeholder Platform (DMSP), a serious boundary dispute broke out between the Sawula and Lungo communities in Pujehun District. Previously, the two communities lived in harmony, sharing social functions and undertaking…
With funds from UN-FAO, the Sierra Leone’s National Land Commission (NLC), in partnership with FAO and their CSO partners have today, 22nd July, 2025, convened a National Level Multi-stakeholder Follow-up and Planning Meeting at the UNFAO Headquarters in Freetown. Land…
Facilitated by the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Country Planning through the Sierra Leone Land Administration Project (SLLAP), three communities in the Pakimassagbong Chiefdom, Bombali District, North-East Region of Sierra Leone, came together to witness the official launch of the…
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…