The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) recently announced in a statement that about fifteen African universities will develop training programs that are better suited to Africa’s current land governance challenges.
“Senior leadership drawn from sixteen African universities and institutions of higher learning endorsed key recommendations to review land governance curricula, with a view to ensuring land professions better respond to Africa’s realities. Participants, who also included representatives of RECs, Member States, Civil Society Organisations and the private sector, were attending a three-day validation workshop, organized by the Land Policy Initiative (LPI),” the statement said.
Marked by the validation of the assessment report on the needs and gaps of curricula on land governance in Africa, the meeting according to Stephen Karingi, Director of Regional Integration and Trade Division at the UNECA, provided a useful basis for “the development of guidelines that will ensure that curricula and training programs respond to the needs of society and ‘industry’ in the land sector”.
The initiative was financially supported by the German government.
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