Journal Article
Decoupled African Land Reform Implementation
New-Wave Land Reform in Tanzania
Today, more than ten years after the passing of Tanzania's 1999 New-Wave Land Reform, implementation is slow and uneven. Decoupling, involving a lack of coherence and of mechanisms of enforcement, can be observed at all levels within the land administration structure. If Tanzania is to implement the reform on a larger scale, the country has to put greater emphasis on national initiatives to couple administrative layers. More money alone will not solve the problem.
That is the conclusion in the article 'Decoupled Implementation of New-Wave Land Reforms: Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Tanzania' published in Journal of Development Studies by PhD Candidate Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen.
Because of their novelty, our knowledge about current land reforms in sub-Saharan
Africa has hitherto been limited. Decentralisation of responsibility for land management has been an important intention in most reforms. How that spelled out in practice, however, remained unclear. In the early 2000s land reforms were underway in more than 20 countries. Through implementation analyses conducted in rural areas in mainland Tanzania, the article analyses how a new-wave land reform is being implemented at the local level.
Read the article 'Decoupled Implementation of New-Wave Land Reforms: Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Tanzania' (see box)
That is the conclusion in the article 'Decoupled Implementation of New-Wave Land Reforms: Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Tanzania' published in Journal of Development Studies by PhD Candidate Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen.
Because of their novelty, our knowledge about current land reforms in sub-Saharan
Africa has hitherto been limited. Decentralisation of responsibility for land management has been an important intention in most reforms. How that spelled out in practice, however, remained unclear. In the early 2000s land reforms were underway in more than 20 countries. Through implementation analyses conducted in rural areas in mainland Tanzania, the article analyses how a new-wave land reform is being implemented at the local level.
Read the article 'Decoupled Implementation of New-Wave Land Reforms: Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Tanzania' (see box)
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Decoupled implementation of new-wave land reforms
decentralisation and local governance of land in Tanzania
Journal of Development Studies, 48, 268-281, 2012