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Liberia: More than 1.3 Million Hectares now under Community Ownership & Control
Liberia: More than 1.3 Million Hectares now under Community Ownership & Control
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Monrovia – Local communities across Liberia seem to be taking advantage of the new Land Rights Law to reclaim their ancestral land
. With more than 1.3 million hectares of Customary Land now under formal community ownership and control, the future seems to be getting brighter for local communities across the country.
Information gathered at the just ended national learning and experience sharing conference on Customary Land formalization, indicates that more than 100 communities have made significant progress towards completing the process for securing deeds to their land.
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Liberia: Government, Development Partners Petitioned to Support Customary Land Formalization Process
Liberia: Government, Development Partners Petitioned to Support Customary Land Formalization Process
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In the petition read by Mrs. Loretha Pope Kai, the Chairperson of the National Civil Society Council of Liberia, the citizens called on the government to prioritize and increase budgetary support and another financial resource to ensure the LLA is fully established and functional in the counties.
Monrovia – A group of Liberians comprising local officials, local and national civil society organizations have called on the Government of Liberia and international development partners for more support towards the full implementation of the Land Rights Act (LRA) of 2018, especially the customary land formalization efforts.
Civil Society to Make More Inputs in Liberia’s Climate Pledges
Civil Society to Make More Inputs in Liberia’s Climate Pledges
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MONROVIA – Civil society organizations (CSOs) will make more inputs into Liberia’s revision of its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement to cut down carbon emission by 15 percent by 2030.
CSOs, predominantly from the forestry sector, made limited inputs in the country’s plan known as the nationally determined contributions (NDC) at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. With the country preparing to submit a revised NDC to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by mid next year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and CSOs are working to ensure the latter’s participation in that process.