Interrogating Land Administration Procedures and Systems Implementation in Africa: Evidence from Botswana
Issue: Vol.5 No.11 Issue Article 23 pp. 1915–1931
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.202451123 | Published online 11th September, 2024
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
To ensure proper administration of land in Botswana, the Government of Botswana adopted Land Administration Procedures Capacity and Systems (LAPCAS). With this system, all land in the country must be registered using digital means. Despite this unique effort to improve land administration, the implementation of the policy has faced various challenges. This research explored the challenges in the implementation of LAPCAS to propose alternative ways that the Ministry of Lands and Water Affairs (MLWA) could adopt to improve the situation. This study adopted a systematic literature review approach for data collection and analysis. Although LAPCAS generated some positive impacts, it has experienced more challenges than anticipated. Challenges, including loopholes and delays, resource constraints and poor coordination, characterised the implementation of LAPCAS. These challenges have hampered the government’s overall efforts to address concerns associated with the ownership and control of land in the country. Consequently, the researchers have called for the development of a new land administration framework that is anchored on the core issues inherent in the Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA). The tenets of the FELA have been identified as critical to developing a better alternative land administration framework that the MLWA can employ to deal with challenges in the implementation of LAPCAS in Botswana. This research helps to expand the existing literature on policy actions, programmes and frameworks for effective land administration, especially in the context of Botswana.
Keywords: Development, Land Resource, Land Administration Procedures, Capacity, Systems
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Mookgo Solomon Kgatle is a Professor of Missiology at the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, University of South Africa (UNISA). He has published several peer-reviewed articles in the Pentecostal tradition, particularly New Prophetic Churches in South Africa. He is an NRF rated scholar in the area of African Pentecostalism. He won the Vision Keeper Award at the University of South Africa (2020-2022).
Magosi, Ephraim, Christopher Dick-Sagoe, Daniel Odoom, Samuel Kwofie & Joseph Obeng-Baah. “Interrogating Land Administration Procedures and Systems Implementation in Africa: Evidence from Botswana,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 5, no.11 (2024): 1915–1931. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.202451123
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