ABSTRACT
Land registration tasks involve interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary (including intersectoral) activities for achieving sustainable policy objectives. However, many African countries rely on silo approaches to deliver land registration services due to a lack of inter-agency collaboration among land sector agencies. This chapter provides insight into how inter-agency collaboration in land management applies in theory and practice in Ghana and Kenya. It reviews literature on good practice indicators of inter-agency collaboration (theory) and uses comparative case studies to assess the situation in reality (practice) in the two countries. The findings from both countries suggest that inter-agency collaboration in land registration manifests in the form of defined roles, legitimacy, co-location, and mergers. Despite these manifestations, the land registration agencies fall short in many crucial aspects of inter-agency collaboration—including citizens’ participation, flexibility to change, and pro-poor services (among many others). By way of contribution, the chapter provides suggestions for improving the inter-agency collaboration challenges identified in Ghana and Kenya.
