Evaluating Liberia’s Community Land Protection Program

The Cloudburst Group is delighted to share our global development team’s recent publication in the Land Use Policy journal of their work on an evaluation of the Community Land Protection program in Liberia. This research was funded by USAID, the International Research and Development Centre (IRDC), and Namati.?

Kate Marple-Cantrell, Senior Evaluation specialist, co-authored this publication with Cloudburst partners from PDRI-DevLab (University of Pennsylvania), University College London, and USAID. The findings in the published article, “Strengthening common property rights institutions in Liberia: Quasi-experimental evidence on customary governance and equity effects,” shares the results of a quasi-experimental evaluation of the Community Land Protection (CLP) program to understand the effect of strengthening common property institutions in rural Liberia.

The global development team’s research provides new empirical evidence for policy makers on whether a flexible and locally adapted model for customary land governance improves tenure security and land governance outcomes for rural African communities, with an emphasis on vulnerable subgroups. This is one of the first rigorous impact evaluations of the new class of community-level interventions in Africa that are designed to improve land rights and promote sustainable development by strengthening customary institutions (for example, by recognizing individual or communal customary rights to land).

To read the Land Use Policy article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837724002035?dgcid=coauthor#ab0010?

To learn more about Cloudburst’s global development work around the world: https://cloudburstgroup.com/services/global-development/?