Prof. Sandra F. Joireman is the Associate Provost for Faculty, Weinstein Chair of International Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. She specializes in comparative political economy with an emphasis on Africa and the Western Balkans. Her work covers topics related to property rights, legal development, and post-conflict migration. Joireman is the author most recently of Where There is No Government: Enforcing property rights in common law Africa (2011), and her work appears in Oxford Development Studies, International Migration, Development & Change, The Journal of Political Geography, and The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law.
Arsène Brice Bado is the Vice-Président for Academic Affairs at the Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix/Université Jésuite (CERAP/UJ) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Laval University in Canada. His research interests include democracy, ethnic pluralism, conflict analysis, forced migration, electoral processes in conflict ridden societies, and foreign aid in Africa. His publications have appeared in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, Mediterranean Politics, Revue Études, Revue Relations, Débats-Courrier d’Afrique de l’Ouest, and La Civiltà Cattolica.
The primary contact at the NLC was Dr. Fibian Lukalo, whose research at the NLC focuses on key thematic areas of land reform, land, secure land tenure, the political economy of land and improved land rights, and the ways in which these work out at the county, community, and county levels.
Improved governance of tenure is essential for secure land tenure rights for women, food security, poverty eradication, equitable access and ownership of land and for contributing to a foundation for responsible investment and environmental sustainability in land. Understanding these dynamics in Settlement Schemes throughout Kenya (based on principles of land management, Constitution 2010) is crucial for re-envisioning a land sector that works equitably and sustainably for all Kenyans.
Improved governance of tenure is essential for secure land tenure rights for women, food security, poverty eradication, equitable access and ownership of land and for contributing to a foundation for responsible investment and environmental sustainability in land. Understanding these dynamics in Settlement Schemes throughout Kenya (based on principles of land management, Constitution 2010) is crucial for re-envisioning a land sector that works equitably and sustainably for all Kenyans.