Expertise Area: Customary Land Rights Expert

Agnès Tatiana OMENGUE EDOA

Consultante accréditée du PNUD et chercheure en gouvernancee foncière, j’ai oeuvré à la securisation des droits fonciers des communautés en tant que community tenure lawyer et travaillé comme consultante juridique dans le projet sur les politiques foncières responsables au Cameroun . Ayant participé à plusieurs conférences internationales et fait des recherches au Cameroun et en RDCONGO, mes travaux sur la perte de la jouissance des terres en droit camerounais ont reçu le troisième prix NELGA des meilleurs masters en 2024.

 

 

Shaaban Abduba

Shaaban Abduba is a Geospatial and Land Governance Expert with extensive hands-on experience applying GIS, remote sensing, and spatial data systems to support land administration, physical planning, pastoral resource management, and sustainable development in data-scarce environments. He currently serves as a GIS Expert at Africa Conservation Centre, where he supports conservation, rangeland governance, and community-based natural resource management through advanced spatial analysis and participatory mapping.

In addition, Shaaban works with the Isiolo County Government (Lands and Physical Planning Department), where he leads county-level GIS and physical planning initiatives. His work includes the preparation and implementation of urban and rural physical development plans, land-use zoning, land tenure analysis, and support to land adjudication and dispute resolution processes. He plays a key role in designing and maintaining spatial data infrastructures, including cadastral, rangeland, and land information systems, and in integrating customary and statutory land governance systems.

 

Shaaban has also provided GIS technical support to international development and humanitarian organizations, including Mercy Corps and World Vision, contributing to land governance, food security, water infrastructure, and climate resilience programs across northern Kenya and the Horn of Africa. His experience spans spatial assessments for water and irrigation projects, development of GIS dashboards and mapping products, capacity building for government officers and communities, and integration of indigenous knowledge into geospatial planning frameworks.

Loretta Alethea Pope Kai

Loretta is a Liberian activist with extensive experience in forestry, environmental education, conservation, fundraising, and community organizing. She has over 15 years of experience in the natural resource management sector, where she has consistently promoted gender justice and inclusive governance.

Over the years, Loretta has been a strong advocate for improved forest management and land tenure reforms, contributing to the passage of Liberia’s Land Rights Act and the establishment of the Women’s Land Rights Task Force. She has worked closely with communities to develop Community Forestry Management Plans, with a strong focus on women’s inclusion in decision-making processes.

Her work emphasizes how benefits from natural resources can serve the collective interests of communities, support rural livelihood development, and advance sustainable outcomes through integrated land-use planning and collective customary land formalization.

KLEMENS MUWAMBU KAMWANGA

I am passionate in land administration-related fields, such as land rights, Tenure, valuation, survey, land use planning, spatial planning, GIS (Geographical Information System), and LIS (Land Information System)

Bankolay Theodore Turay

Bankolay is a researcher in land governance, urbanization, and women’s rights, a PhD candidate and curriculum developer. He currently supports the World Bank-funded Sierra Leone Land Administration Project with Medici Land Governance, supporting the customary land recording, mapping, and registration.

Sharon Nakaluzwe Mulenga

I am a valuation Surveyor with vast experience in administration, infrastructure development and Project Management. I have over a decade of experience advancing customary and statutory land rights, policy implementation and stakeholder coordination across Government and private sector programs  to strengthen tenure security, development outcomes and sustainable land use.

Mor N’Doye Diop

J’ai 11 dans la gouvernance foncière et la sécurisation des droits du patrimoine fonciers des communautés locales.

La conduite des projets de développement relatifs au foncier, à l’agro écologie et la consolidation de la paix

Marvees Weah

5 years of experience working in Forestry, Land, and Natural Resource Management

Chikondi Mphamba

I am currently a lecturer in the Department of Land Surveying and Physical Planning at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). Between 2019 to 2021 and 2021 to 2023 I held the positions of Deputy Head and Head of the department of Land Surveying and Physical Planning, respectively. Beyond my professional role, I am a founder of Jane Mphamba foundation, an organization which through fundraising activities support less privilege girls.

Federica Acquaviva

Currently working as UN Habitat’s Inclusive Land Governance Expert for strengthen regulatory frameworks and building digital LIS in Somalia.