South Sudan - Land Governance Country Profile

9. Recommendations

• Community legal education and information dissemination on land rights. It is important that have community education on land rights on the customary and statutory systems so that people understand their land rights under each of the system;

• Strengthen and Professionalize Customary Justice Systems: The customary justice system is often excluded in the formal process of surveying and titling land. It is important strengthen the system to address land disputes;

• Strengthened Women’s Land Rights.

• It is important that the government makes itself clear in terms of the policy that shall influence the question of the land ownership.

• South Sudan is in the process of putting up the permanent Constitution and it should be able to clearly define whether land belongs to the government or the people. This basic definition will lay the foundation for a strong Land Act and land policy that will propel economic growth. Laws like the Transitional Constitution must be avoided. A law that fails to clearly define what the government policy on land is not sound.