Land reforms in sub-Saharan Africa are transiting customary land tenure into a neo-customary land tenure regime. Accordingly, the Government of Ghana, together with its development partners, initiated the establishment of customary land secretariats (CLSs) to enhance the governance of customary land administration at the local level. Though this initiative is implemented with advances, events on the ground suggest a growing trend of inactive or dysfunctional CLSs. Synergizing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and descriptive statistics, we used monthly secondary data from the Berekum CLS to investigate the determinants of sustainable CLSs in Ghana. The analysis revealed that the most critical factors enhancing the sustainable performances of CLSs in the long and short term are the cost of documentation, the timely preparation and delivery of documents, and gender-related matters. Moreover, there was strong evidence of a long-run relationship between the studied variables. Despite the strives for equal land access, women are still less privileged in the acquisition of land. The study portends that should authorities aimed at bringing CLSs closer to the corridors of sustainability, the mandate of the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands (OASL) and the Lands Commission (LC) should not just be the establishment of the CLSs but also ensuring their sustainability. A prioritization of the study’s findings by the OASL and the LC can enhance the patronage of CLSs in their established communities.

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加纳可持续传统土地秘书处的决定因素：经济建模方法


撒哈拉以南非洲的土地改革正在将习惯土地保有权转变为新习惯土地保有权制度。因此，加纳政府与其发展伙伴一起发起设立习惯土地秘书处（CLS），以加强地方一级习惯土地管理的治理。尽管这一举措的实施取得了进展，但实际发生的事件表明 CLS 不活跃或功能失调的趋势呈增长趋势。通过协同自回归分布滞后 (ARDL) 模型和描述性统计，我们使用 Berekum CLS 的每月二次数据来调查加纳可持续 CLS 的决定因素。分析显示，从长期和短期来看，提高 CLS 可持续绩效的最关键因素是文件成本、文件的及时准备和交付以及与性别相关的事项。此外，有强有力的证据表明所研究的变量之间存在长期关系。尽管人们努力争取平等的土地获得权，但妇女在获得土地方面仍然享有较少的特权。该研究预示，如果当局旨在使 CLS 更接近可持续发展走廊，粪便土地管理局 (OASL) 和土地委员会 (LC) 的任务不应只是建立 CLS，还应确保他们的可持续性。 OASL 和 LC 对研究结果进行优先排序可以增强 CLS 在其现有社区中的支持。