Abstract
The notion of a Stakeholders' Forum was discussed at a United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Ad Hoc Expert Group Aleeting held in November, 1998. Such a Forum should be set up to develop the Land Information Management system of Member States, because there have been few success stories in regard to GIS/LIS systems in Africa, and decision makers often have had to make decisions based on little or no information. The paper discusses who should sit on such a Stakeholders' Forum, its functions in relation to the creation and maintenance of a country's LIM system, its structure, and its role in undertaking a Users' Requirement Analysis. Some of the outcomes from such a Forum should be an LIM system that primarily serves decision makers, facilitates decentralization, participatory land use planning and network connectivity (institutional and technical) and develops an integrated information and mapping system.
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