Exploring the “implementation gap” in land registration: How it happens that Ghana's official registry contains mainly leaseholds

We conclude that the interplay of customary and statutory actors and administrative processes involved in the implementation of land registration law deserve more research attention and that empirical and analytical focus needs to be shifted onto a) the differences in the nature of implementation depending on pre-existing governance structures across the customary/statutory binary b) the mundane elements of implementation, including existing administrative routines, but also the structure and content of templates used in registration processes and c) that technocratic approaches that seek to enforce better implementation of existing laws and/or foster inclusion of the registration of diverse land rights, need to take into consideration the practices and norms of implementing actors.