Land laws provide a legal basis for addressing a country’s land-related strategies and are the central land policy instruments through which governments realise land policy objectives. Considering their vital role, it is imperative that land laws be evaluated to ensure that policy objectives are followed and that the laws are not ineffective or counterproductive. The extant literature, however, provides only a fragmentary basis for evaluation. The present study addresses this gap and constructs a novel framework to support the holistic evaluation of land law performance in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The framework was developed through a review of systematically selected literature on land laws in SSA. Four key evaluation perspectives emerged: land access; land tenure; land use and development; and land administration institutions. The framework was then used to assess the overall performance of Rwanda’s Organic Land Law (OLL) 2005 through a content analysis of secondary data on the land reform outcomes. The OLL application suggests that the framework may provide stakeholders with insights into the overall effects of land law and potential areas of improvement. However, the framework must be further explored in various cases of SSA countries to validate its functionality.

土地法为解决一个国家的土地相关战略提供了法律依据，并且是政府实现土地政策目标的中央土地政策工具。考虑到土地法律的重要作用，必须对土地法律进行评估，以确保遵守政策目标，并且法律不会无效或适得其反。但是，现有文献仅提供了零碎的评估依据。本研究解决了这一差距，并构建了一个新的框架来支持在撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）的背景下对土地法绩效的整体评估。该框架是通过对SSA中有关土地法的系统选择文献进行回顾而制定的。出现了四个关键的评估观点：土地获取；土地使用权 土地利用与开发；和土地管理机构。然后，通过对有关土地改革成果的辅助数据进行内容分析，使用该框架评估卢旺达《 2005年有机土地法》的整体绩效。OLL应用程序建议该框架可以为利益相关者提供有关土地法的总体效果和潜在改进领域的见解。但是，必须在SSA国家的各种情况下进一步探索该框架，以验证其功能。