The Lincoln Institute has been funding a project on the current status of property taxes in Africa since 2007. Professor Riël Franzsen, Director of the ATI, is the project manager of this joint venture project. In this capacity he works closely with Ms Joan Youngman, Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Institute, and her colleagues Sally Powers and Semida Munteanu.

Twenty four individuals from 16 countries attended the workshop that was held at Mont Fleur outside Stellenbosch in South Africa. Ten of the thirteen ATI/Lincoln Institute research fellows from Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zambia, attended and presented case studies on property taxes in eighteen African countries located in North, West, Central, East and Southern Africa. Nine international experts from Brazil, China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States acted as commentators and discussants of the country studies. The President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute, Dr Gregory Ingram, and three of the Lincoln Institute’s board members also participated in the workshop.