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The Continental Land Policy Initiative, now the African Land Policy Centre, has made tremendous progress in generating knowledge on land governance since inception in 2006. A key milestone was the formulation of a Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa in 2009 upon which the African Union Declaration on Land Issues in Africa was prepared and endorsed in Libya in July 2009. The Declaration urges member states to prioritise and allocate enough financial resources to land policy development and implementation, and to this effect, build enough human, financial and technical capacities. However, it was noticed that to realize the aspirations set out in the Declaration, AU member states need to have the relevant technical competencies. To understand the competencies relevant to Africa’s contemporary needs, a continent-wide study, discussed in this paper, was commissioned. The highlighted results will help Universities and institutions of higher learning to re-align their curricula accordingly.