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The revival of public policy reforms in Africa has led to a proliferation of workshops, seminars, and other multi-stakeholder forums, which are largely overlooked in research. Five years after the new Land Code, the 2018 National Forum on Land Tenure in Benin provided an opportunity to socialize information on the Code’s implementation progress, and to engage in a critical dialogue on the relationship between local elected officials and land administration. The Forum thus marked a step in an ongoing process of land policy negotiation by updating the power relations between actors. By funding such workshops, donors provide both spaces for confrontation with other stakeholders and resources to influence the trajectory of policies for the national networks of policy entrepreneurs they support.