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Regional Challenges in Moving Forward with & Beyond the PRR Agenda – The Africa Region

Land Administration Mini-Retreat: November 19-20, 2007. Regional Challenges in Moving Forward with & Beyond the PRR Agenda – The Africa Region. Frank Byamugisha, Operations Advisor, AFTAR. Outline. Why is land important in Africa? What are the broad approaches?

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Regional Challenges in Moving Forward with & Beyond the PRR Agenda – The Africa Region

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  1. Land Administration Mini-Retreat: November 19-20, 2007 Regional Challenges in Moving Forward with & Beyond the PRR Agenda – The Africa Region Frank Byamugisha, Operations Advisor, AFTAR

  2. Outline • Why is land important in Africa? • What are the broad approaches? • What has the World Bank done so far? • What are the challenges?

  3. Why is land important in Africa? • Prevention of conflicts over land • Economic growth • Poverty reduction • Security of tenure and access to land for the urban and rural poor, and marginalized groups • Environment • Delineation of common property resources through land use planning; and • Facilitation of property rights to natural resources

  4. What Are the Broad Approaches Being Used? In urban and rural space: • Increasing security of customary or informal land tenure • Modernizing land records and registries to improve quality and speed of service delivery • Piloting & scaling up low cost & community-oriented approaches to land titling and redistribution • Improving management of state lands • Land use planning for improved NRM

  5. What is being done?Knowledge activitiesSector Work, AAA, PSIAs, TA • Land policy/Land Administration: • Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi, Cote d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Liberia, Mozambique (PSIA), Zambia (PSIA/land administration) • Land redistribution: • South Africa (TA), Namibia (AAA), Zimbabwe (AAA) • Distance learning courses on “Land Policy, land administration and Land Redistribution” (WBI/DEC/AFR) annually since 2003 • Brazil and East Asia study tours to see Bank-supported land reform and land administration projects

  6. What is being Done?Rural & Economy-wide Lending

  7. KEY CHALLENGES (10) • Allocation & efficient use of state land – issues of compensation (Ghana; Uganda) • Allocation of village land and endorsement for registration – issues of local governance (Ghana; Zambia; Tanzania; Ethiopia) • Land use planning/land registration – issues of compensation/resettlement for encroachers (Tanzania; Ethiopia) • Resolving overlapping rights issues (mailo landlords/tenants in Uganda; agric/pastoralists in Ethiopia & Tanzania) – resettlement/compensation

  8. KEY CHALLENGES (Cont’d) • Reconstitution and densification of national geodetic networks – issues of appreciation & cost • Reconstitution and modernization of land records and registries – Sustainability issues • Decentralization of land admin. – local gov’nt finance issues; enough business?

  9. KEY CHALLENGES (Cont’d) • Satellite imagery/hand-held GPS technologies jumping paper technology – Is LIS sustainable at district level? • Alternative land dispute resolution systems – barely surviving (Zambia; Uganda) • Land Redistribution ($1,000/family Grants) Pilots – Are they scalable in Africa?

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