Regional Challenges in Moving Forward with & Beyond the PRR

Agenda – The Africa Region

Frank Byamugisha, Operations Advisor, AFTAR

Land Administration Mini-Retreat: November 19-20, 2007

Outline

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

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

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

What is being done?Knowledge activities

Sector 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

What is being Done?Rural & Economy-wide Lending

Tanzania Land component in PSD Project ($30m)/ PRSCs

Uganda Land component in PSD Project ($24m)/ PRSCs

Ghana Land Administration Project ($20.5 m)

Malawi Land Redistribution Pilot ($27 m)

Madagascar Land Administration pilots in several projects ($5m)

Burkina Faso Land tenure security pilot component ($3.2 m) in Rural Development project

Zambia Land component (part of Agr. Project under prep.)

Ethiopia Land Component (part of SLM project under prep.)

Cote D’Ivoire Land administration component ($5.3 m) in Community-Driven Development project

Zimbabwe Land Redistribution LIL ($5 m, but never effective)

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

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?

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?