Between 2018 and 2022, the GEOFIT/Geosystems consortium enabled the registration of over 140,000 plots in 195 communes. In 2023, the IGN FI/Geosystems consortium was awarded a new phase, the objective of which was to issue an additional 346,000 certificates, thereby strengthening land tenure security and the autonomy of Malagasy farmers.
Africa
Madagascar
Land
Context
In 2016, the Malagasy government, with the support of the World Bank, launched the Agricultural Growth and Land Tenure Security Project (CASEF). This ambitious project combined community mobilization, training, technological innovations, and methodological approaches to accelerate the issuance of land certificates and secure 2.5 million plots over five years, benefiting 850,000 farmers, 30% to 40% of whom were women.
Client
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock / Agricultural Growth and Land Tenure Security Project Management Unit
Zone
Madagascar
Partner
Geosystems, GEOFIT
Funding Agency
World Bank
Timeline
03/2023-06/2024
Missions
- Consulting, establishment, or revitalization of land offices: this involved ensuring that the communes concerned had operational land offices, aligned with the requirements of land reform, user expectations, and certification procedures.
- Dissemination of digital PLOFs (local land occupation plan) in the communes, with the production of orthoimage-based mapping of administrative boundaries, existing or pending titles, already certified plots, and lands with special status (state-owned private land, cadastral zone, protected area, etc.).
- Support for the implementation of massive land certification operations (OCFM) to facilitate the recognition of landowners’ land rights at a lower cost and within a short timeframe, by grouping the processing of plots.
- Digitization of the production chain with the implementation of a mobile tool for digital field data collection and a tool for managing, processing, and editing all data and documents of the land file (GEOSIF).
69
communes concerned by the massive certification operation
406 000
land certificates prepared and issued in 15 months
31 %
of certification requests made by women
