The Government of Mozambique, with the support of the World Bank, launched the Terra Segura Project in 2019, with the primary objective of strengthening land tenure security in certain districts and improving the efficiency and accessibility of land administration services.
It includes systematic land regularization actions, notably through projects for the establishment of base mapping, public information and awareness campaigns, community delimitation (DELCOM), and the regularization of land use rights (DUAT). In total, over 2 million DUATs and 1,200 DELCOMs will be provided.
In this context, IGN FI was selected to carry out the delimitation of 120 DELCOMs and 200,000 DUATs, in association with METOP company, in the Sofala region, 500 km north of Maputo, in the center of the country. The project started in October 2021, and since early June, our teams have been present in the localities of Caia, Baruè, Guro, Manica, and Chemba to conduct awareness meetings and socio-land surveys, with very active participation from local populations. Also highly anticipated by the populations, the delimitation of communities and the production of DUATs have also begun.
“Implementing the project, assisting in the preparation of our teams before their departure on mission, then starting to receive images of the populations fully cooperating with them is always a great emotion because it gives true meaning to our actions and reminds us that land projects are deeply human,” says Stéphane PALICOT, Regional Director.
IGN FI is currently carrying out numerous projects in the field of land, whether rural or urban, among which can be cited projects in Côte d’Ivoire: an integrated urban land management system (SIGFU) in Abidjan, the establishment of a rural land information system (SIFOR), the addressing of the Abidjan district and the establishment of a unique addressing reference system (PADA), support projects for securing land in Burundi and in Madagascar.
