Lot II of the MozLand Phase I project was awarded to the ETOP/IGN FI/METOP consortium. The aim was to demarcate, register and regularize areas occupied by national communities and individuals in accordance with customary norms and practices, or by national individuals who in good faith had been using the land for at least 10 years.
Africa
Mozambique
Land administration
Context
Faced with growing pressure on land, Mozambique launched the Terra Segura program in 2015, as part of its national sustainable development strategy. To put this into practice, the government, supported by the World Bank, implemented the MozLand project (2018-2024). The latter aimed to strengthen land use rights in priority districts and modernize land administration.
Client
Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural
Area
Mozambique
Partner
METOP, LDA, ETOP
Funding agency
World Bank
Timeline
11/2021- 04/2023
Missions
- Start-up analysis, project implementation methodology: implementation plan, planning, including timetable for public information and awareness campaign (PIAC)
- Stakeholder preparation/awareness-raising: ensuring that the project’s various stakeholders and beneficiaries are informed and trained, in particular by organizing themselves into village community councils (VCCs) and agreeing to formally commit to the process of demarcating areas occupied by local communities (DELCOM) and systematic regularization (RDUAT). The aim was to strengthen local democracy.
- Delimitation of areas occupied by local communities (DELCOM): carrying out a socio-foncier diagnosis, participatory mapping, a land-use plan and a community development plan. The aim was to issue the community with a DELCOM land certificate.
- Systematic registration and regularization of plots (RDUAT).
- Georeferencing of plots and recording of information on land rights holders, integration of collected data into the national land information system and issuance of land certificates (DUAT) to rights holders.
2
Provinces concerned by the project
120
community delimitation certificates products
200 000
individual plots mapped and documented
Other references in the same sector
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