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Abstract
Mozambique’s land policy goal is to ensure that land access to all Mozambicans is guaranteed and protected, while satisfying socio-cultural needs, promoting economic progress and serve as basis for sustainable and equitable development. Land Law enables community land rights to be registered and secured through land delimitation processes, which also contributes to reduce land conflicts and increase land investments. The paper is based on the Mozambique Community Lands Initiative (iTC) lessons learned, which focuses on improvements in both legal framework and land administration practice to ensure participatory sustainable land governance. Community Land initiative is a project supported by a group of donors, that aims to secure community land rights through delimitation activities, as a path to promote rural development. Land allocation to private interests, has increased at a rate of 40% from 2009 to 2012, (encompassing about 7 million hectares). Data suggests that as a result of monitoring activities, only 43% of titled areas (covering 41% of the total land titled) have been properly and fully utilized. The paper offers insights and challenges (including sharing of responsibilities and costs) to enable involvement of rural communities into the monitoring and supervision of land use rights titling, based on community delimitation process.
Key words: Community land rights; Land rights monitoring and supervision; Community – private partnership; Land administration
