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We envision a world in which land governance systems, both formal and informal, are effective, accessible, and responsive for all. This is possible when land tenure and property rights are recognized as critical development issues and when the United States Government and its development partners demonstrate consistent attention and a firm commitment to supporting coordinated policies and programs that clarify and strengthen the land tenure and property rights of all members of society, enabling broad-based economic growth, gender equality, reduced incidence of conflicts, enhanced food security, improved resilience to climate change, and effective natural resource management.
Mission Statement
The USAID Land Tenure and Resource Management (LTRM) Office will lead the United States Government to realize international efforts—in accordance with the U.S. Government’s Land Governance Policy—to clarify and strengthen the land tenure and property rights of all members of society—individuals, groups and legal entities, including those individuals and groups that are often marginalized, and the LTRM Office will help ensure that land governance systems are effective, accessible, and responsive. We will achieve this by testing innovative models for securing land tenure and property rights and disseminating best practice as it relates to securing land rights and improving resource governance within the USG and our development partners.
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Punjab Land Records Management and Information Systems Project - Additional Financing
Land Rights and Access Threshold Program
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The MCC Threshold Program for land rights and access seeks to: 1) increase clarity and public understanding of property rights issues in order to inform the land policy and law reform process; 2) rebuild management and public and private surveying capacity to improve future land administration; and 3) increase efficiency in deed registration, and restore, and improve deed records and procedures.
Mobile Applications to Secure Tenure: Burkina Faso
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Under the Evaluation, Research and Communications (ERC) project, USAID launched the Mobile Applications to Secure Tenure (MAST) Pilot in Burkina Faso. MAST uses a simple android app and a semi-crowdsourced methodology to facilitate the mapping and documentation of land in a more efficient, transparent, and affordable manner. USAID has already successfully piloted MAST in Tanzania, where it is now being scaled across an entire district. In Burkina, USAID is working with the Observatoire National du Foncier (which is funded by USAID) and with the Government of Burkina Faso to pilot MAST in four villages within Boudry Commune, close to Ouagadougou. In 2009 the Government of Burkina Faso (GoBF) adopted Law 034-2009 along with related decrees and codes to provide a mechanism to secure customary land rights in rural and peri-urban areas and to deliver land certificates (APFR). To implement the law, however, the GoBF currently relies on ad hoc efforts that are developed and implemented by donor and NGO-led projects to secure land rights across 302 rural communes. This lack of standard approach makes it more difficult to share land information across government agencies and offices, to promote land transparency, and to create a body of knowledge from which research can be generated. In Tanzania, MAST was used to successfully document and record land rights, resulting in the distribution of 3,800 Certificates of Customary Rights to Occupancy (CCROs) to 1,312 households. By piloting MAST in Burkina Faso, USAID seeks to provide a relatively simple and user-friendly technology and implementation methodology that can be used to build awareness of, and respect for, land rights in rural Burkina Faso (including women’s land rights); enhance the capacity of Land Tenure Services (SFR) agents and local governance representatives to map and record land rights information; reduce time and costs associated with delivery of land rights documentation; and improve the exchange of land information among various agencies and stakeholders in Burkina Faso. The overarching objective of the project is to adapt the existing technology to a new context in order to secure rural land rights and improve land governance in Burkina Faso.
ProPark: Honduras
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The USAID ProParque team is helping Honduras develop sound management of its natural resources in a way that complements the country’s economic and social development. The project works with the Government of Honduras to strengthen the nation’s protected area management system, improve biodiversity and natural resource management, and facilitate rural enterprise growth, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, land tenure, and clean energy development. The goal: improve Honduran biodiversity conservation, create local jobs, and strengthen national capacity for mitigating and adapting to global climate change. Honduras and its Bay Islands have rich natural resources—stunning coral reefs, mangroves, rainforests, cloud forests, mountain ranges, and an abundance of endemic plant, and animal species. ProParque works side-by-side with the government, private sector, and civil society to protect these resources and leverage their natural and economic value for the benefit of the country and people who live within these sustainable and productive landscapes. ProParque and its partners—The Nature Conservancy, CARE Honduras, and Zamorano University—are collaborating with numerous associates, including the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; Honduran Institute of Tourism; and Institute of Forest Conservation, Wildlife, and Protected Areas, among others. For more information about ProParque, visit http://en.usaid-proparque.org/about-us.
REDD Readiness in Brazil
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The REDD Readiness in Brazil project aims to improve institutional capacities of governmental agencies, research institutions and local organizations to efficiently measure, report and monitor green-house gas emission. This will contribute to the implementation of the national strategic plan on climate change mitigation launched by the government of Brazil in 2011. Objectives Increase the capacity of state and municipal governments to reduce GHG emissions from land use and land use change. Increase the adoption of land management best practices on private lands to reduce GHG emissions from land use and land use change. Improve monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) capacity for REDD+, to estimate forest carbon available for market readiness. Outcomes Four municipalities in the State of Para signed the Municipal Pact for Zero Deforestation and completed property-level mapping of forest reserves and land tenure registration. Four municipalities removed from the 50 municipalities on the Environment Ministry’s deforestation watch list. 5,157 private properties in the State of Para and 269 in the State of Mato Grosso were registered in the States’ Environmental Licensing and Monitoring System (SIMLAM). An additional 4 million hectares under control and monitoring by state level environmental agencies.