Improving land administration in Mozambique: a participatory approach to improve monitoring and supervision of land use rights through community land delimitation
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..
