Project Name

Caribbean Open Trade Support (COTS) Program -- Land Tenure and Administration Reform Project

Beneficiary

Government of Dominica

Project Site

Dominica

Funding Source

USAID

Implementation Time

October - November 2006

Project Objectives/Components

The Caribbean Open Trade Support Program (COTS) is designed to facilitate the transition of the region -- in particular, Antigua, Barbuda and Dominica -- to open trade, and to enable the countries to compete more successfully and sustainably in the global economy.  To this end, the program implemented a range of activities over a four-year period geared twoards:

• Enabling businesses to compete more effectively in the global economy
• Assisting goverment institutions and agencies to adopt and implement international treaty regulations that will provide a supportive environment for business growth and competition
• Enhancing public-private sector interaction and dialogue, leading to improved public policy
• Increasing civil society's understanding of the challenges and opportunities of their participation in a global economy
• Increasing the region's resilience to natural disasters

Project Tasks

As part of the COTS assignment, ILS provided the following deliverables:

• Reviewed of the three land agencies taht interface on land registration
• Drafted recommendations for reform of administrative processes, including specific recommendations for streamlining and rationalization of functions of the three main Government agencies involved, including consolidating/integrating/eliminating functions from some agencies
• Reviewed ICT processes in use by the three land agencies, and recommendations for reform
• A training needs analysis and capacity building plan based on identified needs, in support of the recommended reforms
• Delivered a reform Implemenation Plan and timeline

Implementation Team

Chemonics
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc.