Project Name

Mozambique Project Preparation General Services – Private Sector Productivity and Competitiveness

Beneficiary

Government of Mozambique

Project Site

Maputo & Nacala, Mozambique

Funding Source

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Reference Contact

Ms. Sinnammal Souppaya
Contracting Officer
Millennium Challenge Corporation
875 Fifteenth Street, NW
Washington , DC 20005

Implementation Time

May 2006 – August 2006

Project Objectives/Components

The objective of this component is to design a program that will address:

• Regulatory issues related to the certitude and security of land rights (in particular formal mechanisms to transmit rights in land, land use regulations and taxation issues and methods available to resolve conflicting land claims and disputes)
• Improvements in the capacity of the land administration services in the northern provinces (reducing difficulties in gaining access to information and data, allowing better service in meeting client information needs for decision making, reducing unnecessary expenses resulting from duplication of effort, time and resources and making land access by producers and investors a more transparent and efficient process)
• A sound land tenure administration process, which safeguards and strengthens the land rights of both private investors and local communities
• It will need to provide a range of sound, sustainable, reliable activities appropriate for Mozambique, based on existing capacities and technical skills and the development of strategies for permanent lesson-learning and capacity building in both the public and private sectors.

Project Tasks

• Collaborate with Mozambican MCA team in activity designs related to:
• Implementation of the electronic land registration services in the Northern Provinces, including a technical review of the web based LIS and municipal cadastres for greater transparency and improved property transaction efficiencies
• More effective implementation of Mozambique’s land law and related aspects of the regulatory environment
• Site-specific land rights delimitation and demarcation, including providing recommendations regarding a possible approach to land use rights adjudication, allocation and registration
• Assist with activity design related to promoting gender equity in land tenure and land access
• Undertake extensive stakeholder consultation and GOM agency interaction to ensure local buy-in and sense of ownership of program design

Implementation Team

International Land Systems (ILS), Inc.
Chemonics International
Charney Research Group
Austral Consultoria e Projectos