Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP)

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The overall goal of the long term land administration and management program is to facilitate the development of an efficient land and property markets through enhancing tenure security and improving land administration and management services. The long term program is expected to be implemented through 3 phases of 4 year each. The Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP) is the first phase of such a program. The specific objective of the project is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of land administration and urban management through enhancing tenure security, improving urban planning, land management and development control, supporting property valuation and taxation, and financing investments in urban infrastructure and services. There are three components to the Project. The first component, security of tenure and registration of immovable property rights, is designed to improve service delivery, efficiency and transparency of the Immovable Property Registration Office and complete most of the first registration of immovable property rights. This component will cover the entire country but initially, will concentrate on urban and peri-urban areas. The second component, urban land management, is to strengthen the capacity of municipalities in urban land management through the support to: (1) establishing a market-responsive, participatory urban planning and development control system via technical assistance to revisions in urban planning law and development of regulatory plans for participating cities; and (2) mobilizing municipal revenues and correcting property market distortions through property valuation and taxation. The objective of the third component is to enable proactive urban growth management and enhancing urban land market efficiency by prioritizing and implementing selected infrastructure investments and services, in accordance with strategic investment plans. This component will also support the implementation of the address system.