Mozambique Land Administration Project (Terra Segura)

closed

The objective of the Land Administration Project is to strengthen land tenure security in selected districts and improve the efficiency and accessibility of land administration services. There are four components to the project, the first component being institutional development and strengthening of the legal framework. The objective of this component is to improve the efficiency of existing land administration institutions and the standards or practices by which they collect, process, provide and maintain information on land, including the improvement of service delivery at district and provincial level, as well as the functioning of land information management systems. This component includes four subcomponents: revision of the National Land Policy (NLP) and land‐related legal framework, institutional development and capacity building, infrastructure improvement and equipment, and land information management system. The second component is the systematic land regularization. This component includes three subcomponents: base mapping, public information and awareness campaign, and community delimitation (DELCOM), and regularization of land use rights (LTR). The third component is the project management and coordination. This component will include support to MITADER and two of its Directorates (DINAT, the National Directorate of Lands, and CENACARTA, the National Centre for Cartography and Remote Sensing), and its National Fund for Sustainable Development (FNDS) to manage the Project through the financing of a Project Coordination Unit (PCU). FNDS, through the PCU, will be responsible for overall coordination, fiduciary aspects, safeguards, monitoring and evaluation, and the strategic planning for public awareness and outreach activities. Independent quality control of the application of the methodology, oversight of the safeguards and management of the project grievance redress mechanism during its implementation will also be supported by this component. Finally, the fourth component is the contingent emergency response component. This component will provide immediate response to an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, as needed. This will finance emergency activities and expenditures in the case of a disaster event by including a ‘zero‐dollar’ Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC). This will help recover damage to infrastructure, ensure business continuity, and enable early rehabilitation. In parallel, following an adverse event that causes a major disaster, the Government of Mozambique may request the Bank to channel resources from this component into an Immediate Response Mechanism (IRM).