Nicaragua Property Rights Strengthening Project

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The development objective of the Property Rights Strengthening Project for Nicaragua is to provide beneficiaries in selected municipalities with: (a) updated and integrated cadastral and property registry information; and (b) improved land administration services. Project design reflects the progress achieved by Nicaragua over two phases of PRODEP implementation, emphasizing the need to ensure that the Project will help establish a functioning and sustainable land administration system, and sufficient capacity among the country’s land agencies and municipalities to deal with remaining issues. Accordingly, Project design centers around three strategic themes: (i) fine-tuning the institutional and policy framework and integrating systems; (ii) expanding cadastral, regularization and titling services to the central region of the country; and (iii) strengthening of municipal capacities for land administration and territorial planning. The Project includes five Components. The first four Components are directly related to outcomes (a) and (b), while Component 5, consistent with the strategic approach taken for Nicaragua, corresponds to potential support for immediate emergency recovery. First component, institutional and policy framework and system integration will strengthen Nicaragua’s land administration system by supporting key policy consolidation and inter-institutional coordination and collaboration, and furthering the integration of the cadastre and property registry information and streamlining of processes. Second component, castrate, regularization and titling services will support the production of cadastral information and the recording and clarifying of land rights through systematicand on-demand land regularization, including issuance of legal documents as well as new titles and their registration. The systematic process will continue to focus on beneficiaries belonging to the "reformed sector.” On-demand activities will focus on beneficiaries prioritized by government programs, including small producers not belonging to the reformed sector. Third component, municipal land administration services will strengthen land administration capacities at the municipal level to promote their effective performance in the national cadastral system, as well as the better use of information for local planning and fiscal purposes, disaster risk management and overall development. In the medium term, this Component will contribute to enhancing the impact of cadastral information and the sustainability of cadastral investments; Fourth component, project management, monitoring and evaluation will support PGR, and its PCU, to manage the Project and to monitor its progress and evaluate it; Fifth component, Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) reflecting the strategic approach taken in Nicaragua across the Bank’s portfolio, this Component will provide immediate response to an eligible emergency. As such, in the event of such eligible emergency (as defined in the CERC Operational Manual already prepared and adopted by the government), and at the request of the government, the Component would finance emergency activities and expenditures through the reallocation of funds from the Project.