Senegal Cadastre and Land Tenure Improvement Project

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The development objective of the Cadastre and Land Tenure Improvement Project for Senegal is to strengthen the Recipient’s capacity for the implementation of its cadastre at a national level; and to increase the number of land rights registered in selected areas. The project comprises of five components. The first component, strengthening land institutions and investing in geospatial infrastructure objective is to improve the land administration service delivery by improving the efficiency of the involved land institutions and facilitating the digital transformation of land administration in Senegal. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening public sector capacity for improved land administration service delivery; (ii) facilitating digital transformation of land administration; and (iii) strengthening the national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI). The second component, empowering project-supported municipalities in carrying out systematic land registration operations objectives are: (i) to provide the municipalities and the administrations concerned with georeferenced information on the various statuses and land boundaries; (ii) to formalize individual or collective use rights, as they exist; (iii) to contribute to the establishment of an innovative national cadastre that considers individual and collective land use rights; and (iv) to improve land governance in the selected municipalities. The third component, sustaining long-term policy dialogue, scaling-up training and innovation in the land sector objective is to support capacity building and foster innovation in the Senegalese land administration sector, including research and policy dialogue to prepare for the modernization and expansion of the land administration services at central and decentralized levels (ministries, tax service centers (CSF), municipalities). It consists of following sub-components: (i) promoting research and dialogue on land tenure governance innovations; and (ii) supporting the development of land tenure training. The fourth component, program coordination, monitoring, and knowledge management will finance modernization of land management program, KfW (PROCASEF’s) investment and recurrent costs for the management of the International Development Association (IDA) finance. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will allow for the rapid reallocation of project funds in the event of natural or man-made crisis and major disease outbreaks of public health importance during the implementation of the project, in accordance with the World Bank investment project financing (IPF) policy, paragraph 12 (Projects in Situations of Urgent Need of Assistance or Capacity Constraints).