Support to Land and Mining Management Strengthening Project

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The development objective of the Support to Land and Mining Management Strengthening Project for Burkina Faso is to improve national land and mining administration services, register land rights in selected municipalities and foster inclusive benefits sharing from the mining sector. The project comprises of five components. The first component, strengthening of the legal framework and institutional development objectives are to clarify and make more inclusive the legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks of the land and mining sectors, increase the capacity of institutions to carry out reforms, regulate the two sectors, provide services, and improve efficiencies and inter-institutional coordination and cooperation. It consists of following sub-components: (i) legal and regulatory updates; (ii) institutional development; and (iii) inter-institutional coordination and integrated decision support systems. The second component, strengthening of land and mining information management and improving land tenure security objective is to modernize information management systems in land and mining and strengthen land tenure security through capacity building and systematic registration of land rights. It consists of following sub-components: (i) mining cadastre and geo-data collection; (ii) infrastructure improvement and equipment for land administration; and (iii) land registration. The third component, fostering socio-economic inclusion and community development objective is to promote transparency and participation in the management of land and mining resources as well as to contribute to sustainable alternatives for community development. It consists of following sub-components: (i) transparency and citizen engagement; (ii) local content and community development; and (iii) mass property valuation and territorial management. The fourth component, project management, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and knowledge dissemination will support Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Development (MINEFID) Project implementation team (PIT) and Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Quarries (MEMC) project implementation team (PIT) in fulfilling their responsibilities in the administrative, technical, fiduciary, and M and E functions. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will allow for rapid reallocation of project proceeds in the event of a natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused or is likely to imminently cause a major adverse economic and or social impact.