Legal empowerment for local resource control
Legal empowerment for local resource control
Legal empowerment for local resource control
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Denise Malauene<br />
Community land registration in Mozambique.<br />
In practice, community land registration has faced challenges due to lack of<br />
human and economic <strong>resource</strong>s, and to problems in the economic and<br />
geographical accessibility of the process. As <strong>for</strong> geographical accessibility, <strong>for</strong><br />
instance, the main authority in the land registration system is located in<br />
provincial capitals, rather than at district, <strong>local</strong>ity or village levels. However,<br />
NGOs have played an important role in accompanying communities<br />
through the registration process, which has in many cases helped overcome<br />
these constraints (see Box 6). As of May 2005, about 200 communities had<br />
registered their land (against more than 6,000 land allocations to<br />
"investors"; Kanji et al, 2005).<br />
Mozambique’s experience with community land registration shows the<br />
important level of commitment and investment that registering collective<br />
landholdings requires. This includes setting up a special regime and<br />
procedure in the law; and tailored action to support and accompany <strong>local</strong><br />
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