Cote d'Ivoire Land Policy Improvement and Implementation Project: The proposed project development objective is to reduce land conflicts and to increase agricultural investment through an improved land rights and land transactions registration system.
The operation would support the completion of the land policy design and the implementation of an updated land rights registration and land transactions record system both in rural and urban areas. The challenge is about (i) avoiding a return to new cycles of violence by formalizing existing land rights and land agreements between owners and occupants in a fast and cheap way. Land rights written formalization allows arbitrations based on reliable documentation and prevents slippage to more serious conflicts and helps to soothe the social climate and (ii) gradually establish the prerequisites for a land market based on transparent and informed transactions. The expected impacts are to facilitate land leases and to guarantee investments in land, aiming at a more dynamic rural economy.
The operation would also support government efforts to improve the incentive and institutional framework for access to industrial land. Identification completed on 15 October 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 35.6 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined.
