African Land Use Planning enhanced by new experiences and best practices

Abstract

This study, which was carried out as part of the support project for the implementation of the African Union Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa, in accordance with the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policies in Africa, focused on lessons learned from experience and best practices in three African countries which are Burkina Faso, Niger and Tanzania. It was the result of participative work that required the implication and mobilization of several actors and institutions at different levels in the three countries. The report also notes that in combining the conclusions of the study, the lessons learned and the logic of the roadmap, it is critical to ensure political support for land use planning and to strengthen the role of the rural actors to stimulate a new dynamic for the implementation of rural land policy. The present study also took into account the marginalization of the land tenure rights of women and youth who constitute the majority of the active population, through the promotion of measures of positive discrimination in favor of disadvantaged groups, in order to improve their access to undeveloped land, restored land or land in the process of being restored.