Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda

Since 2010, the Government of Rwanda addressed land tenure through a series of actions including the establishment of institutional and administrative structures for land management and administration. At district, town, and municipality level, District Land Bureaus (DLBs), complemented by sector an...

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Main Authors: Ali, Daniel, Deininger, Klaus, Duponchel, Marguerite
Format: Case Study
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26558060/sustaining-success-systematic-land-tenure-registration-rwanda
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spelling okr-10986-247072021-05-25T10:54:40Z Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda Ali, Daniel Deininger, Klaus Duponchel, Marguerite title registration land tenure land management Since 2010, the Government of Rwanda addressed land tenure through a series of actions including the establishment of institutional and administrative structures for land management and administration. At district, town, and municipality level, District Land Bureaus (DLBs), complemented by sector and cell level land committees, assumed responsibility for land administration and planning. After careful piloting in 2008/09, a process for systematic low cost demarcation and adjudication using aerial photography or high resolution satellite imagery was roll-out nationally. In less than 3 years, the Rwanda Natural Resource Authority (RNRA) demarcated 11.4 million out of an estimated 11.5 million land parcels in the country in a participatory way and at a unit cost of less than USD 6 per parcel (Nkurunziza 2015). Positive impacts at household levels were identified at various stages of the project implementation. 2016-07-15T20:55:54Z 2016-07-15T20:55:54Z 2016-05-27 Case Study http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26558060/sustaining-success-systematic-land-tenure-registration-rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24707 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Rwanda
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topic title registration
land tenure
land management
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land tenure
land management
Ali, Daniel
Deininger, Klaus
Duponchel, Marguerite
Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda
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description Since 2010, the Government of Rwanda addressed land tenure through a series of actions including the establishment of institutional and administrative structures for land management and administration. At district, town, and municipality level, District Land Bureaus (DLBs), complemented by sector and cell level land committees, assumed responsibility for land administration and planning. After careful piloting in 2008/09, a process for systematic low cost demarcation and adjudication using aerial photography or high resolution satellite imagery was roll-out nationally. In less than 3 years, the Rwanda Natural Resource Authority (RNRA) demarcated 11.4 million out of an estimated 11.5 million land parcels in the country in a participatory way and at a unit cost of less than USD 6 per parcel (Nkurunziza 2015). Positive impacts at household levels were identified at various stages of the project implementation.
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author Ali, Daniel
Deininger, Klaus
Duponchel, Marguerite
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Duponchel, Marguerite
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title Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda
title_short Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda
title_full Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda
title_fullStr Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda
title_full_unstemmed Sustaining the Success of the Systematic Land Tenure Registration in Rwanda
title_sort sustaining the success of the systematic land tenure registration in rwanda
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
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