How to increase rural land rights registration seven-fold in less than one year? : lessons from Madagascar

Andre Teyssier & Zo Ravelomanantsoa

Land reform measures launched in Madagascar since 2005 have significantly improved land management services for rural communities. By decentralizing land management, the new procedure to obtain a written proof of ownership costs 30 times less and is 12 times faster than the former land titling. To date, 500 municipalities have issued 100,000 land certificates in the last years in a country where only 500,000 land titles were issued during a century of land administration.

Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty : Integrating Land Governance into the Post-2015 Agenda : Harnassing Synergies for Implementation and Monitoring Impact

Document type:How to increase rural land rights registration seven-fold in less than one year? : lessons from Madagascar (33 kB - pdf)