PROMOTING RURAL LAND TENURE SECURITY IN HAITI: Ensuring community participation through a tailored public consultation process

LAURA BERMUDEZ, SORAYA SENOSIER, KEVIN BARTHEL

Public consultations prior to land tenure projects can help set a tone of inclusiveness and transparency for project implementation. They are an opportunity to explore environmental and social risks of land projects in a manner that puts stakeholders’ concerns at the center and can result in forms of participatory monitoring. This paper presents key findings and lessons learned from public consultations for the second phase of the Haitian Rural Land Tenure Security Project. It can inform the implementation of future land tenure related consultation processes. The lessons highlighted the importance of: great logistics management; local knowledge to gain access, trust and to save time; reporting back to participants to build a transparent and communicative dynamic with communities; ownership of the consultation on behalf of the project implementer to ensure accountability.

Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018

Document type:PROMOTING RURAL LAND TENURE SECURITY IN HAITI: Ensuring community participation through a tailored public consultation process (1482 kB - pdf)