Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda

Rwanda has initiated a major land tenure reform program over the last two decades to clarify land rights, underpinned by far-reaching legal and institutional reforms (2004 national land policy (NLP); 2005 organic land law (OLL)), which culminated i...

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Main Authors: Ngoga, Thierry, Ntaganda, Francois, Tushabe, Karim, Niyonsenga, David, Ingabire, Nadia, Muvara, Pothin
Format: Report
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/905231504857005613/Land-governance-assessment-framework-final-report-Rwanda
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spelling okr-10986-284922021-05-25T09:04:11Z Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda Ngoga, Thierry Ntaganda, Francois Tushabe, Karim Niyonsenga, David Ingabire, Nadia Muvara, Pothin LAND USE LAND TENURE COMMON LANDS URBAN LAND MANAGEMENT LAND REGISTRY TAXATION DISPUTE RESOLUTION Rwanda has initiated a major land tenure reform program over the last two decades to clarify land rights, underpinned by far-reaching legal and institutional reforms (2004 national land policy (NLP); 2005 organic land law (OLL)), which culminated in a nationwide program of systematic land tenure regularization (LTR) that was completed in 2012. The implementation of the land governance assessment framework (LGAF) in Rwanda is timely and will help the country to take stock in a comprehensive way, benchmark, and assess priorities as input into ongoing policy, legal, and institutional reforms. LGAF was undertaken between September 2014 and May 2015, and validated in January 2016. The framework analysis is organized into nine modules: (i) land tenure recognition; (ii) rights to forest and common lands and rural land use regulations; (iii) urban land use, planning, and development; (iv) public land management; (v) process and economic benefit of transfer of public land to private use; (vi) public provision of land information; (vii) land valuation and taxation; (viii) dispute resolution; and (ix) review of institutional arrangements and policies. 2017-10-10T19:49:47Z 2017-10-10T19:49:47Z 2017 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/905231504857005613/Land-governance-assessment-framework-final-report-Rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28492 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Rural Study Economic & Sector Work Africa Rwanda
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topic LAND USE
LAND TENURE
COMMON LANDS
URBAN LAND MANAGEMENT
LAND REGISTRY
TAXATION
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
spellingShingle LAND USE
LAND TENURE
COMMON LANDS
URBAN LAND MANAGEMENT
LAND REGISTRY
TAXATION
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Ngoga, Thierry
Ntaganda, Francois
Tushabe, Karim
Niyonsenga, David
Ingabire, Nadia
Muvara, Pothin
Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda
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description Rwanda has initiated a major land tenure reform program over the last two decades to clarify land rights, underpinned by far-reaching legal and institutional reforms (2004 national land policy (NLP); 2005 organic land law (OLL)), which culminated in a nationwide program of systematic land tenure regularization (LTR) that was completed in 2012. The implementation of the land governance assessment framework (LGAF) in Rwanda is timely and will help the country to take stock in a comprehensive way, benchmark, and assess priorities as input into ongoing policy, legal, and institutional reforms. LGAF was undertaken between September 2014 and May 2015, and validated in January 2016. The framework analysis is organized into nine modules: (i) land tenure recognition; (ii) rights to forest and common lands and rural land use regulations; (iii) urban land use, planning, and development; (iv) public land management; (v) process and economic benefit of transfer of public land to private use; (vi) public provision of land information; (vii) land valuation and taxation; (viii) dispute resolution; and (ix) review of institutional arrangements and policies.
format Report
author Ngoga, Thierry
Ntaganda, Francois
Tushabe, Karim
Niyonsenga, David
Ingabire, Nadia
Muvara, Pothin
author_facet Ngoga, Thierry
Ntaganda, Francois
Tushabe, Karim
Niyonsenga, David
Ingabire, Nadia
Muvara, Pothin
author_sort Ngoga, Thierry
title Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda
title_short Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda
title_full Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda
title_fullStr Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda
title_full_unstemmed Land Governance Assessment Framework : Rwanda
title_sort land governance assessment framework : rwanda
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/905231504857005613/Land-governance-assessment-framework-final-report-Rwanda
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