MCC Institutional Development & Capacity Building Activity

Burkina Faso - LAND TENURE PROJECT - Institutional Development & Capacity Building Activity: This Project Activity, in conjunction with the Legal and Procedural Change and Communication Project Activity, will improve institutional capacity to deliver land services in rural areas.

Specifically, MCC Funding will support: (i) improved land registration and mapping services, including institutional modernization analyses, training and capacity building, the purchase of equipment, imagery products, and surveying technology; (ii) decentralization of land tenure services, including training and support for new local land services personnel and the construction and basic equipping of up to 47 municipal buildings to provide offices for the decentralized municipal land services while also serving as offices for other key local government functions; and (iii) capacity building to mediate land conflicts, including (A) capacity building within the justice sector through training for judges and associated personnel and practicing lawyers; (B) new law school curriculum modules focusing on land law and land conflict; (C) training of municipal officials, local village councils and local land services personnel on land conflict mediation; and (D) support for mobile land conflict tribunals.