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ServicesHTSPE offers effective solutions in six interacting and inter-related areas:
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HTSPE carried out the “Support to Phase 1 of the Land Reform Process in Rwanda” between 2005 and 2009. Its main output was to develop and test a feasible approach to LTR in Rwanda, leading to the Strategic Road Map for Land Tenure Reform (SRM), which was adopted by Cabinet in March 2008. The SRM set out the Government’s plans for land management and administration, with LTR as a major component. Most of the necessary legislation has now been enacted and systems and procedures developed. In May 2009, MINIRENA requested donor funding to help the national roll-out of LTR. The current project is a response to that request. Over the next five years the NLC, under the Ministry of Natural Resources (MINIRENA), will issue registered title to every landholder through a one-off, low-cost community-based process of LTR. This will help in securing land assets and facilitating investment to 90 per cent of households (predominantly poor) that own some farming land. The process is fundamental to unlocking future fair and sustainable economic growth in Rwanda. HTSPE Services: HTSPE with its international and local project partners will provide the following: Technical Advice • Provide the NLC with advice on all aspects of planning and implementing national roll-out of the LTR Programme, in line with the SRM. The advice will be provided by both a core specialist team, based permanently in Rwanda under the direction of the NLC, and ad hoc specialist inputs. • The support team will work as an integral part of the NLC and act to strengthen existing capacity within the organisation. However, strategic leadership will remain with the NLC and its line Ministry, the Ministry for Natural Resources (MINIRENA) • Technical advice will cover Land Administration, Institutional Support, Land Use Planning, Organisational Change, Legal and Policy issues, GIS, Gender and Database Management. Project Management • The team will provide organisational and logistical support, generally in accordance with already established systems and procedures, to ensure that the NLC and associated District Land Bureaux have the operational and human capacity to implement the project and thereafter manage all aspects of land management set out in the 2005 Organic Land Law. • The support team will help the NLC deliver key messages to a range of target audiences. This will involve both a training programme and the implementation of a communications strategy. • A procurement system will be designed and agreed during the early part of the project and the team will then manage the procurement of services, equipment, transport and consumables. Evaluation • Part of DFID’s contribution to the project is funding for an in-depth Monitoring and Evaluation programme managed by the World Bank. As well as providing information for the set of indicators within the DFID logistical framework, the support team will work closely with the Bank to develop ways of collecting data and monitoring the impact of the project. 
The Land Component of the Millennium Challenge Account (Mozambique) Compact consists of 3 main pillars of support. These are: 1. Support for a National Process of policy review and monitoring, including the development of a long-term strategy for land administration and activities related to public awareness-building and the strengthening of civil society institutions. 2. Capacity Building in land administration institutions, including the development of a permanent educational capacity at a national level, training activities for cadastral personnel and direct support to four provincial offices and twelve district offices of the Department for Natrual Resources and to the cadastral offices of eight municipalities. 3. The facilitation of access to land in particular sites within the target provinces, including mass regularisation and titling activities in selected urban, peri-urban and rural areas, the compilation of land use inventories in some areas, the creation of spatial framework data for cadastral purposes and independent support to community groups and others to enable them to register acquired land rights. HTSPE, in association with Verde Azul (Mozambique) and Matrix Development Consultants, will be providing the following services: • Policy/ legal reviews and support to legal drafting and regulatory development • Land Administration – regulations and procedural development, service delivery and public outreach (publicity and advisory) programmes • Development of an improved land tax system • Assessment and improvement of the cadastre in rural, urban and peri-urban settings, including capacity building that will allow the systematic regularisation of land tenure in selected areas and improved and more flexible methods for delimitation, demarcation • An assessment of the best way to manage and provide for the transfer of rights between third parties, and the registration of transfers in cadastral records (this will be heavily dependent upon the evolving policy discussion) • Development of baseline information, including land resources and land use inventory and planning methodologies, current spatial distribution of tenure and land occupation • The development of land use plans as an outcome of improved delimitation and demarcation of existing rights, the identification of areas available for investment, and the effective registration and recording of a wide range of land and related information • Facilitating access to land in three priority districts in each province. This will involve systematic land tenure regularisation, local community rights registration, and improvements to current procedures used for the community-investor consultations • Design and implementation of a full Land Information Management System (LIMS) • Capacity building in all of these functions for relevant central, provincial and district institutions, focusing on human resource development, changes in work procedures, reforming and improving the work place, organisational and development issues.
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