Land Administration and Management Policy
2 LAND MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION POLICY
2.1 Management and Strategic perspectives
2.1.1 Vision
The program of the Govern of Mozambique (GoM) defines that the Policy of Land Management should
guarantee the land right and security to all entity singular, collectives national and foreign with economic and
social initiatives in befit of Mozambicans.
2.1.2 Goals
Dinageca defines as goals:
- Geography and Cadastre services organized and efficient
- Communal participation, private sector and other actors in land management
- Land legislation implemented
2.1.3 Objectives
Short-term objective: Establishment of computerized national well functioning systems to support land
administration and management to contributes on guaranteeing the access, rights and security to land and other
natural resources and promotion of investment and private initiatives.
Long-term objective: Improvement of land administration, management and provision of geomatic data and
information to guarantee tenure security particularly the local community and sustainable land and natural
resources use to develop agrarian activities for food security.
2.2 The Land Administration and Management Policy
2.2.1 General overview: Legal framework
In countries where Policy and legal framework still discriminate, it would be desirable to work towards
recognition of such tenure arrangements, and in the context of a national land policy framework, will spent huge
amounts of time discussing legal changes without efficient mechanisms of implementation.
In Mozambique, after more than five years of public debate and technical assistance, the Assembly of Republic
adopted a new Land Law in 31 July 1997. There have been some significant differences with regard to the 1998
Land Law in that:
- Local communities must be consulted prior to approving a concession request within their territory, and
local community should participate in the resolution of land conflicts involving private interests;
- Defines the mechanisms for representation and for the exercise of the local communities with regard to
the right of land use and benefit and recognize the customary (non-written) forms of evidence in the
resolution of land disputes between second and third parties;
- The possibilities for co-titling of land for women and men.
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