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10_. Government should invest more resources and vest greater authority in the Ad Hoc Land
Commission to study land issues and make recommendations. Its terms of reference
should be expanded and it should report directly to the Council of Ministers or the
National Assembly.

11. Government should continue its review of the judiciary, and ways should be found to
allow interaction between statutory and customary legal regimes. As part of this process,
government should review inheritance laws and determine if they can be modified to
create more secure rights for women and others with secondary land rights.

12. Government should begin to keep records of land concessions and other government
land transactions.

13. Government and civil society should consider the creation of a civil body that has the
power to review land grants and concessions and, where they overlap, determine which
has precedence. This body should be empowered to determine who should be paid
compensation—and how much they should be paid—for the loss of land rights that were
legally acquired.

B. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RENAMO

14. RENAMO should stop making land concessions in areas under its control.

15. RENAMO should allow the free movement of people and goods throughout the areas
under its control.

C. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY

16. Civil society should insist that government and RENAMO stop making land concessions.

17. Civil society should open a dialogue regarding land and property rights in Mozambique.
Government should be encouraged to participate in this exchange.

18. Civil society should insist that all land concessions be subject to judicial review.

19. Local communities, with the assistance of locality and district government, should
discuss the creation of local land-management boards or other institutions, empowering
them with the ability to defend community land rights and negotiate the exchange of
rights with nonlocal interests.

20. The Universidade Eduardo Mondlane should initiate research into questions relating to
property and land rights, customary authorities and political institutions, and the role of
civil society in the democratization process.

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