Africa regional project 625093711 · 1981 · good governance

Accelerated Impact Program subproject to provide the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (GIRM) with the institutional capacity to resolve land tenure problems and develop land policy. The project will train a cadre of specialists within the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD), undertake a field intervention, and organize two colloquia. A U.S. university will assist in implementation. (1) Four MRD staff members will receive a combination of U.S. academic training (including English-language training) and in-country field experience and will form the core of a new policy/action group with the MRD. Their training will encompass legal, applied social science, and resource management perspectives on land tenure, enabling them to: (1) analyze and recommend land tenure policies on a national level; (2) intervene in specific situations to analyze important social, economic, and legal factors; and (3) work as a technical liaison between affected communities and GIRM adjudication authorities to establish mutually acceptable resolutions to land tenure problems consistent with both equity and production needs. (2) For its applied field intervention, the project will analyze a

Source: DEC abstract, PD-BAE-714 (1981). The source's own text.