CIAO DATE: 01/2011
December 2010
Danish Institute for International Studies
NGOs and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development are involved in a significant number of projects to implement Tanzania's land law reform from 1999. Still, progress in rural areas is slow and uneven. The Village Land Act, which regulates land in rural areas in Mainland Tanzania, is largely being implemented through donor-funded, geographically limited, projects. The result is limited access to land administration services for the majority of Tanzanians who live in rural areas. That is the conclusion of a new DIIS Working Paper by PhD candidate Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen.
Resource link: Tanzania's Land Law Reform: The Implementation Challenge [PDF] - 250K