SENEGAL-ALLEMAGNE-FONCIER / Data tools and a land procedures manual for the local authorities of Kaffrine and Kaolack

On Tuesday, managers of the "Seen Suuf" project, which supports the improvement of land management in Senegal, shared data recording tools and a land procedures manual with local authorities in the central Kaolack region.

The "Seen Suuf" project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), in partnership with the Senegalese government.

Its aim is to improve land tenure security for local populations in the Kaolack and Kaffrine regions, explains its coordinator, Mamour Dramé.

Since 2020, the ''Seen Suuf'' project has been supporting seventeen communes, including nine in Kaolack, in optimizing land governance, by building the capacities of local services and providing training in land management.the capacities of local services and improving the legal framework for securing land rights, he announced at a two-day workshop (September 10-11).

With total funding of 21 million euros, or over thirteen billion CFA francs, over four years, the project is a major pillar in efforts to modernize land management in Senegal, Mr Dramé emphasized.

To date, nine communes in the Kaolack region have received support under the +Seen Suuf+ project to dedelimitation of their territories and the development of a land-use plan (...)'', he pointed out.

He went on to say that the program helped the pilot communes to "set up a communal land use and development plan".

Today," says Mamour Dramé, "using a land office, these communes are able to give the situation of the occupation of their territories.

Following on from this, we also want to modernize the public land service that we have set up at commune level, through the land offices, by equipping them first of all with computer equipment to move towards a more efficient system.We also want to modernize the land public service that we have set up at commune level, through the land offices, by equipping them firstly with computer equipment to move towards land management information, but also with tools for recording land data'', he said.

The project will also equip the three communes with registers for documenting and recording conflicts, for registering allocation requests and for their deliberations, he added.

This system will enable land information to be centralized in a single office, ensure continuity in the management of the public land service, transcending changes in municipal teams.It also enables the introduction of file models that have been harmonized at national level with other projects currently being rolled out in Senegal," he added.

The aim is to meet the requirements of the 1972 decree that set out the technical specifications for land registration tools.

This should enable Senegal to have a single model of registration tools, which will be valid in all the country's local authorities.

Source: aps.sn/