Revision of national land policy: Private sector expects a legal framework that facilitates investments

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Revision of national land policy: Private sector expects a legal framework that facilitates investments

2:01 CAT | 27 Jul 2020

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Private sector representation at the National Land Policy Review Commission wants Mozambique’s legal and institutional framework to be adjusted to new social and economic dynamics, promoting right to use and benefit from land and facilitating private investment.

Equally, it expects a legal and operational framework that stops land hoarding, speculation and corruption; that reduces the risk of conflict; addresses the existence of idle land; and which reinforces, in particular, the protection of the rights of local communities, specifically women in rural areas and young people.

The framework proposed must respond to the concerns of citizens, individually or in groups, companies and all other stakeholders.

The launch of the public consultation phase in the National Land Policy Review process is an extension of a process initiated at the 9th Session of the Land Consultation Forum, held in the city of Maputo on the 7th and 8th of November 2017, with the participation of the government, the private sector and civil society.

The National Land Policy Review has, in the last two-and-a-half years, reflected on the promotion of investments using land, the reduction of conflicts, and the improvement of systems of access, possession, use and management and administration of land in order to maximise the interests of everyone, particularly communities.

It is from this forum that the need arises to make the framework for management and use of land more robust so that it can respond to current challenges and needs in terms of development, efficiency, equity and sustainability.

Source: CTA / Press Release