Presented at the Country Learning Exchange held during the 7th GLTN Partners Meeting 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.

1. Democratic Republic of Congo
LAND INTERVENTIONS IN POST CONFLICT
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
[Lobo Ngumba Aimé]
Tuesday 24th April 2018

2. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTION
Area: 2,345,409 km2(905,567 sq mi)
Population: 78,736,153
Density: 34.83/km2(90.2/sq mi)
CAFI : Country Level
DFID : North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri
Masiani, Beni (North Kivu)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Key Actions
 Providing technical support in the CAFI-
supported National Land Policy Development
Program
 Community Participatory Land Use Planning
in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri (DFID)
 Implementing pro-poor and gender
responsive land tools to improve land tenure
security in Beni, North Kivu (Masiani)

3. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY LAND CHALLENGES
Persistence of different and competing legal
systems, and feeble land laws;
Ineffective performance of judicial systems;
Antiquated Cadaster plans with missing records
Archiving system not well managed
Maps without georeferencing information
Land records not connected with maps
Competition between indigenous and migrant
communities;
Continued displacements among vulnerable
populations due to violence;
Competition for land use between
agriculturalists and pastoralists in densely
populated areas;
Rapid informal urbanization;

4. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY INTERVENTIONS
 Support land dispute resolution by
improving tenure security through
the implementation of GLTN land
tools;
 Support advocacy and awareness
building activities to support the
DRC land reform process through
implementation of capacity
development interventions
 Promote the concept of integrated
land use planning at community
level to mitigate the risk of land
disputes, improve tenure security
and mitigate land disputes for
increased economic development

5. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
PARTNERSHIPS
UN-Habitat Regional Office for Africa (ROAF)
Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC)
National Commission of Land Reform (CONAREF)
Ministry of Urbanism and Land Affairs
Local Municipalities
Provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri

6. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
PROCESSES
Sensitization
Capacity Building
Equipement
Land Tools Implementation
Follow - Up
Documentation

7. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
 24 Organizations including members of provincial
platforms and the Consultation Framework for Civil
Society and Indigenous Organizations (CACO) at the
national level agreed to work together to support land
reforms in DRC.
 With the application of GLTN land tools, an estimated
27,712 people have been identified as beneficiaries of
land mediation in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri.
 Establishment of the UCBC resource center in Beni city
to facilitate coordination of key stakeholder in Masiani
neighbourhood, where the STDM, land mediation and
other relevant GLTN tools are being implemented.

8. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
EMERGING OUTCOMES
Before
After
 Land registry office proceeds to files recording faster : 200
files/month compared to 50 files/month before digitization of the
cadaster;
 Land readjustment of undeveloped areas and identification of
conflict cases are facilitated;
 Digital plans and geo-spatial database are made available;
 more than 40 land administration surveyors and urban planning
technicians are trained.

9. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
EMERGING OUTCOMES
 Through the availability of digitized data, land taxation
services are able to collect property taxes;
 The registered land owners increased due to more
transparency and accessibility
 Land property database is used to send text messages to
taxpayers, who in turn pay directly to the bank into the public
treasury account;
 The mobilization of revenue in the public treasury is made
efficient and traceable
 The dialogue on land rights and land use planning is
promoted
 The collaboration between different land actors is improved
 Overlapping ownership claims are reduced

10. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
LESSONS LEARNED
 With an improved cadaster system,
corruption is reduced and easier
access to land for the poor is made
possible
 Peaceful co-habitation between
communities is possible with
mediation and transparent land
administration system
 With strengthened partnership
and trust, the different land
actors are more willing to work
in collaboration and to ease the
work of the land administration

11. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
ACTION PLAN
• Documentation and capitalization of pilot experiences in the
land reform process
• Strengthening of operational capacity with a focus on a
decentralized land administration
• Strengthening of land coordination framework at national,
provincial and local level
• Resource mobilization
• Alignment of land interventions to government program
• Fit-for-purpose and continuum of land rights implementation (
STDM, Responsive Land Readjustment, TLA, GEC, etc.)
• Setting up of a high scale base maps
• Increasing the number of GIS Professionals in land
administration.

12. Democratic Republic of Congo
LAND INTERVENTIONS IN THE DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO WITHIN THE POST
CRISIS CONTEXT
[Presenter(s)]
Tuesday 24th April 2018
THANK YOU!