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The cadastre is a set of plans and administrative files which list all the real estate properties located in each municipality.
The Burkina Faso cadastre support project is part of the 3rd Indicative Cooperation Program between Burkina Faso and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which covers the period 2017-2021.
Improving land governance is at the heart of development issues in Burkina Faso. Thus, through the second National Economic and Social Development Plan (2021-2025), the Burkinabè government has undertaken to adapt agrarian and land policies as well as their management in order to ensure equitable access to this resource.
Initiated in December 2021 for a period of two years, the BKF/027 project aims to contribute to the establishment of a multipurpose cadastre in Burkina Faso, which constitutes an infrastructure for sustainable development. A multipurpose cadastre supports the four functions of land management:
tenure (who owns and under what);
value (property assessment for tax purposes);
use (land use); And
development (territorial planning).
The project, given its duration and its budget, does not aim to set up the multi-purpose cadastre itself, but the first elements leading to a multi-purpose cadastre in the long term.
Once operational, the multipurpose cadastre will reduce the number of disputes related to land, improve the business climate and increase tax revenue related to land.
The BKF/027 project aims for two results which are:
building the capacity of the General Directorate of Taxation in its responsibilities related to the cadastre;
the dematerialization of the management of cadastral documents.
The first result includes three activities around:
support for the development of a cadastral strategy with a view to setting up a multi-purpose cadastre;
training of personnel of entities linked to the cadastre;
and thinking about simplifying cadastral registration procedures.
The second result consists, on the one hand, in the digitization of the priority collections of cadastral archives in Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso, and, on the other hand, in the establishment of a dematerialized chain of new cadastral and land documents. |
