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Benin Compact - Access to Land - Rural

Summary:

MCC’s $307 million Benin Compact (2006-2011) funded the $33.7 million Access to Land Project (ALP), which aimed to secure land tenure, improve land-based investments, and decrease land disputes. The project’s rural activities worked across 40 of Benin’s 77 communes and 294 villages to demarcate land parcel boundaries, produce village landholding plans (plan foncier rural, PFRs), establish and strengthen village- and commune-level land institutions, and increase public outreach to increase demand and issuance of land use certificates (certificate foncier rural, CFRs).

Study Type: Independent Evaluation

Study Status: Completed

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General Metadata

  • Contractor: World Bank
  • Sector: Land
  • Intervention Type(s): Land Use Planning and Natural Resource Management; Institutional Strengthening
  • Cross-Sector Theme(s): gender; land tenure; agriculture productivity; land utilization; labor markets; policy and institutional reform
  • Project Objective:

    The overall objective of this Compact is to increase investment and private sector activity in Benin, which is key to advancing the goal of economic growth and poverty reduction in Benin. The Parties have identified the following project-level objective of this Compact to advance the Program Objective and Compact Goal: Strengthen property rights and investment.

Evaluation Methodology

  • Evaluation Type: Impact
  • Evaluation Methodology Type: Random Assignment
  • Location Type: Rural

Milestones

  • Contract Start: July 2014
  • Evaluation Design Report Published: May 2015
  • Interim Report Published: November 2015
  • Final Data Package Published: July 2020
  • Final Report Publication: July 2020

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