This report presents the findings, conclusions, and recommendations from a performance conducted by the E3 Analytics and Evaluation Project evaluation Development (USAID) Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (MAST) pilot. This performance evaluation concentrates on the first of three sites in which MAST was implemented: the village of Ilalasimba, in the Iringa district in Tanzania. MAST was implemented there from January to June 2015 and was intended to ground truth the methodology that USAID and its implementing partner plan to use in subsequent pilot sites under the MAST project.
The evaluation purpose is to provide USAID and its implementing partners with practical information on the MAST model and draw lessons to refine the implementation approach for future MAST pilot sites, which may inform the scaling on the MAST technology and methodology with the support of the Government of Tanzania (GoT), USAID, or other donors.
Findings were presented at the 2016 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty as well as USAID’s Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (MAST) Lessons Learned Workshop on June 3, 2016. Documents, including the PowerPoint presentations, and Lessons Learned Report and Executive Summary, are available below in addition to the report.
Reading the Tanzania MAST evaluation
The Tanzania MAST evaluation focuses on one village during the first pilot period. Read the full performance evaluation report for its findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The workshop presentations listed below provide companion material from the June 2016 lessons learned event.
For land rights and governance professionals, the report offers a starting point for examining the mobile documentation approach and the implementation lessons identified for future pilot sites. Its stated purpose was to inform refinement and possible scaling; the material should be read in the context of the January–June 2015 pilot, rather than as a current assessment of land administration across Tanzania.
Explore the Tanzania MAST project page for related project material and the Tanzania country profile for the wider land tenure and governance context. The original evaluation summary and downloadable source documents remain available on this page.