General
Poverty in Mozambique is concentrated in rural areas and thus associated with a high dependency on agriculture and natural resources, including land. Mozambique has a legal framework recognizing this dependency through a progressive Land Law. However, main obstacles to the proper implementation of the law include communities’ lack of formalized land tenure, limited knowledge regarding land rights, low participation in decision-making among community members, and a lack of capacity among local government officials. The situation is further hampered by a severe impacts from climate change. Project objective The main objective of the current intervention is to increase community legal awareness and strengthen security of land tenure rights, creating capacity at local level to implement and leverage the progressive provisions of the Mozambican legal framework. The programme will contribute to community preparation to intervene in an informed manner in the land sector and will also contribute to the delimitation of community and individual land-use rights based on good faith occupation and customary rights, and their integration into the formal land system. To achieve these objectives, a large-scale campaign will be rolled out, across selected districts from all three regions of the national territory, with two main and interlinked interventions, namely: – Social preparation & legal literacy – Community land rights registration and certification.
The LAND-at-scale programme is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (MFA) and managed by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). For more information/research refer to LAND-at-scale – Land Portal or follow us on LinkedIn. Further to stay updated on this LAND-at-scale project and others, please sign up(link is external) for our quarterly newsletter.
Project details
- Geography Mozambique
- Project value €2,223,000.00
- Duration 06/21 – 12/26
- Status Active
- Contact landatscale@rvo.nl
- Program LAND-at-scale
- Data Providers Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency
- Donors Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
- Implementing Organisations Terra Firma, Centro Terra Viva
- Issues Indigenous & Community Land Rights, Land & Climate Change, Land & Food Security, Land & Gender
- LandVoc terms community land rights, legal empowerment
Related resources in library
- Strengthening Tenure Security in Mozambique · 06 March 2026
- Segurança da Posse da Terra nas Áreas Rurais de Moçambique · 18 February 2026
- Unpacking tenure security in rural Mozambique · 18 February 2026
- APRENDIZAGEM DA AUMENTO DA LITERACIA JURÍDICA COMUNITÁRIA SOBRE DIREITOS TERRITORIAIS E GESTÃO DOS RECURSOS NATURAIS EM MOÇAMBIQUE · 16 September 2024
- Learning to increase community legal literacy on land rights and natural resource management in Mozambique · 16 September 2024
- Paralegals and the Protection of Land Rights in the Communities of Manhica and Massingir, Southern Mozambique · 30 September 2023
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IATI identifier NL-KVK-27378529-LAS21MZ1S
Original project description from Land Portal. Text republished under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.