Sierra Leone Land Administration Project

The development objective of the Land Administration Project for Sierra Leone is to establish an efficient and accessible land administration system. The project comprises of five components. The first component, institutional development and legal reform objective is to strengthen Sierra Leone’s legal and institutional framework for land administration by supporting analyses and reform of the relevant legal framework, buildings, operational support, institutional strategies, capacity building, and sensitization campaigns. It consists of following sub-components: (i) institutional development; (ii) legal reform; and (iii) sensitization. The second component, land information system development will finance the procurement of required information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and establishing appropriate ICT infrastructure, business processes re-engineering, design, and development of a modern land information system (LIS) for automation of land administration processes, digitization of paper archives, containing deeds and cadastral maps, development of ICT and digital archive strategies, conducting cyber-security audit, and providing base maps and a geodetic network. It consists of following sub-components: (i) establishment of a land information system; (ii) base mapping and land cadastre; and (iii) geodetic network. The third component, recording and registration of land tenure rights is to improve records of land tenure rights and the processes how these rights can be transferred whether by inheritance, sale, or lease, or for some other third-party rights. The fourth component, project management will finance all expenses required to ensure efficient and transparent project management and coordination. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will draw from the uncommitted grant resources under the project from other project components to cover emergency response.