1. Land Policy and Urban Development in Mali: COping with the Data Quality Challenge
Monique Bertrand, IRD (France)
Mamy Soumaré, USSGB; Samba Dembélé, IER (Mali)
Land and Poverty
Conference

2. sources of analysis, thanks to the MDEAF
Toward a land management reform in Mali: Preliminary overview on the delivery of land titles
Mali faces a multiform lack of security addressing access to land and property rights; the “cadastre” as a ready-to- use solution?
The titling process is still hegemonic: Need for a preliminary appraisal of the Land Registry
sources of analysis, thanks to the MDEAF
=> “Registre foncier urbain” (RFU numeric
Database on registered titles)
=> Formal properties georeferenced data
(DOSSTECH files)

3. Targeting the titling process in and around Bamako: Urban sprawl and planning require a data policy
Number of titles delivered by Region
in Mali,
Number of titles in Bamako and
surrounding since the 1990s
(RFU, updated in )

4. Land registration faces technical limits and deregulation since the 2000s
Information on land titles and their owners (RFU) is not related to geo-referencing data (Properties’ spatial coordinates: DOSSTECH)
Data entry depends on external resources and is not continuous: no update since for Kati ; since 2006 for the Regions of Mali; since 2014 for Bamako
The RFU database is encumbered with empty data fields; lack of reporting
Lack of control in data entry: blank records, various inconsistencies, uncorrected errors
Available data are not categorized nor ready to be statistically processed
Main fields of information delivered => Cleaned and categorized datain Kati District (Source: RFU)

5. 5 major findings about land markets, fragmentation and speculation
Exponential growth of the number of land property titles
Spatial dissemination around Bamako District, discussion about the road factor and other discreet logics of spreading and scattering
Administrative and technical pathways to land registration
Public / private partnership or concurrence for the delivery of housing plots
Socio-economic polarisation of this secured ownership in the hands of specific groups of interest

6. Two pathways for land registration: confirmation in the 2014 Survey
Recent titling in Kati District:
New registration vs Subdivision
More than 1 ha vs Less than 500 m² properties

7. Few public reserves, lack of land allocation from the State of Mali to the local authorities
Number of titles registered in the name of State of Mali / real estate operators

8. Land accumulation, socio-economic polarization in the rural fringe of Bamako
Individual owners: professional categories in Kati District before /after 2007 (Source: RFU database updated in 2012)
Number of mortgages granted on the land titles by banks in Bamako and Kati districts (Source: RFU database updated in )

9. To be continued… Thank you for your attention
Monique Bertrand, IRD (France)
Mamy Soumaré, USSGB; Samba Dembélé, IER (Mali)
Land and Poverty
Conference

10. An overview of the titling process: spatial dissemination around the capital city
Number of titles delivered in Bamako District and peri-urban environment, by commune and period of urban sprawl (Sources: RFU )
5 major findings