1. Inclusive land and water governance: Experiences from Mauritania and Senegal
Steven Jonckheere
Knowledge Management Officer
2017 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, World Bank, Washington DC, March

2. Land, water and irrigation schemes
Water rights
Right to abstract water
Water delivery rights
Land tenure
Creation of irrigation schemes
Security enjoyed by farmers on irrigated plots
Land transactions fostered by the increased land values

3. Senegal River Basin Guinea, Mali, Mauritania & Senegal Key resource
Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS)
Mobilizing water resources to achieve development objectives
Land conflicts

4. Learning route IFAD, PROCASUR and IPAR
A planned journey with specific learning objectives, which encourages an active and mutual knowledge exchange between participants and their hosts
Identification of potentially useful innovations that can be adapted and then applied back home
6-16 March 2017
32 participants from 15 countries
3 host cases in Senegal & Mauritania

5. Mauritania – Land agreement
Context
IFAD-supported PACDM
Tenure insecurity in Walo lands
Approach
Preparatory phase
Justice, solidarity and efficiency
National Coordination
Village development committees
Draft land agreement
Implementation phase
Committee of wise men
Socio-land tenure survey
Validation survey results
Procès verbal d’insertion
Walo Users’ Association
Results
Expansion of flood recession lands
Access to land ensured for vulnerable groups

6. Senegal – Land use and allocation plans and land registration
Context
AFD-supported PACR-VFS
MCA-supported IWRM
Piloting of land and spatial planning tools
Approach
Land use and allocation plans
Identification of land use zones
Participatory and inclusive
Land information system
Collection, processing, use and storage of data on the occupation of public land
Who? How? Where?
Land registration
Formalisation of land tenure status and criteria for land allocation
Survey
Workshops on land allocation
Titres d’affectation
Results
Good local governance, democratic processes and representative decision-making
Secured access to land
Reduced conflicts

7. Senegal – “One household, one hectare” and pastoral units
Context
IFAD and BOAD-supported PRODAM
Food insecurity due to drought, refugee crisis and changes in flood patterns
Approach
“One household, one hectare”
Socio-economic survey and feasibility study
Regrouping and redistribution of land
Led by village chief
Committee of elders
Pastoral units
Group of localities that share the same pastoral and agricultural areas and use the same water points
Preserving the existing natural resources & empowering communities
Participatory land use management plans and management committees
Results
3 000 ha of PIV (100 ha for women)
Improve land tenure security for vulnerable groups (women and dispossessed people)
Federation of producers’ organisations
22 pastoral units
Positive effect on environment & animals

8. Conclusion
It is possible to identify strategies that promote more equitable access to water and irrigated land, depending on the local situation and in co-ordination with the community
Access to capital becomes a determining factor
Joint planning and modelling of water resource development
There is no single, optimal property right system for irrigations systems