-Beyond Titling: Impacts of a Multifaceted Land Governance Intervention on Land Conflict in Burkina Faso-
Benjamin Linkow
In recent years, international development programs to secure property rights have shifted from an emphasis on issuing formal property documents to a broader approach that includes institution-building, citizen participation, and recognition of customary systems. One such program was the Millennium Challenge Account funded Rural Land Governance (RLG) activity in Burkina Faso. This paper investigates the impacts of a pilot of the RLG on the incidence of land conflict using household survey panel data. We find that the RLG substantially reduced the incidence of certain types of land conflicts in the project area. In particular, the predicted incidence of land conflicts that respondents characterized as “very serious” was 2 per 1,000 households following RLG, as compared to a predicted rate of 56 per 1,000 households in the absence of the program.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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