IMPROVING ACCESS TO STATE LAND FOR RETURNEES AND IDPS IN AFGHANISTAN
DEPIKA SHERCHAN, ALISON MCFARLANE, JAWAD PEIKAR
This report focuses on a new legal framework recently developed in Afghanistan to allocate suitable state land to the displaced population. The finalisation, adoption, and implementation of this new legal framework is crucial to ensure that the most vulnerable and landless members of Afghanistan’s displaced population receive durable and sustainable land and housing options. This report provides an overview of Afghanistan’s previous land allocation framework and explains the events that led to the Government’s development of a new and improved framework. It also examines the procedure to assess and allocate land anticipated by the new framework and underscores important innovations. Finally, the report provides recommendations on how, once finalised and hopefully adopted, the Government could operationalise the legal framework to ensure that the carefully crafted provisions translate into actual assessments of suitable land and the allocation of land parcels to Afghanistan’s most vulnerable returnees and IDPs.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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