Participatory inclusive land readjustment in Huambo, Angola
Cain, Allan, Beat Weber & Moises Festo
After a protracted period of conflict, Angola has been reconstructing its social and physical infrastructure and developing new policies and legislation to address the chronic poverty that the majority of families still live in. The four decades of war were characterized by land expropriation, forced removals, resettlement, and massive internal displacement of rural and urban populations. Colonial land legislation had not been effectively reformed by the end of the war and the shifts in population left Angola with chronic settlement problems. With few legal tools and little in the way of financial and human resources to administer land, urban expansion was uncontrolled. Informal land transactions flourished. The authors estimate that even today fewer than 10 per cent of urban land transactions are registered.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2013
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