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Knowledge management and learning are at the heart of the LAND-at-scale program. RVO, LANDac and the International Land Coalition (ILC) will collaborate to implement the knowledge management (KM) component of the program.

Through LAND-at-scale's country-projects, the aim is to achieve just, inclusive and sustainable land governance at scale and in a sustainable way. With an integrated KM-strategy, LAND-at-scale aims to achieve maximum impact of each project, as well as contribute to gaining a deeper understanding of the conditions required to create structural change.

Burundi has the world’s highest hunger score and around 45 percent of the population is affected by food insecurity. The country copes with increasing scarcity of land as a result of increasing population size, returnees and IDPs and climate change. With the majority of Burundians depending on agriculture for their food and livelihoods, land scarcity makes this reliance on agriculture precarious. This pressure on land causes elevated levels of land disputes with over 55% of all court cases being related to conflicts over land.

USAID/Burundi’s Policy Reform Program aimed to strengthen relations between the government, civil society, and the media in order to promote dialogue and foster a transparent and participatory land policy formulation process. Through its trainings in conflict management, anti-corruption and advocacy, the project built the capacity of government, civil society, and media to understand and discuss policy matters in an informed and inclusive manner.

Donor's contribution:
European Union: US$ 6.00 million
World Food Programme: US$ 4.66 million
Other funding: US$ 2.50 million

Capacity building of local land bureaus

Capacity building of the government to develop and implement a land policy, support to civil society in societiel dialogue and domestic accountability, and piloting a decentralised model for land administration at the level of a local government.

This programme funded by the European Union (EU) aims at enhancing the joint implementation of the VGGT (Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land , Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security) and the F&G (Framework and Guidelines of the Land Policy Initiative (LPI)) at Pan African level and at supporting and consolidating the implementation of the EU Land governance in 10 African countries (Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan*, Angola, Malawi, Eswatini).

The programme aim was to regenerate the livelihoods of the rural environment, rebuild social capital including the rehabilitation of human dignity and restore food security among 74,000 poor and vulnerable households in the provinces of Bujumbura Rural and Bururi in the west and Ruyigi in the east. It worked to restructure farm production through donation of cattle and through the building of plant nurseries. It will support various training projects focusing on community development, legal issues, HIV/Aids and literacy.

Contribuer à une meilleure gestion et gouvernance foncière des terres domaniales.Il a été convenu avec les parties prenantes, de focaliser cette intervention sur le cadastrage des terres domaniales en se basant sur les orthophotoplans produits dans le cadre du PPCDR. Cette méthodologie, qui utilise le Système d'Information Géographique (SIG), a été utilisée au Rwanda pour réaliser la certification systématique des terres au niveau national.

This list of countries is where an Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) has been COMPLETED.

The LGAF is a diagnostic tool that is implemented at the local level in a collaborative fashion, that addresses the need for guidance to diagnose and benchmark land governance, and that is intended to help countries prioritize reforms and monitor progress over time.