The Land Reform for Agricultural Productivity (LRAP) project, funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), is led by the Millennium Challenge Account Togo (OMCA-Togo) to support the Togolese government in its land reform process and the operationalisation of the land and property code (Law n°2018-005 of 14 June 2018). The LRAP project will ultimately improve the security of land tenure with a view to increasing investment in the agricultural sector. It is implemented over a basic period of 12 months and an optional period of 31 months. It is being implemented over a basic period of 14 months and an optional period of 29 months. The optional period began on 1 November 2023.

In the framework of the implementation of this project, the Consortium VNG International, Cadasta Foundation, Kadaster International and WiLDAF-Togo provides technical assistance to OMCA-Togo, to implement the project activities. The Technical Assistance Team (TAT) to the project is to support: the design and testing of land tenure methodologies; the identification of the least complicated and inexpensive approaches to land tenure security in rural areas; and the improvement of regulations, administrative procedures and practices.

Activity 1: Support the development of an improved regulatory framework
Sub-activity 1.1: Preparing government stakeholders to participate in the development of the regulatory framework of the new Land and Property Code
Sub-activity 1.2: Supporting the Togolese government in determining priorities and developing guidelines for the drafting of implementing decrees for the Land and Property Code
Sub-activity 1.3: Designing and planning the drafting of implementation decrees
Sub-activity 1.4: Supporting the drafting, restitution and finalisation of application decrees

Activity 2: Develop and field test cost-effective methodologies to protect customary land rights
Sub-activity 2.1: Selection, preparation, information and communication on the five trial sites
Sub-activity 2.2: Methodology 1 - Identification and mapping of land rights; Identify, map and register customary land rights
Sub-activity 2.3: Methodology 2 - Land information management; Managing legal and spatial land information at local level
Sub-activity 2.4: Methodology 3 - Land registration procedures; Developing alternative, less costly and less complicated instruments and procedures to secure customary land rights
Sub-activity 2.5: Methodology 4 - Land conflict management; Managing and resolving customary land conflicts
Sub-activity 2.6: Development and initial support for a strategy to consolidate the achievements of the methodological recommendations and the future regulatory framework at local level