26. Land Tenure
Actions To Secure The Land And Approval Processes As the tenure in Senegal is based on a predominantly customary rights where land rights were based on non-codified laws with slight influence from positivist colonial laws, it is unclear on answering the question of which party owns the vacant ideal lot in our project in Baghere. Specific approval processes would also need to be collected through research on the field. Compliance to the landowner's conditions (I.e. the chief/ private landowner/ agricultural community arrangements) might be of essence throughout the process under the different tenure arrangement scenarios in Figure 1. Even though a research suggest that private land ownership is unfavorable in Senegal with the state being preferable source of authority, the private land arrangement scenario would also need to be anticipated (News, 2014). With regards to the above consideration, investigations and thorough community research processes would need to be conducted in order to better understand the issues surrounding the three possible tenure arrangements outlined in Figure 1. There were several stakeholders identified that will be relevant to the land security activities and approval processes: (USAID) •
Central Government (with local land administrative such as the rural councils to be anticipated due to decentralization of land administration being identified)
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Local Land Chief (if any)
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Private land holders (if any)
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Family land holders (if any)
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Other NGOs attempting to secure the land for their projects
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Donors involved within the Balauo Salo project (I.e. the Kaira Looro fundraising and the likes)
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Other local communities group that might have conflicting interest over the land tenure
