GTZ - Land Tenure in Development Cooperation: Chapter 5.1

Guiding Principles: Land Tenure in Development Cooperation
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5. New Forms and Areas of Development Cooperation

5.1 Cooperation between Technical Cooperation and Financial Cooperation

Technical and financial cooperation can be ideal partners for projects in the area of land tenure development. An important principle is the exchange of information and agreement prior to projects. In the ideal case these should be discussed already at an early stage when cooperation programs with a partner country are planned. Various forms of cooperation are possible:

The technical cooperation component has the lead function of the entire project. The contribution from the financial cooperation is the implementation of the entire or portions of the project.

The technical cooperation and financial cooperation are each responsible for clearly defined complementary tasks within the framework of an agreed-upon program. Each carries the responsibility with its respective partners for the implementation of its tasks, based on a harmonized time schedule.

The lead function of the program lies with the financial cooperation component and is supported in specific areas by measures carried out by the technical cooperation (e.g. capacity building).

Possible forms of cooperation

Prototypes for Technical and Financial Cooperation Projects

Land administration and land registration including the development of the legal framework,

Land consolidation and land readjustment,

Implementation of land reforms (e.g. in transforming countries, South Africa, the Philippines),

Rural settlement projects (e.g. GTZ/KfW cooperation in GASP, Kenya),

Rehabilitation of squatter areas (including land regularization),

Implementation of smallholder plantations (e.g. GTZ/KfW cooperation in NESP-Ophir, West Sumatra, Indonesia),

Irrigation projects with land readjustment (e.g. GTZ/KfW cooperation in Mondego, Portugal, cf. 4.6.5),

Regional rural development projects (RRD) with land tenure components,

Natural resource management and land use planning projects including land tenure and land market components (e.g. GTZ/KfW cooperation in Patecore, Burkina Faso).


Partners for technical cooperation and financial cooperation besides the GTZ and KfW could be the World Bank, the European Union and the regional development banks (AsDB, AfDB, IDB, Arab Development Bank).