Component 1: Increased Tenure Security. This component will support the issuance of CCROs, CROs, Residential Licenses, and other related activities. The land records created will provide a means for beneficiaries to recover their property in the case of natural disasters and displacements and improve the ability of respective agencies to respond and address climate-related disasters. The activities under this Component will be done in an inclusive and participatory way to ensure gender equity, and protection of the rights of all groups including women, youth, hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, farmers, and urban poor as detailed in the CRO and CCRO manuals. This Component includes the following subcomponents:

Subcomponent 1.1: Rural mass certification. Based on the pilot experience under the Land Tenure Support Program (LTSP) and the Land Tenure Assistance Activity (LTA), this subcomponent will scale up the direct implementation of rural mass certification and issuance of 500,000 CCROs in select areas of the country1. Special attention will be given to women and other marginalized groups to ensure they fully participate and benefit from the Project. This would include special sensitization activities for women and men focused on women’s land rights; special measures to be implemented when pastoralists are present; and ensuring women’s and other’s participation in village land committees. The field manuals for mass rural certification developed under LTSP will be used with certain enhancements to better protect the rights of women and other marginalized groups3, and vulnerable groups.

Subcomponent 1.2: Urban mass registration. Urban land certification entails two distinct processes with different outputs: the formalization process to produce 1 million RL, and the regularization of unplanned settlements to produce 1 million CROs.

Component 2: Land Information Management. An effective land administration system requires good spatial data infrastructure as well as Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems to manage the data. Activities for this component have been designed with sustainability built in to ensure that the technology and infrastructure are sustainable both financially and in terms of human capacity to manage and maintain. Enhancing the land administration system will help increase resilience by providing quality data for monitoring of properties impacted by natural disasters and facilitating disaster response and reconstruction. There are four subcomponents as outlined below.

Subcomponent 2.1: Up scaling of ILMIS. This subcomponent will finance the rollout of ILMIS to the regional land offices5. For ILMIS to be rolled out across the country, regional offices need conversion of base paper records (including graphical data such as town plans, maps, etc.) to digital format and equipment. The Subcomponent will also support the ICT infrastructure in the National Land Information Center (NLIC) as the backup for ILMIS, the National Internet Data Center (NIDC) as the host for the system, and associated facilities will be upgraded, ensuring secured and reliable system operations. For further ILMIS development, the Subcomponent would support ICT equipment, packaged software, and training. In addition, an integrated web portal and a simple mobile application would be developed to provide open and transparent land information services to stakeholders including public, business, and government, by serving as a single access point to land information. The upgrades will ensure that ILMIS can produce gender disaggregated data on land and property rights.

Subcomponent 2.2: Production of Base-maps. This subcomponent will finance the outsourced production of base maps using either recent high-resolution satellite imagery or aerial photography in the project areas to support mass land certification and land use planning and management. The districts in between project target districts will be also covered with new base maps if necessary. The project will generate topographic maps from high resolution imagery that can be carried out using remote mapping methods if social distancing remains in effect. The mapping component can bring positive impact by producing geospatial data, developing digital skills, and promoting job creation while helping to mitigate the unprecedented shocks to the economy and labor market. The maps will be available through the NSDI portal developed under the project, and finally become universal maps for both public and private sectors in Tanzania for land tenure, any planning, location based services, analysis of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and DRM. In the case of a disaster or pandemic, an NSDI will effectively serve as a platform for risk mapping or measuring disaster impact via analyzing diverse datasets overlaid on the base-map.

Subcomponent 2.3: Enhancement of Geodetic Framework. This subcomponent will finance the establishment of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), associated infrastructure, and geodetic control points to strengthen geodetic reference system needed for accurate and economically feasible Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) surveying.

Subcomponent 2.4: Property Valuation Systems. This subcomponent will include the mapping of land values across the country and updating the land value rates based on market research. Technical assistance will be provided to support this automation. Every effort will be made to ensure coordination with local authorities the Tanzania Revenue Authority and other users of this information.

Component 3: Physical Development of the Land Administration System. Strengthening the physical land administration system and increasing tenure security will require significant capacity to be built in the public and private sectors. This includes office construction, equipment and infrastructure provision and human resource capacity. In addition, an effective land administration system requires citizens who are aware of and understand the service provided, and how to use the system to maintain their property rights and ensure project sustainability. There are three subcomponents.

Subcomponent 3.1: This Subcomponent includes construction of Regional Land Offices for 25 regions and renovation/reconstruction of District Land Offices (up to 40) so that they are compliant with ILMIS workflow as well as having the necessary ICT infrastructure (connection of LAN), provision of proper archive furniture and records storage. This Subcomponent will also support the construction of a national land archive building and needed equipment. All sites for construction will be on government-owned land. This subcomponent will also include the development of an archive strategy and policy guideline for all offices – region, district, village – to direct the retention and storage of land documents, maps, drawings, and other paper records. For the construction of office buildings, financing will be provided for proper architectural and engineering designs and technical specifications, preparation of necessary safeguards documents, and construction supervision.

Subcomponent 3.2: Support for the Land and Housing Tribunals. Support under this Subcomponent will include adding new tribunals and councils where they currently do not exist, financial and human resource support for existing bodies, clearing of backlogs, support for the development of a model manual and other needed guidelines and procedure for Village Land Councils and Ward Tribunals, as well as necessary training and equipment.

Subcomponent 3.3: Legal, regulatory and public Awareness. The objective of this Subcomponent is to update and harmonize the policy, legal and regulatory framework, and implement public awareness activities. These activities will include preparation of the communications strategy, message development and testing to ensure the messaging builds confidence in, and understanding of, the land administration system specific to the needs and interests of Tanzanians. There will also be a specific focus on women’s land rights and land rights of other marginalized groups based on the outcomes of the Social Assessment, and of specific vulnerable groups as defined in the Vulnerable Groups Planning Framework (VGPF) and other documents.

Subcomponent 3.4: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building. The objective of this Subcomponent is to increase the capacity and improve the performance of all relevant actors in the land sector to be able to fulfill their functions in land administration and for the systematic mass registration, including LGAs and District level officials. Training will also be needed for project implementation in procurement, contract monitoring and management and other relevant courses. This Subcomponent will also finance the development of updated curricula and strengthen the capacities of the training institutions for MLHHSD in Tabora and Morogoro. In addition, this support for the training centers will be coordinated with the plans for the National Geo-Innovation Center in Dodoma, which is being financed by the Korean Ministry of Lands (MOLIT) and Statistics Korea (KOSTAT).

Component 4: Project Management. The Project will be implemented by MLHHSD with support from a Project Implementation Team (PIT). This Component will support effective project management, fiduciary support (financial management and procurement), monitoring and evaluation of project activities, establishment of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework, and compliance with Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) policies and processes. The Component will also include financing for the necessary annual surveys, and the mid-term and end-of-project evaluations to assess performance and document important lessons to inform the design of future operations. Under this Component a grievance redress mechanism (GRM) for the Project will be established and managed to ensure that all grievances, complaints, and concerns are responded to. A five percent contingency of US$7.5 million has been included in the costing. The contingency is included due to possibility of COVID-19 related price increases.