Land Governance Partnership between the United States Government and the Government of Burkina Faso | Land Portal
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The United States will partner with Burkina Faso under the G-8 Transparency Initiative to further improve land governance. The United States’ Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact with Burkina Faso includes a Rural Land Governance Project that is already implementing many elements of the New Alliance Country Cooperation Framework and the Voluntary Guidelines for the

Responsible Governance of the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. The partnership will build on this progress and promote gender equity and improvement of transparency in land transactions taking note of the African Union Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges, and the Nairobi Action Plan on Large Scale Land-Based Investments. The partnership will support the formation of a land observatory to encourage shared learning, program coordination, and identification of needs for further improvements in policy, regulations and practical tools.


 


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