Ateliers participatifs et fabrique des politiques publiques en régime d’aide : le Forum national sur le foncier de 2018 au Bénin

Boughedada, Thibault; Delville, Philippe Lavigne

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“…In October 2018, Benin national mayors' organisation (Association Nationale des Communes du Bénin, ANCB), with the support of the Projet Foncier local (local land management project), funded by the Netherlands, organised a National Workshop on Land to assess the situation. It established a progress report on the reform five years after the vote on the Code and allowed a dialogue between commune heads, ANDF, and the projects (Boughedada and Lavigne Delville, 2021). A new support project for ANDF, the Land Administration Modernisation Project, was launched in December 2018, also funded by the Netherlands.…”

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The Political Economy of Land Reform

Delville,

Houngbedji

2023

State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin

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This chapter analyses the recent land reform that was enacted by the 2013 Code Foncier et Domanial (Land and Domain Code) and its results at end 2018, five years after. 1 Its orientation is significantly different from the other chapters, both in its purpose and approach. It is not so much a question of highlighting desirable areas for reform as it is of analysing an ongoing reform. In particular, it deals with the political economy of the reform. It provides a detailed history of a complex and contradictory process, discussing the reform's political and economic stakes, the groups of actors and interests that pushed it, those who are opposed to it, and those who seek to shape it for their own benefit. 2 1 In French-speaking African countries, land law makes a distinction between 'land' issues, which are about private property, and 'domain' issues, which are about state (and local government) owned or controlled land. Several countries have a Land and Domain Code, which deals with both dimensions. This is the case in Benin since the advent of the 2013 Land and Domain Code, which I will simply call the 'Land Code' or 'Code' in this chapter. 2 See Plançon (2017) for a legal point of view. * This chapter does not include recent developments, which represent a new step but will only be evoked in the Afterword. For space considerations the discussion is limited in some instances. For further details, see Lavigne Delville (2019). The analysis presented here is based on long-term research on land reforms in West Africa, with the main focus on Benin, that was initiated some fifteen years ago, and in particular on a two-month research trip in autumn 2018 specifically devoted to the political issues of the 2013 reform and its 2017 update. It has also benefited from a complementary research mission carried out in March 2019 as part of the Economic Development and Institutions project. I would like to thank the discussants and participants of the workshop organised by the project in Grand Popo in March 2019, in particular Mr Djibril-Akambi, Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier Deputy General Manager, Kenneth Houngbedji and Jean-Philippe Platteau, for their contributions. I also thank Clement Dossou-Yovo, lawyer and land expert, for our numerous exchanges on this reform during all these years. Finally, I thank Romain Houssa for his careful review.

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The Political Economy of Land Reform

Delville,

Houngbedji

2023

State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin

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The land tenure and environmental policies nexus: policy integration and spatial planning in Benin

Boughedada

2024

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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L’État, les droits fonciers et le cadastre

Boughedada

2024

Gouvernement Et Action Publique

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À travers l’étude d’un segment de mise en œuvre d’une réforme foncière au Bénin, cet article discute du changement induit par les activités réformatrices sur les institutions. Il analyse les ambiguïtés, rapports de forces et incertitudes qui émaillent les processus de centralisation du pouvoir étatique au travers de deux grands résultats. Tout d’abord, il apparaît que cette réforme foncière produit de la centralité en dépossédant les échelons locaux de leurs compétences au profit d’une nouvelle agence déconcentrée, suscitant des frustrations de la part des acteurs décentralisés qui tentent de renégocier leur rôle dans cette gouvernance. Ensuite, c’est au niveau national que les changements induits par la réforme se donnent le plus à voir avec la création d’un cadastre mobilisant différentes catégories d’acteurs publics et privés pour son implémentation. Cet instrument constitue un dispositif de mise en lisibilité du territoire pour l’administration centrale étatique et l’analyse de sa fabrique révèle les approximations et blocages qui jalonnent son développement.

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Ateliers participatifs et fabrique des politiques publiques en régime d’aide : le Forum national sur le foncier de 2018 au Bénin

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

The Political Economy of Land Reform

The Political Economy of Land Reform

The land tenure and environmental policies nexus: policy integration and spatial planning in Benin

L’État, les droits fonciers et le cadastre

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