Training Session for communal land Service agents from Buhinyuza and Isare.

Building capacities for communal land service agents to ensure a better management of the communal land service, building capacities for those who support them to provide good quality services, and to encourage them to adopt a responsible attitude in their work, which inspires confidence in the population and encourages them to adhere to the communal land service;

Building capacities for communal land service agents to ensure a better management of the communal land service, building capacities for those who support them to provide good quality services, and to encourage them to adopt a responsible attitude in their work, which inspires confidence in the population and encourages them to adhere to the communal land service;

This was the aim of a training session conducted for 78 communal land service agents and their supporting agents (to be) in service in the communes of Buhinyuza (of Muyinga) and Isare (of Bujumbura), and this within the framework of the Burundi Landscape Restoration and Resilience Project (PRRPB), sub-component 2.3-Land tenure certification of the "Sustainable Landscape Practice and Management" component. The training sessions took place from the 9th to the 10th and from the 14th to the 15th of June 2021 respectively. Although the commune of Kabezi (Bujumbura) is not among the project's targets, the interest shown by the communal authority was welcome, with its two agents taking part in the training.

The functioning of the communal land service; the process, actors and tools of land certification; and the procedure for the recognition (individual and grouped) of land rights are the themes that formed the backbone of the training. However, it was necessary to integrate the management of land conflicts, taking into account gender as well as the ethics and deontology that their  profession demands, a dimension without which an efficient land certification is not possible.

In view of this, a training course on the notions and techniques of land survey and management of the land information system is envisaged, to complete the socio-legal knowledge acquired during the present session.