• Reference: P-SN-KZ0-003
• Approval date: 22/04/2005
• Start date: 12/08/2005
• Appraisal Date:
• Status: On goingOnGo
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The Bank-financed programme comprises the following three components: (i) building the capacities of cadastral services; (ii) building capacities for the management of State lands, verification, and tax investigations and administration and coordination of the taxation system; and (iii) project management.

Expected outcomes include: (i) mapping conservation; (ii) contribution of sectors and sub-sectors to tax resources; (iii) tax simulation model; (iv) computerization of land conservation; (v) production of monographs of reference premises for cadastral surveys; (vi) building the capacities of the DGID in dataprocessing network administration; and (vii) improvement of public finance management systems.

Objectives

The project objective is to digitize lands survey services in order to improve access to property and tax revenue.

Expected Outcomes

At the end of the project, the technical capacities of taxation services (surveys and State land services) would be strengthened, the tax base would be expanded and better controlled, and a new law on land ownership would be adopted.

Outcomes Achieved

The capacities of taxation services (surveys and State property services) have been built up, in conjunction with the authorities and other partners, through: (i) the supply of dataprocessing, topographic, duplication and reproduction equipment and means of transportation; (ii) the recruitment of three technical assistants ,senior survey technicians, and financing of the training of a senior staff of the Department of Surveys abroad; (iii) the conduct of the monographic study of reference buildings whose systemwas installed in the DGID to allow for the inputting and exploitation of data from cadastral surveys in the pilot cities of Thiès and Kébémer which will serve as the basis of the cadastral matrix; (iv) the conduct of mapping conservation and updating of computer-aided mapping; (v) the conduct of a study on the computerization of land conservation led to the initiation of the first phase of digitalization of land documents; (vi) the study on the reform of DGID structures was validated in March 2008 and the implementation of related recommendations initiated by the Government; (vii) several training sessions were organized, namely land legislation, keeping of the land register, geographical information systems, harmonization of methods and work practices, network and messaging system (MS Exchange) administration. The training and recruitment of surveyors remains a
concern.

Impact on Development

The project has provided the tax administration (cadastral and State land) with technical and human resources to fulfill itsmission, and promote transparent land management to ensure sound economic governance.

MAHDI AHMED ISMAIL M - OSGE2

Finance source	Amount
ADF	UAC 2,500,000
Government	UAC 1,350,000
Co-financier	UAC 9,650,000
Total	UAC 13,500,000