Sub-component 2.1 will strengthen MAFWE capacity to manage state-owned agriculture land and provide technical assistance, advisory services, and goods (where required):
- Assisting MAFWE in drafting Government policy on state land administration and management and of relevant legal framework updates;
- Improving data quality and records of leased state arable land and pastures with the AREC;
- Designing and creating a temporary inventory for state arable land and pastures;
- Supporting the data migration on leases of arable land from the MAFWE electronic system, out of maintenance since 2012, from spreadsheets and paper records of MAFWE and PEMP, into a temporary inventory to allow use of the data while developing the new state agriculture land management information system;
- Establishing a new state agriculture land management information system, including equipment and software, assuring interoperability with the systems of AREC, MAFWE, the Paying Agency (Farm Register) and other institutions;
- Ensuring data migration from the temporary inventory into a new state agriculture land management information system and creating a publicly accessible inventory for state agriculture land in support to transparency and good governance; and
- Analyzing and reengineering of business processes in state agriculture land management to achieve better efficiency and transparency.
While project support is limited to strengthening MAFWE capacity to manage state-owned agriculture land, a better managed state-owned agriculture land is expected to support the development of the agricultural land market, both related to leasing and ownership, which in turn will facilitate the consolidation efforts supported under other projects.