Reflections on the Haitian Land-Tenure Context
- Indivision and inherited land are central unresolved issues in Haitian land management.
- Fieldwork under CIAT-related projects shows that legal reform must be grounded in user practices.
- Transparent land management requires resolving practical questions before institutional redesign.
- Cadastre and rural land-security programs reveal both legal and administrative bottlenecks.
Prepared for the CTFD Haiti day of May 22, 2017, the note focuses on practical questions emerging from cadastre and land-security projects supported by France and the Inter-American Development Bank. It begins with indivision and inheritance, then frames broader obstacles to transparent land management and coherent reform.
The document is useful because it captures field-facing doubts before reform design: how users understand land rights, how inherited parcels persist, how legal categories map poorly onto practice, and why institutional or legislative reform must start from observed realities rather than administrative assumptions.
How to cite
Comité technique Foncier & Développement; French Development Agency (AFD); Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, 2017, Reflections on the Haitian Land-Tenure Context, http://www.foncier-developpement.fr/publication/quelques-points-de-reflexion-contexte-foncier-haitien/