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Durand-Lasserve, Alain

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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Alain Durand-Lasserve is Emeritus Senior research fellow at the Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. He is attached to the Laboratory Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM), a joint research center between the University of Bordeaux, the CNRS and the National Foundation for Political Sciences, France. He is currently a member of the Technical Committee Land and Development (French Development Agency and Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Over the last two decades, he has been involved in research and consultancy on land and tenure issues with bilateral cooperation agencies (DFID, GIZ, MCC, French Cooperation), with multilateral development agencies (UN-Habitat, UNDP, FAO) and with the World Bank, mainly – but not exclusively – in Sub-Saharan African countries. He has published extensively on tenure formalization and urban land and housing policies.

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    Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities : The Example of Bamako, Mali: L’exemple de Bamako
    (Washington, DC: World Bank; and Agence Française de Développement, 2015-03-18) Durand-Lasserve, Alain; Durand-Lasserve, Maÿlis; Selod, Harris
    Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes a systemic approach and applies it to Bamako and its surrounding areas. The framework revolves around the description of land delivery channels: starting from the status of tenure when the land is first placed in circulation for residential use, it identifies the processes whereby tenure can be improved, the types of transactions that take place along the way, and interactions between land delivery channels.
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    A Systemic Analysis of Land Markets and Land Institutions in West African Cities : Rules and Practices--The Case of Bamako, Mali
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013-11) Durand-Lasserve, Alain; Durand-Lasserve, Maylis; Selod, Harris
    This paper presents a new type of land market analysis relevant to cities with plural tenure systems as in West Africa. The methodology hinges on a systemic analysis of land delivery channels, which helps to show how land is initially made available for circulation, how tenure can be formalized incrementally, and the different means whereby households can access land. The analysis is applied to the area of Bamako in Mali, where information was collected through (i) interviews with key informants, (ii) a literature review on land policies, public allocations, and customary transfers of land, (iii) a press review on land disputes, and (iv) a survey of more than 1,600 land transfers of un-built plots that occurred between 2009 and 2012. The analysis finds that land is mostly accessed through an informal customary channel, whereby peri-urban land is transformed from agricultural to residential use, and through a public channel, which involves the administrative allocation of residential plots to households. The integrated analysis of land markets and land institutions stresses the complexity of procedures and the extra-legality of practices that strongly affect the functioning of formal and informal markets and make access to land costly and insecure, with negative social, economic, and environmental impacts over the long term.