Land Tenure And Property Rights: The Kimberly Process in the Central African Republic

The Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Project (PRADD) is a pilot effort designed to identify and test methods for achieving clear, secure, and publicly validated rights to property—including rights to mining claims at the local level—that are confirmed in government records. PRADD responds to a recognized need: existing statutory records of artisanal diamond miners’ property rights are often unorganized, out of date, difficult to access, and non-transparent, while mining claims based on customary rights are generally informal and undervalued. PRADD’s objectives are to strengthen property rights and production accounting in order to improve compliance with the KPCS, and to improve the incomes and living standards of miners and mining communities.

Location: The Central African Republic

Author(s): Dr. Gregory Myers

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