Morocco Employability and Land Compact - Land Productivity Project

MCC’s $460.5 million Morocco Employability and Land Compact (2017–2023) funded the $169.4 million Land Productivity Project. The project included the Land Governance, Rural Land, and Industrial Land Activities. The Land Governance Activity supported the development of a National Land Strategy with recommendations on reforms related to priority levers such as the regimes concerning joint ownership and minimum parcel size. It also supported implementation of new legal frameworks including strengthening women’s land rights and participation in land governance, and development of a Center for Women’s Inclusion in Land. The Rural Land Activity focused on developing a faster, more efficient, and more inclusive, “optimized” process for converting ownership of the country’s collective irrigated land into individual ownership by the men and women farmers who currently use the land. The Industrial Land Activity intended to transform the approach by which industrial zones are brought to market through testing of a new, demand-driven model for industrial zone development and management through the creation of a Center of Expertise for Industrial Land Development, support for the Public Private Partnership Demonstrations Sites and the Sustainable Industrial Zones Grant Facility (FONZID). The project aimed to increase land productivity and investment potential by enabling land markets to better respond to investor demand and by strengthening the enabling environment for investment.