Following a 2011 post-election crisis that displaced over a quarter of a million people, the Government of Côte d'Ivoire has instituted a series of economic and political reforms that aim to address the underlying drivers of conflict, including land disputes. This study examines the impact of a new World Bank-funded program—the Côte d'Ivoire Land Policy Improvement and Implementation Project—that aims to inclusively secure individual land use and ownership rights across six regions of the country. This pilot study involves in-depth qualitative fieldwork to inform the design of a large-scale evaluation of the project. The full study will assess the impact of the systematic land registration program on social cohesion, conflict, and productivity, and will test whether and how conditional subsidies and information can influence the norms and institutions around property rights, with a broader aim to examine ways to create inclusive political institutions in a post-conflict context.

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