(Ecofin Agency) - The Malagasy parliament voted, on December 13, 2017, a law on the legal framework of land registration and ownership. A vote which falls in line with the government’s desire to improve land management across the island.

According to L’Express de Madagascar, “this law aims to handle, among others, the management of titled properties, buildings’ registration processes, land documentation’s reconstitution process, namely lost, unusable, deteriorated, destroyed or torn documents, or the process of obsolete lands’ regularization”.

This law, though considered as a significant advancement in the lands securing and management process, is not accepted by all as the civil society estimates that its suggestions regarding the matter were not been taken in account.