Institutional and political setting
Existing institutions involved in natural resource management and desertification
Programme National de Lutte Contre la désertification (PANLCD) : Department of Forests and Department of Environment
Existing laws and policies for land and water resource management
This is a very complicated situation, with absence of integration between several generations of laws. In addition, the laws concerning forests and pastures concern two resources which have many uses and which are concerned by several local actors.
Water is under the dependance of the public sector. Their use is regulated by many laws, today integrated in the "Code de l'eau" (10/1995) which introduced some innovations in term of decentralisation and use. The property of land is private for most of it; only the forests are of a domanial property.
