As one of the major problems of the member states of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), access to secure land was, on Monday, November 29, 2021, at the heart of the meeting of ministers in charge of urban planning. , housing and urban land in the Member States of the Union.

Following the recommendations of the ^12th Conference of Heads of State and Government of UEMOA, which called for reflection on land reforms within the Union, the ministers in charge of urban planning, housing and urban land in the Member States of the Union, are concerned with strengthening the effectiveness of housing policies on the scale of the eight countries of the Union. It is in this logic that, meeting in Dakar on Monday, November 29, 2021, the Union's town planning ministers examined "the harmonization of land registration procedures, access to title deeds and the implementation place of a land information system in urban areas”. Speaker, Commissioner Jonas Gbian, insisted that "access to secure land and housing is a concern that arises acutely in the States of our Union". However, faced with the process initiated by the Commission, he remains optimistic. "I remain convinced that this approach that the Commission has undertaken, under your impetus, will make it possible to set up, at the end of this meeting, a unified framework of land governance, which will very soon be submitted for adoption by the authorities. appropriate statutes of the Union," he said.

Expressing his satisfaction to see Senegal host this meeting of important decisions, Abdoulaye Saydou Sow, Minister in charge of Urbanism of Senegal, indicated that the new directive "comes in a particularly important context marked by the implementation implementation of the 100,000 housing project”. He did not fail to salute, on the occasion, the support of the Commission for the establishment of the Land Development and Urban Renovation Company (SAFRU).