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WT?p° / WORLDBANK TECHNICALPAPER NUMBER 192 c1 A IV I9 SERIESON RIVERBLINDNESS CONTROL IN WEST AFRICA Public Disclosure Authorized Settlement and Development in the River Blindness Control Zone -A Della E. McMillan, Thomas Painter, and Thayer Scudder IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIF MAURITANIA Public Disclosure Authorized .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~. ....................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~.......................I. M ..L I 8, N . .,.G EV ,............... ..,,,,,,.,.......... *'''f.Eie_.................. ...................... ................ .. 7fs................................. o f.. ........te ,...-:, :.- .:r r.IN;k.-:-' .. .... ,1... EA; ai ........ .. .... .. ..... .. 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McMillan, Thomas Painter, and Thayer Scudder. p. cm. - (World Bank technical paper, ISSN 0253-7494 ; no. 192. Series on river blindness control in West Africa) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN0-8213-2296-6 1. Land settlement-Africa, West 2. Land tenure-Africa, West. 3. Natural resources-Africa, West. I. Painter, Thomas M., 1943- . H. Scudder, Thayer. m. Title. rv. Series: World Bank technical paper; no. 192. V. Series: World Bank technical paper. Series on river blindness control in West Africa. HD1010.Z63M38 1992 333.3'0966dc2O 92-39287 CIP Foreword This volume is the summary report of the Land valleys. It is estimated that 25 million hectares of Settlement Review (LSR), a regional study of land tillable land is being opened up by onchocerciasis settlement in West Africa. The objective of the LSR control and rapid migration to these river valleys was to examine the phenomenon of land settle- is already occurring. OCP is not directly involved ment resulting from the successful control of on- in the socio-economic development of these areas, chocerciasis (riverblindness) by the but the Committee of Sponsoring Agencies Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP). The (UNDP, FAO, WHO, the World Bank), the statuto- LSR analyzes the process of land settlement, both ry body that oversees OCP, has encouraged devel- spontaneous and government sponsored, and rec- opment in the OCP area by executing two ommends operational policy guidelines for pro- regional studies: the first, Socio-economic Devel- moting viable and sustainable settlement-related opment Studies in the Onchocerciasis Control activities in the areas where onchocerciasis had Programme Area, looked at the development po- been controlled. tential of the onchocerciasis freed areas and the OCP is widely acknowledged as the most suc- second, the LSR, examined the extent and impact cessful on-going disease control program in Afri- of new settlement in the OCP river valleys. ca. Started in 1974 by a group of 7 West African The LSR, prepared by the Institute for Develop- countries and 9 donors, including the World ment Anthropology, consists of in-depth case stud- Bank, the program has expanded to 11 countries,