451418607 Land Administration

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451-418/607 Land Administration
Forum Discussion of land administration design

• Facilitator Jude Wallace and Rohan Bennett

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Ukraine

• Project Goals
• Can we use land to bring the Comrades and
  Capitalists together?
• Mortgage/Credit systems do not exist! Perhaps we
  can do something in this area?
• Titling of rural/urban linking land and
  buildings/buildings
• Corruption can we improve here?
• EU membership achieving Willos compliance
  model

• Most appropriate tools
• Land policy seems ok centralised, understood
• Capacity education, understanding
  credit/mortgage, wealth creation
• Tenure redesigning? Improving?
• Other issues Where is the country at? Can see
  what projects are being undertaken but are they
  working? Outcomes?

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Bangladesh

• Project Goals
• Improve registration system undertake a
  systematic registration program (pick a priority
  area staged)
• Reduce corruption in LA sector (think simple
  solutions, shorten process, list of fees on the
  wall, dispute resolution system) legal system
  important here
• Agus get him to turn up
• Tenures put within lega system

• Most appropriate tools
• Capacity building tools address education
  system
• Institutions cad and reg are separate merge?
• Legal system anti-corruption measures,
  inclusion of unregistered land within legal
  framework
• Tenure inclusion of unregistered land within
  legal framework
• SDI/technology provide better access to
  information

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Laos

• Project Goals
• To expand existing land titling project (half
  country is covered)
• Develop a digital cadastral DB
• Change emphasis/institutional design land
  ownership DOES NOT taxation
• Anti-eviction e.g. dams, Mekong
• Greater emphasis on Sus Dev
• Dealing with rapid development of urban areas
  (suggest Land policies need formalising here)

• Most appropriate tools
• Tenure basic inventory of land use
• Cadastre/Surveying SDI/technology for
  development of DCDB, use of QTs
• Institutional separate tax and ownership
• Capacity building surveyors (looking pretty
  good)? Cadastre who will maintain?
• Any other issues?

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Vanuatu

• Project Goals
• On the beach

• Most appropriate tools

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Papua New Guinea

• Project Goals
• Create faith in western style registration
  system?
• Formalising customary tenure
• Implement Geodetic system/framework

• Most appropriate tools
• Capacity building how will you do this?
• Institutions centralise (how will you fund
  this?)
• Tenure/Reg deal with customary separately/ diff
  tenures for differnet places/ forestry tenure vs.
  land tenures
• Cadastre Where will the surveyors come from?
• Other issues Information, AusAID project
  information

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Indonesia

• Project Goals
• Improving registration process (80M Parcels/30M
  registered) cheaper, bringing in customary land
• Organising/redesigning tenures (30M in forests
  no land rights)
• Reorganising land offices make it local! (300
  land offices/ 60 people per office) but what
  about backups?
• Emphasis on sustainable development (creating
  awareness?)
• Improve land rights guarantee? Positive vs
  negative system
• Planning..?

• Most appropriate tools
• Policy emphasis on Sus Dev
• Tenure need to redesign and allow for
  overlaying, allowing companies to invest in land
• Capacity at the local level
• Institutions - decentralise

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Switzerland

• Project Goals
• Communication between departments (Silo issues)
  eGovernment initiatives
• Spatial planning dealing with urban/regional
  land use, zoning issues, bringing into LA system
• Geographic Information Law (implementing, RRRs)
• Digitization of registration system(s)
• Public access system
• Achieving uniformity

• Most appropriate tools
• Land Policy guidelines for communication
• Legal enforcing communication?
• Institutions - organising roles and resps for
  depts, centralize?
• Capacity Building getting new Geo pros
• Cadastre/Register INTEGRATED with SDI how to do
  this?

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Andrah Predesh (India)

• Project Goals
• Build a system from the ground up, create
  awareness capacity issues here
• Institutions streamline, reorganise, minimize
  corruption
• Standardize maps, digitize - create local
  cadastre (using imagery)?
• Take into account fractured nature of the State
  and land

• Most appropriate tools
• Institutions simplify, reorganise
• Capacity create awareness for public
• Cadastre/Surveying require more surveyors, make
  this simple
• Other issues
• This State is poor (well not really) Corruption
  needs to be addressed first

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Gujurat (India)

• Project Goals
• Digitizing paper maps
• Consolidating departments (2 key departments) and
  their processes
• Improving situation re corruption
• LIS needs to exist reality rather than rhetoric
• Local datums used lots of areas when stitching
  parcels/planning schemes together
• Better taxation system? Remove black market of
  land?
• Access to records, building trust, title searching

• Most appropriate tools
• SDI/Technology LIS, digitizing
• Institutions/Legal - Land administration and
  planning rationalised
• Capacity anti corruption, transparency
• Other issues Making use of pilot study

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South Africa

• Project Goals
• Uniformity of 4 SGs processes/standards for
  surveying/registration (make a business case)
• Enhance communal rights/tenures easier
  understood, more of them? Rights of women?
• Simplify registration processes of formal system

• Most appropriate tools
• New land polices?
• Legal framework simplified? (remove alignment
  with mining and international surveying
  standards)
• Capacity building tools?
• Institutions (i.e. how will you deal with the 4
  SGs?)
• Tenure redesign?
• Other issues?

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Iraq

• Project Goals
• In the green zone

• Most appropriate tools

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Kenya

• Project Goals
• Security of tenure (reduce gap) how?
• Government demands vs. people needs how to
  resolve this?
• Resolving tribal conflicts, resource/land tenures
• Urban or rural focus? Both?

• Most appropriate tools
• Capacity building tools
• Policy/Legal?
• ?

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Romania

• Project Goals
• Develop effective cadastre complete,
  recentralized, standardized
• Digitization of cadastre
• Institutional development
• Environmental sustainability- water ways, air
  pollution
• (Moving to market economy)

• Most appropriate tools
• Policy Create broad overarching statement
  strong land policy
• Institutional Central department for spatial
  information and land management (nationalised)

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Georgia

• Project Goals
• SDI merge information of sub departments
• More controls on development/ planning
• How do we create an effective market? Creation of
  capital?
• Fairer valuation system

• Most appropriate tools
• SDI integration of data? What data? Core data
  sets?
• Institutional recentralisation vs. integration
  of datasets
• Technical tools ?
• Tenure principles creation and formalisation of
  new RRRs

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Malaysia

• Project Goals
• Development of DCDB
• Incorporating QTs into DCDBs
• Greater coordination b/w diff levels of
  government holistic approach to planning
• Reform of urban land policy- subdivision/
  development process overhaul (reduce under
  utilized land)

• Most appropriate tools
• Policy stewardship approach required for
  government land
• Technical SDI DCDB, QT
• Institutional integration of local and national
  processes

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The Philippines

• Project Goals
• Recentralisation of land admin bodies
• More affordable services to the public
• Less discrimination of minorities
• Capacity building - , training
• Stability with land admin bodies and processes
• Computerisation of system
• Tackling corruption

• Most appropriate tools
• Institutional centralisation of department
• Capacity Training services? University/technical
  training?

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Thailand

• Project Goals
• Increased security of tenure to forest dwellers
• Centralise land admin bodies
• Reorganisation of tenure systems- resource
  tenures

• Most appropriate tools
• Tenure communal titles, formalization of
  informal?
• Technical photogrammetry (continue with this?)-
  betterment path?

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Vietnam

• Project Goals
• Increase capacity/ participation of community
  with existing land admin system
• Build environmental sustainability into land
  admin processes
• Process redesign in urban area planning policy
  changes
• Gender equity

• Most appropriate tools
• Capacity educational programs, dialogue with
  community, social dynamics
• Policy incorporate Sus Dev
• Tenure relate planning and tenure allocation
  better
• Technical ?
• Institutional ?

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Timor Leste

• Project Goals
• Design overarching policy framework
• Land claim resolution/ management - restitution
  issues
• Identify boundaries start building cadastre?

• Most appropriate tools
• Technical title conversion program, boundary
  identification process (HOW ortho photos),
• Legal create from scratch?
• Institutional create from scratch?
• Capacity how to build this?

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Fiji

• Project Goals
• Incorporate customary tenures into land admin
  systems
• Create sustainable use patterns on communal land
• Streamline process for dispute resolution

• Most appropriate tools
• Technical creation/ registration of older
  boundaries ground methods systematic
  adjudication. Cadastral map vs. individual parcel
  register.
• Policy redesign to incorporate sustainability
  principles
• Legal create secure leasing arrangements.
  Re-engineer land dispute process

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Tonga

• Project Goals
• New government website?
• Retain citizens?
• Design approach to deal with rising sea levels
• Government retain control over all land?

• Most appropriate tools
• Institutions more transparent bodies
• Policy incorporating access and allocation
  principles
• Capacity ?
• Technical ?

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Iran

• Project Goals
• Initiate FORMAL market based housing system
• Empowerment of city councils re planning
• Upgrade living condition of forest dwellers
  (tenure?)

• Most appropriate tools
• Institutional decentralized planning system
• Capacity local level training/ education
• Technical standardization of cadastre
• SDI integration information sets re built and
  natural environment

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China

• Project Goals
• Efficient allocation of land and natural
  resources to.. All?
• Protection of private/ communal property from
  central government
• Curbing of corruption at local and national
  levels -

• Most appropriate tools
• Institutional promotion of decentralization
• Tenure protection of private/communal tenures.
  Political tenure over legal tenure
• Infrastructure roads, utilities development etc-
  recording?

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Germany

• Project Goals
• Sustainability - Redistribute people back to
  country side?
• All land information onto a single system SDI
• Restitution issues
• INSPIRE - EUROGI

• Most appropriate tools
• SDI merge information (what information?), core
  data sets?
• Institutions collaboration between states and
  federal level, linking into to INSPIRE?
• Technical fine?
• Capacity fine?

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Denmark

• Project Goals
• To fully integrate the Land registry with the
  Cadastre
• Upgrade the cadastre to include 3D and marine
  components
• To provide a simple, accessible solution for
  delivering spatial data to the Danish public(SDI)
• To take part and assist in achievement of
  INSPIRE-EUROGI

• Most appropriate tools
• SDI regional and national level coordination.
  Core datasets?
• Technology IT rather than survey focused.
  computer integration systems
• Benchmarking and evaluation strategies

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The Netherlands

• Project Goals
• To coordinate the different type of agencies data
  into one cohesive database framework
• To increase public access to the database of
  digital cadastre, land information
• Implement INSPIRE requirements
• Merge the topographic service of the Defence
  Ministry with Kadastre
• Integration of SDI in relation to the hierarchy
  of information

• Most appropriate tools
• ????