An Overview of the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) and the Planned Piloting in Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia

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An Overview of the Social Tenure Domain Model
(STDM) and the Planned Piloting in Amhara
National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia

• Workshop on Cadastral Index Mapping and
  Computerization for Speedy and Pro-poor Rural
  Land Administration in Ethiopia Experience,
  Challenges and Prospects, 11-12 May 2009
• By Solomon A. Haile (GLTN/UN-HABITAT and
  Christian Lemmen (ITC/Dutch Cadastre)

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Outline

• STDM Overview
• What is STDM?
• Why STDM?
• STDM development process and status
• Why piloting STDM in ANRS, Ethiopia?
• Few words on STDM piloting in ANRS
• Quick displays of the STDM interface
• Conclusion

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Objective

• To introduce STDM to partners in ANRS/Ethiopia
• To facilitate smooth piloting and customization

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STDM Overview

• What is STDM?
• a multi-partner (GLTN, UN-HABITAT, ITC, FIG, WB)
  land information management software development
  initiative to support pro-poor land
  administration in an integrated framework
• Why STDM? The need to provide pro-poor tools
• Propriety LIMS solutions and coventional
  surveying hasnt served the poor in informal,
  customary, small holder agric., etc areas where
  parcels are untidy, land rights are messy
  with overlapping claims and tenures
• To get around prohibitive costs
• STDM is being developed with public resources by
  non-profit entities and based on open source
  methodology (no acquisition costs, no license
  fees, no upgrade fees, etc)

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STDM Overview what is STDM?

• It is unconventional all kinds of spatial units
  /property units all kinds of rights and all
  types right holders

• Parcel
• Apartment
• Building
• Customary area
• Groups of areas
• Etc ltlt can be extended gtgt
• Quality labels

• One Point - inside polygon
• One point - street axes
• Set of Lines
• Polygon (low accuracy)
• Polygon (high accuracy)
• 3D Volume
• Etc ltlt can be extended gtgt

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Why pilot test STDN in ANRS?

• STDM is a part of the support package that CIM
  partners are availing for consideration in ANRS/
  Ethiopia
• Conditions STDM becomes a robust tool and gets
  local partners buy-in.
• Agains this backdrop, the test can help
• assess if current and forthcoming functionalities
  correspond to LIMS needs of users
• determine the degree of customization required
  with regard to context (rural land administration
  /small holder agric), local language support
• get a sense of users capabilities of partners
  staff at different levels in managing and using
  the software
• get a sense of compatibility / complementarity
  with existing IT infrastructure, software

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STDM development process and status

• Informal needs assessment through individual
  research
• Why hasnt parcelbased convetional LA taken off
  in SSA and much of the developing world?
• why has implemeting land policies become a
  daunting challenge?
• Documentation and communication LIMS experience
  acquired through normative advisory activities
  and working with professionals and communities of
  practice in the developing world
• Building consensus and partnership around unmet
  needs in informal settlemts, customary and
  subsistence farming areas
• Commissioning software development contract with
  ITC and having backsopping of partners like FIG

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STDM development process and status

• Conceptual design and internal review (ITC,
  GLTN/UN-HABITAT)
• Functional design and internal review (ITC,
  GLTN/UN-HABITAT)
• Technical design and internal review (ITC,
  GLTN/UN-HABITAT)
• Prototype release, in-house testing and
  validation (ITC)
• External peer-review of design outputs (FIG-led,
  but involving well known professionals)
• Forthcoming
• External (Field) testing (Ethiopia in small
  holder agric context Namibia in informal
  settlement context customary???
• Peer-review of the prototype

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An overview of the piloting

• Installation of the software in client server
  mode (the server side tools include additional
  open source software like PostgreSQL, PostGIS,
  Tomcat STDM also uses ILWIS platform for raster
  data management)
• Data preparation, input, integration and
  management
• Exiting alphnumeric data from ISLA
• Newly acquired spatial data from the ongoing CIM
• Training
• Land administration on principles, processes and
  practices
• Database management in STDM environment
• end users training on STDM management and
  functionlities
• Testing both users as well as developers

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Examples of STDM functionalities

• Generate images for field work
• Generate forms for field work
• Scan images
• Vectorise raster data
• Record overlapping claims (for future possible
  adjudication)
• Record and manage overlapping tenure
• Link spatial and admin data
• Aggregate parcels (e.g., into holdings)
• Record history
• Process not modelled
• Record, store and manage all types of source
  documents
• Record info on data collectors, process managers

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A leaf from the technical design
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STDM Main Window
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STDM Navigation pane

• Information Management section define parameters
  to connect to the selected database, to define
  access rules, the working directory, Reference
  maps and data collectors.
• Data Acquisition sectionInput data in the
  database

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Preferences tab define the working directory and
the connection to the database
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Reference Maps tab to define the geographic area
and the imagery that belongs to it.
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Natural Person Attributes

• Person ID official country ID of the person
  (i.e. burgerservicenummer/sofinummer in The
  Netherlands or Social Security Number SSN is the
  U.S.A. or Cédula de Ciudadanía in Colombia or
  Carteira de identidade in Brasil). (M)
• Gender natural person gender male or female.
  (M)
• First Name natural person first name. (M)
• Last Name natural person family name. (M)
• Street street name or number
• Postal code postal code
• City name of city or region. (M)
• Photograph persons photograph
• Fingerprint the scan of the persons finger
  print
• Signature scan of the persons signature.
• Date Of Birth natural person date of birth
• Validity date the record is input in the
  database. (M)
• Until date the record is not valid anymore.
• (M) Mandatory

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Natural Person tab create, search and edit data
of natural persons
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Non Natural Person tab Create, search and edit
data of non natural persons
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Spatial Unit Attributes

• Spatial Unit ID identification number of the
  spatial unit. (M)
• Field ID identification number of the spatial
  unit given on the field. (M)
• City city or region where the spatial unit is
  located. (M)
• Tax Amount estimation of the tax that the
  spatial unit has to pay according to regulations
  of the country.
• Value estimation of spatial unit value
• Calculated Area approximate area of the spatial
  unit.
• Spatial Unit Type type of spatial unit to be
  selected from a number of options (point,
  line-based, text, sketch, building, ..). (M)
• Type of Use type of use of the spatial unit to
  be selected from a number of options
  (agricultural, living, ..)
• Data Source address path where the data source
  for the spatial unit is stored. To be selected
  from a browsing window. (M)
• Photograph scan or digital photograph of the
  spatial units.
• Validity Date the record is input in the
  database. (M)
• Until date the record is not valid anymore

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Source Document tab create, edit and find source
documents.
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Spatial Unit tab Create, edit and search spatial
units
Base imagery
Supporting document
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Spatial Unit Georeferencing
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Spatial Unit Georeferencing (2) adding tie points
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Spatial Unit Digitizing
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Conclusion

• There is a LIMS gap that STDM is going to bridge
  in unconventional fashion and targetiing needs in
  hitherto unserved areas and unreached LA scope
• Has a potential to integrate formal, informal,
  and customary land systems
• Major software vendors has shown interest to
  collaborate on its further devlopment and seems
  to have endorsed the thinking behind STDMs
  development.
• Let us give it a try and see what WE CAN ACHIEVE!