Building Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration Systems: Providing Security of Tenure for All
Christiaan Lemmen, Stig Enemark & Robin McLaren
New solutions in land administration are required that can deliver security of tenure for all, are affordable and can be quickly developed and incrementally improved over time. The Fit-For-Purpose (FFP) approach to land administration has emerged to meet these simple, but challenging requirements. This paper discusses the building of the FFP approach at country level. Implementation is strongly related to the recognition of the continuum of land rights. Implementation of the FFP approach means to recognise, record and review land rights: ?Recognise? involves a procedure for recognition, classification and development of a typology in land rights on the basis of an assessment of existing legitimate rights at the country level. The result of this process can be published in a National Tenure Atlas. ?Record? means collecting data on evidence of land rights based on FFP approaches in land administration following the FFP principles for building the spatial framework. The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is recommended. ?Review (Conversion)? means assessing the evidence of rights and any possible out-standing claims and when conditions are met, the security of the rights will be increased. A complete overview is required of the tenure systems and land rights related to the areas affected. All formal and informal tenure categories and sub-categories should be identified and related to space. It is recommended that a National Tenure Atlas will be developed in order to get overview of the spatial distribution of legitimate tenure types across a country.
Event: FIG Working Week 2016 : Recovery from Disaster
Only personal, non-commercial use of this document is allowed.