Costing and Financing of Land Administration Services : Moving Toward the Pilot Phase
Anthony Burns et al.
Public agencies the world over continue to be challenged by citizens to rationalise the cost and quality of public service provision, particularly during repeated cycles of financial crises. The problem is even more pronounced in developing countries, where allocation of public resources must grapple with competing priorities of critical sectors such as health, education, water, infrastructure, etc. The land sector, whilst underlying such sectors, is less visible. It has typically relied on international development resources, a dependency aggravated by the declining availability of such funds for public services. Having observed this trend over the years, GLTN identified Modernizing the Budgetary Approach of Land Agencies as an important area of tool development. This thinking underpins the development of the Costing and Financing of Land Administration Services (CoFLAS) tool. The objectives of this paper are to: - Sensitize stakeholders on CoFLAS and the need for urgent solutions that redefine such services in the context of their usefulness to society as custodians of land and property information - Provide a validation of the tool, based on an Expert Group Meeting in Bangkok, October, 2014
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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