Framework for Effective Land Administration A reference for developing, reforming, renewing, strengthening, modernizing, and monitoring land administration
UNGGIM
E/C.20/2020/29/Add.2
The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management at its eighth session in August 2018 encouraged its subordinate Expert Group on Land Administration and Management (Expert Group) to continue its advocacy and awareness raising of the merits and benefits of effective and efficient land administration and management systems, and to formulate overarching policy guidance that could be referenced by Member States. In this regard, the Expert Group considered and included all existing and appropriate globally accepted concepts and approaches for effectively and efficiently relating people to land; documenting, recording and recognizing people to land relationships, in all their forms, towards securing land and property rights for all. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a global plan of action for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships. If realized, lives will be profoundly improved, and the world transformed for the better. Member States, when adopting the outcome document of the United Nations, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, determined to take the transformative steps needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient development path, continue on a collective journey, ensuring that no one is left behind. Considering that the greater majority of humanity do not enjoy secure land rights, to create sustainable and inclusive societies, there is a need to accelerate efforts to document, record and recognize people to land relationships in all forms. The Expert Group recognizes this urgent need, cognizant of the diverse social, environmental, and economic circumstances, at national and sub-national levels. Land administration relates people to land and informs on the ‘how’, the ‘what’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’ and the ‘where’ of land tenure, land use, land value, and land development. Land administration systems are the basis for recording the complex range of rights, restrictions and responsibilities related to people, policies and places. Effective land administration must be fit-for-purpose, appropriate and adequate, interoperable and sustainable, flexible and inclusive, and able to accelerate efforts to document, record, recognize, and monitor people to land relationships, in all forms. Effective land administration provides humanity with better access to and security of land and property rights, noting that not all actors can be satisfied with every land administration decision, is able to mitigate issues relating to land as a root cause triggering conflict, and supports leaving no one behind - the commitment of the 2030 Agenda.
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