LADM_CP_Colombia_On the Design of a Modern and Generic Approach to Land Registration: The Colombia Experience
Javier MORALES, Christiaan LEMMEN, Rolf DE BY, Mathilde MOLENDIJK, Ernst-Peter OOSTERBROEK, Alvaro Enrique ORTIZ DAVILA
A significant number of undocumented people-to-land relationships exist in many countries; they constitute an important barrier to economic development, especially that of rural areas. Although countries often have established procedures to register these relationships, typically, procedures involve outdated, costly and time-consuming workflows, and in many cases, require workflow resources that are simply unavailable. The vital, underlying technology and standards to collect and manage the required data are complex and sometimes inaccessible, or if available, tools do not comply with adopted (inter)national standards. If we continue down this path, the registration of undocumented people-to-land relationships will take significantly more time and money than governments are willing to afford and be held responsible for. While each issue mentioned above presents a substantial challenge, it is only by addressing them holistically that a significant impact can be obtained. Using the post-conflict Colombia as a pilot area and fit-for-purpose land administration as philosophy (FIG/World Bank, 2014; UN Habitat/GLTN/Kadaster, 2016), we have developed and tested a simplified, communitybased, standards-compliant methodology and supporting technology, to register people-toland relationships in a fast and economically viable way. A country cannot afford to be non-compliant with the ISO’s 19152 standard, which defines a reference land administration model (LADM). Its adoption, however, adds a whole level of complexity to existing procedures. We therefore developed a multi-level data model based on LADM, in which each level is optimized for the procedural step where it is used. These steps are: data collection, post-processing, validation and recording. At the end of the last step the data complies fully with the standard and, in the case of Colombia, with the corresponding country profile. The developers of this profile made relevant observations for the development of the second edition of LADM — commented in this paper.
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