Reforming the land sector in Jamaica

Clarke, Silburn and Llewelyn Allen

The Land Management Consortium was contracted under a jointly-funded Government of Jamaica / IADB pilot project the objective of which was to determine paramenters for improving the operation of the local land market by broadening and deepening the levels of property holding and tenure security within the general population. Specifically the project would develop an innovative methodology for the affordable mass parcel mapping and titling of tenure rights. This paper examines the project and gives a report on its achievements, The project was successfully implemented over a 29 month period ending in March 2005.

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