Solutions For Open Land Administration (SOLA) Software - Customizing Open Source Software To Support The Systematic Land Titling And Regulation Pilot Project In Ondo State, Nigeria
Peter Adeniyi, Adewale Akingbade & Adeoluwa Akande
The current system of land titling and registration in Nigeria is fraught with many problems such that only about 3% of the land in the country has been registered. To improve the situation, the Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform (PTCLR) adopted a Systematic Land Titling and Registration (SLTR) approach and decided to use FAO Solution for Open Land Administration (SOLA). SOLA is an open source software developed by the FAO through a multi-donor trust fund project. It aims to make computerized land registration more affordable and more sustainable in developing countries. The introduction of land administration automation using SOLA is aimed at improving systemss efficiency, standardization and accessibility, which in turn, would contribute to responsible land governance. One of the objectives of using SOLA for the SLTR pilot project in Nigeria is to modernize, improve efficiency and effectiveness of land registration process in a transparent manner. This paper expatiates on these key challenges to responsible land governance and how SOLA has been customised to meet some of these challenges in the SLTR pilot in Ondo State. It also looks at the technical aspects of the software architecture and its workflow driven process as well as its database structure.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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