TLIMS as a vehicle for long term sustainable development and land management in Botswana
Chigiinge, Francis
The Tribal Land Integrated Management System (TLIMS) when installed and configured will in the long term facilitate access to land and support security of tenure. This welcome computerization of land management functions within Land Boards in particular and the Ministry of Lands and Housing in general, will revolutionize the way spatial, attribute and transactional data can be used to model the environment to the greater benefit of the Botswana population. TLIMS focuses on the management and administration of tribal land, which in spatial terms constitutes about 70% in Botswana. The figure of 70% far exceeds the critical landmass, which in strategic terms can be enough to be the force or driver for economic growth. The benefits of an application such as TLIMS are many and varied, as this paper will expose. The implementation of TLIMS coupled with the parallel running of the State Land Integrated Management System (SLIMS) yields a synergistic relationship that has the potential to unleash long-term sustainable social and economic benefits of securing rights in land. This paper explores TLIMS project data domains and forms and outlines how the system can function as an effective decision support system on matters of land management. It also highlights challenges to be faced and possible solutions. Because TLIMS has a spatial component, its role in supporting the cadastral infrastructure is given high prominence. We must realize that security of tenure provided by land registration and cadastre is almost a preconditionn to attract financial capital to rural areass, Bruce, John W., James C. Riddell, and Steven W. Lawry, 1985. Tribal land in Botswana is under the jurisdiction of Land Boards, who govern access to, use and disposal of land through the Tribal Land Act [Cap 32:02].
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