FINDING SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: By Clarissa Augustinus ‘Engaging the Challenges, Enhancing the Relevance’ FINDING SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: THE ROLE OF THE LAND PROFESSION By Clarissa Augustinus UN-Habitat

Global challenges: population growth, city sprawl, food security & climate change impacts Land profession to meet the challenges Innovative as conventional too slow – ‘Fit for Purpose’ - Development of ‘big technology’ FIG leaders as global/country champions Learning from STDM Land and new UN goals

Global challenges 9.6 billion by 2050 175% city sprawl Doubtful if can feed Climate change impact 2% reduction in food production each decade

Land administration challenge 30% conventional land administration coverage 70% people outside land administration system ‘Fit for Purpose’

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) 63 international partners Role of FIG 18 tools Continuum of land rights Social Tenure Domain Model Costing and financing of land administration services Pro poor land records Valuation of unregistered land Gender Youth Land readjustment

Stories of FIG/land professional champions Prof Enemark President Chee-Hai Chris Paresi – ITC/Utwente Chrit Lemmen-ITC/Dutch Cadastre

Solomon Haile –GTLN first task manager Danilo Antonio – GTLN second task manager John Gitau, Solomon Njoroge - programmers

Young Surveyors Partners

Developing Big Technology Hadron Collider/Human Genome/IPAD Learning from others Research at scale Researchers from different silos working together Funding at scale Transformational not trivial

Developing Big Technology: Learning from GLTN: STDM FIG credibility & knowledge Multiple work stream management over years Capacity development, knowledge generation & change Funding by bi-laterals R & D UN role UN convening role inter-gov. body Reference groups of thinkers/pilots Land professionals critical role Global community for global products

CONTINUUM OF LAND RIGHTS

Continuum of land rights STDM: History – Concept – Model - Software STDM as Big Technology Continuum of land rights STDM: History – Concept – Model - Software Social Tenure Relationship Use rights Occupancy Ownership Informal Customary tenure Common land Tenancy Hunting Spatial Unit Land, housing, structure, natural resource, etc. Party Person/s, communities, family, groups of groups Supporting Documents Sketch, audio, video, photos, etc.

STDM: Mbale, Uganda pilot Stakeholders Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development Mbale municipality SDI AcTogether FIG Foundation/Trimble Cities Alliance Now 9 Uganda municipalities FIG/land profession Transformational big technology

Sustainable Development Goals MDGs SDGs GLTN/GLII Role of FIG 17 focus areas; 3 land included The Communiques Proposed land target/indicators Women & men; admin. data & perception data; continuum Way forward in UN system Role of land professionals

Conclusion Challenge facing land industry Change LA systems for majority tenure security & LI for scale Massive change in our generation New land tools hard to develop but can be done FIG champions into the future ‘Fit for Purpose’ Land profession implement it for sustainable planet

Roles of land profession More managerial, not just data creation Quality assurance/auditing Land documents for the majority Custodians of LIM Increase professional status Work with inter-governmental organizations on management of climate change/risk management Work with other disciplines – the door is open Work with other professional groups – the door is open Be the pre-eminent leaders in developing big technology for land Roles of land profession Leadership Champions of robust change Understand the shifts that are happening at global level + in technology Large scale innovation Institutional strengthening Upscaling land systems Upscaling land management Client base of whole country