Sustainable Land Administration Systems SYS 1 Building sustainable well governed LAS SYS 2 Addressing land administration & management challenges SYS 3 Innovative examples + Session Private vendors

10 presentations Santiago Borrero: Clear connectivity between SDI, LAS and (e)-government Higgins: Positioning Infrastructures in place for monitoring global processes Suchanek: Linking ICT strategy with business strategy in Czech Greenway: Interorganisational cooperation weak and stakeholders insufficiently understood Kapitango/Meijs: Reformulation workprocesses and use of other tools in Namibia

Sagashya/English: Existing forms of land tenure (both Civil Code, and customary) to be replaced by registered title in Rwanda Silayo: Urban areas and urban poor not focal point, and too much confidence in free market as the means for land delivery Adlington: Capitalize on investments. ‘Champions’ needed. Zhao: making rural area productive and attractive through registration of farmer’s ‘rural land use and contracting rights’ in China. Napier: how to give the poor access to high value land location in South Africa

Trimble: scalability of hybrid turn key solutions Leica Geo-systems: digital airborne and lidar imaging allow very fast processing. ESRI: leveraging the value of data by GIS ITC: meeting demand for LA capacity only through joint effort

LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY OBJECTIVES LAND POLICY LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTIVE LAND TOOLS The book ‘Land Tenure in Development Cooperation’ (GTZ, 1998, page 163) introduces the word ‘instruments for land administration’, which indicates the implementation measures to realize the fundamental objectives of land administration. Using this concept, we try to visualize the relation between the earlier mentioned elements in the diagram above. The diagram is our visualization of the relationship between land policy and land administration. Political objectives such as economic growth, poverty reduction, sustainable housing and agriculture, social equity and fairness, protection of vulnerable groups in society, require a policy of the government how to deal with the allocation of access to land and land related benefits. The land policy, being a highly political document, requires intervention measures of a more technical nature (although technical measures also might be very political). In our understanding such measures concern the application of property right regimes, the extent to which a government wants to secure those rights, access to credit markets, the regulations of the land sales and rental market, the measures to enhance sound land use planning, land reform, land taxation and management to manage natural resources. We call these interventions ’land policy instruments’. To apply the land policy instruments, one needs tools, such as land registration, cadastre, other land information systems, land use classifications, valuation techniques. The definition of land administration, as ‘the process of determining, recording and disseminating information on ownership, use and value of land, when implementing land management policies’ (see Land Administration Guidelines UN, 1996 page 91) comprises the relationship between tools and policies very well. (see also Van der Molen & Lemmen, 2004)

LAS Poverty Eradication MDG’s Sustainable Housing Sustainable Agriculture Economic Growth Social Equity, Equality Land Policy: the political choices on how to allocate land and its benefits Forms of Land Rights and Level of Tenure Security Intervention in Land Sales and Rental Markets Policy and Revenue Generation through Land Taxation Land use planning and Land Development Public Acquisition Land Tenure Reform and Redistributive Land Reform Valuation methods Land Registration Management of Natural Resources, State Land Management Cadastres and other Inventories Land Use Inventories Elaborating this diagram with the broader approach of (Deininger, GTZ, and outcomes of various global UN conferences), the diagram would then read as follows. LAS

Access to information Participation Equity & Equality Accountability Low (transaction) costs Predictable law Reliable law Fair enforcement Transparent law Workable law GOVERNANCE RULE OF LAW

LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS RULE OF LAW GOOD GOVERNANCE POLICY OBJECTIVES LAND POLICY LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTIVE LAND TOOLS

BUSINESS ICT MARKET PLACE BUSINESS STRATEGY ICT STRATEGY WORK PROCESSES ICT SYSTEMS

The Purposeful Land Administration System LAS is a tool to serve a purpose. No clear purpose, no good working LAS. General principles for a LAS: good governance and rule of law Without meeting these principles, LAS is a dangerous tool. A LAS that is not efficient and effective, is a wrongly designed LAS. LAS that cannot cope with daily transactions is not a good LAS. LAS that cannot serve next 200 years is not a good LAS. A good LAS is hardly possible without the private and academic sector, because the LAS-world is divided in enlightened thinkers, innovators and applicants. A good LAS should be resistant against old fashioned lawyers and land surveyors, and opportunistic authorities.

Way Forward: the Deininger principles D: data and datamanagement E: economic and social justification I: institutional and organizational prerequisites N: national land policy I: infrastructuur geospatial data and positioning infrastructure N: natural resource and land use management G: geographic informationsystems GIS E: e-government R: responsive to new challenges (climate change)