Expert Meeting on Land Administration Systems- Priorities in The Third World University of Melbourne 9 –11 November 2005 Ian Lloyd Director Land Equity International

Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 1. Social Outcomes ä Land tenure security and asset formation – overlapping and fake titles – cost of titling and subsequent transactions (money and time) – people see value – parallel titling systems – public education and empowerment – dispute reduction (eg Laos) ä Access to land and poverty reduction – LAS facilitating land reform in rural and urban settings – Housing

Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 2. Financial Outcomes ä Local Govt property based taxation –Property valuation base; completeness and market value –Equity in taxation – Confidence ä Transaction related fees and taxes – land market movement and real prices –returns offset the costs of initial land titling infrastructure – justify further investment ä Returns on the Govt Estate – market based sales and leases

Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 3. Economic Outcomes ä Efficient Land Markets – formal vs informal land market – contribution of property to national accounts – credit in urban and rural areas – national and overseas investment – transaction delays – tax rates

Priorities in Sustainable Outcomes: 4. Institutional Outcomes ä Efficiency – one cadastre maintained not three – cost of titling and subsequent transactions – parallel titling systems – appropriate technology ä Policy and Legal Reform ä Institutional Strengthening (leadership, capacity, transparency) and Good Governance – agencies of Government – professions and academe – civil society and business – politicians

Key Interventions Required to Address the Priority Outcomes 1 : (“The Crown Jewels”) ä Reliable parcel descriptions and uniform mapping / charting (national co-ordinate system) ä Functional land transaction processing at accessible points (One Stop Shops) ä Responsive land records system ä Accelerated titling on whole of jurisdiction basis at acceptable unit cost to govt and agreeable price to beneficiaries ä Community mobilisation ä Institutional organisation for change (laws, regulations, new skills, new staff) and suitable reward systems

Key Interventions Required to Address the Priority Outcomes 2 : (“The Crown Jewels”) ä Low tax on subsequent registrations to get people into the habit of registering all transactions ä Basic valuation system to encourage true declaration of price and for transaction taxes ä Collect and make land market information available (“informed markets are efficient markets”) ä Market based valuations for equity across property classes ä Cadastral map as a basis for real property taxation ä Post titling services for asset leverage

Key Interventions Required to Address the Priority Outcomes 3 : (“The Crown Jewels”) ä Approach – local ownership of change (govt, professions, academe, political level) – tiers of govt – stakeholder involvement and empowerment – appreciation of the institutional cultures of the main agencies – capacity building (education, training, research) in long term and short term to meet the needs (not for its own value) – mainstreaming – appropriate technology – accountability (reporting, stakeholders) – policy development responsive, engaging stakeholders and integrated with lessons from operations –legal reform with political support

Pace of Change in Land Administration in the Third World ä Pace of Change is so important to successful interventions ä Speed is relative ä Lands agencies conservative

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