Overview of Land Registration in Rwanda Thierry Hoza Ngoga LAIS Implementation Manager National Land Centre

OUTLINE Why land registration? Advantages of Land registration Ways of land registration Systematic Land Registration – Steps Where are we today? Sporadic Land Registration The Way forward after first registration Other useful updates

Why Land Registration? - Background Vision 2020 National Land Policy - 2004 Organic Land Law - 2005 EDPRS

Why Land Registration? Land Registration is statutory – OLL art 30 The State guarantees the land ownership – OLL Art 3 – Security of tenure Establishment of Unique National Land Registry - Policy To reduce land disputes, To provide a good foundation for economic growth, all in the interests of all landowners

Ways of land Registration Systematic Land Registration – Land Tenure Regularisation Sporadic registration or registration on demand

The systematic Land Registration Land tenure regularisation: parcel by parcel and cell by cell Estimated 8million parcels of land in Rwanda Participatory approach with Cell Land Committees General Boundary principle – using area orthophotos Supported by GoR, DIFD, SIDA and EU

Steps in Systematic Land Registration Final Registration and titling Notification of LTR areas Demarcation and Adjudication Training of Committees and Local Information Campaign Objections and Corrections Period Claims with objections Abunzi/Dispute Resolution or other mediation Claims with no objections

High resolution Area Photograph

Demarcation and … Para-Surveyors, Adjudication Committee and neighbours

Adjudication A claim is recorded in the claim register and fee paid. A claim receipt issued

Data Entry (LTRSS) + Map digitisation

Objection and Correction At cell level Land claimants correct information from the database Objections to claim can be made

Issuance of land leases and certificate of land registration

Achievments in DB - Where are we today? In all 30 Districts with: Kigali City and Kirehe district covered in terms of Demarcation – O&C ongoing 874 Cells covered out of 2148 By end of February 2011 4.3millions parcels demarcated (53%) with less than 1% disputes Target to finish title issuance in Kigali City (June 2011) Target to finish demarcation adjudication and demarcation in June 2012 Target to finish Issuance by December 2013

LEGAL Condominium law passed by Parliament Valuation law passed by Parliament Survey law passed by Cabinet

Procedures Acte de Vente made in front of the Registrar removed from procedures in property transfer Conditions of acceptance elaborated Construction permit and urban planning unit in Kigali City is in place District Land Officer took oath as Notaries for all land related maters LAIS in place - functional

Other useful update National Land Use and Development Master Plan approved by Cabinet on 19th January 2011

Other useful update (Con’t) Existing land records in Kigali City indexed (LAA)

Way-forward after first registration Land Administration Information System (LAIS) – Maintenance A digital land Registration system based on systems and procedures which are: simple; transparent; quick; cost efficient; responsive to customer requirements

LAIS System Concept

Cadastral Extract Archive Contract Certificate RLT Contract Module LTRSS Certificate Module Cadastral Extract GIS GIS-functions UPI LAIS UPI Offering Acceptance Contract Archive Signing Certificate RLT ORIGINAL Client (dep) Registrar Sealing DUPLICATE Responsibility of DLO

Main Structure LAIS

Main Workflow – Role based

How does it work in practice???

Data already in the database 5 thousands land parcels

Flexibility of the system Process divided in specific Process steps Role and location based authorizations Based on codes which are easy to change, information will be showed on Certificate or only by Inquiry Digital Registry; Can accommodate Cadastral information

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