1. Changing land administration in Haïti

2. STARTING FROM MAIN ISSUES IN HAITIAN LAND TENURE Private property has existed for 4 centuries Small private property has legal and historic foundations A lot of land documents in public and private archives but became inaccessible for most institutions and people Oral knowledge of situation of parcels: there is no cadaster since the end of 18th century No reliable data for identification of people, rights and plots

3. PRIVATE PROPERTY HAS EXISTED FOR 4 CENTURIES Old public and private archived to restore, digitalize, iand ndex to make access to land information easier Legal corpus to build and popularize

4. Digitalization of land archives

5. DOCUMENT FROM THE END OF 19TH CENTURY

6. LE MONITEUR : PRIMARY DATA SOURCE FOR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STATE LAND

7. BUILD THE LEGAL CORPUS

8. Localize plots when we are in a context of minifundia

9. 3 INTERVENTION SITES Secteur Nord 630 km² 6 communes à 20cm GSD Secteur Sud 815 km² 5 communes à 20cm GSD Zone urbaine de Port au Prince (260 km²) Port au Prince et La Croix des Bouquets À 10 cm GSD

10. FIELD WORK TO PREPARE ORTHOPHOTOS

11. DATA BASE AND ORTHOPHOTOS Baillergeau Bas peu de Chose Pernier

12. FIELD WORK (« COMPLETEMENT ») La restitution photogrammétrique ne permet de voir que « presque tout »… Certaines limites parcellaires ne sont pas matérialisées et ne pourront être levées quavec des informations fournies par une personne connaissant parfaitement la parcelle (propriétaire, occupant, voisin…).

13. WHY FIELD WORK? Have a topographical plan with all needed information to delimitate the plots. Parcel maps (polygones) Urban map

14. INEFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE, LAND PLOTS AND PROPERTY RIGHTS How to do field work? 17.05.2014 CIAT - HAITI

15. A multidisciplinary approach Link anthropology and law Anthropology and kinship Genealogy (time dimension) Property rights Identify and find the owners (spatial dimension) Titles and practices

16. First goal : Understand social practices Different rights on the same plot Second goal: Find information to create the basic land map or Plan Foncier de Base (PFB) Maps and database

21. FIVE YEARS TO PRODUCE BASIC TOOLS FOR LAND REFORM Information to create the Plan Foncier de Base Information to move forward institutional rebuilding: new laws, new missions, new equipment and new training