1. INFORMATION IS POWER EVIDENCE ON COMMUNITY BASED LAND INFORMATION FOR UPGRADING COMMUNITY TENURE SECURITY IN UGANDA AND KENYA
J.David Stanfield: Terra Institute, USA
Oumar Sylla : GLTN/UN Habitat
Cyprian Selebalo: GLTN/UN Habitat
Danilo Antonio: GLTN/UN Habitat
Hellen Nyamweru: GLTN/UN Habitat
John Gitau: GLTN/UN Habitat

2. Presentation Outline CONTENT Introduction Information is power
UN Habitat/Global Land Tool Network
Methodology
Purpose of the paper
GLTN tools
Achievements
Custom, Law and Security of Tenure

3. Introduction
The Global Land Tools Network (GLTN) through its partners has encouraged widespread use of two land information tools—participatory enumeration and STDM.
These tools assist informal settlements‘ documentation of rights to land and properties as well as community descriptions about how people use their properties

4. INFORMATION IS POWER
“Information is power” is a slogan used to underline the importance of settlements generating and using information about their settlements to push for their transformation.
If disadvantaged people have information they will know how to better their situations of poverty.
With such recognition, communities strengthen security of tenure and establish their roles in upgrading of infrastructure and their properties.

5. INFORMATION IS POWER; Mobilization
If disadvantaged people organize to develop information about their conditions, their informed mobilization can influence government and business entities to better the conditions of impoverished communities
Mobilization of impoverished communities to identify and describe their conditions and use of this information to gain influence (power) with powerful institutions, improves security of tenure and living conditions.

6. UN Habitat/Global Land Tools Network
GLTN is a coalition of more than 75 international partners.
It contributes to “poverty alleviation through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure particularly through the development and dissemination of pro-poor and gender-sensitive land tools”.
It helps define land policies… “there are few policies that have been fully implemented due to lack of pro-poor, gender sensitive and large scale land tools”.
Through joint initiatives, GLTN and Partners are motivated to find solutions to land tenure issues

7. Methodology of the Study
Review GLTN institutional and project documents—strategies, plans, objectives, activities
Rapid appraisals of project sites through interviews with key informants from GLTN Partners and with community key informants in three informal settlements in Kenya and three in Uganda; plus partner working in one rural community in Uganda
Focus on evidence of changes in behaviors, relationships and policies from efforts of Partners and supporting agencies

8. PURPOSE of paper Primary
Present evidence on GLTN Alliances uses of two land tools--
Participatory Enumeration and STDM in urban and rural communities in Kenya and Uganda
Secondary
Suggest what partners and the GLTN might do to improve both tools

9. Participatory enumeration
Participatory enumerations is a data-gathering process, designed and conducted by the people being surveyed and which ensures the involvement of the locals from inception, design and management of the information from their settlements.

10. Participatory enumeration
Through Slum Dwellers International (SDI) affiliates, community based data gathering and analysis incorporates SDI grassroots enumeration questions about conditions in settlements such as;
sanitation,
water supply,
electricity, security,
educational, security and health service,
transportation)
with GLTN questions on land tenure.

11. The Social Tenure Domain Model
STDM is a pro-poor, gender responsive and participatory land information system developed by the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN).
STDM and all software that it uses are free and open source that significantly reduces running cost.
All data stored in the STDM database is owned by the user.
STDM does not require internet but internet can improve data access and data sharing.

12. The Social Tenure Domain Model
Party
Person/s or
group/s or public agencies
Social Tenure Relationship
Use rights
Occupancy
Ownership
Informal
Customary tenure
Common land
Tenancy
Hunting
Spatial Unit
Land, property, structure, natural resources, objects, etc.
Supporting Document
Sketch, audio, video, photos etc.
has
with
supported by

13. Achievement 1
The use of participatory enumeration and STDM in some, but not all informal settlement transformation process has helped get de facto recognition by governmental officials
State recognition of settlement’s existence—security that will not be demolished,
incorporation of settlement into the planning process of upgrading programs
Encouragement of self help improvements

14. SANITATION

15. STREET LIGHTING AND DRAINAGE

16. Achievement 2 The settlement leadership and residents have:
Cooperated with the participatory enumeration data gathering and
Assumed ownership of that information and tenure information as structured in the STDM Data Centers managed by settlement representatives

17. Achievement 3
Some local governments have cooperated with the STDM issuance of Certificates of Occupation for documenting settlers’ rights to buildings and land.
Some SDI affiliated federations and settlers continue pressuring for official Certificates of Title as protection of their rights to their properties

18. Custom, law and security of tenure
GLTN promotion of dialogue on land policies and pro-poor land tools strives to achieve successful engagement in redefining colonial institutions such as the cadaster and land registries--based on individual rights to land for purposes of stimulating land markets.
GLTN is using the successes of bottom-up gathering of geospatial data to influence fit for purpose approaches in land administration agencies.

19. Custom, law and security of tenure
GLTN has shown how to mobilize communities to record how the many types of parties hold many types of interests to many types of spatial units which the colonial land administration institutions never recognized.

20. THE CONTINUUM OF LAND RIGHTS

21. Thank you!

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INFORMATION IS POWER; EVIDENCE ON COMMUNITY BASED LAND INFORMATION FOR UPGRADING COMMUNITY TENURE SECURITY IN UGANDA AND KENYA
J. DAVID STANFIELD
Terra Institute, USA
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Danilo Antonio
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