1. Monitoring & Reporting Land Governance in Ukraine
Capacity Development for Evidence-Based Land &
Agricultural Policy Making Project in Ukraine
Monitoring & Reporting Land Governance in Ukraine 
Denys Nizalov, University of Kent/ KEI at KSE
Kyiv- 6 June, 2016
Land.kse.org.ua

2. Monitoring of Land Governance is broader
Countries started:
Croatia (2015)
Georgia (2014)
India (2014)
Moldova 2015
Peru (2015)
Philippines (2015)
Rwanda (2014)
Ukraine (2015)
Vietnam (2015)
Goals:
Support evidence based policy making
Keep track of progress with reforms
Improve transparency and accountability of decision-making at local and national level
Improve business climate; investment attractiveness
Stimulate effective use of land resources and economic development

3. Monitoring of Land Governance is:
A system for collecting, processing and publishing data on the state of land governance at regionally disaggregated level.
6 functional areas of land governance + Land Reform in Ukraine
140 indicators
Based on administrative data
Compliant with FAO VGGT
Effective institutional arrangement
Pilot Implementation – April-December 2015

4. Key LG Monitoring Indicators
Land Reform monitoring (country specific)
Coverage: The share of communal, private, and state land registered and mapped (all land use types)
The number and prices of registered transactions of different types (sales, mortgages, rental, etc.)
Receipts of land and real estate tax revenue
Cases of expropriation and privatization
The number of land-related conflicts
Equity: Share of land and real estate registered and mapped in women’s, men’s name and in joint ownership
Base Characteristics (total area, population, etc.)

5. Sources of Administrative Data
StateGeoCadastre
(SE Center for State Land Cadastre)
State Fiscal Service
Ministry of Justice
(State Registry of Rights)
State Court Administration
State Statistics
State Water Agency
Automated Monitoring System

6. Example: Monitoring Results 2014-2015
Completeness of State Land Cadaster
70.6% of private land is registered in the Cadaster
Map: share of private land registered
Data: GeoCadastre

7. Accomplishments and next steps
Results so far:
Next steps:
Institutional arrangement is made
Collaboration among the stakeholders is established and tested
Pilot implementation is complete
Base-line data is collected and published on the Project web site (land.kse.org.ua)
Sustain the Monitoring system
Normative base and methodology
Reporting software
Hosting institution (GeoCadaster)
Develop capacity to use evidence for reform design & keeping track
Analytical papers & public debate
Data on monitoring web-site
Help address broader policy constraints & document impact of doing so
State land as one example