1. FINDING SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: By Clarissa Augustinus
‘Engaging the Challenges, Enhancing the Relevance’
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES:
THE ROLE OF THE LAND PROFESSION
By Clarissa Augustinus
UN-Habitat

2. Global challenges: population growth, city sprawl, food security & climate change impacts
Land profession to meet the challenges
Innovative as conventional too slow – ‘Fit for Purpose’ -
Development of ‘big technology’
FIG leaders as global/country champions
Learning from STDM
Land and new UN goals

3. Global challenges
9.6 billion by 2050
175% city sprawl
Doubtful if can feed
Climate change impact
2% reduction in food production each decade

4. Land administration challenge
30% conventional land administration coverage
70% people outside land administration system
‘Fit for Purpose’

6. Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
63 international partners
Role of FIG
18 tools
Continuum of land rights
Social Tenure Domain Model
Costing and financing of land administration services
Pro poor land records
Valuation of unregistered land
Gender
Youth
Land readjustment

7. Stories of FIG/land professional champions
Prof Enemark
President Chee-Hai
Chris Paresi – ITC/Utwente
Chrit Lemmen-ITC/Dutch Cadastre

8. Solomon Haile –GTLN first task manager
Danilo Antonio – GTLN second task manager
John Gitau, Solomon Njoroge - programmers

9. Young Surveyors
Partners

11. Developing Big Technology
Hadron Collider/Human Genome/IPAD
Learning from others
Research at scale
Researchers from different silos working together
Funding at scale
Transformational not trivial

12. Developing Big Technology: Learning from GLTN: STDM
FIG credibility & knowledge
Multiple work stream management over years
Capacity development, knowledge generation & change
Funding by bi-laterals
R & D UN role
UN convening role inter-gov. body
Reference groups of thinkers/pilots
Land professionals critical role
Global community for global products

13. CONTINUUM OF LAND RIGHTS

14. Continuum of land rights STDM: History – Concept – Model - Software
STDM as Big Technology
Continuum of land rights
STDM: History – Concept – Model - Software
Social Tenure Relationship
Use rights
Occupancy
Ownership
Informal
Customary tenure
Common land
Tenancy
Hunting
Spatial Unit
Land, housing, structure, natural resource, etc.
Party
Person/s, communities, family,
groups of groups
Supporting Documents
Sketch, audio, video, photos, etc.

15. STDM: Mbale, Uganda pilot
Stakeholders
Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development
Mbale municipality
SDI
AcTogether
FIG Foundation/Trimble
Cities Alliance
Now 9 Uganda municipalities
FIG/land profession
Transformational big technology

16. Sustainable Development Goals
MDGs
SDGs
GLTN/GLII
Role of FIG
17 focus areas; 3 land included
The Communiques
Proposed land target/indicators
Women & men; admin. data & perception data; continuum
Way forward in UN system
Role of land professionals

17. Conclusion
Challenge facing land industry
Change LA systems for majority tenure security & LI for scale
Massive change in our generation
New land tools hard to develop but can be done
FIG champions into the future
‘Fit for Purpose’
Land profession implement it for sustainable planet

18. Roles of land profession
More managerial, not just data creation
Quality assurance/auditing
Land documents for the majority
Custodians of LIM
Increase professional status
Work with inter-governmental organizations on management of climate change/risk management
Work with other disciplines – the door is open
Work with other professional groups – the door is open
Be the pre-eminent leaders in developing big technology for land
Roles of land profession
Leadership
Champions of robust change
Understand the shifts that are happening at global level + in technology
Large scale innovation
Institutional strengthening
Upscaling land systems
Upscaling land management
Client base of whole country