1. Land and Poverty Conference 2018:
Land Governance in an Interconnected World
Using Monitoring Results to Take Ukraine's Land Governance to the Next Level 
Oleksandr Kolotilin
StateGeoCadastre, Ukraine
Washington, DC
March, 20, 2018

2. Transparency and Land Governance
Asymmetric Information on land rights, land use, land availability and government decision making is a root of many problems with governing land resources for the benefit of people and communities
Lack of transparency leads to:
Moral Hazard and Corruption in government decision making and performance of government services
Low access to capital
Conflicts
Eviction
Fragmentation of markets
Low productivity growth
Monopolistic power
Undervalued land and poverty trap
Land grabbing
Political speculations
Low investment attractiveness

3. Land Governance Monitoring
LG Monitoring: Collection and publication of regionally disaggregated administrative data on the state of governance of land resources.
Methodology & implementation: “Capacity Development for Evidence-Based Land & Agricultural Policy Making in Ukraine” Project, KEI at KSE
Land Reform Working Group ( 6 government authorities; MPs; private sector; international organizations) – coordinate efforts and policy dialogue
Monitoring Working Group (technical experts from 8 central government authorities) – data supply, interpret results
State GeoCadastre – support for hosting and functioning of automated system (developing capacity)
Normative Base: Cabinet of Ministers Resolution on LG monitoring (23 August, 2017)

4. Land Governance Monitoring
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

5. 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.)

6. Data Collection
1st waive (completed in 2016) -140 indicators for 669 cities and rural districts
Data available online and used by experts, journalists, MPs, government officials
2nd waive (in progress 2018) – 75 (as of 15 Mar 2018) indicators for 669 cities and rural districts
Expected publication: May 2018

7. Architecture of the IT System
Centralized
Service-oriented
Loosely coupled services
Module based
Provides for easy maintenance and development

8. Completeness of State Land Cadaster, 2017
Monitoring Results
Completeness of State Land Cadaster, 2017
Will update for 2017
73% of private land is registered in the Cadaster
90% to 100%
70% to 90%
60% to 70%
under 60%
more than 100%
Map: share of private land registered
Data: GeoCadastre

9. Monitoring for Policy Decision Making: Land Governance Index
1. Share of land registered in the Land Cadaster (private and state separately);
2. Transactions per 1,000 landowners (separately rental and other: sales, gifts, exchange, inheritance);
3. Land tax declarations per 1,000 of private land owners;
4. Number of land related disputes in court per 10,000 landowners (separately for administrative and civil)
Map: Index of Land Governance (1 is the top rank)
Information on temporary occupied territory of AR Crimea and the conflict zone of Luhansk and Donetsk regions is not available

10. Monitoring for Policy Decision Making:
Benchmarking (example –Bilotserkivskyi rayon)
Note: 100 percentile is top

11. Conclusions and next steps
Monitoring allows to observe and compare the state of land governance at a level of local government decision makers
Provides evidence for diversity in the state of land governance and protection of land related rights
Provides evidence base for government and business business decision making
Next steps:
Introduce the Monitoring IT system
Introduce amendments to Land Code and other legal acts and stipulate compulsory publication of land related regionally disaggregated statistics based on administrative data (law proposals #7502, 7503 and 7504)

12. Thank you for your attention! Land and Poverty Conference 2018:
Land Governance in an Interconnected World
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