1. Overview of Land Registration in Rwanda
Thierry Hoza Ngoga
LAIS Implementation Manager National Land Centre

2. OUTLINE Why land registration? Advantages of Land registration
Ways of land registration
Systematic Land Registration – Steps
Where are we today?
Sporadic Land Registration
The Way forward after first registration
Other useful updates

3. Why Land Registration? - Background
Vision 2020
National Land Policy
Organic Land Law
EDPRS

4. Why Land Registration? Land Registration is statutory – OLL art 30
The State guarantees the land ownership – OLL Art 3 – Security of tenure
Establishment of Unique National Land Registry - Policy
To reduce land disputes,
To provide a good foundation for economic growth, all in the interests of all landowners

5. Ways of land Registration
Systematic Land Registration – Land Tenure Regularisation
Sporadic registration or registration on demand

6. The systematic Land Registration
Land tenure regularisation: parcel by parcel and cell by cell
Estimated 8million parcels of land in Rwanda
Participatory approach with Cell Land Committees
General Boundary principle – using area orthophotos
Supported by GoR, DIFD, SIDA and EU

7. Steps in Systematic Land Registration
Final Registration and titling
Notification of LTR areas
Demarcation and Adjudication
Training of Committees and Local Information Campaign
Objections and Corrections Period
Claims with objections
Abunzi/Dispute Resolution or other mediation
Claims with no objections

8. High resolution Area Photograph

9. Demarcation and …
Para-Surveyors, Adjudication Committee and neighbours

10. Adjudication A claim is recorded in the claim register and fee paid.
A claim receipt issued

11. Data Entry (LTRSS) + Map digitisation

13. Objection and Correction
At cell level
Land claimants correct information from the database
Objections to claim can be made

14. Issuance of land leases and certificate of land registration

15. Achievments in DB - Where are we today?
In all 30 Districts with:
Kigali City and Kirehe district covered in terms of Demarcation – O&C ongoing
874 Cells covered out of 2148
By end of February millions parcels demarcated (53%) with less than 1% disputes
Target to finish title issuance in Kigali City (June 2011)
Target to finish demarcation adjudication and demarcation in June 2012
Target to finish Issuance by December 2013

16. LEGAL Condominium law passed by Parliament
Valuation law passed by Parliament
Survey law passed by Cabinet

17. Procedures
Acte de Vente made in front of the Registrar removed from procedures in property transfer
Conditions of acceptance elaborated
Construction permit and urban planning unit in Kigali City is in place
District Land Officer took oath as Notaries for all land related maters
LAIS in place - functional

18. Other useful update
National Land Use and Development Master Plan approved by Cabinet on 19th January 2011

19. Other useful update (Con’t)
Existing land records in Kigali City indexed (LAA)

20. Way-forward after first registration
Land Administration Information System (LAIS) – Maintenance
A digital land Registration system based on systems and procedures
which are:
simple;
transparent;
quick;
cost efficient;
responsive to customer requirements

21. LAIS System Concept

22. Cadastral Extract Archive Contract Certificate RLT Contract Module
LTRSS
Certificate Module
Cadastral
Extract
GIS
GIS-functions
UPI
LAIS
UPI
Offering Acceptance
Contract
Archive
Signing
Certificate
RLT
ORIGINAL
Client
(dep) Registrar
Sealing
DUPLICATE
Responsibility of DLO

23. Main Structure LAIS

24. Main Workflow – Role based

25. How does it work in practice???

26. Data already in the database
5 thousands land parcels

27. Flexibility of the system
Process divided in specific Process steps
Role and location based authorizations
Based on codes which are easy to change, information will be showed on Certificate or only by Inquiry
Digital Registry;
Can accommodate Cadastral information

28. Thank you!

29. Any Questions?