Some Options for updating Land Administration Guidelines
Explore options for updating land administration guidelines, justified investments, internet-driven changes, challenges in the developing world, customer orientation, and financial transparency. Learn how to improve land tenure security, facilitate land markets, and more.
Some Options for updating Land Administration Guidelines
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Some Options for updating Land Administration Guidelines WPLA Paul van der Molen (NL)28-31 May 2003 WPLA Athens 2003
Institutional & Financial Matters • Definition of land administration- ownership, value, use- land- process- context land management • Institutional & Financial Context- LA system more than ‘just’ a GIS- public administration WPLA Athens 2003
Updating options in this context • Justification for investments in land administration • Internet as a driver for change • Inclusion of LA-Challenges for the developing world • Impact of customer orientation and financial transparency WPLA Athens 2003
Option 1: justification for investments • Political context: sustainable housing, agriculture, poverty reduction, development • Functions of land administration- improving land tenure security- facilitating land market- urban & rural planning, development & control- base for land taxation- management natural resources WPLA Athens 2003
Meeting the functions justifies investments • So far description in qualitative terms( e.g. WPLA ‘Benefits’ 1998) • Need for description in economic terms( e.g land administration costs 200 mill/ and supports land market worth 9.3 bill./year, mortgage market total 600 bill., land related tax revenues 4.9 bill./year) WPLA Athens 2003
Option 2: internet as a driver for change • Electronic input (electronic conveyancing UK, Canada, Lithuania, electronic submission of deeds the Netherlands) • Electronic output (customer needs, information infrastructures, reduction of costs through data sharing) WPLA Athens 2003
Option 3: inclusion of challenges developing world • New forms of land tenure • Inclusion of customary tenure in statutory environment • How to cope from a land administration point of view ? WPLA Athens 2003
Option 4: customer orientation and financial transparency • Aiming at customer satisfaction is the start of a revitalisation or development process • Aiming at financial transparency is the start of making an organisation manageable. WPLA Athens 2003
Conclusions • Use input from recent WPLA workshops: PPP, customer satisfaction, mass valuation…... • Use WPLA reports Objects, PPP, Taxation, Privacy….. • Address economic justification, internet, developing world, customer orientation and financial transparency WPLA Athens 2003