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Land Systems

With land accounting for between half and three quarters of national wealth, land information and transaction systems are critical enablers of good governance and sustainable urban and rural development. The power of ‘where’ and the value of geospatial data is becoming far better understood and utilised whether for humanitarian response or resilience planning through to economic indicators and tax mapping. Efficiency and integration of spatial and non-spatial data management are at the heart of a modern land administration system. While technology can enable ‘leapfrog’ solutions to quickly address otherwise dysfunctional, time-consuming and expensive reform processes, it must go hand in hand with  people-oriented mechanisms for good governance and good design. 

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Featured Project – How to design projects that establish or reform land transaction systems?

From project to project, the answers are unlikely to be the same. Why? Because there is no one-size-fits-all approach to ‘good practice’. Because exciting new technologies can motivate project success, but also lead to project failure if they are not accompanied by processes that also motivate social, political and economic change. Because project windows are finite and project implementers need to define their own risk ‘comfort-levels’. Because information availability at the time of project design is never 100%, and we need ways to assess ‘what the absence of information means to investment design’.

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MCC Land Records and Transaction Systems Technology Toolkit

LEI were contracted to support the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to produce the White Paper, State of Practice on Land Information and Transaction Systems which was followed by the development of a practical toolkit, this Land Records and Transaction System Assessment and Design Toolkit. Since MCC has provided funding for both local and nationally reaching land records and transaction systems the toolkit was developed to serve as a comprehensive decision making framework. The framework supports systematic consideration of operability, sustainability, political and institutional risks and benefits during the design of land records and transaction system project components. It is intended for practitioners in both the public and private sectors to guide the process (pdf publication download) as well as being accompanied by 5 sets of Excel worksheets (downloadable here) which replicate the Toolkit structure to facilitate data entry and organization.

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Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems through Transformative Land Investments in Africa and Asia

Large-scale land investments across Africa and Asia have often caused repercussions to food security and supply issues. They have often compromised the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, exacerbated land tenure conflicts and caused environmental degradation. Addressing investment practices – through inclusive business and sustainable agroecology – has the potential to achieve more sustainable food systems and is the core focus of the recently launched Transformative Land Investment (TLI) project.

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State of Practice on Land Information and Transaction Systems

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has significantly invested in both nationwide and local level land administration information and transaction systems (Land IT Systems) in many of its partner countries. This State of Practice paper sets out the current state of play of investing in information and communication technology for Land IT Systems. It identifies lead thinking around how and when to address the opportunities and challenges of designing, implementing, and sustaining the performance of Land IT Systems. The paper foreshadows a suite of analytical tools that will be designed to guide and facilitate MCC’s assessment of the appropriateness and scope of potential investments in Land IT Systems.

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Improving Resilience of National Land and Geospatial Systems

Until recently, disaster risk management (DRM) investments financed by the World Bank (and the wider international development community) commonly considered national land administration and geospatial information systems as too antiquated, inaccessible, out of date and/or cumbersome to integrate with more technologically-advanced applications – such as weather and climate monitoring, early warning systems, and resilience-focused planning. Yet improvements and enhancements to these systems have a huge potential to improve national disaster resilience and address the needs and risks of on-the-ground emergency response data and services. Improvements can include elements and actions like the integration of data-sets, improved standardisation of data and data formats, ensuring common reference systems in use and improving joint coordination through formalisation of data sharing, exchange and servicing platforms. These efforts allow for much more effective and efficient planning, response, recovery and rebuilding for disasters.

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Land Administration Information and Transaction Systems

Targeted, well-scoped and successful investments in land sector reform can also significantly grow government revenue. Yet the success of land administration reform projects depends on a range of factors, and investments in such projects can experience setbacks and may not always achieve anticipated aims within project timeframes. In short, the dynamic and highly contextual project environments of land investments can make it difficult to apply ‘global lessons learned’. So on what basis can we inform investments in the future?

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Design, Supply, Installation and Implementation of National Land Information Systems (DeSINLISI)

The Private Sector Competitiveness Project funded by the World Bank, among other objectives, supported the Securing and Upgrading of the Land Registry and development of a Land Information System (LIS). The Land Component was among the most important Components of the Project, recognising the need to a) Update existing land registry records in Uganda; b) Secure the current land registry records through rehabilitation; c) Undertake reconstruction, indexing and scanning; and d) Establish a unified and relevant National Land Information System (NLIS). The GOU embarked on the redesign of existing land administration and establish land information system to improve land tenure security, availability and accessibility of land services for clients.

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Ugandan delegation learns about land information systems and the role of technology in NSW/ACT

The delegation was headed by the Hon. Minister Daudi Migereko and Permanent Secretary Musoke Gabindadde who were accompanied by Nadege Orlova of IGN International of France – the company responsible for the World Bank-funded Design Supply and Implementation of a Land Information System project.

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MCC Webinar: New Tools for Land Records and Transaction System Assessment and Design

Join LEI and ESRI as we co-host along with the MCC for the Webinar: New Tools for Land Records and Transaction System Assessment and Design being held on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 8:00 am to 9:30 am EDT (10:00pm to 11:30pm AEST).

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