Some Options for updating Land Administration Guidelines WPLA

Some Options for updating Land Administration Guidelines WPLA Paul van der Molen (NL) 28 -31 May 2003 Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 1

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 Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 2

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 Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 3

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 Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 4

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) Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 5

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) Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 6

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 ? Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 7

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. Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 8

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 Thursday May 29 WPLA Athens 2003 9