Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance

Klaus Deininger

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The importance of good land governance to strengthen women's land rights, facilitate land-related investment, transfer land to better uses, use it as collateral, and allow effective decentralization through collection of property taxes has long been recognized. The challenges posed by recent global developments, especially urbanization, increased and more volatile food prices, and climate change have raised the profile of land and the need for countries to have appropriate land policies. However, efforts to improve country-level land governance are often frustrated by technical complexities, institutional fragmentation, vested interests, and lack of a shared vision on how to move towards good land governance and measure progress in concrete settings. Recent initiatives have recognized the important challenges this raises and the need for partners to act in a collaborative and coordinated fashion to address them.
The breadth and depth of the papers included in this volume, all of which were presented at the World Bank's Annual Conference on Land Policy and Administration, illustrate the benefits from such collaboration. They are indicative not only of the diversity of issues related to land governance but, more importantly, highlight that, even though the topic is complex and politically challenging, there is a wealth of promising new approaches to improving land governance through innovative technologies, country-wide policy dialogue, and legal and administrative reforms. The publication is based on an on-going partnership between the World Bank, the International Federation of Surveyors, the Global Land Tool Network and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization provide tools that can help to address land governance in practice and at scale. It is our hope that this volume will be of use to increase awareness of and support to the successful implementation of innovative approaches that can help to not only improve land governance, but also thereby contribute to the well-being of the poorest and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Sujets

• Natural resource management
• Millennium Development Goals
• Land information system
• Governance
• Rural development

Informations

• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 22 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 21
• EAN13: 9780821385814
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

A WORLD BANK STUDY
Innovations in
Land Rights Recognition,
Administration, and
Governance
Klaus Deininger, Clarissa Augustinus,
Stig Enemark, Paul Munro-FaureWORL D B A N K STU D Y
Innovations in Land Rights 
Recognition, Administration, 
and Governance 
Klaus Deininger 
Clarissa Augustinus 
Stig Enemark 
Paul Munro‐Faure 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Contents 
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... xii 
Introduction: Land Governance and the Millennium Development 
Goals .................................................................................................................... xiii 
The Global Agenda ................................................................................................ xiii 
Land Governance ................................................................................................... xiv 
The Land Management Paradigm ....................................................................... xvii 
Spatially Enabled Government ............................................................................. xix 
Climate Change ...................................................................................................... xxi 
Natural Disaster Prevention and Management ................................................ xxiii 
Conclusion ............................................................................................................. xxvi 
1.  Key Policy Aspects in Selected Countries ........................................................ 1 
1.1:  Taking Land Policy and Administration in Indonesia to the Next 
Stage ............................................................................................................................ 1 
Introduction................................................................................................................ 1 
Land Policy ................................................................................................................. 2 
NLA Strategic Plan .................................................................................................... 3 
Program Implementation ......................................................................................... 4 
Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 11 
1.2:  Moving Towards Clear Land Titles in India: Potential Benefits, a 
Road Map, and Remaining Challenges .............................................................. 14 
Introduction.............................................................................................................. 14 
Conclusive Titles ...................................................................................................... 14 
A Roadmap for Clear Land Titles ......................................................................... 15 
The Remaining Challenges ..................................................................................... 17 
Conclusion  19 
1.3:  Improving Land Administration in Ghana: Lessons and 
Challenges in Moving Ahead ............................................................................... 20 
Introduc 20 
The Land Administration System Prior to the Land Administration 
Project ................................................................................................................ 20 
The Land  Project .......................................................................... 21 
Challenges  23 
Conclusion  24 
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2.  Innovative Approaches to Improving Land Administration in 
Africa .................................................................................................................... 25 
2.1:  Registering and Administering Customary Land Rights: Can We 
Deal with Complexity? .......................................................................................... 25 
Summary .................................................................................................................. 25 
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