The Importance of Land
Administration Systems for
Sustainable Development
Jorge Muñoz
Practice Manager
Global Land and Geospatial Unit
International Workshop
Bangkok, Thailand
June 2017
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The World Bank Group
Bank Engagement on Land Issues
Land Tenure at center of Global Mega Trends
A Typical Land Administration Project
Key Lessons
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1. The World Bank Group
International Bank for
Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD)
International
Development Association
(IDA)
1944
Over 10,000 employees
1960
Over 5,000 consultants
120 country offices
1956
1966
1988
The Bank’s twin goals:
• Ending Poverty
• Boosting Shared Prosperity
Part of the United Nations (UN) System
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How the World Bank is organized
Six Regional VPs
(AFR, EAP, ECA, LCR, MENA,
SAR)
- Country Management Units
with Country Director
14 Global Practices &
5 Cross Cutting Solution Areas
- Technical content of projects
- Several units led by Practice
Managers
ECA
MENA
SAR EAP
LCR
AFR
Corporate Departments
Office of the Chief Economist:
- Research, Development Data
- ICT Department (GIS expertise)
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2. Bank Engagement on Land Issues
1980’s: Focus on titling (first project in Thailand)
1990’s – 2000’s:
• Increased recognition of the importance of
secure tenure rights and land markets
• Collapse of the Soviet block triggers
unprecedented land reforms (in scale and
scope) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Surge of land administration projects in Latin
America and East Asia & Pacific
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Bank Engagement on Land Issues
• Largest financier of land administration projects ($1.2 bn in
current commitments
• 59 Land Projects in 1980-2015
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+ 294 other projects with land components
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3. Land Tenure at center of Global Mega Trends
WEAK
TENURE
Demographics
Increased inequality
Urbanization
Strain on public
resources
Climate Change
Increased CO2
emissions
Fragility
Conflict and
displacement
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Land Tenure at center of Global Mega Trends
STRONG
TENURE
Demographics
Better income; social
safety nets
Urbanization
Ability to leverage
assets
Climate Change
Forest & water
management
Fragility
Resilience
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4. A typical land administration project
Policy & Legal Reforms
Digital Land Administration
Systems
Mapping/Spatial Data
Institutional Development
from
to
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Enabling Technologies…
Use of the Cloud
Aerial and satellite imagery
3D/4D visualization
Indoor positioning
UAVs (drone)
LiDAR & GPS
 Modern Land
Administration
System
5. Key lessons
 Principle of “Fit-for-Purpose”
 Development of methodologies, standards, and of
Land Information Systems (software and hardware)
 take time
 better done by “building modules”
 learning by doing
 site-specific
 No Turn-key approach
 Ideal: Merge Cadaster with Registry under one entity
 Second best: full integration of information systems
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Key lessons...
 Institutional capacity buidling is permanent
 Coordination among entities is extremely challenging
 Use alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
 Public dissemination campaigns
 of peoples’ land rights,
 field operations,
 access to information
 dispute resolution
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Key lessons...
 Area-Systematic surveying (and/or adjudication) is
cheaper, progressive, and more sustainable
 International expertise is helpful, but inevitably requires
permanent local knowledge and local field teams
 Local government involvement is critical from the outset
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Thank You