‘Engaging the Challenges, Enhancing the Relevance’
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES:
THE ROLE OF THE LAND PROFESSION
By Clarissa Augustinus
UN-Habitat
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Global challenges: population
growth, city sprawl, food security &
climate change impacts
Land profession to meet the
challenges
Innovative as conventional too slow
– ‘Fit for Purpose’ Development of ‘big technology’
FIG leaders as global/country
champions
Learning from STDM
Land and new UN goals
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Global challenges
• 9.6 billion by 2050
• 175% city sprawl
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Doubtful if can feed
Climate change impact
2% reduction in food production
each decade
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Land administration
challenge
• 30% conventional land
administration coverage
• 70% people outside land
administration system
• ‘Fit for Purpose’
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Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
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63 international partners
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Role of FIG
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18 tools
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• Continuum of land rights
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• Social Tenure Domain Model •
• Costing and financing of
land administration services
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Pro poor land records
Valuation of unregistered land
Gender
Youth
Land readjustment
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Stories of FIG/land professional
champions
• Prof Enemark
• President Chee-Hai
• Chris Paresi – ITC/Utwente
• Chrit Lemmen-ITC/Dutch Cadastre
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Solomon Haile –GTLN first task
manager
Danilo Antonio – GTLN second
task manager
John Gitau, Solomon Njoroge programmers
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Young Surveyors
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Partners
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Developing Big Technology
• Hadron Collider/Human
Genome/IPAD
• Learning from others
• Research at scale
• Researchers from different silos
working together
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Funding at scale
Transformational not trivial
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Developing Big Technology:
Learning from GLTN: STDM
• FIG credibility & knowledge
• Multiple work stream management
over years
• Capacity development, knowledge
generation & change
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Funding by bi-laterals
R & D UN role
UN convening role inter-gov. body
Reference groups of thinkers/pilots
Land professionals critical role
Global community for global products
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CONTINUUM OF LAND RIGHTS
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STDM as Big Technology
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Continuum of land rights
STDM: History – Concept – Model - Software
Party
Person/s,
communities, family,
groups of groups
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Social Tenure Relationship
• Use rights
•Occupancy
•Ownership
•Informal
•Customary tenure
•Common land
•Tenancy
•Hunting
Supporting Documents
Sketch, audio, video, photos,
etc.
Spatial Unit
Land, housing,
structure, natural
resource, etc.
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STDM: Mbale, Uganda pilot
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Stakeholders
• Ministry of Lands, Housing &
Urban Development
• Mbale municipality
• SDI
• AcTogether
• FIG Foundation/Trimble
• Cities Alliance
• Now 9 Uganda municipalities
• FIG/land profession
• Transformational big technology
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Sustainable Development Goals
• MDGs
• SDGs
• GLTN/GLII
• Role of FIG
• 17 focus areas; 3 land included
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The Communiques
Proposed land target/indicators
Women & men; admin. data &
perception data; continuum
Way forward in UN system
Role of land professionals
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Conclusion
• Challenge facing land industry
• Change LA systems for majority
tenure security & LI for scale
• Massive change in our generation
• New land tools hard to develop but
can be done
• FIG champions into the future
• ‘Fit for Purpose’
• Land profession implement it for
sustainable planet
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• More managerial, not just data creation
Roles of land profession • Quality assurance/auditing
• Land documents for the majority
• Leadership
• Custodians of LIM
• Champions of robust change • Increase professional status
• Understand the shifts that are • Work with inter-governmental organizations
happening at global level + in
on management of climate change/risk
technology
management
• Large scale innovation
• Work with other disciplines – the door is
• Institutional strengthening
open
• Upscaling land systems
• Work with other professional groups – the
• Upscaling land management
door is open
• Client base of whole country • Be the pre-eminent leaders in developing
big technology for land
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