scholarly journals The Fit for Purpose Land Administration Approach-Connecting People, Processes and Technology in Mozambique

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 818
Author(s):  
Marisa Balas ◽  
João Carrilho ◽  
Christiaan Lemmen
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Available Technology

Mozambique started a massive land registration program to register five million parcels and delimitate four thousand communities. The results of the first two years of this program illustrated that the conventional methods utilized for the land tenure registration were too expensive and time-consuming and faced several data quality problems. The purpose of this research was to conceptualize, develop and test a country-specific Fit For Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) approach for Mozambique, denominated as FFPLA-MOZ, intertwining three pillars: people, processes, and technology, to solve the constraints faced in systematic registrations. Such a contextualized approach needed to be: (i) in line with legislation; (ii) appropriate to the circumstances and needs of the systematic registration; (iii) cost-effective; (iv) based on available technology; and (v) fit to establish a sound and sustainable land administration system. By connecting people, processes, and technology, the FFPLA-MOZ approach achieved several benefits, including cost and time reduction, increased community satisfaction, and improved quality of work and data. The FFPLA-MOZ approach also supported a more robust community engagement through a more participatory land registration, denominated community-based crowdsourcing. Initial observations indicated that strong leadership and commitment were of extreme importance to ensure change management, capacity development, and project delivery for the success of these initiatives. The research only focused on the registration of land under good faith and customary occupations, as well as community delimitations. The next stages should focus on other land management activities and integrate other cadastres.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing for Land Administration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2497
Author(s):  
Rohan Bennett ◽  
Peter van Oosterom ◽  
Christiaan Lemmen ◽  
Mila Koeva
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Terrestrial Lidar ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Vertical Development

Land administration constitutes the socio-technical systems that govern land tenure, use, value and development within a jurisdiction. The land parcel is the fundamental unit of analysis. Each parcel has identifiable boundaries, associated rights, and linked parties. Spatial information is fundamental. It represents the boundaries between land parcels and is embedded in cadastral sketches, plans, maps and databases. The boundaries are expressed in these records using mathematical or graphical descriptions. They are also expressed physically with monuments or natural features. Ideally, the recorded and physical expressions should align, however, in practice, this may not occur. This means some boundaries may be physically invisible, lacking accurate documentation, or potentially both. Emerging remote sensing tools and techniques offers great potential. Historically, the measurements used to produce recorded boundary representations were generated from ground-based surveying techniques. The approach was, and remains, entirely appropriate in many circumstances, although it can be timely, costly, and may only capture very limited contextual boundary information. Meanwhile, advances in remote sensing and photogrammetry offer improved measurement speeds, reduced costs, higher image resolutions, and enhanced sampling granularity. Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), laser scanning, both airborne and terrestrial (LiDAR), radar interferometry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques, all provide examples. Coupled with emergent societal challenges relating to poverty reduction, rapid urbanisation, vertical development, and complex infrastructure management, the contemporary motivation to use these new techniques is high. Fundamentally, they enable more rapid, cost-effective, and tailored approaches to 2D and 3D land data creation, analysis, and maintenance. This Special Issue hosts papers focusing on this intersection of emergent remote sensing tools and techniques, applied to domain of land administration.

scholarly journals Fit for Purpose Land Administration: Country Implementation Strategy for Addressing Uganda’s Land Tenure Security Problems

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 629
Author(s):  
Moses Musinguzi ◽  
Stig Enemark ◽  
Simon Peter Mwesigye
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
African Region ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
The Republic

The Republic of Uganda is one of the five countries within the East African region. Uganda’s efforts to increase land productivity are hampered by land tenure insecurity related problems. For more than ten years, Fit for Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) pilot projects have been implemented in various parts of the country. Uganda is now in advanced stages of developing a country strategy for implementing a fit for purpose approach to land administration, to define the interventions, time and cost required to transform the existing formal (western type) land administration system into an administration system that is based on FFPLA principles. This paper reviews three case studies to investigate how lessons learnt from pilot projects informed a FFPLA country implementation strategy. The review is based on data collected during the development of the FFPLA strategy, in which the authors directly participated. The data collection methods included document review, field visits and interviews with purposively selected respondents from the pilot sites and institutions that had piloted FFPLA in Uganda. The study identified that pilot projects are beneficial in highlighting specific gaps in spatial, legal and institutional frameworks, that have potential to constrain FFPLA implementation. Pilot projects provided specific data for informed planning, programing and costing key interventions in the FFPLA country implementation strategy. The lessons learnt from the pilot projects, informed the various steps and issues considered while developing the national strategy for implementing a FFPLA approach in Uganda. On the other hand, the study identified that uncoordinated pilot projects are potential sources of inconsistencies in data and products, which may be cumbersome to harmonize at a national level. In order to implement a fit for purpose approach for land administration at a national level, it is necessary to consolidate the lessons leant from pilots into a unified country implementation strategy.

scholarly journals Tenure Security Reformand Electronic Registration: Exploring Insights from English Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Hanri Mostert
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Quality Of Governance ◽  
English Law

This paper examines the potential significance of updating registration practices in resolving some of the issues about tenure security in a transformative context. It deals with the importance of good governance in the context of land administration and considers its impact on intended reforms. Land registration practice as an indicator of the quality of governance is scrutinised. The debate about the kinds of interests to be served by tenure security reforms is considered. A comparative law analysis demonstrates how demands for electronification, placed on registration systems, can reshape the process of securing tenure. The paper then highlights issues for further investigation and discussion.

scholarly journals Musical Connections: A Descriptive Study of Community-Based Choirs for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Zach Anderson ◽  
Debra Sheets
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Caregiver Support ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Music Programming

This descriptive qualitative study explores the key characteristics, benefits, and lessons learned from community-based choirs for persons with dementia (PwD) and their caregivers based on reports from choir administrators and directors. Although there is growing interest in choirs for PwD, there has been no synthesis of information on these choirs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between December 2016 and February 2017 with six administrators and/or directors of community-based choirs for PwD and their caregivers. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. Content analyses indicated that choirs had many similarities in membership (e.g., early to mid-stage dementia), establishing formal sections (e.g., soprano, alto, tenor, bass), administration (e.g., leadership, fees), and music programming (e.g., public performance, duration, and length of practice sessions). Benefits of the choir include enjoyment, sense of purpose, empowerment, caregiver support and respite, and increased awareness of dementia by others. In conclusion, this descriptive study suggests that community-based choirs are a cost effective and valuable program that improve quality of life for PwD and caregivers.

Attitudes of Canadian Nephrologists toward Dialysis Modality Selection

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Jung ◽  
Peter G. Blake ◽  
Ravindra L. Mehta ◽  
David C. Mendelssohn
Keyword(s):  
Peritoneal Dialysis ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Dialysis Modality ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Hypothetical Question ◽  
Mailed Survey

Objective To determine the opinions and attitudes of Canadian nephrologists about dialysis modality decisions and optimal dialysis system design. Participants Members of the Canadian Society of Nephrology. Intervention A mailed survey questionnaire. Results A 66% response rate was obtained. Decisions about modality are reported to be based most strongly on patient preference (4.4 on a scale from 1 to 5), followed by quality of life (4.06), morbidity (3.97), mortality (3.85), and rehabilitation (3.69), while neither facility (1.78) nor physician (1.62) reimbursement are important. When asked about the current relative utilization of each modality, nephrologists felt that hospital-based hemodialysis (HD) is slightly overutilized (2.53), continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is about right (3.00), while cycler peritoneal dialysis (PD) (3.53), community-based full (3.83) and self-care HD (3.91), and home HD (4.02) are underutilized. A hypothetical question about optimal distribution to maximize survival revealed that a type of HD should constitute 62.8% of the mix, with more emphasis on cycler PD (14.9%), community-based full care HD (13.8%), self-care HD (14.5%), and home HD (9.0%) than is current practice. However, when the goal was to maximize cost effectiveness, HD fell slightly to 57.8%. Conclusions These survey results suggest that the current national average 66%/34% HD/PD ratio is reasonable. However, there appears to be a consensus that Canada could evolve to a more cost-effective, community-based dialysis system without compromising patient outcomes.

scholarly journals Transforming Land Administration Practices through the Application of Fit-For-Purpose Technologies: Country Case Studies in Africa

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 538
Author(s):  
Danilo Antonio ◽  
Solomon Njogu ◽  
Hellen Nyamweru ◽  
John Gitau
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Inclusive Processes

Access to land for many people in Africa is insecure and continues to pose risks to poverty, hunger, forced evictions, and social conflicts. The delivery of land tenure in many cases has not been adequately addressed. Fit-for-purpose spatial frameworks need to be adapted to the context of a country based on simple, affordable, and incremental solutions toward addressing these challenges. This paper looked at three case studies on the use of the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) tool in promoting the development of a fit-for-purpose land administration spatial framework. Data gathering from primary and secondary sources was used to investigate the case studies. The empirical findings indicated that the use and application of the STDM in support of the fit-for-purpose land administration framework is quite effective and can facilitate the improvement in land tenure security. The findings also revealed that the tool, together with participatory and inclusive processes, has the potential to contribute to other frameworks of Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration (FFP LA) toward influencing changes in policy and institutional practices. Evidently, there was a remarkable improvement in the institutional arrangements and collaboration among different institutions, as well as a notable reduction in land conflicts or disputes in all three case studies.

scholarly journals Upgrading the Land Administration System of the Philippines through ICT: A Review of the Land Titling Computerization Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jovito Jose Katigbak
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Local Development ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Online Service ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Stable Environment ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Land Titling

An effective and efficient land administration system is vital in pursuing national and local development as it ensures security of land tenure, enables citizens to utilize their land, and fosters a peaceful and stable environment. In the Philippines, the Land Registration Authority (LRA) demonstrated its commitment to adopt e-government by launching the Land Titling Computerization Project (LTCP) in 2008. Despite this major stride, the viability of the LTCP was put to the test due to a couple of challenges. Thus, this research attempts to describe the opportunities and challenges faced by the LTCP. It uses a descriptive-exploratory method as it identifies the depth of e-government development in the Philippines with a specific focus on the LTCP. The study finds that the LTCP is currently in the enhanced information services (stage 2) level based on the UN Online Service Index and basic gaps must be addressed via necessary improvements.

scholarly journals Evaluating Some Major Assumptions in Land Registration: Insights from Ghana’s Context of Land Tenure and Registration

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Zaid Abubakari ◽  
Christine Richter ◽  
Jaap Zevenbergen
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Multiple Actors

A discussion of the assumptions that underlie efforts to register land enables us to not only evaluate their validity across different contexts, but most importantly, to further understand how the low incidences of land registration might derive from very fundamental sources outside of differences in technology and approaches of recording. Building on existing literature and previous research in Ghana, this study has identified and evaluated three such assumptions, namely, land rights registration is desirable, all land rights are registrable, and access to the registration system is an administrative event. We analyzed each assumption in order to find out how they manifest in conventional approaches as well as what they imply for emerging fit-for-purpose (FFP) approaches. In the context of Ghana, we find that (a) there are variations in desirability across space (urban vs. rural) and among landholders; (b) many land rights are registrable, but not all, unless we accept a loss in meaning; and (c) access to the registration system can be an administrative event between surveyor/surveyed, but it is often a process of connecting multiple actors and practices. We conclude that close attention needs to be paid to scenarios where these fundamental assumptions fall short, in order to finetune them and redirect associated implementation strategies.

Where next with residential alternatives to admission?

2010 ◽  
Vol 197 (S53) ◽  
pp. s52-s54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Johnson ◽  
Brynmor Lloyd-Evans ◽  
Louise Howard ◽  
David P. J. Osborn ◽  
Mike Slade
Keyword(s):  
Catchment Area ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Pathways ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Community Based ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

SummaryThe quest for alternatives to traditional psychiatric wards has a long history but methodological difficulties have limited research into their benefits. Two UK studies suggest that community-based residential alternatives are valued by service users and may be cost-effective. Establishing and/or maintaining such services, where they function as an integrated component of local acute care pathways, is a justifiable decision. However, our findings do not provide compelling evidence that they should be seen as essential in every catchment area. Quality of therapeutic relationships appears central to service user experiences, and future research should explore how this may be improved in both hospital and community settings.

scholarly journals Do Design Science Research and Design Thinking Processes Improve the ‘Fit’ of the Fit-For-Purpose Approach to Securing Land Tenure for All in South Africa?

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 484
Author(s):  
Simon Hull ◽  
Jennifer Whittal
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Design Science Research ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Land Administration Systems ◽  
Research And Design

In South Africa, land tenure security is a challenge for 60% or more of the population who hold interests in land outside of the formal system of registered title. There is a need for the cadastral and land administration systems to be reshaped, and for new land tenure forms to be developed to record all land rights and interests so as to improve land tenure security for all. In this paper, we undertake a reflective retrospective of the processes of land administrative reform in South Africa using a thematic framework that includes fit-for-purpose, design science research, and design thinking processes. Literary sources are coded using the thematic framework to identify potential contributions of foregrounding design science research and design thinking in fit-for-purpose land administration (FFP LA) approaches. Design science research paired with tools of behavioral science add value in understanding the context, problems, needs, and objectives and in communicating the results of critical reflection. The design thinking process has much to offer in capitalizing on the human abilities of empathy, deep understanding, and challenging assumptions, setting the scene for unconstrained creative thinking. Design science research and design thinking within FFP LA may promote innovations in land administration systems reform initiatives that deliver restorative justice in the South African land sector.

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