A capacity assessment framework for the fit-for-purpose land administration systems: The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Rwanda and Kenya

Abstract

This article presents a novel capacity assessment framework, coined as Fit-For-Purpose capacity assessment framework (FCAF), to measure the capacity of the land administration system compliant with the Fit-For-Purpose approach. The framework incorporates legal, political, operational, social, technical, and technological capacity conditions and provides a holistic view of the capacity development pathways. The FCAF is designed by merging six capacity dimensions, namely regulations, political system, operational unit, social norms, land recording techniques, and software. FCAF systematically identifies context-specific, enabling and impeding capacity components and thus provides a basis to develop the necessary capacity development strategies and interventions. Specifically, FCAF can serve as a useful heuristic for the development of the capacity development strategies for the adaptation and sustainability of the geospatial technologies in land administration systems. In the article, by assessing the capacity needs for the adaptation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology in Rwandese and Kenyan land administration systems, the efficacy of the FCAF is tested. The findings suggest that in Rwanda, capacity conditions are more supportive of an easier uptake of UAV. Nonetheless, weak market conditions and strict regulations concerning UAV call for attention. In Kenya, existing institutional and political challenges in the land administration system raise concerns about the reliability and attainability of UAV under the current framework conditions. Despite that, there are more supportive market conditions in Kenya in comparison to Rwanda and multiple non-governmental and private actors that can bolster the adaptation process into a more sustainable and scalable land administration system.

Development and actualization of brownfields database with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles - the case of Upper Silesia, Poland

“…The problem is the lack of a unified, generally accessible system (open success database), which would gather all the brownfields occurring in the region with their full characteristics. The knowledge about these areas based on reliable and up-to-date information enables decision-makers and investors deciding on the form of land development including aspects of spatial management and investment profitability (Tan et al 2021;Al-Sa'd et al 2019). At the stage of characterisation site a particularly important role is played by the inventory, which is the only way to check the current state of sites with the information obtained by the traditional methods such as desk research, community interviews, official reports and documents obtained from the site manager.…”

“…Within the works author promotes usage of UAV as an alternative land tenure recording approaches to create a sustainable land administration system (Casiano et al 2020). Additionally the adaptation capacity of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology in Rwandese and Kenyan land administration systems, was the subject of Tan teams work (Tan et al 2021). The literature also extensively describes the issues related to functioning drone platforms, UAV components, type of sensors, sensor types, airspace regulations, 1 3 data acquisition, data processing and data analysis, as well as advantages, limitations and challenges of UAV technique (Gomez and Purdie 2016;Antoine et al 2020;Svenström et al 2021;Vujičić and Tijana 2017).…”

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mapping for Responsible Land Administration

“…It cannot be translated into similar resources, be they financial and human, that need to be put in place for two or more pathways. The authors intentionally kept the scale to three categories to provide a simple relative assessment comparable to the works of (Casiano Flores et al, 2020;Tan, Flores and Crompvoets, 2021). Overall, it is hoped that the nuances can support policy and decision-making processes as they explicitly show which aspects to focus on most at a given time.…”

“…Despite the prospects and market opportunities of UAV technologies, there is scant literature on the requirements and processes needed to support leveraging the technology innovation and to foster its wider adoption and diffusion in land administration contexts. Literature published so far dealt with the innovation process of UAVs with an emphasis on governance frameworks (Casiano Flores et al, 2020), institutional settings (Ho et al, 2019), or capacity frameworks (Tan, Flores and Crompvoets, 2021). By assessing the institutional dimension of innovation dynamics in Rwanda and Ethiopia, (Ho et al, 2019) conclude that UAVs, among other technologies, are still in the development phase determining a lack of financial resources as one of the significant barriers to scaled innovation.…”