Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration—Providing Secure Land Rights at Scale

Abstract

This Special Issue provides an insight, collated from 26 articles, focusing on various aspects of the Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) concept and its application. [...]

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

“…The principles of the fitfor-purpose land administration (FFP LA) approach complement these methodologies as building blocks in the way we record and perceive tenure security [13]. The FFP LA approach recognizes the need to be flexible in the spatial, institutional, and legal frameworks without being limited by stringent standards of technical accuracy and legal requirements [14]. Their application leverages sustainable practices in land administration that are the foundation for good land governance [15].…”

“…Further, citywide profiling, enumeration, and mapping were carried out covering fourteen (14) secondary towns of Uganda (including Mbale City), in which more than 181,000 households residing in approximately 120 informal settlements were enumerated and mapped, and their data were captured using the STDM [37]. The lessons and experiences from the TSUPU project have informed more recent projects in Uganda on the use of the STDM tool toward the legal recognition of land tenure security.…”

Determinants of the Land Registration Information System Operational Success: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

“…For instance, after more than a decade of modeling and building international consensus, the land administration domain model (LADM) only became a formal international standard(ISO 19152) in 2012 [15]. LADM offers a very generic spatial representation model, and it is becoming a common language in establishing geospatial referenced cadastral and land information systems [1,13,15,63]. On the other hand, a recent study by Biraro et al [13] summarizes parameters and indicators to be taken to account when updating a LIS in the context of the land administration domain.…”

Review of Remote Sensing for Land Administration: Origins, Debates, and Selected Cases

“…Moreover, high-resolution satellite imagery covered the majority of the Earth's surface. This motivated the concepts of crowdsourced cadastres, participatory land administration, pro-poor land recordation [283], and more broadly, fit for purpose land administration (FFPLA) [284], all of which, learning from the lessons of development projects in the previous decades, and ongoing ones in the early 2000s, such as Cambodia [285], heavily advocated for the use of remotely sensed imagery, in all forms, to support data capture, and as Bennett et al [5] explain, were ultimately endorsed in the Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. As always, this was understood to include ground visits, for sensitisation, demarcation, or validation, especially in the initial registration projects [286]: imagery alone was not enough [287].…”

“…Whilst many in the land sector argued that FFPLA, and associated terms, were nothing new (indeed, as shown in the preceding sections, imagery-intensive methods in land administration projects dated back decades), the branding was used to frame and propel experimentation with new technologies, pilots, and scaled work. Regarding the latter, the Rwandan case of mapping +10M parcels, with imagery, over a 3-5-year period was oft-cited [284]. Other explorations, including participatory methods and/or imagery-based approaches, were undertaken in Greece [288], Namibia, Ghana, and Kenya, as described in Chigbu et al [289] and Koeva et al [290].…”